Nubian Elegance Rare and Divine: High-Achieving African-American Students' Guide by Dr Darryl S Tukufu

A long time activist in the Urban League and an experienced educator, Dr. Tukufu has dedicated his guide to “…High Achieving African-American Students, Known and Unknown, and Those Yet to Come.” His call is to the best and brightest of African-America's future to prepare for future success via academic achieve-ment and incorporation into the economic, social and racial mainstream of America. Academic success and sub-sequent leadership on the academic frontier and in the greater American society comes from values and goals setting, good work habits and determination early on.

· Chapter I is concerned with Needs and Values, and uses Maslow's “Hierarchy of Needs” pyramid as the basis for discussion.

· Chapter II is based on Tukufu's African-American Development Model, which includes outreach from the individual to Positive Mental Attitude…The Nguzo Saba…African-African American Culture and History…Social Development…Social Capacity…Spiritual, Religious, Philosophical Orientation.

· Chapter III discusses the results of a questionnaire distributed nationally to a cross section of African-American high achievers and potential high achievers between the ages of 10-18. The Questionnaire is pre-sented in its entirely. It is uniquely probing with such questions to obviously bright youngsters as, “How should a young person respond to someone if he or she were told, 'You are trying to be white.'?”

Chapter IV presents Final thoughts.

· An Appendix is followed by a Recommended Reading List.