Nothing could be more futile than an effort to make one group's personal attitude central to your objectives as an oppressed group. Read more »
So what does “equal rights” get you in a system that bases itself on oppression? After being thoroughly dehumanized... Read more »
Mourning a lost friend, Lindela, the narrator of KMT, Ayi Kwei Armah’s seventh novel, plunges into history, seeking meaning in life’s flow. Loving companions – an Egyptologist and two traditionalists – show... Read more »
Barrel of a Pen is a collection of essays that vigorously responds to the atmosphere of repression and domination in Kenya. Ngũgĩ argues that the defense of national culture and national identity... Read more »
A member of the African elite groping its way out of the background of slavery and colonialism, Baako sees his education as preparation for lifework of socially innovative artist. His family, more... Read more »
In Neocolonialism in West Africa, author Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, a journalist and political activist in Sierra Leone, demonstrates that imperial powers continue to exploit West Africa. Throughout this collection of essays... Read more »
1885, Berlin: European and American globalizers set up colonies that impoverished Africans by exporting raw resources to fuel European and American prosperity. 1960s: “Independent” Africa’s rulers, far from uniting Africa to create... Read more »
Chinweizu Ibekwe’s classic The West and the Rest of Us, is widely referenced and suggested as essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the dialectics of the development of western civilization,... Read more »
This is the play that was responsible for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o being detained without trial (which was the impetus behind his book entitled Detained: A Writer’s Prison Diary), and Ngũgĩ wa Mĩriĩ... 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 »