Mourning a lost friend, Lindela, the narrator of KMT, Ayi Kwei Armah’s seventh novel, plunges into history, seeking meaning in life’s flow. Loving companions – an Egyptologist and two traditionalists – show... Read more »
Not much to say about this book other than it is essential reading for all African people. Whether or not you see Marcus Garvey as divinely inspired or merely an extremely politically... Read more »
The Destruction of Black Civilization took Chancellor Williams sixteen years of research and field study to compile. The book was written at a time when many African students, educators, and scholars were starting... Read more »
With America being founded on genocide and slavery, is there any wonder that Assata Shakur is relentlessly pursued by the same government that brought Africans to the Americas kicking and screaming! Our... Read more »
African history turns on a tension between divisive forces, exploiting ethnic and class differences for quick profits, and unifiers, sacrificing narrow sectional advantages for the greater good. Over the centuries, the divisive... Read more »
This memoir on the ancient sources and future resources of African literature, by the author of Two Thousand Seasons, KMT, and other novels, gives colonial Africanist preconceptions of Africa’s literary heritage a... Read more »
Finally after many, many, many years we were able to get a hold of a copy of this book for the crazy low price of $14.98 plus shipping and handling. It was... Read more »
As we read Ayi Kwei Armah Two Thousand Seasons, two things immediately came to our minds: Akala’s track from his The Thieves Banquet album “Maangamizi”[1]Being so moved by this book, C-101 editors... Read more »
Chinweizu Ibekwe’s classic The West and the Rest of Us, is widely referenced and suggested as essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the dialectics of the development of western civilization,... Read more »
As the great African patriot born in Jamaica, Paul Bogle said, “Remember your colour and cleave to black,” this is what Walter Rodney, the great African revolutionary from Guyana, always held true... Read more »