Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, by Peniel E. Joseph

The next regular meeting of TransAfrica Forum's Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library Readers' Corner book club will be held on Sunday, February 8, 2009, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, featuring the book Waiting ‘Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, by Peniel E. Joseph (2006, Henry Holt and Co.).

The next regular meeting of TransAfrica Forum's Arthur R. Ashe, Jr. Foreign Policy Library Readers' Corner book club will be held on Sunday, December 7, 2008, 3:30 PM to 5:30 PM, featuring the book Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian (2007, published by Harcourt, Orlando).

The Readers’ Corner is the Ashe Library’s book club which focuses on writers from the African World with a special emphasis on books highlighting social justice issues. The purpose of The Readers’ Corner is to provide a forum for its members to discuss and gain a better understanding of issues facing the African world.

Unbowed: A Memoir by Wangari Maathai (2006, published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York)

Description from the publisher: “Hugely charismatic, humble, and possessed of preternatural luminosity of spirit, Wangari Maathai, the winner of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize and a single mother of three, recounts her extraordinary life as a political activist, feminist, and environmentalist in Kenya.

(2007, published by Dutton, New York)

(2007, published by Basic Civitas Books, New York)