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 »

We Are the Heirs of the World’s Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87, 2nd Edition by Thomas Sankara

In the five speeches contained in this pamphlet, Pan-Africanist revolutionary Thomas Sankara explains how the peasants and workers of the West African country Burkina Faso (formerly known as Upper Volta) established a... 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 »

Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 with David Harvey – Class 1, Introduction

We here at Conscientization 101 would not have been able to make it through Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy, without Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at... Read more »

Class 2 Chapters 1-2 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David Harvey

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Class 3, Chapter 3 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol I with David Harvey

By far this is the toughest chapter.  Once you get past this chapter then it’s all gravy, we promise you. Read more »

Class 4, Chapters 4-6 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 with David Harvey

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Class 5, Chapters 7-9 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 with David Harvey

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Class 6, Chapters 10-11 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 with David Harvey

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Class 7, Chapters 12-14 Reading Marx’s Capital Vol 1 with David Harvey

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