SORAC’s activities, especially its international conferences, often lead to the production of volumes of importance to the field of African Studies, usually in the form of Books and Monographs or special issues of our SORAC Journal of African Studies (SORAC JAS). Click the links below to view the volumes published as a result of SORAC’s work.

By Paul Mukundi Preventing Things from Falling Further Apart: The Preservation of Cultural Identities in Postcolonial African, Indian, and Caribbean Literatures is a ground breaking comparative work that explores a post-Achebe universe in which formerly colonized peoples make efforts to reconstruct their cultures by deconstructing some of the deleterious effects of colonization, while at the […]

Daniel M. Mengara, ed. Afrocentricity: Towards a New Understanding of the African Experience. Contribution by Molefi Kete Asante. Coming Soon: To be published by the University Press of America.
Afrocentrism or Afrocentricity as an intellectual movement has grown in strength and respectability in the past four decades mostly thanks to the unwavering efforts of such black scholars and activists as Cheikh Anta Diop, G.G. James, Molefi Asante, John Henrik Clarke, among others, as well as those of early Afrocentrists from the 19th century who spearheaded the movement in their bid to seek the ultimate liberation of black people, whatever such liberation meant for them. The various contributors to this volume will shed further light on the African experience as shared by Africans and peoples of African descent from antiquity to date.

This third volume of the SORAC JAS was inspired by articles from the SORAC 2002: "Internalist vs. Externalist Interpretations of African History and Culture" international Conference. It features 9 articles by Africanist scholars from the United States and Africa. Volume 3, Fall 2005.

African & Diasporic Voices
This second volume of the SORAC JAS was inspired by articles from the SORAC 2000: Black Thought and Movements in World History international Conference. It features 7 articles by Africanist scholars from the United States and Germany. Volume 2, November 2002.

Daniel M. Mengara, ed. Images of Africa: Stereotypes and Realities. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2001.
Images of Africa: Stereotypes & Realities is a book that offers rare and exceptional insights into the historical and cultural processes through which the various perceptions of Africa since ancient times came to crystallize themselves in the form of negative images and stereotypes of Africa. Contributors to this impressive volume include Molefi Asante, who wrote the preface, and Martin Bernal, world-renowned author of Black Athena.

This first volume of the SORAC JAS was inspired by articles from the SORAC 98 – Images of Africa: Stereotypes & Realities international Conference. It features 13 articles by Africanist scholars from the United States, France and Africa. Volume 1, April 2000..