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Black Man of the Nile and His Family

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan · 1970

An academy summary: Dr. Ben's survey of Nile Valley civilization and its African context, written as an argument against the removal of Africa from th…

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Africa: Mother of Western Civilization

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan · 1971

An academy summary: a wide-ranging study of African contributions to the intellectual and religious formation of the Mediterranean world. Treat its br…

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African Origins of the Major "Western Religions"

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan · 1970

An academy summary: Dr. Ben's comparative treatment of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam against earlier Nile Valley religious thought. Distinguish the…

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We the Black Jews: Witness to the "White Jewish Race" Myth

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan

An academy summary: Dr. Ben's study of African Hebrew communities and his challenge to the idea of a single European Jewish origin. Read the documenta…

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The Myth of Genesis and Exodus and the Exclusion of Their African Origins

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan

An academy summary: a reading of the Genesis and Exodus narratives against earlier Nile Valley sources, arguing that African origins were written out …

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The Need for a Black Bible

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan

An academy summary: an argument for reading scripture through African sources and African interpretation rather than inherited European framing.…

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A Chronology of the Bible: Challenge to the Standard Version

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan

An academy summary: a chronological study setting the biblical record beside dated Nile Valley material, offered as a challenge to the standard timeli…

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The Black Man's North and East Africa

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan with George E. Simmonds

An academy summary: a regional survey of northern and eastern Africa written with George E. Simmonds, treating the region as African ground rather tha…

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Cultural Genocide in the Black and African Studies Curriculum

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan

An academy summary: Dr. Ben's critique of how Black and African studies curricula were shaped, and what such shaping removes from a student's inherita…

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From Afrikan Captives to Insane Slaves

Dr. Yosef Ben-Jochannan

An academy summary: a study of enslavement and its psychological and institutional aftermath, written as history with a stated argument.…

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Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism

Dr. John Henrik Clarke · 1992

An academy summary: Dr. Clarke's study of the transatlantic slave trade as an economic engine of European capitalism, beginning with the Columbus era.…

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Who Betrayed the African World Revolution?: And Other Speeches

Dr. John Henrik Clarke · 1994

An academy summary: a collection of Dr. Clarke's speeches on African world history and the obligations of the scholar. Study the speeches as primary m…

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Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa

Edited by Dr. John Henrik Clarke · 1974

An academy summary: an edited volume on Marcus Garvey and the movement he built, with Dr. Clarke as editor. Read the editor's framing as part of the r…

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Malcolm X: The Man and His Times

Edited by Dr. John Henrik Clarke · 1969

An academy summary: Dr. Clarke's edited portrait of Malcolm X through essays and recollections by those who knew and studied him. A model of how a lif…

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Stolen Legacy

George G. M. James · 1954

An academy summary: an argument that Greek philosophy drew on an older Egyptian system of learning. Widely influential and widely contested; study it …

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The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

Cheikh Anta Diop · 1974

An academy summary: Diop's evidentiary case — linguistic, cultural, and physical — placing Kemet within African civilization. A useful model of how a …

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Ancient Egypt and Black Africa

Théophile Obenga

An academy summary: a linguistic and cultural study connecting ancient Egypt to the wider African continent, argued through comparative method.…

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Selections from The Husia: Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

Maulana Karenga

An academy summary: a curated presentation of ancient Egyptian moral and spiritual writing in translation. Study the editor's framing as part of the r…

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African Cosmology of the Bântu-Kôngo: Tying the Spiritual Knot

Kimbwandende Kia Bunseki Fu-Kiau

An academy summary: an account of Bântu-Kôngo cosmological thought from within the tradition. Keep its regional and intellectual context visible; it i…