In The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State, Basil Davidson posits that the failures of the nation-states in Africa after “independence” from colonial domination, can be traced to... Read more »
This book is an extensive analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutionary movements in post World War II Africa. The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in:... Read more »
This collection of Jean Paul Sartre’s writings on colonialism and neocolonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. He puts forth detailed and accurate analysis of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination and other... Read more »
The late Cheikh Anta Diop presents a blueprint for the creation of a unified Black African state. Diop explains why attempts at economic development and cooperation cannot succeed apart from the political... Read more »
The author of this book, until his assassination early in 1969, was President of FRELIMO, the Mozambique Liberation Front. Here he analyzes the origins of the war in the economics of exploitation,... Read more »
This book tells the story of Amilcar Cabral who, as head of PAIGC, Guinea-Bissau’s nationalist movement, became one of Africa’s foremost revolutionary leaders. In less than twenty years of active political life,... Read more »
Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on... Read more »
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding account of political economy, a social... Read more »
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, is a definitive work on the life of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of... Read more »
In the speeches and articles collected in this book, Kwame Ture traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of Africans in America that took place during the evolving movements... Read more »