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 »
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 »
Have you ever wondered why people whip themselves into a religious like fervor whenever a new Apple product is released; or why is it that people are constantly engaged in trying to... Read more »
Devil on the Cross is an intricate novel centered on a big feast called “The Devil’s Feast” by a group of student activists who want to expose the true nature of “A... Read more »
Cumulatively the interviews reproduced here trace the trajectory of the author’s intellectual engagement with his times. This is a reader where Ngũgĩ reveals his thoughts and analysis of various African freedom movements,... Read more »
In this important book, Kwame Nkrumah analyzes the working of international monopoly capitalism in Africa and show how neocolonialism is more dangerous than colonialism proper. Political freedom without economic freedom is meaningless.... Read more »
Settler colonies still grapple today with the divisive and difficult legacies unleashed by settler colonialism. Whether they were settled for trade or geopolitical reasons, these settler communities had in common their shaping... Read more »
Black Awakening in Capitalist America: An Analytic History, is a classic study of the Black liberation movement of the 1960s. Examining Black Power and black capitalism, the student and radical movements, nationalist... Read more »
Over the last two decades Oprah Winfrey’s journey has taken her from talk show queen to, as Time Magazine has asserted, one of the most important figures in popular culture. Through her... Read more »
Profit Over People: Neoliberalism & Global Order, is Noam Chomsky’s examination of neoliberal ideology—the belief in the supremacy of “free” markets to drive and govern human affairs. Chomsky reveals the roots of... Read more »