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 »
Much euphoria has been expressed about the abolition of apartheid and the emergence of post-apartheid South Africa. Utilizing a Black Consciousness working-class philosophical framework, Is Apartheid Really Dead? takes sharp issue with... Read more »
What does it mean to be an “anti-racist”? We know you probably have a lot of answers to this question, but first off let us properly define racism. Racism is merely the... Read more »
Say what you want about Vladimir Lenin, but what cannot be denied is his skills as a astute researcher and polemicist (skills that come in handy as a revolutionary). The Essential Works of... 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 »
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin talks about the nature of politics in America and political systems in general. He makes it clear that the political trajectory of any society is dictated by the structure... Read more »
Armed Struggle in Africa: With the Guerrillas in “Portuguese” Guinea by Gérard Chaliand is everything the title implies and much more. We are not only given the general history of Africans under... Read more »
Have you ever wondered why people whip themselves into a religious like fervor whenever a new Apple product is released; or why is it that people are constantly engaged in trying to... Read more »
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 »