Showdown: Pan-Afrikanism vs. Global White Supremacy by Del Jones

Two battered and bruised races are in the center of the ring and truth and justice have very little to do with it. Those who claim it’s a spiritual war are just... Read more »

EP.005: Destroying & Rebuilding with Cyclonious The Natural Disaster

Conscientization 101 interviews independent UK hip hop artist, Cyclonious The Natural Disaster. We discuss African nationhood and identity, 360 deals imposed by major record labels, and music as a form of social... Read more »

Viewing Teza, Reading Fanon: 10 Critical Questions for Haile Gerima’s Cinema (A Study Guide)

ABSTRACT: This is a brief study guide designed to engage viewing audiences of Haile Gerima’s film Teza in a critical analysis inspired by some of the classical critical insights put forth by... Read more »

Black-On-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in Service of White Domination by Amos Wilson

Black-on-Black Violence: The Psychodynamics of Black Self-Annihilation in the Service of White Domination represents a distinct milestone in criminology and Afrikan Studies. Its explanatory perspectives on the sociopsychological and politicoeconomic causes of... Read more »

Blueprint for Black Power: A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century by Dr. Amos N. Wilson

Blueprint posits that Africans in the Americas, Africa and throughout the world should form an international bloc that would be most potent for the generation and delivery of Black power in the... Read more »

KMT: In the House of Life by Ayi Kwei Armah

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 »

Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of Globalism by Amos Wilson

In two masterful lectures contained within the pages of this modest text, Dr. Wilson challenges the all too pervasive assumption and false perception that the “New World Order” is somehow ordained-that if... Read more »

Barrel of a Pen: Resistance to Repression in Neo-colonial Kenya by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Barrel of a Pen is a collection of essays that vigorously responds to the atmosphere of repression and domination in Kenya. Ngũgĩ argues that the defense of national culture and national identity... Read more »

The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans by Marcus and Amy Jacques Garvey

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 »

Osiris Rising by Ayi Kwei Armah

Osiris Rising, Ayi Kwei Armah’s sixth novel, is structured after Africa’s oldest narrative, the Isis-Osiris myth cycle. Traveling to Africa on a search for lifework and love, Ast, a scholar that is... Read more »