African History and Emancipation: 
An Islamic Perspective

More than 150 years after Emancipation, too many people of African descent lack a lot of the things that free men and women should be able to take for granted, including self-respect and a real history. To many, Africa is a Dark Continent filled with scantly clad people dancing to the beat of drums, and witch doctors with bone necklaces practicing voodoo. This view of Africa is continuously portrayed by many so-called historians and sociologists. It is a convenient picture in order to justify the suppression of Africans and other people of color worldwide.

Afro-American Muslims - 
From Slavery to Freedom

This article illustrates and studies the influence of Islam in the New World and the Old. Although many African and European historians would argue against the Arabic language and Islam playing a significant role in the development of Africans in the Diaspora, and may be in Africa itself, at least among the African and Afro-American Muslim communities during and shortly after slavery, the fact remains that Arabic and Islam were the major vehicles of exchange among Africans of different ethnic origins in Africa and in the Diaspora. This is supported by the fact that a majority of the earliest and latest slaves to arrive in the Americas, came from the regions where Muslims were in the majority – places which had seen the penetration of Islam even before the Mali empire.

Islamic Sub-Saharan Africa: 
A Heritage Hollywood and Historians Have Hidden

This article critically analyzes the Hollywood movies; "Amistad" and "Roots". This article establishes the fact that the Hollywood and western historians always portray West Africa as primarily pagan and uncivilized jungle (e.g. Tarzan), the truth is that that the successful Islamization of Africa was well underway long before the arrival of any Europeans on the continent and progressed vehemently, despite the colonial period. Islam continues to grow in Sub-Saharan Africa even today, with the majority of Africa now Muslim and continuing its Islamic tradition of numerous generations.