In this outstanding work, distinguished black American scholar John Henrik Clarke brings together a collection of essays on a variety of themes that centre around the struggle for freedom of Africans and those in the African Diaspora. Included are discussions on Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Tom Mboya; the struggle for freedom in S Africa, the development of the Pan-Africanist movement, and colonialism and the conquest of Africa.