This is a mind blowing experience for me reading this book. Although it was given to me by an aquentance who I happened to have discussion about black history literature and such. But this was 5years ago. So when I bumped into him recently we both discovered that I haven't even make an attempt to read it as I couldn't contribute to gist of the book. So I made a mental note that I must read this book, to which I did. My conclusion is that it should be a syllabus for every western kid at school to read, because it changes the paspective of the western world view of what advancement really is and what it entails.