The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born by Ayi Kwei Armah

The Beautiful One (Wn Nefer in ancient Eqyptian) was the spirit of social change, guardian to devotees of progressive transformations, aka the beautiful ones. This novel contemplates the promised coming of such... Read more »

Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual by Walter Rodney

In 1974, Walter Rodney visited the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, Georgia. With the institute’s members, he discussed his own political and intellectual development and exchanged views on the role... Read more »

The West and the Rest of Us: White Predators, Black Slavers and the African Elite by Chinweizu

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 »

I Will Marry When I Want by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o & Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ

This is the play that was responsible for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o being detained without trial (which was the impetus behind his book entitled Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary), and Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ... Read more »

The Groundings With My Brothers by Walter Rodney

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 »

Pawned Sovereignty: Sharpened Black Perspectives on Americanization, Africa, War and Reparations by Ezrah Aharone

Pawned Sovereignty presents an evolutionary political and philosophical outlook on America, Africa, and world affairs. Regardless of what you presently think, the challenges it poses to societal norms will either enhance or... Read more »

Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives by Julian Kunnie

Much euphoria has been expressed about the abolition of apartheid and the emergence of post-apartheid South Africa. Utilizing a Black Consciousness working-class philosophical framework, Is Apartheid Really Dead? takes sharp issue with... Read more »

We Are Our Own Liberators: Selected Prison Writings by Jalil A. Muntaqim

What does it mean to be an “anti-racist”? We know you probably have a lot of answers to this question, but first off let us properly define racism. Racism is merely the... Read more »

Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Kwame Ture, that great son of Africa said, “power begins on the level conception,” this is the best way to describe Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance. Ngũgĩ... Read more »

Kwame Ture on Making the Unconscious Aware of Their Unconscious Behavior

In this lecture Kwame Ture recapitulates the aforementioned points noting that the job of the conscious is to make the unconscious, conscious of their unconscious behavior (that’s a mouthful!). In this statement... Read more »