Must Read Books for Every Black Man?

[REAL6]

Cult Of Ra - Stephen Quirke

Bibliotheca Historica - Diodorus Siculus

Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 - Plutarch

Unesco General Histories Of Africa Full 1-15 - Multiple authors

When We Ruled - Robin Walker

Before European Hegemony - The World System A.D. 1250-1350 by Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Before The Slave Trade - Robin Walker

The African Origin Of Civilization: Myth or Reality - Cheikh Anta Diop

The Came Before Columbus - Ivan Van Sertima

Early America Revisited - Ivan Van Sertima

Black Athena - Martin Bernal

Black Genesis - Bauval & Brophy

Imhotep The African - Bauval & Brophy

African Towns & Cities Before European Conquest - Richard Hull

The Ruins Of Empires - C.F Volney

Ancient Egypt The Light Of The World - Gerald Massey

The Signs and Symbols of Primordial Man - Albert Churchward

Africa and Africans As Seen By The Classical Writers - William Leo Hansberry

Life In Ancient Egypt - Adolf Erman

Ancient Egyptian Literature Full 1-3 - Mariam Lichtheim

African Philosophy: The Pharaonic Period - Theophile Obenga

Timbuctoo The Mysterious - Felix Dubois

The Black Jacobins - C.L.R James

The Irritated Genie - Jacob Carruthers

Africa In History - Basil Davidson

Ta'rikh al Fattash - Al Hajj Mahmud Kati

The Pale Fox - Griaule & Dierterlen

A Tropical Dependency - Flora S Lugard

 

[richaveli83]

Message to the Blackman
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Destruction of Black Civilization
The Miseducation of the Negro
Any Iceberg Slim book
Any Donald Goines book
The African Origin Of Civilization: Myth or Reality - Cheikh Anta Diop
Introduction to African Civilizations- John G. Jackson
Think and Grow Rich
The New Jim Crow
Medical Apartheid
As A Man Thinketh

 

[Brolic Scholar]

 

[Ziggiy]

MY POPS HAD THIS BOOK

 

[you're NOT "n!ggas"]

There's a ton that could be shared, but I think these books will to any and everything else you read from then on. The good thing is they're all 100 pages or less. In order:

1. "The Community of Self" -- Na'im Akbar
   • A holistic look at how you yourself are a 'community' (physically, emotionally, spiritually, etc), how to care for yourself and align these 'communities' to become a productive member of the community at large.
2. "Breaking The Psychological Chains of Slavery"-- Na'im Akbar
   • Recognize the patterns and traumas slavery inflicted on us as a people, avoiding them and moving beyond them.
3. "Decolonising the Mind" -- Ngugi Wa Thiong'o
   • This is a book by a Kenyan author on Colonial language in literary works, but I think the first part, which centers on colonial education is wildly important for us as diasporans when it comes to understanding how our language shapes our worldview.
4. Know Thy Self" -- Na'im Akbar
   • Reviewing a bit of the deconstruction you may have done in the previous books, and learning foundational principles to reclaim and carry on.

 

[Bondye Vodou]