... before you can call yourself anything Black or anything Revolutionary?

A good friend of mine let me down recently, used to work with a Pan African group arranging rallies and what not so for a good while I assumed, as you would, that the brotha was knowledgeable about how far we have come in the past few years in regards to the cause but after a while its become obvious that he hasn't read any of the books or concerned himself with any goings on news wise both on the continent and in the diaspora to the point where a talk with the man is pointless, although he is knowledgeable about the workings and the state of Pan African groups his concern is disconcerning, quoting Bob Marley (while talking to a Jamaican *Roll eyes*) in place of the many other scholars who have since taken up the baton and run a few miles with it.

Partially blame the internet thinking about it... if what is now virtual was to be taken and distributed properly more people would at least be on the same page, reading from the same books, theres a definite information gap out there, anyway... What three books are essential reading for people out there... what three must you have read to hold a worthwhile discussion on issues effecting us today and hold worthwhile opinion how to resolve them?

Peace.
B.L

Unless you want to find yourself being described as you described your friend then you need to be reading more than 3 books.

Checkout your own thread on best books to buy.

BTW

I forgot to add the bible to that list...How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Walter Rodney.

Said three to make it determinate, put pressure on the outcome, the story about my friend is just my personal gripe with the dude, I'm a bit stuck up at times, find most people I know irritating in one way or another .lol. blame the private school education, a borrowed pretentiousness. Lastly, MGL bumped that thread deliberately to get back at me for successfully usurping a witty comment he made in another thread with a reply of equal if not greater wit than his... I mean, Lee Jasper did resign a while ago can't blame me for pointing it out. :