Aimé Césaire eloquently describes the brutal impact of capitalism and colonialism on both the colonizer and colonized, exposing the contradictions and hypocrisy implicit in western notions of “progress” and “civilization” upon encountering... Read more »
Doyen Cheikh Tidiane Sall had decided to resign not because of complicity but because he, like the President, was in his eighties. He was as mystified as the rest of his cabinet... Read more »
This book is an extensive analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutionary movements in post World War II Africa. The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in:... Read more »
This collection of Jean Paul Sartre’s writings on colonialism and neocolonialism remains a supremely powerful, and relevant, polemical work. He puts forth detailed and accurate analysis of Patrice Lumumba’s assassination and other... Read more »
Ho Chi Minh, the founder of the Vietminh and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, having defeated Japanese, French, and U. S. colonialism, was the leading figure in fighting for Vietnamese... Read more »
The terms and concepts Franz Fanon uses in The Wretched of the Earth are often uncommon and underutilized in everyday organizing. As a result, many people have difficulty fully understanding his analysis... 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 »
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 »
The Wretched of the Earth concerns the psychology of the colonized and the path to liberation. This book is one of the foundational works which led to the development of Conscientization 101.com.... Read more »
A Dying Colonialism is an incisive account of how oppressed nationalities can use cultural practices derided by colonialist as primitive to advance revolutionary ideology and action. Fanon uses the fifth year of... Read more »