TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface v
The ReAfrikanization of Manhood 1

Power 15

Empowerment 18 Survival 20

Self-Evaluation 21

Insane Contradictions 23

Institution Building 25

Historical Terrorism 28

Vision and Means 31 War 39

Working Definitions 40

The Maafa 42

“Crimogenic” Culture and Society 47

The Dogs of War 50

Solutions? 51

Apologies of Convenience 52

Arrogance 55

Models and Martyrs 56 Consciousness: The Application of Knowledge 59

Making Choices 60

Integrity 64

Consciousness 65

Ancestral Insight 67

Afrikan Centered Education 69

“Intellectual Warfare” 71

Selling Our Children for Crumbs 72

Culture-Correcting Education 78

Whose Classics? 80

Qualifying Exclusions 85

Afrikan Classics 90

Warrior Children Reading List 93

Warrior Youth Reading List 94

Asafo Reading List 96 Independent Afrikan Education 98

Environment 103

Eko 107

Our Charge 110

The Priesthood 114 Malehood to Manhood 115

Inner Strength Through Struggle 120

Developing Manhood Within Chaos 124

Rites of Passage 128

Warriorhood 135 Malehood Engagement 138

Sankofa 144 NationBuilding (Mentality) 145

Blind Ambition 146

Individuality 149

Communalism 152

Compassion and Remembrance 153

The First Line of Defense 159

To Become Afrikan 164

Encounter 165 Denial 167

Shock 167

Anger 168

Search 169

Study 171

Focused Rage 172

A Meditation 173

Still Waters 177

Warrior Proverbs

183 Endnotes 217

Index 259

Asafo

Asafo is an in-depth Afrikan centered discussion of the requirements of Afrikan manhood. In it, the author clearly lays out our sources of power and the tools that must be acquired, mastered and used if we are to reclaim our correct role as warrior scholars in the battle to provide safe, sacred and empowering spaces for our families and communities. It gives specific consciousness raising guidelines for our nationbuilding effort, weeding out those compromising ideas and forces which have kept us confused over whether we want to be powerful or just influential in this world. This book is a very important tool in Afrikan men’s efforts to help ReAfrikanize our people. As the table of contents indicate, there is a strong emphasis on building functional educational institutions, developing a dynamic sense of group-consciousness through elevating one’s self-consciousness, male rites of passage programs and a warrior’s mental preparation. In addition, we are taken through the difficult process of growing from being merely other-directed, apathetic individual consumers to powerful, mission-directed men in thought, word and deed. Asafo closes with an extensive collection of revolutionary quotes that specifically work to define, direct and heal every Afrikan man’s warrior scholar spirit.