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 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 »
“‘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 »
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 »
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 »
In Neocolonialism in West Africa, author Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, a journalist and political activist in Sierra Leone, demonstrates that imperial powers continue to exploit West Africa. Throughout this collection of essays... Read more »
1885, Berlin: European and American globalizers set up colonies that impoverished Africans by exporting raw resources to fuel European and American prosperity. 1960s: “Independent” Africa’s rulers, far from uniting Africa to create... Read more »
Sister Affiong tells it like it is! This message needs to be heard by African people everywhere! Read more »
This is a work of profound synthesis which takes into its compass 2,000 years and more of African history. The author provides a new theoretical perspective within which to understand the basic... Read more »