Something Torn and New: An African Renaissance by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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 »

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Speaks: Interviews with the Kenyan Writer by Reinhard Sander

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 »

Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral by Amilcar Cabral

Through an examination of political economy, culture, and colonial society, Cabral sets forth a blue print on how the colonized masses can start the process of decolonization and creating an entirely new... Read more »

Marxism and Native Americans ed. Ward Churchill

In a unique format of intellectual challenge and counter-challenge prominent Indigenous people of the Americas and Marxists debate the viability of Marxism and the prevalence of ethnocentric bias in politics, culture, and... Read more »

Africans at the Crossroads: African World Revolution by John Henrik Clarke

In this collection of writings by John Henrik Clarke, is an extensive and potent analysis of the necessity for African people to have power in the world. He contextualizes historical and current... Read more »

I Write What I Like: Selected Writings by Steve Biko

I Write What I Like contains a selection of Steve Biko’s writings from 1969, when he became the president of the South African Students’ Organization, to 1972, when he was prohibited from... Read more »

The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State by Basil Davidson

In The Black Man’s Burden: Africa and the Curse of the Nation-State, Basil Davidson posits that the failures of the nation-states in Africa after “independence” from colonial domination, can be traced to... Read more »

African Women in Revolution by Wunyabari O. Maloba

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 »

Colonialism and Neocolonialism by Jean-Paul Sartre

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 »

Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State by Cheikh Anta Diop

The late Cheikh Anta Diop presents a blueprint for the creation of a unified Black African state. Diop explains why attempts at economic development and cooperation cannot succeed apart from the political... Read more »