Yurugu

Yurugu removes the mask from the European façade and thereby reveals the inner workings of global white supremacy; A system which functions to guarantee the control of Europe and her descendants (the few) over the majority of the world’s peoples (the many). It is a devastating critique, which uniquely focuses on the intellectual / cognitive rules by which the system of dominance operates: the assumption, ascendance, and valorization of the rational mode.

Dr. Marimba Ani exposes the roles of both the academic and Christian establishment in proselytizing as “universal” that which is indeed culturally specific to Europe and which therefore functions in the interest or European dominance, since that is the nature of the asili

Dr. Marimba Ani has written the first bonified textbook from an Afrikan-centered framework, which focuses on European consciousness, the European worldview, and its global system of race domination. This book is an original, scholarly comprehensive and thorough analysis, which lays out, in systematic detail, the historical development, and pattern of European world domination, its core structures and key expressive components. She particularly articulates vary clearly the nature of the “European Survival Thurst” in terms of its philosophical core, methodology, basic tactics, expression, and consequences. Her book represents the final key to the Afrikan world breaking the death-grip of European world domination over Africans. This brilliant and courageous effort on the part of our distinguished Sister Warrior is MUST READING for all Afrikan/Black Studies students and faculty, and all serious minded Afrikans everywhere who are dedicated and committed to rebuilding Afrikan World Order. It will definitely become an essential part of the handbook for Afrikan’s surviving the 21st Century!

Witness as Dr. Marimba Ani takes you through a workshop process and encourages you to participate in the analysis presented in the book as you read it. Dr. Ani reaches out to you personally and brings you into an Afrikan learning experience.






















01. Haki R. Madhubuti

“Dr. Marimba Ani has given us groundbreaking work in the tradition of Cheikh Anta Diop, John Henrik Clarke, Chancellor Williams and Frances Cress Welsing. Yurugu: An African-centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior is a brilliant analysis of European “intellectual supremacy.” Dr. Ani’s study (twenty years in its formation) is in keeping with the African-centered paradigms introduced by Dr. Diop and others. The most profound question that she posits is: What accounts for European power and Europe’s domination of world thought? In Yurugu we have questions and answers, this book must be studied.”

Haki R. Madhubuti
Professor and Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center for Black Liberation and Creative Writing Chicago State University 1995


02. Jacob H. Carruthers

"Dr. Marimba Ani has made an outstanding contribution to the African Centered school of thought. The analytical framework which she so superbly developed in her work, Yurugu, provides an excellent model for the study of intellectual history.

By focusing on the core rather than the periphery of European thought, she has advanced the position of African-centered scholarship in a direction which very much needs development. Her study leads us into another level of disclosure and compliments Cheikh Anta Diop’s last great contribution, Civilization or Barbarism: Anthropology without Compromise."

Jacob H. Carruthers
Kemetic Institute (1995)


03. Molefi Kete Asante

"This is the powerful analysis for which we have been waiting. It is a firm, cogent, brilliantly conceived critique of European Thought and Behavior. Richly documented, well written, this will become an Afrocentric classic on the order of the works of Cheikh Anta Diop, Chancellor Williams, and Carter G. Woodson. Dr. Ani’s work will be influential beyond its primary discipline."

Molefi Kete Asante, author of Afrocentricit


04. Asa G. Hilliard, III

"Dr. Matrimba Ani is a brilliant Afrikan-centered critic, offering new language and terminology, in addition to new uses of old language and terminology. Her goal is to demystify the true agenda of white supremacy, to expose its deep structure, root and branch. We can see why there is a “cultural war” by white supremacists against such powerful ideas. But the real audience is the African Family. That is as it should be."

Asa G. Hilliard, III
Fuller E. Calloway Professor of Urban Education Georgia State University