This page is dedicated to providing a resource of Black Indigenous People of Color writing about topics related to but no limited to Decolonization, African Studies, Black Thought, Black Studies, Indigenous Studies, Latin American Studies and Critical Race Theory. This is an ever evolving list so if someone is not on it, I welcome your recommendations. Please send recommendations or suggestions via the CONTACT PAGE.

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African Political Thought

Cabral, A., 1979. Unity and struggle:speeches and writings. Monthly Review Press.

Fanon, F.,1965. The wretched of the earth.

Fanon, F., 2008. Black skin, white masks.

Mudimbe, V.Y.,1988. The Invention of Africa: Prognosis, Philosophy and the Order of Knowledge. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Nkrumah, K.1965. Neo-colonialism: The last stage of imperialism. New York: International Publishers.

Pre-colonial Africa - Ways of Knowing & Being

Ayittey, G.B.N (1991). Indigenous African Institutions. New York: Transnational Publishers Inc.

Davidson, B. (1998). West Africa before the colonial era: a history to 1850. New York: Longman.

Nketsia, N. K. (2013). African culture in governance and development: The Ghana paradigm. Cape Coast: University of Cape Coast Press.

Opuni-Frimpong, K. (2012). Indigenous knowledge and Christian missions: Perspectives of Akan leadership formation on Christian leadership development. Accra, Ghana: SonLife Press.

Rattray, R. S. (1916). Ashanti Law and Constitution. Oxford: Oxford Press.

 Shutte, A. (1995). Philosophy for Africa. Milwaukee: Marquette University Press.

Sogolo, G. (1993). Foundations of African Philosophy: A definitive analysis of conceptual issues in African thought. Ibadan:  Ibadan University Press.

Williams, C. 1987. The destruction of black civilization. Chicago, Illinois: Third World Press.

 Wiredu, K. (1997). Democracy and consensus in African traditional politics: A plea for a non-party polity. Retrieved from: http://them.polylog.org/2/fwk-en.htm#s4

 Wiredu, K. (2008). Social Philosophy in Postcolonial Africa: Some preliminaries concerning communalism and communitarianism. South African Journal of Philosophy, 27:4, 332-339.

 Wiredu, K. (2000). Our problem of knowledge: Brief reflections on knowledge and development in Africa. In Karp, I., & Masolo, D. A. (Eds.), African Philosophy as cultural inquiry (p. 181- 186). Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.  

Decolonization Theory & Praxis

Freire, P. (2014). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

Mignolo, W. 2011. The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options.

Pan-Africanism and Anti-Colonial Struggles

Sankara, T. 2010. Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkiina Faso Revolutions 1983 - 1987. New York: Pathfinders.

Contemporary Africa: Governance, Parties, Elections, & Democracy