Race First: The Ideological and Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association

This book has the important element that is missing in most of books and articles on Garvey—a political analysis of what the Garvey Movement was about. –Dr. John Henrik Clarke Revolutionary Pan-Africanist... Read more »

Modern Africa: A Social and Political History by Basil Davidson

Basil Davidson’s Modern Africa: A Social and Political History. First published in 1983, is a social and political review of Africa’s history from the early years of the twentieth century through to... Read more »

The Making of Black Revolutionaries by James Forman

Soon after the summer of 1966, the council was disbanded. By this time revolutionary blacks were no longer trying to maintain any façade of unity. The “civil rights” phase of our struggle... Read more »

Natives: Race and Class in The Ruins of Empire by Akala

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers – race and class... Read more »

Distorted Truths: The Bastardization of Afrikan Cosmology by S. K. Damani Agyekum

We found out about this book while watching an interview conducted by Brother ShakaRa out of the U.K. with the distinguished elder Sababu Plata. Sababu Plata was the late great Amos Wilson’s... Read more »

Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State (Justice, Power, and Politics) by Edward Onaci

On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans’ best remaining hope for liberation... Read more »

EP.055: Raggo Zulu Rebel Emeritus: The Eloquence of a Scribe Part 2

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS On the long-awaited conclusion of our two-part series, Raggo Zulu Rebel Emeritus: The Eloquence of a Scribe, we discuss the following with Raggo Zulu... Read more »

The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey and Beyond by Tony Martin

The Pan-African movement for international Black unity is one of the great movements of modern history. Its New World roots go back at least to the eighteenth century. In its time it... Read more »

Nationbuilding: Theory and Practice in Afrikan Centered Education 2nd ed. by Kwame Agyei Akoto

Kwame Agyei Akoto defines nationbuilding as “the conscious and focused application of our people’s collective resources, energies, and knowledge to the task of liberating and developing the psychic and physical space that... Read more »

The Way of Companions Myth, History, Philosophy and Literature: The African Record by Ayi Kwei Armah

In Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Way of Companions Myth, History, Philosophy, and Literature: The African Record takes you out of Plato’s cave and into a sovereign egalitarian African future. This book is... Read more »