Proper Noun

Essien Udom is the author that wrote the book Black Nationalism: A Search for an Identity and he is 

a professor of political science at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. In 1963, he was astonished by 

the extension of a collective identity among all blacks since he visited the country that he was going 

to. He thinks that the racial tensions would be seen somewhere between the nationalists and the 

integrationists. As an author, he made a book that determines life and meaning of The Nation of 

Islam. He explains that The Nation of Islam is was made primarily as means for miserable urban 

blacks to attain a national identity, a sense of ethnic awareness, and qualify in a society that refuses 

them these privileges. Essien Udom's Black Nationalism is used as an ideology and political force.