Global African Presence Booklist

[Raha]

A PRELIMINARY GLOBAL AFRICAN PRESENCE BOOK LIST*

COMPILED AND POSTED BY RUNOKO RASHIDI**

DEDICATED TO DR. JOHN HENRIK CLARKE (1915-1998)

Akbar, Na'im. Visions for Black Men. Nashville:
Winston-Derek, 1991.

Ani, Marimba. Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique
of European Cultural Thought and Behavior. Trenton:
Africa World Press, 1994.

Armah, Ayi Kwei. Two Thousand Seasons. Poppenguine,
Senegal: Per Ankh, 2000.

Begg, Ean. The Cult of the Black Virgin. London:
Arkana, 1986.

Ben-Jochannan, Yosef A.A. Black Man of the Nile and
His Family. Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1989.

Ben-Jochannan, Yosef A.A. African Origins of the
Major Western Religions. Baltimore: Black Classic
Press, 1991.

Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower: A History of
Black America. Harmondsworth: 1962.

Browder, Anthony Y. Nile Valley Contributions to
Civilizations: Exploding the Myths, Volume 1.
Introduction by John Henrik Clarke: Washington, DC:
Institute of Karmic Guidance, 1992.

Butweiku I, Nana Ekow. Afrikan Theology, Cosmogony
& Philosophy: An Insight on Traditional Afrikan
Religion. Introduction by Runoko Rashidi. Hampton:
UB & US Communications Systems, 1999.

Bynum, Edward Bruce. The African Unconscious: Roots
Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology. Foreword by
Linda James Myers. New York: Teachers College,

Carruthers, Jacob H. The Irritated Genie: An Essay
on the Haitian Revolution. Chicago: The Kemetic
Institute, 1985.

Carruthers, Jacob H. Intellectual Warfare. Chicago:
Third World Press, 1999.

Carruthers, Jacob H., and Leon Harris, eds. African
World History Project: The Preliminary Project.
Chicago: Kemetic Institute, 1996.

Chandler, Wayne B. Ancient Future: The Teachings
and Prophetic Wisdom of the Seven Hermetic Laws of
Ancient Egypt. Introduction by Ivan Van Sertima.
Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1999.

Chinweizu. The West and the Rest of Us. Lagos: Nok
Publishers, 1978.

Clarke, John Henrik. Notes for an African World
Revolution: Africans at the Crossroads. Trenton:
Africa World Press, 1991.

DeGraft-Johnson, J.C. African Glory: The Story of
Vanished Negro Civilizations. 1954; reprinted.
Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1985.

Diop, Cheikh Anta. African Origin of Civilization:

Myth or Reality. Translated from the French by
Mercer Cook. New York: Lawrence Hill, 1974,

Diop, Cheikh Anta. The Cultural Unity of Black
Africa.: The Domains of Patriarchy and Matriarchy in
Classical Antiquity. Introduction by John Henrik
Clarke. Afterword by James G. Spady. Chicago: Third
World Press, 1978.

Diop, Cheikh Anta. Civilization or Barbarism: An
Authentic Anthropology. Translated from the French
by Yaa-Lengi Meema Ngemi. Edited by Harold J.
Salemson and Marjolijn de Jager. New York: Lawrence
Hill, 1991.

Drake, St. Clair. Black Folk Here and There: An
Essay in History and Anthropology, Volume 1. Los
Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, UCLA,
1987.

Elder, Bruce. Blood on the Wattle: Massacres and
Maltreatment of Aboriginal Australians Since 1988.
Sydney: New Holland Publishers, 1998.

Fanon, Frantz. The Wretched of the Earth. New York:
Grove Press, 1963.

Finch III, Charles S. Echoes of the Old Darkland:
Themes from the African Eden. Decatur: Khenti, 1991.

Finch III, Charles S. The Star of Deep of
Beginnings: The Genesis of African Science of
Technology. Decatur: Khenti, 1998.

Fraser, Rosalie. Shadow Child: A Memoir of the
Stolen Generation. Alexandria: Hale & Iremonger,
1998.

Gnammankou, Dieudonne. Pouchkine et le Monde Noir.
Paris: Presence Africaine, 1999.

Guillon, Emmanuel. Cham Art: Treasures from the Da
Nang Museum, Vietnam. Bangkok: River Books, 2001.

Harris, Joseph E.,ed. Africa and Africans as Seen
by Classical Writers: The William Leo Hansberry
Notebook, Volume 2. Washington, DC: Howard
University Press, 1977.

Hilliard III, Asa G. The Maroon Within Us.
Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1994.

Hilliard III, Asa G. SBA: The Reawakening of the
African Mind. Foreword by Wade W. Nobles.
Gainesville: Makare, 1997

Houston, Drusilla Dunjee. Wonderful Ethiopians of
the Ancient Cushite Empire. 1926; rpt. Introduction
by W. Paul Coates. Afterword by Asa G. Hilliard III.
Commentary by James G. Spady. Baltimore: Black
Classic Press, 1985.

Jackson, John G. Introduction to African
Civilizations. Foreword by Runoko Rashidi.
Introduction by John Henrik Clarke. New York:
Citadel, 2001.

James, George G.M. Stolen Legacy: The Greeks Were
not the Authors of Greek Philosophy, but the People
of North Africa Commonly Called the Egyptians. 1954;
rpt. Introduction by Asa G. Hilliard III. San
Francisco: Julian Richardson, 1988.

Katz, William Loren. Black Indians: A Hidden
Heritage. New York: Atheneum, 1986.

Killens, John Oliver. Great Black Russian: A Novel
on the Life and Times of Alexander Pushkin.
Introduction by Addison Gayle. Detroit: Wayne State
University Press, 1989.

Martin, Tony. Race First: The Ideological and
Organizational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the
Universal Negro Improvement Association. Dover: The
Majority Press, 1976.

McCray, Walter Arthur. The Black Presence in the
Bible: Discovering the Black and African Identity of
Biblical Persons and Nations. Chicago: Black Light
Fellowship, 1990.

Moore, Carlos, ed. African Presence in the
Americas. Trenton: Africa World Press, 1995.

Obenga, Theophile. Ancient Egypt and Black Africa:
A Student's Handbook for the Study of Ancient Egypt
in Philosophy, Linguistics and Gender Relations.
London: Karnak House, 1992.

Rajshekar, V.T. Dalit: The Black Untouchables of
India. Foreword by Y.N. Kly. Afterword by Runoko
Rashidi. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 1995.

Rashidi, Runoko, and Ivan Van Sertima, eds. African
Presence in Early Asia. New Brunswick: Transaction
Press, 1995.

Raven, Susan. Rome in Africa. London: Routledge,
1993.

Rodney, Walter. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.
Introduction by Vincent Harding. Postscript by A.M.
Babu. Washington, DC: Howard University Press, 1982.


Rogers, Joel Augustus. Sex and Race. Rogers: New
York 1942.

Rogers, Joel Augustus. World's Great Men of Color,
two volumes. New York: Macmillan, 1972.

Sabbioni, Jennifer, Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith,
eds. Indigenous Australian Voices: A Reader. New
Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Scobie, Edward. Global African Presence.
Introduction by Ivan Van Sertima. Brooklyn: A & B
Books, 1994.

Sharp, Saundra. Black Women for Beginners. New
York: Writers and Readers, 1993.

Van Sertima, Ivan. They Came Before Columbus: The
African Presence in Ancient America. New York:
Random House, 1976.

Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. African Presence in Early
Europe. New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1985.

Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. Egypt Revisited. New
Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1989.

Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. Golden Age of the Moor. New
Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1992.

Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. Egypt: Child of Africa. New
Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1994.

Van Sertima, Ivan, ed. Early America Revisited. New
Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1998.

Van Sertima, Ivan, and Larry Obadele Williams, eds.
Great African Thinkers, Volume 1: Cheikh Anta Diop.
New Brunswick: Transaction Press, 1986.

Welsing, Frances Cress. The Isis Papers: The Keys
to the Colors. Chicago: Third World Press, 1991.

Williams, Chancellor. The Destruction of Black
Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 B.C.
to 2000 A.D. Chicago: Third World Press, 1987.

Wilson, Amos N. Afrikan-Centered Consciousness
Versus the New World Order: Garveyism in the Age of
Globalism. New York: Afrikan World Infosystems,
1999.

Woodson, Carter G. The Mis-Education of the Negro.
Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1933.

X, Malcolm. Malcolm X on Afro-American History. New
York: Pathfinder, 1970.

*This is not intended to represent a full or even
comprehensive book list and scores of works should
and will be added. Nevertheless, these are indeed
some of the essential books and belong in all of our
libraries.

**Runoko Rashidi is a historian, public lecturer and
world traveler. He is currently organizing tours to
Paris and London for July 2006 and Turkey and Jordan
for
October 2006. Visit Runoko's award winning Global
African Presence Web Site designed and maintained by
Kenneth Ritchards at
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html

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[QueenWarriorNefertari]

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