I suppose, there is no time even an excellent work will please all "stake-holders".

For someone with the stature of Malcom X, time and space will continue unfurling a myriad intepretations on his life.

He is, as Marable says a part of the Black Aesthetic in America.

To us in the Motherland, Malcom X represents our hope and idea of freedom and dignity for the diaspora Africans.

What Marable has revealed is an extremely complex, protean and fearless African with a special love for his people.He was a man always learning.

Although some aspects of Malcom's life, as revealed in the book are somewhat disconcerting, one is left with a humbling thought that Marable points out:

His fiery and incisive oratory and telling truth to power was a marvel and extremely important during his time.

I find Marable's coverage of Malcom objectively respectful without subservience or sheer myth-making. Malcom X still comes out as an awe-inspiring Afrikan man. Period