Core Texts

 

These are the books that we have leaned heaviest on when developing our curriculum. As you may have noticed, most of these are on multiple reading lists. These are also the books that we require members of our organisation to read when formally becoming part of Boukman Academy, as per our manifesto.


How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, by Walter Rodney

Race First, by Tony Martin

The Wretched of the Earth, by Frantz Fanon

When We Ruled, by Robin Walker

Yurugu, by Marimba Ani

Women, Race and Class, by Angela Davis

Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State, by Cheikh Anta Diop

The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness, by Amos Wilson

The New Jim Crow, by Michelle Alexander

The Black Jacobins, by C.L.R. James

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, by Joy DeGruy

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, by Kwame Nkrumah

The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, by Marcus and Amy Jacques Garvey

Black on Black Violence, by Amos Wilson

The West and the Rest of Us, by Chinweizu

Black Power: The Politics of Liberation, by Kwame Ture and Charles V. Hamilton

Malcolm X Speaks & By Any Means Necessary, by Malcolm X

Africa Must Unite, by Kwame Nkrumah

Thomas Sankara Speaks, by Thomas Sankara

Black Marxism, by Cedric Robinson

 
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