I Write What I Like contains a selection of Steve Biko’s writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Students’ Organization, to 1972, when he was prohibited from... Read more »
In The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State, Basil Davidson posits that the failures of the nation-states in Africa after “independence” from colonial domination, can be traced to... Read more »
The late Cheikh Anta Diop presents a blueprint for the creation of a unified Black African state. Diop explains why attempts at economic development and cooperation cannot succeed apart from the political... Read more »
The author of this book, until his assassination early in 1969, was President of FRELIMO, the Mozambique Liberation Front. Here he analyzes the origins of the war in the economics of exploitation,... 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 »
At last, a comprehensive anthology of one of the 20th century’s most influential political figures, the Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro has been an articulate and incisive – if controversial-... Read more »
In Paulo Freire’s last book, before his untimely death, he lays out a searing polemic addressed to the many despairing and fatalist voices whose ideas of determinism and “the end of history”... 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 »
Caroline Elkins, a historian at Harvard University, has done a masterful job setting the record straight in her epic investigation, Imperial Reckoning. After years of research in London and Kenya, including interviews... 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 »