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 »
Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History, is a classic study of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s. Examining Black Power and black capitalism, the student and radical movements, nationalist... 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 »
These are the speeches of Maurice Bishop, prime minister of Grenada during the 1979-83 revolution. In 1983 the workers’ and farmers’ government was overthrown by a coup. Bishop, the central leader of... Read more »
Still Black Still Strong is an essential document of the Black Panther Party written by three leading thinkers and party activists who were jailed following the FBI’S 1969 mandate to destroy the... Read more »
In 1968, Safiya Bukhari witnessed an NYPD officer harassing a Black Panther for selling the organization’s newspaper on a Harlem street corner. The young pre-med student felt compelled to intervene in defense... Read more »