The Economist

Bookshop established by Ras Makonnen in the mid-1940s to support his Pan-African Publishing Co. The directors of the latter were Makonnen, George Padmore, Jomo Kenyatta and Peter Millard. Amongst the anti-colonial works published by the press were Sylvia Pankhurst, Italy's War Crimes in Ethiopia (1946), Kenyatta's, Kenya: Land of Conflict (1945) and The Negro in the Caribbean by Trinidadian historian and later Prime Minister Eric Williams. The bookshop relied on the support of students at the University of Manchester, for as Makonnen recognized:

it wasn't a race bookshop, either in the sense that it catered only to blacks - there weren't enough around for this to be possible - or in the sense that we only sold books about blacks. However, when there was some particular book on blacks that I felt needed promoting, we went to town.

One of those books that was made a "big splash" about was Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery (1944) which explored how Caribbean slavery help to fuel the emergence of Britain's industrial economy.

Source: Makonnen, Pan-Africanism from within (1973), pp.145-146.