New to Penguin Classics a pioneering work of Afrofuturism and antiracist fiction by the author of Black No MoreBlack Empire tells the electrifying tale of Dr. Henry Belsidus a Black scientific genius desperate to free his people from the crushing tyranny of racism. To do so he concocts a plot to enlist a crew of Black intellectuals to help him take over the world cultivating a global network to reclaim Africa from imperial powers and punish Europe and America for white supremacy and their crimes against the planets Black population.At once a daring highstakes science fiction adventure and a strikingly innovative Afrofuturist classic this controversial and fearlessly political work lays bare the ethical quandaries of exactly how far one should go in the name of justice.