It is a common practice to divide African history into three epochs: precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial. Yet as the philosopher Olufemi Taiwo has convincingly argued, this approach is wrong on ...

this is especially true within the African-American community, where books created for us and by us have a history of being banned from libraries, schools, and the mainstream altogether.

The prolific writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, originally from Kenya, died at 87 in Bedford, Georgia on Wednesday, May 28. In ...

This picture book chronicles the history of African American spirituals by pairing rhythmic text with cut paper illustrations. Backmatter gives further meaning to this enduring American art form.

This book, as Richard Reid explains at the outset, is not the history of the European “Scramble for Africa” that the publishers asked him to write. It is a story of the African scramble.

Brown, pastor of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco, loaned two books to the Smithsonian ... “We wouldn’t need African American history exhibits if America hadn’t been founded by ...

The deity is referenced multiple times in Roberts book. Yemayá is regarded as a reservoir of African history and a womb to Roberts own metamorphosis. “Maybe she is the patron saint of all those ...

He was deeply influenced by the rich family history of storytelling ... his idea to create a library in Africa that held such stories. Akin to coffee table books, photobooks are an ideal vehicle ...

Her book matters because ... It's a poignant reminder of how much Black South African history is no longer available because of how apartheid repeatedly uprooted people and communities, with ...