Note for an African world revolution: Africans at the crossroads

Abstract

Dr. John Henrik Clarke, the outstanding African-American historian has brought the range of the his years of scholarly work together in this single and comprehensive volume. The topics he covers are as varied and interesting as his experiences in the Pan-Africanist struggle. Africans at the Crossroads is a collection of essays that have been broadly amassed in five thematic sections. Clarke begins with the roots of the African and African-American freedom struggle in the African World. A major section is devoted to a detailed discussion of the "uncompleted revolutions" of five monumental African leaders: Kwams Nkrumah, Patrick Lumumba, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Tom Mboya. The rest of the essays focus on topics ranging from the conquest of Africa, to the struggles for freedom in South Africa and the Pan-Africanist movement. Clarke ends his collection with his important and timely essay "Can African People Save Themselves?" John Henrik Clarke, African-American educator, critic,...