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09/18/2026

09/18/2026

LIBRARIANS: WHAT WE COLLECT TODAY BECOMES WHAT SCHOLARS CAN DISCOVER TOMORROW.

A new interdisciplinary volume examining Africanity, Afrophobia, identity, belonging, cultural memory, resistance, sovereignty, and African self-determination.

A library does more than hold books.
It preserves intellectual possibility.

Long after a social media campaign ends, after publication announcements disappear from timelines, and after a new title is no longer “new,” the library determines whether a student, faculty member, researcher, or future scholar can still encounter the work.
That makes collection development part of the scholarly ecosystem.
Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa, edited by Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D., brings together ten chapters by nine scholars examining some of the consequential questions connecting Africa and its global Diaspora.

Africanity.
Transcendental Africanity.
Afrophobia.
Global Africa.
Identity.
Cultural memory.
Belonging.
Resistance.
Sovereignty.
Self-determination.

Its interdisciplinary reach creates collection relevance across African Studies, Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Political Science, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and related interdisciplinary scholarship.

And there is another reason this conversation matters.
Scholarly collections do not simply document what a field has been.
They help determine what a field will be able to become.

When libraries acquire scholarship from independent Black academic presses alongside larger institutional publishers, they help preserve a broader intellectual record: more scholars, more questions, more theoretical traditions, more perspectives, and more pathways for discovery.

For academic libraries, HBCU libraries, Africana and African Studies collections, research libraries, public research collections, and librarians building collections for the next generation:
Please consider adding Transcendental Africanity to your collection.
Because discoverability is not only about finding what everyone already knows.

Sometimes it is about making certain that important scholarship is there when someone finally knows to look for it.

📚 LIBRARY & BOOK METADATA
Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa
Editor: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Publisher: Universal Write Publications
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
Print ISBN: 978-1-942774-35-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-34-1
LCCN: 2026902889
DOI: 10.65724/DWCO4934

PREORDER AND COLLECTION CONSIDERATION ARE OPEN NOW.

Build the collection. Preserve the scholarship. Extend its intellectual life.

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We Will Tell Our Own Story.

09/17/2026

STUDENTS: WHAT IF THE NEXT GREAT QUESTION ABOUT GLOBAL AFRICA IS YOURS TO ASK?
“Africa and its Diaspora are at a historic crossroads.”
— Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D., Introduction

Students are often introduced to Africa and the African Diaspora through what happened to African people.

Colonialism. Enslavement. Racism. Migration. Displacement. Exploitation.

Those histories matter.
But what happens when we also ask:
What endured?

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa invites students into a different kind of intellectual conversation.

Across ten chapters, nine scholars examine Africanity, Transcendental Africanity, Afrophobia, identity, cultural memory, music and resistance, belonging, language and ontology, representation, Black nihilism, sovereignty, freedom, and African self-determination.

This is not a book asking students simply to memorize another set of conclusions.
It gives you concepts to question.
Arguments to test.
Ideas to challenge.
Connections to investigate.
And new questions from which your own research might begin.

For undergraduate and graduate students in African Studies, Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, Political Science, History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and related fields, the larger question is not simply what you will learn from the scholarship.

What will you do with it?
A seminar paper can become a research agenda.
A question raised in class can become a thesis.
A disagreement with an author can become an article.
A concept encountered for the first time can change the direction of your scholarship.
And sometimes the book that matters most is not the one that gives you every answer.

It is the one that gives you a question you cannot stop thinking about.

📚 BOOK DETAILS
Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa
Editor: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Publisher: Universal Write Publications
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
Print ISBN: 978-1-942774-35-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-34-1
LCCN: 2026902889
DOI: 10.65724/DWCO4934

PREORDER NOW.

Read critically. Question deeply. Follow the citations. Challenge the arguments. Build what comes next.

What question will you carry forward?

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09/16/2026

WHO DECIDES WHAT BECOMES PART OF THE CANON?

“Propel Transcendental Africanity from its historical and historic state of being to a restorative state of doing.”
— Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.

A canon is not simply a collection of books we inherit.
It is also a body of knowledge we decide is important enough to preserve, teach, cite, debate, challenge, and carry forward.
That distinction matters.

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa, edited by Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D., brings together ten chapters by nine scholars working across disciplinary and geographic perspectives to examine Africanity, Transcendental Africanity, Afrophobia, Global Africa, identity, cultural memory, belonging, resistance, sovereignty, and African self-determination.

The volume enters a much older intellectual tradition of African people asking fundamental questions about themselves:
Who are we?
What connects us?
What has survived rupture?
Who gets to define Africa and its Diaspora?
And what knowledge must we build for those who come next?

Canon building does not mean declaring scholarship beyond critique. Quite the opposite.

A living intellectual canon must be studied, interrogated, contested, extended, and placed into conversation with the scholarship that preceded it and the scholarship still to come.

That is why new concepts matter.
That is why new frameworks matter.

And that is why independent Black scholarly publishing matters.
Africanity is “not a relic of the past, but the architecture of a future in which African peoples determine the terms of their existence.”
Faculty, scholars, graduate students, departments, research centers, and libraries: preorder the scholarship. Read it. Cite it. Debate it.

Teach it. Challenge it. Put it into conversation with the field.
That is how intellectual traditions grow.

📚 BOOK DETAILS

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa
Editor: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Publisher: Universal Write Publications
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
Print ISBN: 978-1-942774-35-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-34-1
LCCN: 2026902889
DOI: 10.65724/DWCO4934

PREORDERS ARE OPEN NOW.

What scholarship are we intentionally placing into the intellectual record for the generations that follow us?

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We Will Tell Our Own Story.

09/16/2026

UWP | Scholarship in Conversation~

There is a live international research-methods conversation developing in 2026 debating what counts as data, how creative inquiry can be rigorous, whether research methods should be decolonized, and how the Global South contributes methodological theory rather than merely supplying research subjects.

The 3rd MethodsNET Conference, October 28–30 at UCLouvain in Belgium, describes itself as a global gathering for research-methods innovation. Its 2026 program is almost startlingly aligned with the intellectual territory A² occupies: creative and arts-based methods, decolonial frameworks, transdisciplinarity, research-methods pedagogy, AI in methods classrooms, epistemic justice, and, most significantly, a dedicated “Methods and the Global South” track focused on locally grounded methodological innovation and the co-creation of knowledge.

A² is not another poetic-inquiry text.

PSD formalizes poetry as the initial act of inquiry and site of primary data generation, followed by an explicit theoretical lens, social/historical/cultural contextualization, and the integration of poem and scholarly discourse into a single citable research artifact.
In Canada, the 10th International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, October 8–11 in Vancouver, is marking 20 years of poetic inquiry and explicitly focusing on the future of the field, methodological applications, graduate researchers, collaboration across disciplines, and a new generation of inquiry.

At Oxford, the London Arts-Based Research Centre is convening Science and Sensibility: Method Meets Art on October 17–18, explicitly asking why art and science continue to be treated as separate domains of knowledge. Even more interesting: the proposal deadline is September 18—four days from today.

And the peer-reviewed literature is moving in the same direction. A 2026 Qualitative Research article describes poetry being used for data generation, analysis, and representation in doctoral-level qualitative-methods instruction. Another article, published August 25, uses collage, poetic inquiry, and material creation to investigate embodied experiences among aid workers in East Africa that conventional articulation struggled to capture.

And African epistemology is changing the methodology.
A peer-reviewed article published August 12, 2026 introduces Ori-Oyena, an African Indigenous qualitative methodology grounded in Indigenous Ghanaian/Nafaanra epistemology. Its authors explicitly identify a problem: African-centered scholarship has articulated alternative ontologies, but academic publishing still needs procedural, replicable frameworks capable of operationalizing those epistemologies throughout the research cycle.

Because replicability and procedural rigor are precisely where PSD distinguishes itself from merely using poetry in scholarship.
Ori-Oyena offers five procedural phases and argues that African ontological commitments can be translated into auditable research practice.

PSD independently confronts a closely related methodological problem from a different intellectual location. How can African diasporic epistemology, cultural production, theory, and social-science analysis become a formal and reproducible knowledge-generating method?

Sekai and Stewart's 2025 Journal of Black Studies article explicitly examines the relationship between Poetical Science Discourse and Transdisciplinary Africana Studies, arguing for the synthesis of cultural production and social-science inquiry as knowledge generation.

And the 2026 Wagadu article pushes that trajectory further into political linguistics, lexicentrism, epistemic agency, Global South knowledge production, and control over the infrastructures through which Black knowledge is created and circulated.
SO WHO GETS TO INVENT A RESEARCH METHOD?

For generations, African and diasporic scholars have been asked to apply methods.

Learn the accepted methodology.
Select the appropriate framework.
Demonstrate methodological competence.
But across the Global South, scholars are not just applying methodology. They are producing it.

The international methods community is debating the very boundaries A² was written to challenge.

Continue the Conversation...

A²: A Scholarly Poetical Science Discourse
Ayo Sekai, Ph.D. | Universal Write Publications
Print ISBN 978-0-9742269-3-4 | eBook ISBN 978-1-942774-30-3
Verified DOI: 10.65724/XLDN3175

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09/15/2026

UWP | Scholarship in Conversation ~

A new systematic review published online August 25, 2026 in Urban Education examined school-based culturally relevant interventions for Black students who receive, or are at risk of receiving, special-education services. Across the 12 studies that met the review criteria, students participating in culturally relevant interventions generally showed more favorable academic, behavioral, and cultural-identity outcomes than those receiving non-culturally relevant interventions.

A second 2026 study, published August 19, examines a culturally responsive Black ethnic-studies program designed around the social-emotional well-being of Black male adolescents, further demonstrating that culture is increasingly being studied not as an optional addition to schooling but as part of the educational environment itself.

The Afrocentric School by Dr. Nah Dove, presents African-centered education as an institutional model encompassing curriculum, pedagogy, governance, language, assessment, cultural grounding, and intellectual formation by treating African epistemology as foundational rather than supplementary.

So what if culture is not an intervention, and is instead part of the architecture of learning? And why should cultural relevance enter the educational system only after Black children are struggling?
If culturally grounded educational interventions can improve academic, behavioral, and identity-related outcomes, then perhaps the conversation should move beyond remediation.

What would happen if cultural location were built into the school from the beginning?

Are Black students disproportionately struggling because of individual deficits or because educational environments routinely require them to learn within cultural frameworks that do not locate them as intellectual subjects?

Does adding culturally relevant material to selected lessons produce the same result as designing curriculum from a coherent African-centered epistemology?

Can schools support cultural identity while leaving dominant assumptions about legitimate knowledge unchanged?

CULTURE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL A CHILD IS STRUGGLING

The Afrocentric School does not offer African history as an occasional unit or cultural celebration. It asks educators to reconsider where the child is intellectually located when the learning process begins.

Faculty adoption opportunity

Teacher Education · Curriculum & Instruction · Educational Leadership · Special Education · Urban Education · Africana Studies · Black Studies · African American Education · School Psychology

A faculty pairing could place the 2026 systematic review alongside The Afrocentric School and ask students to distinguish among:
culturally relevant intervention → culturally responsive pedagogy → Afrocentric curriculum → African-centered institutional design
Those concepts are often treated as synonyms. They are not.
That distinction alone makes the book useful for graduate seminars and teacher-preparation courses.

Library value
The library angle should emphasize historical and theoretical continuity.

The new studies show that culturally grounded schooling remains an active empirical research question in 2026. The Afrocentric School gives students and researchers access to a much deeper intellectual lineage that predates the current terminology of culturally responsive intervention.

Academic libraries supporting Education, Black Studies, psychology, curriculum studies, and teacher preparation therefore benefit from collecting not only the latest intervention research but also the African-centered theoretical frameworks against which contemporary research can be interpreted.

Continue the Conversation...

Nah Dove, Ph.D.
The Afrocentric School: A Blueprint
Universal Write Publications
Paperback ISBN: 978-1-942774-05-1
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-13-6
UWP DOI: 10.65724/LKCU7144

09/15/2026

FACULTY: WHAT QUESTIONS WILL YOUR STUDENTS BE ASKING ABOUT GLOBAL AFRICA?

“Africanity, exalted by spatiotemporal continuum, engenders Transcendental Africanity.”
— Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D., Conclusion

As faculty prepare courses, refine reading lists, and begin thinking toward Spring 2027, we invite you to consider a question at the center of a forthcoming UWP volume:
What connects African people across borders, cultures, histories, and generations?

Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa, edited by Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D., brings together ten chapters by nine scholars examining Africanity, Transcendental Africanity, Afrophobia, Global Africa, identity, cultural memory, belonging, resistance, sovereignty, and African self-determination.

The volume does not ask faculty or students to flatten the differences among African and Afro-descendant communities. It creates space to examine those differences while asking a larger intellectual question about what continues to connect Global Africa.

For courses in African Studies, Africana Studies, Black Studies, African Diaspora Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, Cultural Studies, and related interdisciplinary fields, this is scholarship designed to generate discussion, critical inquiry, and new research questions.
Transcendental Africanity emerges “not merely as an intellectual framework but as a civilizational imperative.”

Faculty, preorder now for your own review. Consider it for Spring 2027 course adoption. Recommend it to your departmental or university library. Bring the question of Global Africa into the classroom.

📚 BOOK DETAILS
Transcendental Africanity: The Key to Defeating Afrophobia and Reclaiming Global Africa
Editor: Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
Publisher: Universal Write Publications
Publication Date: September 29, 2026
Print ISBN: 978-1-942774-35-8
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-34-1
LCCN: 2026902889
DOI: 10.65724/DWCO4934

PREORDERS ARE OPEN NOW.

What might become possible when Global Africa recognizes itself?

Universal Write Publications
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09/14/2026

UWP | SCHOLARSHIP IN CONVERSATION

THE MENTOR MAY EXPLAIN THE MAN. BUT WHO EXPLAINS THE DEMAGOGUE?

A newly published biography of Roy Cohn is renewing public discussion about the man who helped shape Donald Trump.

American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump, by Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark, traces Cohn’s path from the prosecution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Senator Joseph McCarthy’s investigations to New York’s political and social power circles—and, eventually, to his mentorship of a young Donald Trump.

The biography helps answer an important historical question:
Who taught Trump how to attack, deny, counteraccuse, command attention, and treat controversy as evidence of power?
But knowing the mentor does not fully explain the demagogue.

To understand what happens when those tactics become political language, when accusation becomes governance, grievance becomes collective identity, and public spectacle begins displacing rational inquiry, we must turn to scholarship capable of interpreting the transformation.

The Book for Understanding the Political Language of Trumpism
In The American Demagogue: Donald Trump, Revised and Updated Edition, internationally renowned Africologist Dr. Molefi Kete Asante examines Donald Trump not simply as a controversial political personality, but as a modern American demagogue.

This concise and intellectually urgent study provides an African-centered analysis of the language, emotional appeals, public performances, and political conditions through which demagoguery acquires authority.

Asante examines how fear, grievance, grandiosity, insult, racial antagonism, manufactured enemies, misinformation, anti-immigrant discourse, militarized spectacle, and attacks on rational inquiry can reorganize public perception and weaken democratic judgment.

The national conversation often concentrates on what Trump says. Asante asks us to examine what the language accomplishes.

From Roy Cohn's Methods to the Language of Demagoguery
The renewed attention to Roy Cohn gives readers valuable historical context. Cohn modeled a method of power grounded in aggression, publicity, accusation, denial, and retaliation.

But The American Demagogue helps us recognize the larger political transformation: those methods did not remain private lessons exchanged between mentor and protégé. They entered public discourse and became part of a national political vocabulary.

Through the political-linguistic framework of Lexicentrism, language can be understood as a technology of legitimacy, hierarchy, memory, and institutional authority. Whoever controls the accepted vocabulary of a crisis gains tremendous power over how the public interprets that crisis and which responses it considers permissible.

Before policy, there is permission.
Before permission, there is language.

Asante’s scholarship reveals what becomes possible when a political figure repeatedly defines enemies, assigns blame, validates fear, attacks knowledge-producing institutions, and presents himself as the only legitimate interpreter of reality.

For Black communities, immigrants, and members of the Global African Diaspora, the consequences of political language are neither distant nor theoretical.

Words such as criminal, illegal, dangerous, deficient, unqualified, and disposable have historically operated alongside institutions. They prepare the emotional terrain upon which exclusion, surveillance, punishment, erasure, and violence can later be presented as reasonable.

We therefore cannot dismiss the fear and mistrust that political rhetoric produces. Language does not operate separately from law, policy, media, or institutional power. It helps determine which policies appear necessary, whose suffering becomes credible, and whose humanity remains negotiable.

This is why The American Demagogue belongs in courses and collections examining Africology, political science, Black politics, rhetoric, communication, media studies, leadership, public policy, American studies, and democratic governance.

The biography of Roy Cohn may help us understand the formation of Donald Trump.

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante’s The American Demagogue helps us understand the formation—and continuing operation—of Trumpism.

The question is now, how does demagogic language teach a nation what to fear, whom to blame, what to excuse—and ultimately, what to become?

Continue the conversation...

Father of Afrocentricity, Nana Molefi Kete Asante
The American Demagogue: Donald Trump, Revised and Updated Edition
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-9742269-0-3
eBook ISBN: 978-1-942774-29-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.65724/EYTE5507

09/13/2026

UWP | Scholarship in Conversation~

What Happens When the Diaspora Stops Being Only an Identity and Becomes Infrastructure?

Camara defines Global Africa as the relationship between Africans on the continent and African-descended populations worldwide and insists that this relationship must become strategic and operational. His challenge is essentially:
Do not stop at shared identity. Build something from it.

On September 3, 2026, SOAS University of London convened scholars for “Performing Diasporic Belonging: The Experiences of African Migrants in Europe.” The symposium examined how African migrants construct and negotiate belonging through language, music, heritage, visual culture, sport, and everyday life, with the scholarship being developed toward a special issue of African Identities.

How does diaspora become belonging?

Then, from September 4–6, the Global Somali Diaspora International Conference convened diaspora leaders, governments, development institutions, academics, investors, youth, and civil society in Queensland, Australia.

But its agenda moved considerably beyond belonging.
The conference was designed to translate diaspora commitments into investment pathways, knowledge transfer, capacity development, climate resilience, institutional partnerships, and coordinated development. Its announced outcomes included a Global Somali Diaspora Development Platform, a Diaspora Investment and Innovation Network, and a Climate Resilience Action Framework.

And now the Caribbean is entering the same conversation.
From September 17–19, CARICOM will convene its Third Regional Conference on Reparations in Barbados. Its participants include Caribbean governments, the CARICOM Reparations Commission, African Union and United Nations representatives, academics, civil society, youth, and Global African diaspora partners. CARICOM explicitly describes the meeting as an effort to move “from resolution to action” and translate reparatory principles into political, legal, socioeconomic, and institutional implementation.

Three conversations.
Europe asks about belonging.
The Somali diaspora is constructing development infrastructure.
Africa and the Caribbean are developing institutional mechanisms for reparatory cooperation.

And Camara's 2024 essay gives us a conceptual language capable of holding all three together.

Those questions take Global Africa from cultural affirmation to institutional design.

Camara explicitly rejects simplistic fragmentation between so-called old, new, slavery-generated, colonial, and postcolonial diasporas while acknowledging the different histories through which African populations became dispersed.

The current scholarship from SOAS complicates the question further. African migrants in Europe experience belonging through racialization, migration governance, colonial histories, language, culture, and transnational relationships.

So Global Africa cannot simply mean:
“We are all Black, therefore we agree.”

The scholarly challenge is not to erase those differences.

It is to determine what those differences can build together.
Can the African diaspora become one of Africa's great intellectual, economic, cultural, and institutional resources without surrendering the differences that make its communities distinct?

That is a question worth taking from the classroom to the research center, from the archive to the university, and from Africa to the Caribbean and the wider African world.

Continue the Conversation…

Mohamed Saliou Camara, Ph.D.
“Who We Are: Global Africa and Transcendental Africanity”
THE RESEARCHER | Universal Write Publications
Online ISSN 3070-8877
Article DOI: 10.65724/PWDN8169

09/12/2026

UWP | Scholarship in Conversation~

Current development

On September 3, 2026, the U.S. Treasury Department and IRS proposed regulations that could strip federal tax-exempt status from private schools, colleges, universities, professional schools, and trade schools if they use race-conscious policies in admissions, scholarships, athletics, educational programming, or other school-supported activities. Treasury estimates that as many as 18,000 private educational institutions could be affected. The proposed rule would not take effect before taxable years beginning after May 31, 2027, and it remains subject to public comment and possible legal challenge.

The administration frames the proposal as enforcing a uniform principle of racial nondiscrimination. Higher-education groups and legal analysts argue that it may go substantially beyond the Supreme Court’s 2023 admissions ruling by extending the prohibition to scholarships, programs, and other forms of race-conscious student support.

What happens when institutions created to expand opportunity are told that some of the tools historically used to address unequal opportunity may threaten their institutional status?
This development aligns especially well with the newly published THE RESEARCHER article:
“Forbes Ranks the Best HBCUs: The More Important Question Is What ALL HBCUs Do”

The article argues that conventional prestige rankings often fail to measure what HBCUs actually accomplish relative to their students’ economic starting points and institutional resources. Using intergenerational-mobility data, the authors report that HBCUs show particularly important patterns of upward economic mobility and argue that their contribution should be evaluated in relation to the populations and communities they serve.

The federal proposal is formally about nondiscrimination and tax law.

But for HBCUs and other mission-driven institutions, the practical conversation may become one about how opportunity is defined, financed, and measured.

If an institution serves populations historically excluded from higher education, and if its scholarships, mentoring programs, pipeline initiatives, or student-support structures were designed in response to those historical conditions, how should public policy evaluate them?

What happens to educational mobility when institutions lose some of the mechanisms they have historically used to produce it?
That opens a serious conversation for policymakers, higher-education leaders, foundations, advancement offices, and researchers studying educational mobility.

Continue the Conversation…

“Forbes Ranks the Best HBCUs: The More Important Question Is What ALL HBCUs Do”
THE RESEARCHER
Universal Write Publications
Published September 4, 2026
Online ISSN 3070-8877
Article DOI 10.65724/ZAFH1023