African History


King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
The Fate of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence
The Scramble for Africa: The White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa
The Fortunes of Africa: A 5,000-Year History of Wealth, Greed, and Endeavor
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
Long Walk to Freedom
Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race From 4500 B.C. To 2000 A.D.
Africa: A Biography of the Continent
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence
Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouThe Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm XBuck by M.K. AsanteThe Wounded World by Chad L. WilliamsThe Black Jacobins by C.L.R. James
Black biography
239 books — 64 voters
Natives by AkalaThe Many-Headed Hydra by Peter LinebaughThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'Agostino MDThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
Akala Reads
55 books — 9 voters

Africana by Kim ChakanetsaWriting IT - Novel, Plot, Characters by Ed AdamsAfrican Icons by Tracey BaptisteA Gift from Childhood by Baba Wagué DiakitéTraveling Man by James Rumford
Juvenile Nonfiction about Africa
78 books — 2 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouEat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth GilbertPersepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Memoirs by Women
3,211 books — 3,258 voters

Victor Vote
Our history has been over the years passed to us verbally by our forefathers - little preservations were made and we do agree that gospel (Latin: 'Good story') according to our forefathers can never remain the same when it has passed through centuries with no written documentations. There will be some elements of exaggerations, discrepancies, and interpolations but our hearts remains true to information closer to the source, hence IsokoHUB. ...more
Victor Vote, Keeping Spirituality

Walter Rodney
In response to the demand for more black culture and history, the national bourgeoisie of the U.S.A. has adopted a technique different from that of their neo-colonialist puppets in the West Indies. Having that security which comes from the possession of capital, they feel confident in making certain concessions to black culture in their educational institutions and media of public communications. As always, they concede the lesser demand to maintain the total structure of white capitalist domina ...more
Walter Rodney, The Groundings with My Brothers

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