By David N. Roach
Founder, Lunda.com

While attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga, I was given an assignment in my Urban Economic Public Policy class to find economic solutions for the African- American community. Solutions were heard to find. Usually, the narrative is centered around talking about “the problem” and  very little time  solving the problem. 

Realizing African- Americans have just been out of slavery since Jan 1, 1863, I thought, to start my research after 1863 to the present here in the United States, while researching Africa before and during slavery. Books like Up From Slavery, by Booker T. Washington, The Movable School goes the Negro Farmer by Thomas Campbell, Black Reconstruction 1860-1880 by W.E.B Du Bois, The Destruction of Black Civilization by Chancellor Williams greatly influenced my research.

In my pursuit of economic solutions in the Black community The Lunda people came up twice.