Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
Born into the Maafa (slavery) in Maryland circa 1817, Frederick Douglass went on to become the most influential and distinguished African American of the nineteenth
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I Held You in the Square by Ben Okri
I Held You in the Square And felt the evening Re-order itself around Your smile. The dreams I could never touch Felt like your body.
The Way We Were Made by Marcus Wicker
But you made every delicate, elegant wrist & glistening ankle. But you made them beautiful in braided rope & dime store gold. But you made
The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution is C. L. R. James’s pioneering interpretation of the Haitian Revolution as both the first
Up From Slavery
“Ignorant and inexperienced, it is not strange that in the first years of our new life (after [the Maafa]) we began at the top instead
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa occupies a central place in Cheikh Anta Diop’s lifelong effort to reconfigure how Africa is seen in the story
African Origins of Major “Western Religions”
African Origins of the Major “Western Religions” stands as one of Yosef ben‑Jochannan’s most sustained and provocative efforts to re‑inscribe Africa at the heart of
Retrospection by Jumoke Verissimo
I know brokers of diamond dreams, who copulate in mines when mates are in fetters. I know IMF; International Misery Fellows, whose kindness borders on