Defining culture in the broadest sense as the totality of a people's way of life forged by essence and experience, Femi Ojo-Ade makes in-depth studies, basically through literature, of myriad manifestations of Black culture in Africa and the Diaspora. These essays, poignant and satirical, also constitute one more call to consciousness and action, a re-awakening necessary for an authentic fight for freedom from the shackles of neo-colonialism and from the hegemonic forces of crass subordination and oppression.