This book is about the problems of the black race. I have tried to find reasons why black man's membership of the human family has never been on the basis of genuine equality and the reasons why the black race is backward.
I have examined the black man's past, his stupidities and unexplored challenges. I have raised many hard questions, questions which challenge the very nature of the black society, its long-standing values, beliefs and institutions.
My observations and conclusions have relevance to all black peoples who lived in Africa in the period before the slave trade and colonialism, the black peoples of the new nations of Africa and those who are still under foreign domination as well as the blacks in the United States, South America, the Caribbean and Europe. In short, this book is about black peoples throughout the world.
The concept of black personality is becoming increasingly popular. Culturally, the concept is believed to be the deep-seated desire of the black race to reach out for its past and the peculiar contributions which our race had made and may make to world culture and civilization. Politically, the concept of black personality connotes the assertion of equality of black peoples with other races. And the political aspect of black concept has become increasingly important with the attainment of independence by many African countries.