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 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 »
The World We Wish to See: Revolutionary Objectives in the Twenty-First Century, presents a sweeping view of twentieth-century political history and a stirring appeal to take political culture seriously. Samir Amin offers... 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 »
At last, a comprehensive anthology of one of the 20th century’s most influential political figures, the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro has been an articulate and incisive – if controversial-... Read more »
Guerrillas in Power is a complete history which starts from the beginning of the Cuban Revolution up to 1970. This account includes information about the changes in Cuban political economy, the various... Read more »