Tony Browder's book, Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization, aims to dispel some of these myths so that the reader may learn more about the Nile Valley Civilizations and its significance as the cradle of future civilizations.
IN ETHIOPIAN HISTORY, PILLARS, Volume I of William Leo Hansberry's African History Notebook Joseph E. Harris edited the book. The four pieces in Volume I, better defined as narrative histories, are taken from William Leo Hansberry's private documents and decode and extract the foundations of Ethiopia's unity from the tangle of myth, folklore, and bogus historical material.
On January 20, 1973, Portuguese agents killed Amilcar Cabral, the Secretary-General of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands (PAIGC). In fewer than 10 years of revolutionary struggle, the PAIGC freed three-quarters of Guinea's countryside under his leadership. Cabral stood out among modern revolutionaries for the extensive and meticulous preparation, both theoretical and practical,…
Sieze The Time is Bobby Seale's gripping first-person narrative of the emergence of The Black Panther Party as a national organization. Seale is a veteran activist and co-founder of The Black Panther Party. The book "...continues to have a universal apppeal as an account of an oppressed people's struggle for human liberation." according to Seale.
Shaka, the legendary Zulu warrior and chief, had a passionate past. Osei takes us on a journey from his poor beginnings and challenging youth to his ascension to become one of Africa's and the world's most powerful leaders.
Soledad Brother is a collection of Jackson's prison letters that is an outspoken denunciation of white America's racism and a scathing evaluation of the prison system that failed to crush his spirit but ultimately stole his life. The tremendous sentiments of rage and revolt that flooded America's jails in the 1960s are tangible in Jackson's writings. Even in the absence…
This uncompromising classic challenges the concept that civilisation began in Greece, attempting to demonstrate that the original inventors of Greek philosophy were Egyptians, not Greeks. The poem contends that the acclaim and glory that have been lavished on the Greeks for millennia belong to the people of Africa, and that the theft of this magnificent African inheritance has led to…
The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was the most effective grassroots black revolutionary group in American history — but one whose legend, replayed in sensationalized news stories, a major movie, and countless publications, has outlived the group itself. Featuring never-before-published reflections from former members as well as tables and illustrations, this pioneering collection of essays examines this unique organization in…
The COINTELPRO Papers will provide meat for anxieties — as well as recommendations for activity — for anyone concerned about civil rights under George W. Bush. Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's expose of the FBI, America's political police organization, uncovers the steel fist behind the velvet glove of "compassionate conservatism's" The writers examine the FBI's handling of the left,…
Delany's separatist beliefs are presented in The Condition, Elevation, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States (1852). This work is considered by many researchers of African American political philosophy to be the first printed expression of black nationalism. Its breadth, however, is far larger than this single concentration suggests. It is the first book-length assessment of black…
"[Exposes] the role Eurocentric history-writing plays in rationalizing European oppression of Afrikan peoples and in the falsification of Afrikan consciousness ... [and contends] that the alleged mental and behavioral maladaptiveness of oppressed Afrikan peoples is a political-economic necessity for the maintenance of White domination and imperialism." —From the back cover.
"Dr. David Imhotep delivers a passionate, innovative, and thorough case for a radical rewriting of conventional history in The First Americans Were Africans. The book aroused, amused, and fascinated me, and it opens up many intriguing options for thought."
Race vindication has long been a prominent issue in the minds of African-Americans in the United States... The Haitian Revolution was viewed as a manifestation of race redemption in early conceptualizations of this consciousness in the second decade of the nineteenth century... In his acceptance speech for the office of Governor General for Life of the newly Independent Black Nation,…
"This work studies Haiti at a pivotal juncture in its history, using the Haitian Revolution as a case study example, to investigate the significance of consciousness and identity in the country's liberation fight and construction of nationhood. Black psychology is used to analyze not only the Haitian mind in struggle, but the African mind battling for freedom across the world,…
This book tries to stitch together the fabric of global culture that the Europeans purposefully shredded. As a result of their destruction of world culture's black threads, all people, especially African-Americans, regard and despise us.
One of the most important works on education ever published is The Mis-Education of the Negro. Carter G. Woodson demonstrates the flaws of Eurocentric curriculums that ignore African American history and culture. This system miseducates African American students, failing to prepare them for success and providing them with a sufficien t understanding of who they are within the system in…
This is the classic history of African peoples in Africa and the New World, a debunking of the erroneous post-Civil War assumption that Africans had no civilization beyond the one imposed on them by their slave traders. DuBois, one of America's greatest writers, lays out in easy-to-read, nonacademic prose the striking and illustrious story of Africa's complex history and varied…
The Osiris Papers: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing is the first in a series of treatises examining Dr. Frances Cress Welsing's life, theories, and achievements. Some of these works will be hagiographic in nature. Some may be critical, but all will contribute to our knowledge of one of Africa's finest intellectuals in the last…
"Self-hatred has profound historical origins that may be traced all the way back to colonial history in the fifteenth century and beyond. Amos Wilson traces the history of slavery from biblical antiquity, with the curse of Ham in the Old Testament, through the Middle Ages, enslavement, Jim Crow sadism, and up to the present day. This experience has had a…
This is the chronicle of Black Africa's oppression and the enslavement of its people in another country. Harding resurrects long-forgotten heroes and chronicles their descendants' fight to preserve the spirit and dreams of an uprooted nation.
They Came Before Columbus is a captivating, dramatic, and well documented account of Africans' presence and legacy in ancient America. Ivan Van Sertima builds a pyramid of evidence to support his claim of an African presence in the New World centuries before Columbus by looking at navigation and shipbuilding, cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans, the transportation of plants,…
"Up From Slavery" is an autobiography of Booker T. Washington's life and accomplishments, which has inspired all Americans. As he moves from ex-slave to teacher and creator of one of the most prominent institutions for African Americans in the south, The Tuskegee Industrial Institute, Washington expresses his innermost feelings.
An overview of African or Black history that is comprehensive, critical, and balanced. There has never been a better overall treatise on the ancient and medieval history of Black people. In addition to an amazing and cutting-edge synthesis of archaeological data, documentary evidence, and historical linguistic research, the book is lavishly illustrated with high-quality images, maps, and drawings.
Our plot will revolve on the ancient Ethiopian Cushite kingdom, which spanned three continents and ruled for three thousand years. We shall travel to ancient Ethiopia, where "the gods delighted to banquet with the pious inhabitants." as Herodotus put it. We shall look at the history of the region and the ancient people. The "Old Race," which Petrie discovered in…
Yurugu dismantles the European mask and unveils the underlying workings of global white supremacy, a system that ensures Europe's and her successors' domination over the vast majority of the world's peoples. From an African viewpoint, examines the impact of European culture on the construction of contemporary institutional frameworks via colonialism and imperialism.
