Amilcar Cabral: Revolutionary Leadership And People’s War by Patrick Chabal

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 »

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

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 »

Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano

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 »

Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000 by George Reid Andrews

For geopolitical reasons, Western imperialism in Europe and the Americas has purposefully mislead people to believe that African people were only enslaved in the United States. This was primarily to undermine Pan-Africanism... Read more »

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

This book is an account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille and became the model for the anti-colonial movements from Africa to... Read more »

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

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 »

Mau Mau and Kenya: An Analysis of a Peasant Revolt by Wunyabari O. Maloba

Mau Mau and Kenya traces a unique peasant revolt against British colonialism. Maloba describes the participants and their differing ideologies; relationships between the revolt and the conventional party politics of the Kenya... Read more »

Consciencism: Philosophy & Ideology for Decolonization by Kwame Nkrumah

Nkurmah deconstructs the fallacy that western philosophical thought is “universal philosophical thought”. He provides detail which exposes western philosophical thought as purposefully placing all thought in abstraction and divorcing thought from action... Read more »

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

The decisiveness of colonialism/slavery and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations... Read more »

Class Struggle In Africa by Kwame Nkrumah

The best way to describe this book is by expanding the title to say Class Struggle Amongst Africans.  Nkrumah places the African struggle in the context of all African people in the... Read more »