the five-percent nation, sometimes referred to the "nation of gods and earths" (nge/noge) or the "five percenters", is an american organization founded in 1964 in the harlem section of the borough of manhattan, new york city, by a former member of the nation of islam named clarence 13x (born clarence edward smith and later known as "allah the father"). clarence 13x, a former student of malcolm x, left the nation of islam after a theological dispute with the nation's leaders over the nature and identity of god. specifically, clarence 13x denied that the nation's biracial founder wallace fard muhammad was allah and instead taught that the black man was himself god personified.