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 »
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 »
These are the major speeches made by Malcolm X during the last eight months of his life. While the white ruling class and the petty bourgeois African classes frame Malcolm X’s political... Read more »
The Haitian Revolution is one of the most important revolutions in the history of the world, if not, the most significant revolution in the Western hemisphere. However, since this was a revolution... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »