Samuel M. Goldstein plagiarized African history scholarship
built by Cheikh Anta Diop and Chancellor Williams.

Before you spend one dollar on a Samuel M. Goldstein book, read this.

I am a professor of African and African American Studies with over 30 years of teaching and research at several major universities. I have sat in the libraries of the scholars who built this field. I have held their books in my hands. I know this work the way a musician knows a song — not just the words, but the breath behind them.

And what Samuel M. Goldstein is selling on Amazon is not scholarship.

It is theft.

Let's Start With the Bio

Here is what Amazon tells you about Samuel M. Goldstein:

"Samuel M. Goldstein is a dedicated historian and author specializing in bringing the past to life through meticulously researched and engaging history books."

No university. No institution. No named publications. No credentials. No photograph.

Just words.

That bio could have been written by anyone — or anything. It is the kind of language that sounds impressive until you ask one simple question: Who is this person?

Nobody can tell you. Because there is nothing to find.
And this is precisely how Samuel M. Goldstein plagiarized African history —
hiding behind a ghost identity while selling stolen Black scholarship on Amazon.

Now Let's Look at the Books

In less than seven months — from October 7, 2025 to April 26, 2026 — Samuel M. Goldstein published ten books on Amazon.

Ten.

The topics? Ancient African civilizations. The History of Rome. Inca Mythology. LGBTQ+ rights. Christopher Columbus. True crime. Global inequality. And one book written entirely in Spanish.

Let me ask you something.

What kind of historian produces ten books in seven months across subjects that span five continents, three languages, and thousands of years of human history?

The answer is: no historian at all.

A legitimate scholar spends years — sometimes a decade — on a single work. Cheikh Anta Diop spent his career reconstructing the African origins of civilization. Chancellor Williams spent years traveling across Africa, sitting with elders, digging through colonial archives, before he gave the world The Destruction of Black Civilization.

Seven months. Ten books. On everything.

That is not scholarship. That is a content factory.

How Samuel M. Goldstein Plagiarized African History Scholarship

The Theft Is Brazen

Here is where it moves from suspicious to criminal.

This is the clearest example of how Samuel M. Goldstein plagiarized African history — he did not even change the titles.
Word-for-word — the same titles as works by established African scholars. Scholars who spent lifetimes on this research.

Most of whom received little recognition and even less financial reward for their contributions.

He did not change the titles and thought we would miss that.

That tells you three things: There was not even an attempt at disguise. No repackaging. No effort. Just the work of great men, stripped of their names and sold under a new one.

What This Means for African Scholarship

This is not just plagiarism. It is something more specific — and more ugly.

When Samuel M. Goldstein plagiarized African history scholarship,
he did not just steal words — he stole decades of sacrifice.

Cheikh Anta Diop was a Senegalese physicist, historian, and anthropologist who proved, in the face of enormous academic hostility, that ancient Egypt was an African civilization. He was dismissed, ridiculed, and ignored by European academic institutions for decades. He kept working anyway.

Chancellor Williams was an African American historian who spent years on the African continent conducting primary research. His book The Destruction of Black Civilization is one of the most important works ever written on the systematic dismantling of African societies. He self-published because major publishers would not touch it. He was never wealthy. He was never widely celebrated outside of the community he served.

These men gave everything to produce knowledge that the academy actively suppressed.

And now, a non-African person with no credentials, no photo, and no verifiable identity is selling their work on Amazon — collecting royalties that should have gone to these scholars, their estates, and their legacies.

That is the full picture. That is what is actually happening here.

What You Should Do

Do not buy these books. Do not recommend them.
Do not let anyone you care about spend their money on them —
because Samuel M. Goldstein plagiarized African history, and the scholars
he stole from deserve better.

If you want the real scholarship — go find it. Read Cheikh Anta Diop. Start here — I have written a full introduction to his life and work that will show you exactly why he matters and where to begin.

Chancellor Williams is coming. I am writing about him now, and when that post publishes, you will understand why his work is as urgent today as the day he wrote it.

The scholars who built this field did so under conditions most people cannot imagine — underfunded, dismissed, and deliberately kept out of mainstream academic discourse. The least we can do is make sure their work reaches the people it was meant for.

Not a content farm. Not a ghost account with a generic bio and ten books in seven months.

The real thing.

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Professor Kamau Kenyatta is an author, speaker, and African American Studies professor with 25 years of experience teaching what schools refused to — challenging assumptions and leading unfiltered conversations on race, history, and identity. Enroll in his course, Black History Unfiltered.