The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State by Basil Davidson

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 »

African Women in Revolution by Wunyabari O. Maloba

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 »

Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership And People’s War by Patrick Chabal

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 »

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

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 »

Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan-Africanism by Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)

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 »

Ready for Revolution: The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Kwame Ture

C-101 instructs you to ignore the Amazon blurb for this book. If you know anything about Kwame Ture, it would be clear that he would never accept the description of being a... Read more »

Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography by Fidel Castro & Ignacio Ramonet

Numerous attempts have been made to get Fidel Castro to tell his own story. But it was only as he stepped down after five decades in power, that the Cuban leader finally... Read more »

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

This book is an account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille and became the model for the anti-colonial movements from Africa to... Read more »

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

This books is a must read and there is no blurb which can describe George Jackson’s prison writings. We instruct each of you to ignore the illogical and mediocre write ups that... Read more »

The End of White World Supremacy: Four Speeches by Malcolm X

Here in his own words are the revolutionary ideas that made Malcolm X one of the most charismatic and influential African leaders in history. They are the thoughts of a determined African... Read more »