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 »
This video is a non-linear compilation of Malcolm X’s speeches from 1960 to 1965. The compilation highlights Malcolm’s burgeoning understanding and his resulting efforts toward building Pan-Africanism. It is clear from his... Read more »
In this illuminating lecture Kwame Ture addresses various concerns regarding African and all oppressed people. He discusses the corporate media and its purpose under a colonial/oppressive system, the question of African identity,... 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 »