Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual by Walter Rodney

In 1974, Walter Rodney visited the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, Georgia. With the institute’s members, he discussed his own political and intellectual development and exchanged views on the role... Read more »

Mother by Maxim Gorky

This novel tells the story of a woman named Pelagueya Nilovna, known throughout the book as “the mother”, who comes into political consciousness through the political activities of her son. With her... Read more »

Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumah

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 »

The Struggle For Mozambique by Eduardo Mondlane

The author of this book, until his assassination early in 1969, was President of FRELIMO, the Mozambique Liberation Front. Here he analyzes the origins of the war in the economics of exploitation,... Read more »

Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire

In Paulo Freire’s last book, before his untimely death, he lays out a searing polemic addressed to the many despairing and fatalist voices whose ideas of determinism and “the end of history”... Read more »

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

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 »

The Colonizer and the Colonized by Albert Memmi

In The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi explores the psychological effects of colonialism on colonized and colonizers alike. This book eliminates various designations such as minority and women’s rights by placing... Read more »