USA Africa Dialogue Series - Keith Holmes - Black Inventors - Crafting Over 200 years of Success

Just read my copy. A great text. Highly recommended. Coverage of Black women and their patents - within Africa, and in the old and new Diasporas noted.
Patents identified for individual African countries, too.



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Holmes, Keith. Black Inventors- Crafting Over 200 Years of Success. NY: Global Black Inventors Projects.

This book identifies Black inventors from five continents, over seventy countries, including almost all fifty states in the United States. Citing a number of black inventors from 1769 - 2007, this book is one of the most comprehensive works on Black Inventors since Henry E. Baker's research on Black inventors in the early 20th century.

Our research has uncovered and cited a number of inventors of color from Africa and the African Diaspora. Global Black Inventor Research Projects, Inc., recognizes the importance of inventions by indigenous people. Our research has uncovered thousands of inventions by people of African descent. Our first publication is globally recognized as one of the leading books on the subject of black inventors.



This book documents a number of the inventions, patents and labor saving devices conceived by Black inventors. Africans, before the period of their enslavement, developed: agricultural tools, building materials, medicinal herbs, cloth and weapons, among many other inventions. Though millions of black people were brought to Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America and the United States in chains and under the yoke of slavery, it is relatively unknown that thousands of Africans and their descendants developed numerous labor saving devices and inventions that spawned companies which generated money and jobs, worldwide.

The focus of this book is to introduce readers to the facts, that inventions created by black people, both past and present, were developed and patented on a global scale. This also means that there are inventors in every civilization whose ideas have been turned into inventions. In the past the focus has been on American and European inventors. Today, the new giants in the patenting process are Brazil, China, India, Japan, Nigeria, South Africa and South Korea.



Recently, Dr. Patricia Bath (nine patents) was nominated to the National Inventors Hall of Fame; but, an African American woman has not yet been inducted into this prestigious organization. Mr. Holmes documents the creativity of black women inventors from Africa, Canada, the Caribbean, the United Kingdom and the United States, and provides readers with a comprehensive view of the ground-breaking achievements of black inventors – both male and female.


The book sells for $15.00 US dollars (plus shipping & handling) and we can ship your orders both domestic and international. If your order requires a purchase order number or you need for our company to generate an invoice, please email your requests to:

Paperback ISBN no's: 978-0-9799573-0-7<tel:978-0-9799573-0-7> / 097-9957303<tel:097-9957303> / LOC no: 2010483204<tel:2010483204> / OCLC no: 234711874
Ebook ISBN no: 978-0979957314


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