[Philadelphia], 1973. An 8 ½” x 11” flyer announcing the assassination of and memorial service for Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973), founder and president of the African party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). Cabral, who was also an agronomist, writer and guerrilla leader, was gunned down by the... More about In Memory of Amilcar Cabral
New York: Eritreans for Liberation in North America, 1973. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (7” x 8 ½”), 48 pp, photographs. Some underlining in pen, staples rusty, light foxing to front wrapper, VG overall. A single issue of the journal of the Eritreans for Liberation in North America, a support group for... More about Liberation, Vol. III, No. 1, September - December, 1973
Hicksville, New York: Congressional Reprint Service, [1964]. A sardonically titled 8 ½” x 11” anti-UN flyer published following the revolutionary uprising in Zanzibar led by John Okello. The only copy in WorldCat (at the Univ. of Kansas) is attributed to the right wing activist, Gen. Edwin A. Walker, although we... More about The Peace Loving United Nations Welcomes the Peace Loving, Dignified, Responsible New Rulers of...
New York: American Committee for France & Algeria, 1962. First edition. Fifteen corner-stapled leaves mimeographed on rectos only (includes cover and contents sheets). A report situating the Algerian nationalist movement within the broader Communist revolution. The American Committee for France & Algeria published a newsletter called “Integration” and argued for..... More about Special Report on the Communist Background of the Algerian Rebellion
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. First edition. Octavo (21.5 cm). Blue cloth stamped in gilt; color illustrated endpapers; xiv, 273 pp.; 26 photographic plates. A memoir of the author's life in central Africa, Tanganyika Territory, in which she hunts big game in the wilds of the African jungle... More about My Farm In Lion Country
New Rochelle, N.Y.: America's Future, Inc., 1978. First edition. Tall, stapled wrappers; 22 pp. The author contends that the Carter administration has miscalculated South Africa’s strategic importance regarding the Soviet Union and Communism due to its moral approach regarding apartheid. A Fine copy, and uncommon. More about The Untold Story of South Africa: Its Importance to the Free World
Durban, South Africa: The Dolphin Press, [1972]. First edition. 8vo; wrappers, [75] pp. Light rubbing to wrappers; Sons of Liberty distribution sticker on the bottom of the title page. About Near Fine. Just over a dozen copies in WorldCat. An uncommon anti-equalitarian work, in which the authors, an Englishman and Afrikaaner... More about The Inequality Principle
Lisbon: General Overseas Agency, 1963. First edition. Stapled wrappers; 34, [1] pp. A lecture given by the Portuguese politician on the competition for Africa's resources by the world's superpowers, but more importantly the sub-development of Africa due to its harsh physical environment and complex social structures. Importation stamps to rear... More about The Present Problems of Black Africa
New York: Robert M. McBride & Co., 1935. First edition. Octavo. Green cloth, silver-stamped spine; photographic endpapers. xvi, 216 pp.; 9 plates; 2 maps. First published in 1925, copies of the original two editions are scarce. It was re-published in 1969 by Negro Universities Press, which is the edition typically... More about Slaves and Ivory in Abyssinia: A Record of Adventure and Exploration Among the Ethiopian...
New York: The Africa Fund, [1976]. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). Saddle-stapled blue wrappers printed in black; 45 pp.; 3 maps. A scarce pamphlet on the liberation of Angola by the MPLA. No other copies currently for sale in commerce (July 2016). Faint soiling to rear wrapper; Very Good+. More about No One Can Stop the Rain: Angola and the MPLA
Hamburg: Georg Westermann, 1917. First edition. Wrappers with some toning to edges; browned spine; the front free endpaper has come loose, but still present; cheap paper browned, although clean throughout. In German. Discusses the economic life of South Africa in the context of its water power. Uncommon. More about Afrikanische Wirtschaftsstudien: Die naturlichen Grundlagen des Wirtschaftslebens in Sudafrika;...
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New York: Bantam Books, 2000. First edition. 8vo.; faux puffy leather boards stamped in silver; illustrated endpapers; 622 pp. SIGNED by Koontz at first blank. One of a limited number of a pre-publication edition issued by the publisher. A Fine copy. More about From the Corner of His Eye [SIGNED
Richmond, British Columbia: LSM Information Center, 1973. Comb-bound calendar printed in color on white stock measuring 31.5 x 24 cm; illustrations by Selma Waldman. These calendars were part of the tireless fundraising and propaganda efforts of the Liberation Support Movement on behalf of African liberation struggles. The LSM was primarily... More about Africa 1974 Liberation Calendar
London: Congo-Africa, 1962. First edition. Octavo. White, saddle-stitched wrappers printed in green; 24 pp.; map; black & white photographs throughout. The author, a British journalist, asserts that the uprising in Angola is the result of American missionaries and outside Communist agitators and argues for the continuance of Portuguese colonialism. Note... More about The Future in Angola
London: The African Publication Society, [1972]. Second edition. Stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (5 ½” x 8 ½”), 16 pp. Some toning to wrappers; name and date penned to rear wrapper with stamp of African Publication Society. Only four copies of this 1970s reprint found in WorldCat (with just over a dozen... More about Marcus Garvey: Is He the True Redeemer of the Negro?
London: Panaf Books Limited, 1969? 21.5 cm; 12 pp. Stapled-bound pamphlet; price in British currency to front wrapper else a Fine copy. "The Myth of the 'Third World'" was first published in "Labour Monthly" in Oct. 1968 and "'African Socialism' Revisited" in "African Forum," 1966. Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) was the... More about Two Myths: "The Myth of the 'Third World'" & "'African Socialism' Revisted"
Chicago: Third World Press, 1973. First edition. 8vo; perfect-bound wrappers, 189, [1] pp. An extension of the author's dissertation at St. Louis Univ., which he investigates blackness and African humanism. Onwuachi was born in Nigeria, but studied in exclusively Western institutions in Paris, London, Ottawa and the U.S. Wrappers are... More about Black Ideology in the African Diaspora
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Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria: Obobo Books, 1994. First edition. 20, [2]; 19 pp.; illus. Saddle-stapled illustrated cardboard wrappers. A Near Fine set with only some slight rubbing; clean throughout. Scarce. No copies of either volume found in commerce, and although OCLC has a listing, no libraries claim to have holdings. As... More about The Blue Cowrie [Two Vols. - Complete
n.p. n.p., 1971. First edition. Large offset litho poster on newsprint (58 x 42 cm) created for World Solidarity Day. Also known as African Solidarity Day, the event appears to have been conceived by the pan-Africanist Student Organization for Black Unity (later the Youth Organization for Black Unity) and was... More about World Solidarity Day - Support the Struggle for Freedom in Southern Africa...Tues., May 25th,...
[Hayward, CA]: Black Students [sic] Union of Cal State, Hayward, 1968. Eight 8 ½” x 11” corner-stapled, mimeographed sheets printed rectos only, poorly reproduced Emory Douglas artwork to front cover. Soiling to the cover sheet with orange stain to the top margin of most sheets, although not affecting text. No... More about Makaratasi Yaliyochapu, Vol. 9, Nov. 21, 1968
New York: Helga M. Rogers, [ca. 1961]. First edition thus. 4to; dark boards stamped in gilt; 272 pp.; illus.; dust jacket. In this book, the self-trained historian and journalist, Joel Augustus Rogers, documents the many accomplishments of Africans and African-Americans to refute the notion that blacks haven't contributed to Western... More about Africa's Gift to America: The Afro-American in the Making and Saving of the United States. With...
[Washington, D. C.: Agency for International Development, Department of State?], [1966]. First edition. Corner-stapled, mimeographed sheets; 13 pp. In this paper prepared for the Ninth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, the author argues that the Liberian-based educator, journalist and diplomat, Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912), was the first Pan-Africanist... More about Edward Wilmot Blyden: First Pan-Africanist?
Washington, D. C.: Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1993. First edition. Yellow perfect-bound wrappers (6” x 8 ½”), 146 pp. A New, sealed copy. Only six copies in WorldCat. The author, a Hungarian who immigrated to Canada after WWII, illustrates the inevitability of ethnic strife around the world when minority populations become too large... More about The Natural Law of Race Relations
[London?]: Alastar [sic] C. Geldard, [ca. 1960s]. A 5” x 7½” handbill printed in black by The Shamrock Press on newsprint. An unabashed asservation by Oswald Mosley’s post-war Union Movement (UM), which capitalized on Britain’s increasing racial tension and the growing political destabilization of white-ruled Rhodesia and South Africa. Mosley’s..... More about Stand By the White Man
New York: Roberts Brothers, 1890. First edition. Twelvemo (17.5 cm); 364, [4] pp.; tissue-protected frontispiece; illus. Blue cloth pictorially stamped in red and gilt; floral endpapers. An about near fine copy with some light rubbing and dust-soiling; clean throughout. A fictional adventure story through the African continent. The finest copy we've seen. More about Kibboo Ganey; Or, The Lost Chief of the Copper Mountain. A Story of Travel and Adventure In the...