Apartheid Did Not Die

This is a documentary produced by John Pilger in 1997. In this film, he highlights the transition from apartheid South Africa to a so-called “New South Africa” which continues to represent the... Read more »

The Secret Country – The First Australians Fight Back [1985]

A very informative documentary about the settler colonial nation of Australia by John Pilger; what this documentary makes plain is that the colonial oppression faced by Aboriginal sisters and brothers cannot be... Read more »

Devil on the Cross by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

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 »

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 »

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 »

Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Projects, Practices, Legacies edited by Caroline Elkins & Susan Pedersen

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 »

Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky surveys the dangers and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism, the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the... Read more »

Matigari A Novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

Matigari ma Njirũũngi (which means in Gĩkũyũ “the patriots who survived the bullets”—the patriot who survived the liberation war, and their political offspring), descends the mountains victorious after fighting in the long independence... Read more »

Freedom Next Time: Resisting the Empire by John Pilger

Well-known journalist and filmmaker Pilger reminds readers that “if power was truly invincible, it would not fear the people so much as to expend vast resources trying to distract and deceive them,”... Read more »

Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko

When the ex-mistress of a sinister cocaine wholesaler takes a job as secretary to a Native American clairvoyant who works the TV talk show circuit, she begins transcribing an ancient manuscript that... Read more »