Source Texts
Africa and the Africans : proceedings on the occasion of a banquet, given at the Holborn Restaurant, August, 15th, 1903, to Edward W. Blyden. E-text, via CRL. London : C.M. Phillips, 1903. [Speeches by Casely Hayford, Edward Blyden, Prince Attah Ahuma, and others.]
--See also: Print copy
Africa remembered; narratives by West Africans from the era of the slave trade. Edited by Philip D. Curtin. With introductions and annotation by Philip D. Curtin [and others]. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.
--See also: E-Book (1997 edition)
African fundamentalism : a literary and cultural anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance. Compiled and edited by Tony Martin. Dover, Mass. : Majority Press, 1991. ["Most of the selections in this volume are excerpts from Negro World."]
African Muslims in antebellum America : a sourcebook. Edited by Allan D. Austin. New York : Garland Pub., 1984.
--See also: 2nd copy of 1984 edition ; Condensed, updated 1997 edition -and- E-book of 1997 edition
The African times and Orient review: a monthly journal devoted to the interests of the coloured races of the world. E-text. London : African Times and Orient Review, 1912-1917. --via Empire online, Adam Matthew Digital
--See also: Hathi Trust online e-text
Africans abroad : a documentary history of the Black Diaspora in Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean during the age of slavery. Compiled by Graham W. Irwin. New York : Columbia University Press, 1977.
Ali, Duse Mohamed. Dusé Mohamed Ali (1866-1945) : the autobiography of a pioneer Pan African and Afro-Asian activist. Compiled with an introduction by Mustafa Abdelwahid. Trenton : Red Sea Press, c2011.
Angelou, Maya. All God's children need traveling shoes. New York : Vintage Books, 1991, c1986.
--See also: 2nd copy -and- 1987 edition
Angelou, Maya. The heart of a woman. New York : Random House, c1981.
--See also: 1997 edition
Asante, Molefi Kete. The Afrocentric idea. Rev. and expanded edition Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1998.
--See also: 1987 edition
Azikiwe, Nnamdi. Renascent Africa. London : Cass, 1968. [Originally published in 1937]
--See also: 2nd copy
Belafonte, Harry, with Michael Shnayerson. My song : a memoir. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
The Black man. Black man: a magazine of Negro thought and opinion (1933-1939), published by the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Millwood, N.Y. : Kraus-Thomson Organization, 1975.
The Black panther. Newspaper. Oakland, Calif. : Black Panther Party, Ministry of Information, 1967-1980. --via Alexander Street Press
Blyden, Edward Wilmot. Black spokesman ; selected published writings of Edward Wilmot Blyden. Edited by Hollis R. Lynch. [London] : Cass, 1971.
Blyden, Edward Wilmot. Christianity, Islam and the Negro race. With an introduction by Samuel Lewis. Baltimore, MD : Black Classic Press, 1994. [Originally published in 1888.]
--See also: E-text
Brath, Elombe. Elombe Brath : selected writings and essays. Edited by Herb Boyd. New York : Elombe Brath Foundation, [2018]
Brathwaite, Kamau. The arrivants : a new world trilogy. Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1981.
--See also: E-text
Brathwaite, Kamau. Masks. London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford U.P., 1968.
--See also: Offsite copy
Brawley, Benjamin. A social history of the American Negro; being a history of the Negro problem in the United States, including a history and study of the Republic of Liberia. [New York] Collier Books [1970 ; originally published in 1921.]
--See also: E-book --or-- E-text
Brown, William Wells. The American fugitive in Europe : sketches of places and people abroad. E-book, via Gale. Boston : John P. Jewett and Co., 1855.
--See also: E-text, via University of North Carolina ; Plus: Reprint, 1969
Brown, William Wells. Three Years in Europe; or, Places I have Seen and People I have Met ; with a Memoir of the Author, By William Farmer, Esq.. E-text, via University of North Carolina. London, Charles Gilpin, 5 Bishopsgate Street, Without ; Edinburgh, Oliver and Boyd, 1852.
Bunche, Ralph J. An African-American in South Africa : the travel notes of Ralph J. Bunche, 28 September 1937-1 January 1938. Edited by Robert R. Edgar. Athens : Ohio University Press; Johannesburg : Witwatersrand University Press, [1992]
--See also: E-book
Bunche, Ralph J. Ralph J. Bunche : selected speeches and writings. Edited with an introduction by Charles P. Henry. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1995.
Cabral, Amílcar. Return to the source : selected speeches. New York : Monthly Review Press with Africa Information Service, 1974.
--See also: 1973 edition
Carmichael, Stokely. Ready for revolution : the life and struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) . New York : Scribner, c2003.
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on colonialism. Translated by Joan Pinkham. With "A poetics of anticolonialism" by Robin D.G. Kelley. New York : Monthly Review Press, c2000.
--See also: 1972 edition -and- E-book of 2000 edition
Césaire, Aimé. Notebook of a return to the native land. Translated and edited by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2001.
--See also: 1995 edition, translated by Mireille Rosello with Annie Pritchard -and- 2013 edition, translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman ; E-book of 2013 edition
Césaire, Aimé, interviewer. Resolutely black : conversations with Françoise Vergès. Translated by Matthew B. Smith. Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020.
--See also: E-book -and- 2nd E-book copy
Clarke, John Henrik, compiler. Marcus Garvey and the vision of Africa. Edited, with an introduction and commentaries by John Henrik Clarke, with the assistance of Amy Jacques Garvey. New York : Vintage Books, [1974]
--See also: 2nd copy
Coker, Daniel. Journal of Daniel Coker : a descendant of Africa, from the time of leaving New York, in the ship Elizabeth, Capt. Sebor, on a voyage for Sherbro, in Africa, in company with three agents, and about ninety persons of colour. Baltimore : Published by Edward J. Coale, in aid of the funds of the Maryland auxiliary colonization society, 1820.
--See also: E-book
Condé, Maryse. The journey of a Caribbean writer. Translated by Richard Philcox. London : Seagull Books, 2014.
Condé, Maryse. What is Africa to me? : fragments of a true-to-life autobiography. Translated by Richard Philcox. London : Seagull Books, [2017]
Cooper, Anna Julia. The voice of Anna Julia Cooper : including A voice from the South and other important essays, papers, and letters. Edited by Charles Lemert and Esme Bhan. Lanham, Md. : Rowan & Littlefield, 1998.
Council on African Affairs. Proceedings of the Conference on Africa--New Perspectives. Auspices of the Council on African Affairs, Inc. at the Institute for International Democracy ... April 14, 1944.
[New York], [1944]
Cromwell, Adelaide M. and Martin Kilson, compilers. Apropos of Africa : sentiments of Negro American leaders on Africa from the 1800s to the 1950s. London : Cass, 1969.
Crummell, Alexander. Africa and America ; addresses and discourses. New York : Negro Universities Press, [1969] [Originally published in 1891]
--See also: E-text
Crummell, Alexander. Destiny and race : selected writings, 1840-1898. Edited with an introduction by Wilson Jeremiah Moses. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1992.
Crummell, Alexander. The future of Africa ; being addresses, sermons, etc., etc., delivered in the Republic of Liberia. New York : Negro Universities Press, [1969] [Originally published in 1862]
--See also: 1862 edition -and- E-text of 1862 edition
Delany, Martin Robison. Martin R. Delany : a documentary reader. Edited by Robert S. Levine. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2003.
--See also: E-book
Delany, Martin R. and Robert Campbell. Search for a place ; Black separatism and Africa, 1860. Introduction by Howard H. Bell. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [1969]
Diop, Cheikh Anta. Black Africa : the economic and cultural basis for a federated state. Translated by Harold J. Salemson. Revised edition. Westport, Conn. : L. Hill ; Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1987.
--See also: E-book
Dorsinville, Roger. A critical edition of Haitian writer Roger Dorsinville's memoirs of Africa. Edited and translated by Max Dorsinville. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2002.
Drake, St. Clair. Black folk here and there : an essay in history and anthropology. 2 volumes. Los Angeles : Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California, c1987-1990. Includes Hathi Trust online E-text
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Negro. Introduction by John K. Thornton. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2007. Originally published in 1915.
--See also: E-book
Du Bois, W. E. B. The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois reader. Edited by Eric J. Sundquist. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Du Bois, W. E. B. W.E.B Du Bois on Africa. Edited by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr. and Edmund Abaka. Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, 2012.
--See also: E-book
Du Bois, W. E. B. The world and Africa ; an inquiry into the part which Africa has played in world history. An enlarged edition, with new writings on Africa, 1955-1961. New York : International Publishers, [1965]
Education and Black struggle: notes from the colonized world. Edited by the Institute of the Black World. Harvard educational review. Monograph series ; no. 2. [Cambridge, Harvard Educational Review, 1974]
Ethiopian Progressive Association. Constitution of the Ethiopian Progressive Association, Liverpool, England (1905). E-book, via Credo, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA. Liverpool, UK: D. Marples & Co. Printers, 1905.
Fanon, Frantz. Black skin, white masks. Translated by Charles Lam Markmann. New York : Grove Press, [1967].
--See: 1968 edition ; 2008 edition ; 2008 edition of the translation by Richard Philcox
--See also: Internet Archive copies of Markmann translation (2008) -and- Philcox translation (2008).
Fanon, Frantz. Toward the African revolution : political essays. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. New York : Grove Press, 1988, c1967.
--See also: 1969 edition
Fanon, Frantz. The wretched of the earth. Translated from the French by Richard Philcox ; with commentary by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha. New York : Grove Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2004.
--See also: 1991 print edition ; Internet Archive copy of 1966 edition
Ferris, William Henry. The African abroad, or, his evolution in western civilization, tracing his development under Caucasian milieu. 2 vols. E-texts, via Hathi Trust Digital Library. New Haven, Conn., The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor press, 1913.
--See also: E-text, via African American Biographical Database
FESTAC '77 : 2nd World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. Decomposed, an-arranged and reproduced by Chimurenga ; misdirections in music by Ntone Edjabe. [Cape Town] : Chimurenga ; [London] : Afterall Books, 2019.
Fuller, Hoyt. Journey to Africa. Chicago : Third World Press, [1971]
--See also: 1991 edition
Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and opinions of Marcus Garvey. Edited by Amy Jacques-Garvey ; with a new pref. by Hollis R. Lynch. New York : Atheneum, 1977, c1923-1925.
--See also: E-book of 1967 ed.
--See also: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers below
Hall, Stuart. Selected writings on race and difference. Edited by Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
--See also: E-book
Harrison, Hubert H. A Hubert Harrison reader. Edited with introduction and notes by Jeffrey B. Perry. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2001.
Harrison, Hubert H. When Africa awakes : the "inside story" of the stirrings and strivings of the new Negro in the Western world. New York : Diasporic Africa Press, 2015. [Originally published in 1920.]
--See also: 1997 print edition -and- Internet Archive E-book of 1920 edition
Holden, Edith. Blyden of Liberia ; an account of the life and labors of Edward Wilmot Blyden, LL. D., as recorded in letters and in print. Foreword by Nnamdi Azikiwe. New York, Vantage Press, c1966.
Hunton, Alphaeus. Africa fights for freedom. With an introduction by Eslanda Goode Robeson. [New York] : [New Century Publishers], [1950]
--See also: Internet Archive E-book
Hunton, Alphaeus. Decision in Africa ; sources of current conflict. With a foreword by W. E. B. Du Bois. New York : International Publishers, [1957]
--See also: 2nd copy
I am because we are : readings in Africana philosophy. Revised edition. E-book. Edited with introductions by Fred Lee Hord (Mzee Lasana Okpara) and Jonathan Scott Lee. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]
--See also: 2016 edition in print ; 1995 edition in print
James, C. L. R. A history of pan-African revolt. With an introduction by Robin D.G. Kelley. Chicago : C.H. Kerr, c1995.
--See also: 2012 print edition -and- E-book of 2012 edition
James, C. L. R. Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution. London : Allison and Busby, 1977.
--See also: 1982 edition
King, Martin Luther, Jr. Appeal for an international boycott of South Africa. Statement at a meeting at Hunter College, New York City, on Human Rights Day, 10 Dec. 1965. New York : United Nations [Centre Against Apartheid], 1982.
King, Martin Luther, Jr. The radical King. Edited and introduced by Cornel West. Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2015]
Langley, J. Ayodele. Ideologies of liberation in Black Africa, 1856-1970 : documents on modern African political thought from colonial times to the present. London : R. Collings, 1979.
Léon-Gontran Damas, 1912-1978 : founder of Negritude, a memorial casebook. Edited by Daniel L. Racine. Washington, D.C. : University Press of America, 1979.
Liberian dreams : back-to-Africa narratives from the 1850s. Edited by Wilson Jeremiah Moses. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1998.
Look for me all around you : anglophone Caribbean immigrants in the Harlem Renaissance. Edited by Louis J. Parascandola. Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, c2005.
Makeba, Miriam, with James Hall. Makeba : my story. New York : New American Library, c1987.
The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association papers. Vols. 1-7, 9-13. Edited by Robert A. Hill. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1983-
--See also: E-book versions of Volumes 1-7 ; 9 ; 11 ; 12 ; and 13
Marshall, Paule. Triangular road : a memoir. New York : BasicCivitas Books, c2009.
Masekela, Hugh and D. Michael Cheers. Still grazing : the musical journey of Hugh Masekela. New York : Crown Publishers, c2004.
McKay, Claude. A long way from home. Introduction by St. Clair Drake. New York : Harcourt, Brace & World, [1970] [Originally published in 1937]
--See also: 1969 edition ; E-text of 1937 edition -and- E-book of 2007 edition
McKay, Claude. Amiable with big teeth : a novel of the love affair between the communists and the poor black sheep of Harlem. Edited with an introduction by Jean-Christophe Cloutier and Brent Hayes Edwards. New York : Penguin Books, [2017]
Mphahlele, Es'kia. Afrika my music : an autobiography, 1957-1983. 2nd edition. Johannesburg : Ravan Press, 1995.
--See also: 1st ed., 1984
Nardal, Paulette. Beyond negritude : essays from Woman in the city. Translated with an introduction and notes by T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
--See also: E-book
Nascimento, Abdias do and Elisa Larkin Nascimento. Africans in Brazil : a Pan-African perspective. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c1992.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Africa in the world democracy : addresses delivered at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, January 6, 1919, at Carnegie Hall, New York City. Hathi Trust e-text. By Horace Meyer Kallen, James Weldon Johnson ; with introductory remarks by John R. Shillady ; summary of address by Dr. William Henry Sheppard and a statement on "The future of Africa" by Wm. E. Burghardt Du Bois. New York : NAACP, 1919.
--See also: Print copy.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. An appeal to the world. E-book. W. E. B. Du Bois Papers (MS 312). Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries. [1947, reprint 1955]
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The Crisis. 1911 to 1996. New York, NY: NAACP ; Baltimore, MD : Crisis Publishing Company, 1911-1996.
Negro. Edited by Nancy Cunard, 1934 ; facsimile, introduction et notices biographiques de Sarah Frioux-Salgas. Paris : Nouvelles Éditions Place, [2018] [Originally published as "Negro anthology" in 1934]
--See also: 1969 reprint of 1934 edition -and- 1934 edition
Nkrumah, Kwame. Africa must unite. New York : F.A. Praeger, [1963]
Nkrumah, Kwame. Ghana ; the autobiography of Kwame Nkrumah. New York : International Publishers, 1971, c1957.
--See also: 1957 edition -and- 2nd copy of 1957 edition
Omoniyi, Bandele. A defence of the Ethiopian movement. Hathi Trust e-text. Edinburgh : J. & J. Gray, 1908.
--See also: Print copy
Padmore, George. Africa and world peace. London : M. Secker and Warburg, ltd., 1937.
--See also: E-book
Padmore, George. Pan-Africanism or communism? The coming struggle for Africa. London, D. Dobson [1956]
--See also: 2nd copy -and- New York edition
The political thought of African independence : an anthology of sources. Edited by Gregory R. Smulewicz-Zucker, with the assistance of Chelsea Schields. Indianapolis : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., [2017]
Price-Mars, Jean. So spoke the uncle = Ainsi parla l'oncle. Translation and introduction by Magdaline W. Shannon. Washington, D.C. : Three Continents Press, c1983.
Ras Makonnen. Pan-Africanism from within. As recorded and edited by Kenneth King. Nairobi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1973.
--See also: 2016 reprint
Reimagining Pan-Africanism : distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere lecture series 2009-2013. Collected essays by Wole Soyinka, Samir Amin, Bereket Habte Selassie, Mĩcere Gĩthae Mũgo, Thandika Mkandawire. Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota, [2015]
--See also: E-book
Robeson, Eslanda Goode. African journey. London : V. Gollancz ltd, 1946.
Robeson, Eslanda Goode. What do the people of Africa want? [New York] : Council on African Affairs, [1945]
--See also: Internet Archive E-book
Robeson, Paul. Here I stand. Boston : Beacon Press, 1988, c1958.
--See also: 1971 edition
Robeson, Paul. Paul Robeson speaks : writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974. Edited, with introd. and notes, by Philip S. Foner. Larchmont, N.Y. : Brunner/Mazel, c1978.
--See also: E-text
Robinson, Cedric J. On racial capitalism, Black internationalism, and cultures of resistance. London : Pluto Press, 2019
--See also: E-book
Robinson, Randall. Defending the spirit : a Black life in America. New York, NY : Dutton, 1998.
Rodney, Walter. The groundings with my brothers. London ; New York : Verso, 2019. [Originally published in 1975]
--See also: 1975 edition -and- 1990 edition
Rodney, Walter. How Europe underdeveloped Africa. Revised paperback edition. Washington, D.C. : Howard University Press, 1981. [Originally published in 1972]
Rodney, Walter. Walter Rodney speaks : the making of an African intellectual. With an introduction by Robert Hill. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, c1990.
Rogers, J. A. The real facts about Ethiopia. Baltimore, Md. : Black Classic Press, 1982. [Originally published in 1932]
Rogers, J. A. World's great men of color. 2 vols. Edited with an introd., commentary, and new bibliographical notes by John Henrik Clarke. New York : Macmillan, [1972, c1946-47]
--See also: 1996 edition -and- E-text of 1947 edition
Senghor, Léopold Sédar. The Foundations of "africanité" or "Négritude" and "arabité.". Translated by Mercer Cook. Paris : Présence africaine, 1971.
Senghor, Léopold Sédar. On African socialism. Translated and with an introduction by Mercer Cook. New York : Praeger, [1964]
Sheppard, William H. Presbyterian pioneers in Congo. Richmond, Va. : Published by Presbyterian Committee of Publication, [1917]
--See also: Louisville edition -and- Hathi Trust E-book
Smith, Edwin William. Aggrey of Africa ; a study in Black and white. Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press, 1971. [Originally published in 1929]
--See also: 1930 edition
Teage, Hilary. Black Christian Republicanism : The Writings of Hilary Teage (1805-1853), founder of Liberia. Transcriber and introduction, Carl Patrick Burrowes. Bomi County, Republic of Liberia : Know Your Self Press, [2016]
Turner, Henry McNeal. African letters. Electronic edition. [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000.
Turner, Henry McNeal. Respect Black ; the writings and speeches of Henry McNeal Turner. Compiled and edited by Edwin S. Redkey. New York : Arno Press, 1971.
Voice of Africa. Accra, Ghana: Bureau of African Affairs, 1961-1965.
Walker, David. David Walker's appeal to the coloured citizens of the world. Edited and with a new introduction and annotations by Peter P. Hinks. University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2000] [Originally published in 1829]
--See also: E-book, via EBSCOhost ; or, Hathi Trust E-book of 1830 edition -and- North Carolina Scholarship version, 2011
Walters, Alexander. My life and work, by Alexander Walters, A. M., D. D., Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. Hathi Trust e-book. New York, Chicago [etc.] Fleming H. Revell company [c1917]
--See also: E-text, via "Documenting the American South"
Weston, Randy. African rhythms : the autobiography of Randy Weston. Composed by Randy Weston ; arranged by Willard Jenkins. Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2010.
--See also: E-book
Williams, George Washington. An open letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II, King of the Belgians and sovereign of the independent of state of Congo. Gale e-text. [S.l. : s.n., 1890]
Woodson, Carter Godwin. The African background outlined, or, Handbook for the study of the Negro. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1968, c1936.
--See also: 1936 edition
Wright, Richard. Black power ; a record of reactions in a land of pathos. New York : Harper, [1954]
Wright, Richard. The color curtain : a report on the Bandung Conference. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [1995] [Originally published in 1956]
X, Malcolm. Malcolm X : the last speeches. Edited by Bruce Perry. New York : Pathfinder, 1989.
--See also: E-text
Xuma, Alfred B. Charlotte Manye (Mrs. Maxeke) : "what an educated African girl can do". Foreword by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois ; edited by Dovie King Clarke. [S.l.: The Women's Parent Mite Missionary Society of the A.M.E. Church, c1930.
--See also: E-book