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 »
Have you ever wondered why people whip themselves into a religious like fervor whenever a new Apple product is released; or why is it that people are constantly engaged in trying to... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Under Thomas Sankara’s leadership, the revolutionary government of Burkina Faso in West Africa set an electrifying example. Peasants, workers, women, and youth mobilized to carry out literacy and immunization drives; to sink... Read more »
Most of this book was written in Brixton Prison, where the author was held in custody for six months pending trial at the Old Bailey on the charge of masterminding a plot... Read more »
Neoliberalism–the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action–has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world... Read more »
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 »
Pacifism, the ideology of nonviolent political resistance, has been the norm among mainstream North American progressive groups for decades. But to what end? Ward Churchill challenges the pacifist movement’s heralded victories—Gandhi in... Read more »