Brings together leading Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found in every nation. The volume is structured around four sections: I. African Unity and Consciousness: Assets and Challenges; II. Language, Information, and Education; III. African Women, Children and Families; and IV. Political and Economic Future of the African World. UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Argues that the necessary redress to racist, colonial and Eurocentric attitudes has created a misleading counter mythology that proclaims the innate superiority of African descended peoples. The author challenges the Afrocentric movement, which he claims is a symptom of political and economic problems, and reproduces the central features of outmoded Euro racist scholarship. Index, bib, notes, x, 337pp, UK. VERSO, 1859842283

A collection of essays focusing on the intellectual dimensions of afrocentricity. Index, refs, v, 293pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 1592210171

A history of African-centred thought looking at its external and internal anatomy and development across the diaspora. Index, bib, notes, xv, 204pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 0865438269

NOW IN PAPERBACK. 33 essays engage with the two key perspectives of the nature and character of New World black cultures. The first is that Africa is the homeland of all blacks and defines their identity; the second that black culture in the diaspora owes more to the hybrid climate that has become home than to ancestral origins. B/w ill, nortes, refs, index, xxviii, 566pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0253214947

The author tackles his critics by providing additional information to back up his thesis that Greek culture was influenced by Afro-Asiatic civilizations. Maps, notes, bib, index, xvi, 550pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS,.

A collection of essays which examine the forces which shape black identity in the UK and the US in the twentieth century. Index, notes, refs, xx, 267pp, UK. HANSIB PUBLISHING.

Collection of commentaries and biographies featuring a distinguished group of Black theorists, writers and influential social revolutionaries, namely Bernie Grant, Kwame Toure, Stuart Hall, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ericka Huggins, Assata Shakur, Michael Akintaro, Nawal El Saadawi, Eldridge Cleaver, Hanan Ashrawi, Peter Mokaba and Clive Charles. Index, bib, b/w photos, 212pp, UK. HANSIB PUBLISHING.

Collection of essays covering a myriad of Panafricanist fields of theory, grouped around the issue of Black survival and growth - physically, politically, economically, intellectually, socially and spiritually. Divided into seven distinct parts this multifaceted volume argues for a holistic understanding of African life and history. Index, 476pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

A collection of seven lectures by the author addressing the issues of slavery, emancipation, the legacies of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, George Padmore and C.L.R. James. The author also discusses two novels by Merle Hodge and Paule Marshall. Index, notes, xiv, 194pp, UK. NEW BEACON BOOKS LTD, 1873201176

Presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora away from its focus solely on the Americas, underscoring the fact that much of the movement of people of African descent took place in Old World contexts. Provides an overview of African diaspora studies and features as a major concern a rigorous interrogation of identity. Other primary themes include contributions to western civilization, from religion, music, and sports to agricultural production and medicine, as well as the way in which our understanding of the African diaspora fits into larger studies of transnational phenomena. 352pp, USA. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Contributors respond to many of the key arguments formulated in George James' 'Stolen Legacy' (No. 21842). Refs, v, 186pp, USA. AFRICAN AMERICAN IMAGES, 0913543772

A history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the twentieth century focusing on the visions of activists from C.L.R. James to Aime Cesaire and Malcolm X. The author also looks at communism, surrealism and radical feminism in terms of black culture. Index, xii, 248pp, USA. BEACON PRESS, 0807009776

Political tract by the activist murdered by the Burnham government in Guyana in 1980. 68pp, UK. BOGLE L'OUVERTURE.

A wide-ranging history of Africa from earliest prehistory to the present day - using the cultural, social, political, and economic lenses of Africa as instruments to illuminate the ordinary lives of Africans. The result is a new survey that includes a wealth of indigenous ideas, African con-cepts, and traditional outlooks that have escaped the writing of African history in the West. This straight-forward, illustrated text allows access to the major developments, personalities and events on the African continent. Index, bib, apps, 397pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Offers the first comprehensive treatment of Africana philosophy, beginning with the emergence of an Africana (i.e. diasporic) consciousness in the Afro-Arabic world of the Middle Ages. He argues that much of modern thought emerged out of early conflicts between Islam and Christi-anity that culminated in the expulsion of the Moors from the Iberian Peninsula, and from the subsequent expansion of racism, enslavement, and colonialism which in their turn stimulated reflections on reason, liberation, and the meaning of being human. His book takes the student reader on a journey from Africa through Europe, North and South America, the Caribbean, and back to Africa, as he explores the challenges posed to our understanding of knowledge and freedom today, and the response to them which can be found within Africana philosophy. 288pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

An examination of the cultural and spiritual connections between Africa and the New World, where the political and creative expressions of Africa continue to thrive. This collection of essays attempts to recuperate a culture that crosses borders while retaining age old traditions and negotiating identities in new locations. Essays include Negritude, Afrocentrism and Black Atlanticism, Exigencies of Modernity and Shifting Global African Identities, Junkanoo and Power in the Bahamas, the Cultural Impact of the Civil Rights On Fela, Hip Hop's African Aesthetics, and Sortilege: Building an Afro Brazilian Identity on Stage. Index, xiii, 644pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 159221021X

Born in poverty in rural Jamaica, Garvey was a man of contradictions: a self-educated, poetry-writing aesthete and naked propagandist, an admirer of Lenin and an ascetic dandy. He was a champion of the Harlem Renaissance, publishing Claude McKay and Langston Hughes in his newspaper the Negro World. Above all, he was a shrewd promoter whose use of pageantry evoked a lost African civilisation and articulated the submerged thoughts of a despised but awakening people. An inspiring orator, Garvey captivated audiences with his audacious 'Back to Africa' programme and his Universal Negro Improvement Association soon boasted over 1,100 branches in more than forty countries. Beneath the pomp and rhetoric was an incisive mind with an astonishing ability to electrify the imagination and to alarm the authorities. Early in his career, unknown to him, Garvey made enemies of two powerful men, British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill and the director Bureau of Investigation, J. Edgar Hoover. British spies and Bureau informants continually monitored his movement. His bitter rival, W.E.B. Dubois, believed Garvey to be merely an outlandish 'negro with a hat', but to his admirers, there was God and there was Garvey. With masterful skill, wit and compassion, Colin Grant chronicles Garvey's extraordinary life, the failed business ventures, his misguided negotiations with the Ku Klux Klan, the two wives (both named Amy) and the premature obituaries that contributed to his lonely, tragic death. Index, notes, b/w photos, 530pp, UK. JONATHAN CAPE.

New perspectives on pan-African ideologies and political theories, and an analysis of the physical and cultural genocide of black societies looking in particular at the evidence that AIDS and Ebola are man made viruses destined to decimate. Text in French. Bib, notes, b/w illus, map, 369pp, UK. NEKHEN,

2003 Paperback

Looks at the development of Pan-Africanism and the people and circumstances in which it originated. The author traces the movement of its focus from the United States back to Africa and the creation of the Organisation of African Unity. Index, bib, apps, xii, 295pp, USA. HOWARD UNIV. PRESS, 0882581864

A collection of papers presented to the Southern African Political Economy Series Trust in 2000, which are aimed at finding solutions to the problems of regional integration in the region and in Africa generally. Index, notes, refs, 352pp, ZIMBABWE. SAPES, 1779051492

Conference papers from the 17th All African Students' Conference (AASC), University of Namibia, 28-29 May 2005. 345pp, NAMIBIA. GAMSBERG MACMILLAN.

2006 9789991607498 Paperback

A guide to the political figures of Pan-Africanism from 1797 to the present day. Offers a biographical details and assesses their legacy and contribution to activism and debate. Includes individual guides to further reading. Index, xi, 203pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE, 0415173531

Discusses the civilisations of the Nile Valley, North Africa, West Africa, the western coast, the Central Sahara, East Africa, and Southern Africa, as well as civilisations of early Asia, and African influences in Ancient America and Mediaeval Spain. Illus., maps, notes, bib, index. 167pp. UK. BOGLE L'OUVERTURE.

Utilising a method informed by the ideas and worldview of Ifa to argue that there deeper levels of meaning in the writings of African diasporic peoples, literary scholar Montgomery presents a new way of reading Africana literary texts. Index, bib, 243pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

New edition of the controversial text that originally appeared in 1954. Index, 191pp, USA. AFRICAN AMERICAN IMAGES, 0913543780

Examines the historical, socio-political and cultural significance of The East. It explores the efforts of The East to build and sustain viable community and family-centred institutions in the context of nation-building. Nation building is defined here as the conscious and focused application of African peoples collective resources, energies and knowledge to the task of liberating and developing the psychic and physical space that Africans identify as theirs. Nationalist is used here to properly situate The East experience in the context and continuum of Black nationalist thought and praxis and its efforts to build upon this tradition. Index, bib, 183pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS. 1592212808

Extending Gramsci's concept of the organic intellectual, this study of four renowned citizens of the African diaspora, Muhammad Ali, C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall and Bob Marley, the author develops a new category of involved thinker: the vernacular intellectual who confronts social injustice from inside and outside traditional academic or political spheres. Index, notes, x, 316pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 0816633177

Panafricanist history that claims to be "the first work that dares to connect Egypt, and its cultural affinities, with Africa and its chronological timeline within the vast chronology (nearly 90,000 years) of African achievement." Very highly illustrated. Index, bib, timeline, 713pp, UK. EVERY GENERATION MEDIA.