As we read Ayi Kwei Armah Two Thousand Seasons, two things immediately came to our minds: Akala’s track from his The Thieves Banquet album “Maangamizi”[1]Being so moved by this book, C-101 editors... Read more »
As the great African patriot born in Jamaica, Paul Bogle said, “Remember your colour and cleave to black,” this is what Walter Rodney, the great African revolutionary from Guyana, always held true... Read more »
Pawned Sovereignty presents an evolutionary political and philosophical outlook on America, Africa, and world affairs. Regardless of what you presently think, the challenges it poses to societal norms will either enhance or... Read more »
We love this joint right here! What Wise does is demystify the objective wretched conditions that African people have imposed upon Us throughout the world. Imperialism wants us to believe that an... Read more »
The second volume of the world renowned revolutionary writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s memoir picks up right where volume one left off. He enters into the “prestigious” colonial Alliance High School which he... Read more »
Kwame Ture, that great son of Africa said, “power begins on the level conception,” this is the best way to describe Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance. Ngũgĩ... Read more »
Wonderful track from The Thieves Banquet. Akala always makes it clear that soul, reggae, hip hop, and other musical expressions from Black people represent our historical origins in Africa. It is very... 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 »
A narrative freestyle from Akala where he demonstrates the equilibrium between subjective and objective realities for an accurate understanding of the world we live in. 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 »