EP.006: Ezrah Aharone On African Sovereignty

In this discussion with author Ezrah Aharone, we talked about sovereignty, the contradictions of the so-called "Black Lives Matter" movement and recent Selma commemoration, and much more. 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 »

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 »

Why Are We So Blest? by Ayi Kwei Armah

What a farce, scholarships! The blood money never went to any of us for our intelligence. It was always payment for obedience. BEFORE THE WHITE MEN CAME. Ten pages of blood and... 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 »

The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D. by Chancellor Williams

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 »

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

“‘Dirty nigger!'” or simply “Look! A Negro!”  I came into this world anxious to uncover the meaning of things, my soul desirous to be at the origin of the world, and here... Read more »

Fragments by Ayi Kwei Armah

A member of the African elite groping its way out of the background of slavery and colonialism, Baako sees his education as preparation for lifework of socially innovative artist. His family, more... Read more »

The Healers by Ayi Kwei Armah

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 »