The idea of Pan African unity, the coming together of the one billion African peoples in the world, is not merely fantasy. This demand comes at a time when African people’s very... Read more »
Amid music festivals and moon landings, the tumultuous year of 1969 included an infamous case in the annals of criminal justice and Black liberation: the New York City Black Panther 21. Though... Read more »
Mozambique: From Colonialism to Revolution is an excellent document that summarizes the struggle of Africans in Mozambique against Portuguese colonialism. From a brief history of precolonial life in Mozambique, the coming of... Read more »
negroes: and other essays is a powerful collection of essays examining and providing thoughtful solutions to a number of problems plaguing Afrikans. These essays deal with everything from the state and conditions... Read more »
During his lifetime, Okot p’Bitek was concerned that African nations, including his native Uganda, be built on African and not European foundations. Traditional African songs became a regular feature in his work,... Read more »
In two in-depth essays, Mwalimu Baruti discusses the problems and solutions to the issues of Afrikan thinkers being validated by Europeans and european institutions and the politics of liberation as practiced by... Read more »
“I realized early that independent economic development for most Black folks is highly restrictive and mainly limited to the ministry, undertaking, hair business, the Black sex trade (pimps and ho’s), the underground... Read more »
Western imperialism’s colonizing efforts in the last four hundred years have lead to a situation where world cultures have been dominated by a handful of western nations. The west has come to... Read more »
As the first Black president exits office, rather than America being "post-racial," Black people must walk around like the 1960s with signs blaring: "Black Lives Matter." In addition, the late Supreme Court... Read more »
Under the pseudonym Eza Boto, Mongo Beti wrote Cruel City in 1954 before he came to the world’s attention with the publication of The Poor Christ of Bomba. Cruel City tells the... Read more »