“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots,” said Marcus Garvey, arguably one of the greatest leaders in history. This brilliant proclamation has served as a guiding light behind the Abantu Audio mission. We have created this platform just for you, which embodies Marcus Garvey’s statement in its mission. One, which speaks directly to our communities, relays our stories and empowers our voices. One that encourages the group economics and self-reliant messages of Garvey. One, which seeks to educate, uplift, and inspire your imagination while spreading knowledge of self and truth. “The revolution will not be televised is true,” but it will initiate in your mind; for all things we perceive,

including the way we see ourselves, begins in the mind. You as an indigenous melanin person growing up and dwelling in a white supremacist dominated world may feel at times, as if you are incapable of ALL things, due to the lack of knowledge of your positive history, origin and culture

regularly relayed to you. When you have the pride of your cultural historic origin to empower your psyche, the possibilities become endless because you will feel endowed with that information. For too long there has been a cultural and racial monopoly in the literary world.

Gatekeepers alien to our culture have owned and controlled the vital narratives necessary to empower your and our communities. These gatekeepers have chosen to regulate categories of

titles made aware and accessible to the masses, marketing and highlighting only those books

considered “mainstream.” Our stories often times do not fall in the white ‘mainstream” category

and so our griots go unheard adding a further suppression of our history, origin, and culture.

Change is needed and new so-called gatekeepers need to exist. The overstanding of these

observations gave birth to Abantu Audio