In this lecture Kwame Ture recapitulates the aforementioned points noting that the job of the conscious is to make the unconscious, conscious of their unconscious behavior (that’s a mouthful!). In this statement... Read more »
This is a great documentary of one of the best African practitioners of conscientization, Dr. John Henrik Clarke. You will learn more about human history in this one film than you ever... Read more »
In this illuminating lecture Kwame Ture addresses various concerns regarding African and all oppressed people. He discusses the corporate media and its purpose under a colonial/oppressive system, the question of African identity,... Read more »
Cumulatively the interviews reproduced here trace the trajectory of the author’s intellectual engagement with his times. This is a reader where Ngũgĩ reveals his thoughts and analysis of various African freedom movements,... Read more »
Under Thomas Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink... Read more »
Matigari ma Njirũũngi (which means in Gĩkũyũ “the patriots who survived the bullets”—the patriot who survived the liberation war, and their political offspring), descends the mountains victorious after fighting in the long independence... Read more »
This is one of the best songs on Big Cakes album, It’s All Luv. Big Cakes promotes Pan-African identity and unity which is much needed. We can see Marcus Garvey and Kwame... Read more »
This concise, accessible history of revolts by African peoples worldwide explores the wide range of methods used by Africans to resist oppression and the negative effects of imperialism and colonization as viewed... Read more »
Magical realism drives this mammoth novel set in the imaginary African country of Aburiria. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o roots this fantasy in the brutal horror of neocolonialism. His ridicule of the powerful knows... Read more »
Through an examination of political economy, culture, and colonial society, Cabral sets forth a blue print on how the colonized masses can start the process of decolonization and creating an entirely new... Read more »