Suggested Starter Reading List to Learn More About the African Diaspora

Note: These books are listed in no specific order. There are many more books that could be mentioned on this list but these are the ones that I’ve found to be most revealing.  These authors also have more than one book to their credit and I recommend researching and reading them.

  • Browder, Anthony: Exploding the Myths, Vol 1, Nile Valley Contributions to Civilization. Washington: The Institute of Karmic Guidance, 1992

  • Williams, Chancellor: The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500 BC to 2000 AD. Chicago: Third World Press, 1974

  • Hilliard. Asa G IIl: SBA: The Reawakening of the African Mind. Gainesville: Makare Publishing Co., 1997

  • Woodson, Carter G: The Miseducation of the Negro. Washington: Associated Publishers, 1933

  • Carruthers, Jacob: Intellectual Warfare. Chicago: Third world Press, 1999

  • Jackson, John G: Introduction to African Civilizations. New York: The Citadel Press 1970

  • Stuckey, Sterling: Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America. New York: Random House, 1987

  • Wilson, Amos N: The Falsification of African Consciousness: Eurocentric History, Psychology, and the Policy of White Supremacy. New York: African World Infosystems, 1993

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

  • Nobles Wade W: African Psychology: Toward It’s Reclamation, Reascension & Revitalization. Oakland: Institute for Advanced Study, 1986

  • Ani, Marimba: Let the Circle be Unbroken: The Implication of African Spirituality in the Diaspora. New York:  Nkonomfo Publishing, 1997

  • Finch, Charles. Echoes of the Old Darkland: Themes from the African Eden. Decatur: Khenti, 1994

  • James, George GM: Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy. Africa World Press, Trenton: 1995

  • Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America. New York: Penguin Books, 1993

  • Harriot, Michael. Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America. New York: Dey Street Books, 2023

  • Rogers, Joel A: Africa's Gift to America. St. Petersburg: Helga M Rogers, 1961

  • Benton, Joe, Derrick Jackson, Burnett Gallman. Project Sankofa: A Rites of Passage Program.: Philosophy, Theory & Overview, Expanded Second Edition. Columbia:  Imhotep-The Drum, 2022

  • Browder, Anthony T: From the Browder File: 23 Essays on the African American Experience. Washington: Institute of Karmic Guidance, 1989

  • Burrell, Tom: Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority. Carson: Smiley Books, 2010

  • King, Martin Luther Jr.: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Boston: Beacon Press, 2010

  • Van Sertima, Ivan. They Came Before Columbus: The African Presence in Ancient America. New York: Random House, 2003

  • Horne, Gerald. The Counter-Revolution of 17876: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America. New York: New York University Press, 2016