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Introduction to Black Studies

BY MAULANA KARENGA

Anyone interested in a comprehensive and critical overview of Black life in its current and historical unfolding will find in Introduction To Black Studies, 3rd Edition a wealth of information and analyses based on recent findings and from a diversity of scholars who seek to understand and interpret the African initiative and experience in the world in expansive and insightful ways.
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Baluba Couple Kinara

Two Baluba ancestors face each other embracing with both hands. Inspired by the classic art of the Baluba in ancient Congo, this is both a candleholder and a work of art.
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Seven Principles

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CHAVUNDUKA CD

With music and lyrics inspired by the Seven Principles, this collection presents a song for each day of Kwanzaa.
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ABOUT THE PRESS

The University of Sankore Press takes its name from the famous University of Sankore in Timbuktu, Mali which was founded in the fourteenth century. The university served as a center of scholarship and learning. Our mission is to continue this legacy of commitment to African scholarship and learning by publishing scholarly yet accessible books on Continental and diasporic African life, culture and history with due attention to issues of race, ethnicity, gender and cultural diversity.
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Just Published—Kawaida and Questions of Life and Struggle

BY MAULANA KARENGA

	Download flyer > More about this book >	In this unique collection of commentaries on critical issues of our time, Dr. Karenga has again demonstrated his masterful ability to turn the complex into the conversational without sacrificing the quality of his contentions. He offers refreshing and insightful analyses from an African-centered standpoint and brings forth evidence of the rich resource of African culture, both ancient and modern, Continental and Diasporan. Using Kawaida philosophy as a foundation and framework, he is meticulously concerned with providing a language and logic of liberation, ethical insights into every major issue, and making a definitive contribution to the Kawaida project of “cultural revolution, radical social change and bringing good in the world.” In these commentaries, Professor Karenga not only exhibits an intellect which is insightful, creative and wide-ranging, but also a profound personal commitment to his subject and the use of his knowledge in the interest of African and human good and the good of the world.

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Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt

BY MAULANA KARENGA

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Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics is an unprecedented work which engages the ancient Egyptian ethical and spiritual principle, Maat, from an African-centered perspective. It presents Maatian thought as a rich resource for reflection on modern moral and social issues. Professor Karenga draws on a wide range of literary, historical and archeological sources to recover and reconstruct this ancient ethical tradition in a dual process of interpretation and transmission.

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Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait

BY MOLEFI KETE ASANTE

Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait is an essential contribution to our critical understanding of the intellectual and practical work of the historian, physicist, sociologist and linguist, Cheikh Anta Diop. Professor Asante identifies and clarifies the key components, concerns and evolutionary contours in Diopian thought and weaves them into a richly textured pattern and composite portrait of this distinguished scholar of astounding erudition and extraordinary insight. He presents an engaging synthesis of well-placed narrative, careful reasoning and interpretive insight. He writes in a style accessible to the general reader and also of equal value to the scholar interested in African and general intellectual history.
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Selections from The Husia
Sacred Wisdom of Ancient Egypt

Selected and Retranslated BY MAULANA KARENGA

A selection and retranslation of the oldest sacred text in the world, with critical commentaries on the richness of the African spiritual achievement and legacy in ancient Egypt. In this selection we read the earliest written record of the dawning of humanity’s structured consciousness concerning spirituality and ethics. Here we find, for the first time in human history, the concepts of Maat (truth, justice, rightness), humans in the image of God, human dignity, judgment after death, free will, immortality of the soul, human equality, and social justice.
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