Ogunde is an extensive book about the New Afrikan Independence Movement by Yusuf Amir Hassan. This comprehensive volume includes official documents, writing, poetry, research, photography, and art resulting in a multifaceted work of radical politics, organizing, and personal expression. The New Afrikan Independence effort is a revolutionary resistance movement based on principles from the work of Malcom X, specifically in regards to the necessity of land ownership for New Afrikan people living in the United States. This book calls for the liberation of a new country, New Afrika, in what is now known as Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi, which is free and independent from the jurisdiction of the United States. This movement is primarily rooted in a revolution against oppression, specifically the oppression of black people in the United States, which supports the freedom and respect of all oppressed people globally. Ogunde includes official documents from the New Afrikan People’s Organization (NAPO), which sets up the paremeters of a socialist economy and alignment with all North American Revolutionaries seeking reparations and land ownership from the United States, whose actions have caused generations of vehement oppression, political and economic disadvantage, psychological trauma and genocide. Ogunde also includes the texts of the founding statement of NAPO, which is both a response to the internal and external maladies the movement has faced since its conception by Malcom X as well as a statement of intentions, beliefs, actions and terms of citizenship.

Ogunde also includes a message from the Chairman, Chokwe Lumumbe on “The New Afrikan Revolution and Malcom X” which reckons with the American distortion of Malcom X’s legacy and extracts his most salient principles as the foundation for the New Afrikan revolution. Ogunde also includes a message from Prophet Sun Ra to Malcom X, texts and poetry by Marcus Garvey, historical facts on the intellectual and scientific contributions of Black people, texts by Carlos A. Cooks, a report on imperialism and upholding the rights of independence and sovereignty by Khaled Moheiddin of Egypt, a report by Aiah Hasan, a list of inventions by black people, poetry by Claude McKay, Patricia Bulline and Lester Young, photographs of historical and contemporary art including drawings, paintings, and exhibition flyers, photographed portraits and a drawing by Yusuf Amir Hassan.

Yusuf Amir Hassan approaches each project differently. Often times, the artist works to the rhythm of jazz, allowing the music to inform his work. Hassan intentionally chooses to publish in low-fi processes, printing using a xerox copier in black and white. For Ogunde, most of the sources for the documents in the book were scanned from the Schomberg Archive in Harlem, New York. Yusuf Amir Hassan lives and works in New York City.