Essential Works of Lenin: “What Is to Be Done?” and Other Writings by Vladimir Lenin

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 »

Armed Struggle in Africa: With the Guerrillas in “Portuguese” Guinea by Gérard Chaliand

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 »

Mother by Maxim Gorky

This novel tells the story of a woman named Pelagueya Nilovna, known throughout the book as “the mother”, who comes into political consciousness through the political activities of her son. With her... Read more »

Malcolm X Mixtape – 1960-65

This video is a non-linear compilation of Malcolm X’s speeches from 1960 to 1965. The compilation highlights Malcolm’s burgeoning understanding and his resulting efforts toward building Pan-Africanism. It is clear from his... Read more »

Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Devil on the Cross is an intricate novel centered on a big feast called “The Devil’s Feast” by a group of student activists who want to expose the true nature of “A... Read more »

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer by Reinhard Sander

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 »

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah

In this important book, Kwame Nkrumah analyzes the working of international monopoly capitalism in Africa and show how neocolonialism is more dangerous than colonialism proper. Political freedom without economic freedom is meaningless.... Read more »

Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History by Robert L. Allen

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 »

The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era by Janice Peck

Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey’s journey has taken her from talk show queen to, as Time Magazine has asserted, one of the most important figures in popular culture. Through her... Read more »

We Are the Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87, 2nd Edition by Thomas Sankara

In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, Pan-Africanist revolutionary Thomas Sankara explains how the peasants and workers of the West African country Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta) established a... Read more »