The Ruins of Empires by Akala

The Ruins of Empires – an epic poem. A story that follows the “Knowledge Seeker” through the course of human history, via astral travel and multiple reincarnations, in an attempt to discover... Read more »

EP.019: Southern California Library: A Quilombo In Los Angeles, California

We had the opportunity to dialogue with the Directors of the Southern California Library, Michele Welsing and Yusef Omowale. SCL is a community library and archive located in South Los Angeles. Read more »

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution by Peter McLaren

Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution examines what is currently at stake – culturally, politically, and educationally – in contemporary global capitalist society. This book evaluates the message of... Read more »

God’s Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène crafts a richly visceral story about a railroad strike in French colonial Africa. There are a large cast of characters that are situated throughout French colonial Africa (primarily Bamako, Thiès,... Read more »

Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin “Rashid” Johnson featuring exchanges with an Outlaw by Kevin “Rashid” Johnson

Defying the Tomb is a text that defiantly lays to rest the hackneyed bourgeois stance of “we don’t have time to intellectualize, let’s go out there and do something.” No! No! No!... Read more »

The Eloquence of the Scribes by Ayi Kwei Armah

This memoir on the ancient sources and future resources of African literature, by the author of Two Thousand Seasons, KMT, and other novels, gives colonial Africanist preconceptions of Africa’s literary heritage a... Read more »

Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare: A Guide to the Armed Phase of the African Revolution by Kwame Nkrumah

Finally after many, many, many years we were able to get a hold of a copy of this book for the crazy low price of $14.98 plus shipping and handling. It was... Read more »

Remembering the Dismembered Continent by Ayi Kwei Armah

1885, Berlin: European and American globalizers set up colonies that impoverished Africans by exporting raw resources to fuel European and American prosperity. 1960s: “Independent” Africa’s rulers, far from uniting Africa to create... Read more »

Globalectics: Theory and the Politics of Knowing by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

In this volume, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o summarizes and develops a cross-section of the issues he has grappled with in his work, which uses a combination of imagery, language, folklore, and character to... Read more »