Kola Boof

 Format: Paperback, 5th ed., 176pp., ISBN: 0971201927
Publisher: North African Book Exchange, Pub. Date: November 2001

Boondocks Collection
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Aaron McGruder

Format: Paperback, 128pp., ISBN: 0740713957
Publisher: Andrews & McMeel, Pub. Date: May  2001

Since its debut in April 1999, The Boondocks has found a home in more than 250 newspapers, making its launch the strongest since Calvin And Hobbes and For Better Or For Worse. The rich, multilayered comic strip offers a frank yet often funny look at race in America. It starts with a simple premise: Two young boys, Riley and Huey, move from inner-city Chicago to live with their grandfather. The tension increases, however, because the two boys are African-Americans now compelled to adapt to a white suburban world. They must take all they've learned in the 'hood and apply it to life in the 'burbs. Aaron McGruder has created a strip unlike any other. Superbly illustrated, The Boondocks has stirred controversy, attracted widespread media coverage, and won readers who've applauded McGruder's unapologetic and humorous approach to race. This second collection includes some of the year's most compelling story lines. The Boondocks is a groundbreaking strip of enormous proportions. It's certain to only increase in popularity.

The Bondswoman's Narrative
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An unprecedented historical and literary event, this tale written in the 1850s is the only known novel by a female African American slave, and quite possibly the first novel written by a black woman anywhere. A work recently uncovered by renowned scholar Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., it is a stirring, page-turning story of "passing" and the adventures of a young slave as she makes her way to freedom. When Professor Gates saw that modest listing in an auction catalogue for African American artifacts, he immediately knew he could be on the verge of a major discovery. After exhaustively researching the hand-written manuscript's authenticity, he found that his instincts were right. He had purchased a genuine autobiographical novel by a female slave who called herself -- and her story's main character — Hannah Crafts.

#5

Threesome: Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide
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by Brenda Thomas

Format: Paperback, 144pp., ISBN: 0970380313
Publisher: Writers and Poets.com, Pub. Date: January 28, 2002

#6

Ordinary Woman
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Donna Hill

Format: Hardcover, 320pp.
ISBN: 0312281919
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date: September  2002, Edition Desc: 1ST

Asha and Lisa have been best friends since grade school and they have always shared everything. A beautiful and accomplished photographer, Asha never seems to lack excitement or a man to share it with. Yet, for a woman who appears to have it all there is always "that something" she needs to make her feel whole . . . worthy.

Lisa, "the good girl," has always dreamed of the perfect marriage to the perfect husband. Now she has both with Ross Davis and she has their future planned to the last, perfect detail.

Ross didn't want to believe that he and Lisa had married too soon. He didn't want to believe that each day the man he thought himself to be was being stripped away by the woman he loved--leaving him feeling like a kept man instead of the man of the house.

And then--betrayal.

"...a powerful novel of two friends and the forces that rip them apart...Alternately tough and tender, and consistently insightful..."
—John A. Williams (winner American Book Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and author of The Man Who Cried I Am)

#7

Fear of a Black Marker: Another "K Chronicles" Compendium
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Keith Knight

Format: Paperback, 128pp.
ISBN: 0916397637
Publisher: Manic D Press
Pub. Date: March  2000

Keith Knight's comics are simultaneously lighthearted, wild, and clever, and his great strength is the deftness with which he blends political insight, whacked-out surrealism, neurotic humor, and personal honesty. His comic strip, K Chronicles, runs in the San Francisco Examiner, on Salon.com, and in dozens of alternative newsweeklies across the country. Reminiscent of Calvin and Hobbes, Knight's drawing style is fluid and dynamic.

#9

The Africans Who Wrote the Bible: Ancient Secrets Africa
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Nana Banchie Darkwah

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 097019000X
Publisher: Aduana Pub Co
Pub. Date: August  2000

This book contains the most fascinating revelations ever made about the Bible and the people of the Bible in the past two thousand years. What about God of the people in Exodus, Adonai. Should it actually be pronounced Adona? What about the Kametic Khakheperre-sonbe could it be Kwaku Pra Sebe the author of the Ancient Egyptian Lamentations found in the Papyrus Chester Beatty IV? Could the word Ankh be a corruption of the Akan word Nkwa? Did you know that Jews originated from black African tribes? Did you know that Jesus and the people of the Bible were black people? Did you know that the names of authors of the Old Testament are African tribal names? Did you know that modern Jews still carry tribal names. Could the boy king named Tutankhamun be actually pronounced in its original tongue Tutu Ankoma such as it is in the Akan language? Did you know that in the West Africa there is an Abre Ham (Abraham) and the descendants are still practicing rituals very closely similar to the present Jewish Passover? Did you know that the word Israel is an African word? These are some of the ancient secrets this book reveals to readers.

About the Author
Dr. Nana Banchie Darkwah, the author of the book, is a University Professor in America. He is an American citizen born in Ghana where he is still a King from the Aduana Clan of Ghana in West Africa. His interest in ancient history and the Bible began from tribal stories that link most of the royalties and people of modern Ghana to the dynasties and people of Ancient Egypt. Dr. Darkwah speaks eleven African and European languages and he supports his revelations in the book with numerous linguistic analysis and evidence. Dr. Darkwah has written five Children's stories and three books. His next book: Ancient Egypt: The Story Africa Has Never Told is due for publication this Fall.