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Title: Zenzele: A Letter for My Daughter
Author/Artist: Nozipo Maraire
Cost: $14
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Description: This novel is written in the form of a letter from a mother to her daughter, Zenzele, who is just beginning her college studies. The mother writes of her girlhood in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe’s colonial name), the struggle for Zimbabwe’s independence, and her hopes and fears for the next generation. The mother offers her own stories in hopes that her daughter, while creating herself, will never forget from where she came.

Title: Assata
Author/Artist: Assata Shakur
Cost: $16.95
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Description: This book exposes the United States’ government’s criminalization of black nationalists during the 1960’s. It also allows us to appreciate the context in which African-Americans, such as Assata, lived and what led them to resist the status quo.



Title: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
Author/Artist: Kay Redfield Jamison
Cost: $13.95
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Description: This book is for anyone living with bipolar disorder or any other mental illness. The authour lives with bipolar disoder and so she gives a first hand account of what those with biplar disorder face. An Unquiet Mind is funny, heartwrenching and unapologetic. Most of all, it gives hope to those affected by this disease.

Title: The Art Of Leadership (Hardback)
Author/Artist: Oba T’Shaka
Cost: $28.95
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Description: An essential guide to activists everywhere. T’Shaka outlines basic steps for those committed to mass mobilization by offering his readers tried and true methods used throughout his lifetime. He also lends us his insight as a successful organizer/activist.



Title: The Mismeasure Of Man
Author/Artist: Stephen J. Gould
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Description: The Mismeasure of Man depicts a historical study of the racism in science, in particular the historical racism of intelligence. Scientists who studied intelligence from the early 1800s to the mid 1900s believed that Caucasian males were the most intelligent of all races; they used this preconceived belief and "fixed" their data, either by not including all their results, or by using an unequal number of subjects for each race involved in that particular study, to ensure that their results supported this belief.

Title: Malcolm X Autobiography
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Description: Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here, the man who called himself "the angriest Black man in America" relates how his conversion to true Islam helped him confront his rage and recognize the brotherhood of all mankind.



Title: The Black Jacobins
Author/Artist: CLR James
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Description: A classic history of the Haitian revolution, The Black Jacobins has been called "The War and Peace of the Caribbean." Throughout the book, C.L. R. James takes an original look at revolution by analyzing revolutionary potential and progress according to economic and class distinctions, rather than racial distinctions. He intriguingly interweaves the goings on of the French Revolution with the Haitian Revolution, and relates the events and influences of each to one another. The Black Jacobins also focuses on Toussaint L’Ouverture as the revolutionary spearhead and organizational leader of the Haitian revolution.

Title: The Destruction of Black Civilization
Author/Artist: Chancellor Williams
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Description: The book is premised on the question: "If the Blacks were among the very first builders of civilization and their land the birthplace of civilization, what has happened to them that has left them since then, at the bottom of world society, precisely what happened? The Caucasian answer is simple and well-known: The Blacks have always been at the bottom." Williams instead contends that many elements—nature, imperialism, and stolen legacies— have aided in the destruction of the black civilization.

(Description from Sacred Fire: The QBR 100 Essential Black Books)



Title: Native Son
Author/Artist: Richard Wright
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Description: Native Son tells the story of 20-year old Bigger Thomas, an African-American living in utter poverty. He accidentally kills a white woman, runs from the police, rapes and kills his girlfriend and is then caught and tried. Wright, in the novel, gets inside the head of Bigger, revealing his feelings, thoughts and point of view as he commits crimes, is confronted with racism, violence and debasement - the name "Bigger" both is a play of the word "nigger", and a nod to the bigger social forces behind his actions.

Title: Angela Davis Autobiography
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Description: Angela Davis is a political autobiography which tells of an African-American woman’s experience in the American police and judicial systems. It is also a journey from a childhood in Alabama to one of the most significant political trials of the 20th century. It is a powerful and commanding story told with warmth, brilliance, humour and conviction.



Title: Poems To Rebecca: A Father’s Heart Exposed
Author/Artist: Dominic Bain
Cost: $16
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Description: Poems to Rebecca is a book of poetry that speaks of a father’s struggle to establish and maintain a realtionship with his daughter through life’s bitter circumstances. It also speaks to the injustices that the author and other Bahamian fathers face as a result of a dispassionate justice system. Ultimately, love outweighs the law as the author’s season of longsuffering turns to joy.

Title: Five Notable Inventors
Author/Artist: Wade Hudson
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Description: Grades 2-4. Follows five inventors: Elijah "the real" McCoy, machinery oiling equipment; Madame C.J. Walker, hair products for black women; Granville Woods, electrical signal system for trains; Garrett Morgan, gas masks and traffic signals; and Jan Matzeliger, shoe last machinery.



Title: Groundings with my Brothers
Author/Artist: Walter Rodney
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Description: Walter Rodney's encounters with Rastafarians were published in a pamphlet entitled "Grounding with My Brothers," that became a bible for the Caribbean Black Power Movement.

Title: Of Water And The Spirit
Author/Artist: Malidoma Patrice Some
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Description: One of the most astonishing and intimate accounts of spiritual transformation ever written, this is the true story of an African's shaman's initiation--a remarkable sharing of living African traditions, offered with compassion for those struggling with our contemporary crisis of spirit.



Title: The Healing Wisdom of Africa
Author/Artist: Malidoma Patrice Some
Cost: $15.95
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Description: A fascinating, detailed journey through the traditional healing practices of West Africa by a beloved shaman and scholar.

Title: The Tears I Cried
Author/Artist: Utah L. Taylor
Cost: $9.45
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Description: Taylor’s memoir is a well written slice of Bahamian life that intersperses humour with pain. The expert use of Bahamian dialect also makes the book an easy read. More importantly, “The Tears I Cried” is a look inside the hearts and minds of numerous young men and women who go throughout life fatherless. It rightly captures the sorrow that they endure; even as adults.



Title: Ashanti to Zulu: African Traditions
Author/Artist: Margaret Musgrove
Cost: $6.99
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Description: Artists Leo and Diane Dillon won their second consecutive Caldecott Medal for this stunning ABC of African culture. "Another virtuoso performance. . . . Such an astute blend of aesthetics and information is admirable, the child's eye will be rewarded many times over".--Booklist. ALA Notable Book; Caldecott Medal. Full color.

Title: Emeka's Gift: An African Counting Story
Author/Artist: Ifeoma Onyefulu
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Description: As a young African boy travels to visit his grandmother, he passes through the village market, where he sees things Granny would like--four brooms, five hats, six necklaces, and so on. Stunning color photographs taken in a Nigerian village illustrate this heartwarming story.



Title: Introduction to African Civilizations
Author/Artist: John G. Jackson
Cost: $14.95
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Description: This work challenges all the standard approaches to the saga of African history, from the dawn of prehistory to the modern resurgent Africa of today.

Title: Stolen Legacy
Author/Artist: George G. M. James
Cost: $9.95
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Description: For centuries the world has been misled about the original source of the Arts and Sciences; for centuries Socrates, Plato and Aristotle have been falsely idolized as models of intellectual greatness; and for centuries the African continent has been called the Dark Continent, because Europe coveted the honor of transmitting to the world, the Arts and Sciences. It is indeed surprising how, for centuries, the Greeks have been praised by the Western World for intellectual accomplishments which belong without a doubt to the Egyptians or the peoples of North Africa.



Title: Running The Dusk
Author/Artist: Christian Campbell
Cost: $16.95
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Description: There is in Christian Campbell, a delicious sense that he is seeing the world afresh, hungry to devour what he sees, hungry to find fresh language to say it. There is a voraciousness in his consumption of the world around him—as if he is seeing it all for the first time and naming it for the first time. Campbell’s verse manages without pretension or undue self-consciousness to draw on popular culture and a classical literature. He feels no obligation to show reference to either, but appropriates what he needs to capture the zeitgeist of his twenty-first century world.

Title: Bougainvillea Ringplay
Author/Artist: Marion Bethel
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Description: Bougainvillea Ringplay is the long awaited second collection by Marion Bethel, a poet who has long established herself as one of the most necessary voices in Caribbean poetry. These poems are sensual in the most literal sense - the poems are about the senses, the smell of vanilla and sex, the sound of waves - radio, voices, sea; the taste of crab soup; the texture of hurricane wind, and the chaos of colors bombarding the eye. Bahamian poetry is being defined in the work of Marion Bethel and in Bougainvillea Ringplay she is doing so with grace.



Title: I Love My Hair!
Author/Artist: Natasha A. Tarpley
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Description: A whimsical, evocative story about a girl named Keyana encourages African children to feel good about their special hair and be proud of their heritage. A BlackBoard Children's Book of the Year. Full-color illustrations.

Title: The Kemetic Diet, Food for Body, Mind and Spirit
Author/Artist: Muata Ashby
Cost: $38.95
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Description: In the late 20th century, the failure of the modern medical establishment's ability to lead the general public to good health, promoted the move by many in society towards "alternative medicine." Alternative medicine disciplines are those healing modalities which do not adhere to the philosophy of allopathic medicine. Allopathic medicine is what medical doctors practice by an large. It is the theory that disease is caused by agencies outside the body such as bacteria, viruses or physical means which affect the body. These can therefore be treated by medicines and therapies The natural healing method began in the absence of extensive technologies with the idea that all the answers for health may be found in nature or rather, the deviation from nature. Therefore, the health of the body can be restored by correcting the aberration and thereby restoring balance.



Title: The Pan-African Connection: From Slavery to Garvey & Beyond
Author/Artist: Tony Martin
Cost: $12.95
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Description: Case studies of the Garvey Movement in South Africa, Trinidad, Jamaica and elsewhere. Essays on C.L.R. James, Frantz Fanon, George Padmore, Evangelical Pan-Africanism, the Pan-African Conference of 1900 and other topics.

Title: Women, Race, & Class
Author/Artist: Angela Davis
Cost: $15
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Description: A powerful study of the women's movement in the U.S. from abolitionist days to the present that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders.



Title: Life & Debt (Out of Stock)
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Description: Life & Debt examines the economic and social situation in Jamaica, and specifically the impact thereon of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank’s globalization policies.

Title: A Place Called Chiapas (Out of Stock)
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Description: A first-hand account of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation or Zapatistas and the lives of its soldiers and the people for whom they fight. Director Nettie Wild takes the viewer to rebel territory in the south west Mexican state of Chiapas, where the Zapatistas live and evade the Mexican Army.



Title: The Battle Of Algiers (Out of Stock)
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Description: A 1966 film based on events during the 1954-1962 Algerian War against French rule.

Title: Lumumba (Out of Stock)
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Description: It has been described as a gripping epic that dramatizes for the first time the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba. When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old, self-educated Lumumba became the first Prime Minister of the newly independent state. Lumumba would last just months in office before being brutally assassinated.



Title: I’m That Girl
Author/Artist: TaDa
Cost: $13.99
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Description: ‘I’m That Girl’ has been described as a fusion of pop, reggae and r&b.

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Title: ‘Uprising Vol I: Not Settlin’ Deluxe Version
Author/Artist: Ricardo Clarke
Cost: $13.99
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Description: Deluxe Version - Six panel jacket inclusive of pics/credits and high gloss finish

Ricardo Clarke’s debut album ‘Uprising’ is an easy listening Reggae set with a message. The songs represent the best in Bahamian Reggae; ‘one drop’, ‘conscious vibes’ that deal with everyday reality and spread a positive message. - GospelReggae.com

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Title: ‘Uprising Vol I: Not Settlin’ Stripped Version
Author/Artist: Ricardo Clarke
Cost: $8.99
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Description: Stripped Version - A jacket front and back cover high gloss finish

Ricardo Clarke’s debut album ‘Uprising’ is an easy listening Reggae set with a message. The songs represent the best in Bahamian Reggae; ‘one drop’, ‘conscious vibes’ that deal with everyday reality and spread a positive message. - GospelReggae.com

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