10 Books Every Black Entrepreneur Must Read

Black Entrepreneurship is reaching all time highs both in Afrika, as well as in the Afrikan Diaspora. Afrikans in America alone have a Buying Power of over $1 Trillion Dollars (USD). Despite all of this, the question must still be asked, "with all this money we have, why do Black People not have Economic Power anywhere in the World?" The answers to that question are not easy to come by, however they are possible to discover. In short, Black People lack Economic Power because we lack Economic Organization and Economic Discipline. Our Spending Power can only become Economic Power through the pooling of Economic Resources in a Organized fashion, with the simultaneous Permanent Boycott of spending money outside of the Black Community unless it is necessary.

All of the information we need to achieve the tasks of Economic Organization and Economic Discipline in order to achieve the goal of Economic Power has already been documented for the Black World. Our greatest and often overlooked scholars have left us with the Blueprint for creating a Global Afrikan Economic System that will not be dependent upon any other race. If we apply the information in these 10 Books, we will not have any confusion about what needs to be done, or how it can be accomplished.

1. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust by John Henrik Clarke

This book explores the Atlantic slave trade in connection with the rise of European capitalism. John Henrik Clarke's analysis provides us with a perspective that lets us understand that slavery and genocide were institutionalized and economized into a global system of domination, destruction, and death which not only controls land, labor, and resources, but also information.

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2. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

Before a bomb ended his life in the summer of 1980, Walter Rodney had created a powerful legacy. This pivotal work, How europe Underdeveloped Africa, had already brought a new perspective to the question of underdevelopment in Africa. His analysis went far beyond the heretofore accepted approach in the study of Third World underdevelopment. How europe Underdeveloped Africa is an excellent introductory study for the student who wishes to better understand the dynamics of Africa's contemporary relations with the west.

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3. When Africa Awakes by Hubert Henry Harrison

Written in the early 1900's, When Africa Awakes is must a read for anyone who wants to understand the continuity of the Black struggle from 1900 to the present. Harrison's combination of rage, frustration, brilliance, prescience and clarity of thought --- and his cheerfully politically incorrect language and style ( political correctness not being on the horizon when he was writing) makes When Africa Awakes a model of Economic writing.

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4. Race First by Tony Martin

A classic study of the Garvey movement, this is the most thoroughly researched book on Garvey's ideas by a historian of black nationalism. RACE First, is a book that is needed to effectively analyze Marcus Garvey's aims, plans, and goals for the UNIA and the Afrikan Diaspora. Tony Martin has done thorough research into the ideologies, conspiracies, enemies, mistakes, and dreams of this once mighty organization. This book needs to be added to any Afrikan's library concerning self-reliance, self-betterment, and Afrikan history.

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5. Garvey & Garveyism by Amy Jacques Garvey

Amy Jacques Garvey worked closely with her husband, Marcus Garvey, throughout his crusade. Here she gives an insider detailed account of Garvey, Garveyism, and this nascent period of Black Nationalism. Like all great dreamers and planners, Marcus Garvey dreamed and planned ahead of his time and his peoples' ability to understand the significance of his life's work. A set of circumstances, mostly created by the world colonial powers, crushed this dreamer, but not his dreams. Due to the persistence and years of sacrifice of Mrs. Amy Jacques Garvey, widow of Marcus Garvey, a large body of work by and about this great nationalist leader has been preserved and can be made available to a new generation of black people who have the power to turn his dreams into realities.

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6. Afrikan-Centered Consciousness Versus the New World Order by Amos N Wilson

Amos Wilson's delineation of the TRUE Black Nationalist is, alone, worth the price of the book. He frames his argument by first capturing the essence of the life and work of the great Afrikan redeemer, Hon. Marcus Garvey. Subsequently, he provides the global Afrikan community a "checklist" with which to judge the TRUE Afrikan Leaders. One is thus armed with the tools to differentiate between Black leaders and "leading" Blacks.

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7. Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop

No doubt that most if not all would agree that Africa is a rich continent, if not the most richest continent on earth. If it will ever become a unified continent, it will be an economic powerhouse very well able to provide for itself and many others many times over. Cheikh Anta Diop's book serves as fresh reminder to early 21st century readers that many of the energy ideas, economic ideas, and political ideas are not new. They are just being rehashed. One day Africa will fulfill thee dream of becoming a United Afrikan Continent.

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8. Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution

John Henrik Clarke, the late outstanding African-American historian, has brought the range of his years of scholarly work together in this single and comprehensive volume. The topics he covers are as varied and interesting as his experience in the Pan-Africanist struggle. Notes for an African World Revolution: 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 revolution of five monumental African leaders: Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Gravey, Malcom X, and Tom Mboya. The rest of the essays focus on topics ranging from the conquest of African 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?

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9. Susu and Susunomics by Paul Alfred Barton

Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation is one of the most powerful and effective books ever written on one of the oldest economic systems practiced. The Book is the second part of the Susu series. It discusses the practical means of developing what is required for the building of strong economic, social and cultural power in African-America as well as the rest of the Black world and the world of those striving to improve their economic, social and cultural conditions. Susu and Susunomics shows how communities such as refugees from World War II Europe and Afro-Caribbean people have used susu and economic nationalism to build up collective and individual wealth through unity, cooperation and the pooling of their resources. Susu and Susunomics discuses the form of susu economics practiced by Koreans, Black West Indians and others. It also stresses the point that in many northern cities beginning as early as the 1620s, Blacks were developing in parity with whites until slavery was officially established during the 1680s, a move that was illegal. The use of susu in the Southern U.S. and the building of strong, thriving, economically stable Black communities is also part of the evidence in this text. This book deals with a number of very important issues of significant important to the Black communities worldwide. Some of the issues include: creating a tax and job base; the attitude needed to be successful; economic racism and stopping it; susu banking and building a susu economy; workers and the susu system; pooling money to buy banks, factories, lands and other assets; stopping population control and managing a strong, growing population; Susuism and independence; the Black male and rebuilding the Black family and a number of very important issues and solutions.

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10. Blueprint for Black Power

Afrikan life into the coming millennia is imperiled by White and Asian power. True power must nest in the ownership of the real estate wherever Afrikan people dwell. Economic destiny determines biological destiny. 'Blueprint for Black Power' details a master plan for the power revolution necessary for Black survival in the 21st century. White treatment of Afrikan Americans, despite a myriad of theories explaining White behavior, ultimately rests on the fact that they can. They possess the power to do so. Such a power differential must be neutralized if Blacks are to prosper in the 21st century ... Aptly titled, 'Blueprint for Black Power' stops not at critique but prescribes radical, practical theories, frameworks and approaches for true power. It gives a biting look into Black potentiality.

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