The international outcry over Ngũgĩ’s detention without trial by the Kenyan authorities reached him even in Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison. With great accomplishment, he describes the purposeful degradation and humiliation of the... 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 »
Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, is a definitive work on the life of Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Jon Lee Anderson’s biography traces Che’s extraordinary life, from his Argentine upbringing to the battlefields of... Read more »
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 »
Criminal trial lawyer Williams pays attention to gritty details while relating the events of her life: growing up black and female in pre-World War II America; coursing through a white-male-dominated legal academy;... Read more »
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 »
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 »
This is the book that started our conscientization. The title is self explanatory. If you haven’t read this yet, then now is the time! Read more »