Love this track! It was about time an artist gave a proper analysis about Occupy Wall Street. James gave the exact same analysis that Wise had about Occupy Wallstreet in a radio... Read more »
As we read Ayi Kwei Armah Two Thousand Seasons, two things immediately came to our minds: Akala’s track from his The Thieves Banquet album “Maangamizi”[1]Being so moved by this book, C-101 editors... Read more »
Zion (i.e. a freed non-neocolonialist Africa, don’t get it confused with “Zionism”) is what all Africans need to struggle to achieve, and Djezuz knows We will achieve it! Track appears on Wise’s... Read more »
The second volume of the world renowned revolutionary writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s memoir picks up right where volume one left off. He enters into the “prestigious” colonial Alliance High School which he... Read more »
Kwame Ture, that great son of Africa said, “power begins on the level conception,” this is the best way to describe Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance. Ngũgĩ... Read more »
You know when the elders get all nostalgic and start to say stuff like, “In the 1960’s we were united. If only we could…” you know the rest. Well leave it to... Read more »
Wonderful track from The Thieves Banquet. Akala always makes it clear that soul, reggae, hip hop, and other musical expressions from Black people represent our historical origins in Africa. It is very... Read more »
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 »
In this lecture Kwame Ture recapitulates the aforementioned points noting that the job of the conscious is to make the unconscious, conscious of their unconscious behavior (that’s a mouthful!). In this statement... Read more »
This is a great documentary of one of the best African practitioners of conscientization, Dr. John Henrik Clarke. You will learn more about human history in this one film than you ever... Read more »