From Dessalines to Duvalier: Race, Colour and National Independence in Haiti by David Nicholls

In this lively, provocative, and well-documented history, David Nicholls discusses the impact of “color” on the political relationship between the black majority and the mulatto elite during almost two hundred years of... Read more »

Akala – Malcolm Said It

Official “Malcolm Said It” video! Love this video to death! Track appears on Akala’s The Thieves Banquet album. Read more »

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

This book is an account of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1803, a revolution that began in the wake of the Bastille and became the model for the anti-colonial movements from Africa to... Read more »

The Irritated Genie by Jacob H. Carruthers

The Haitian Revolution is one of the most important revolutions in the history of the world, if not, the most significant revolution in the Western hemisphere. However, since this was a revolution... Read more »

Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

The puzzling murder of three African directors of a foreign-owned brewery sets the scene for this hard-hitting novel about disillusionment in neocolonial Kenya. While Ngũgĩ’s novels are generally set in Kenya, Ngũgĩ... Read more »