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 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 »
Mau Mau and Kenya traces a unique peasant revolt against British colonialism. Maloba describes the participants and their differing ideologies; relationships between the revolt and the conventional party politics of the Kenya... Read more »
Nkurmah deconstructs the fallacy that western philosophical thought is “universal philosophical thought”. He provides detail which exposes western philosophical thought as purposefully placing all thought in abstraction and divorcing thought from action... Read more »
Blood in My Eye is a political treatise from George Jackson which covers a wide range of topics from colonialism, capitalism, the irrelevancy of third party politics, fascism, revolution, the prison industrial... Read more »
The decisiveness of colonialism/slavery and its negative consequences for Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations... Read more »
The Wretched of the Earth concerns the psychology of the colonized and the path to liberation. This book is one of the foundational works which led to the development of Conscientization 101.com.... Read more »
There are no blurbs or short explanations to write about Pedagogy of the Oppressed. To attempt to explain one aspect of this book would limit the depth of its analysis. Conscientization 101... Read more »
The best way to describe this book is by expanding the title to say Class Struggle Amongst Africans. Nkrumah places the African struggle in the context of all African people in the... Read more »
A Dying Colonialism is an incisive account of how oppressed nationalities can use cultural practices derided by colonialist as primitive to advance revolutionary ideology and action. Fanon uses the fifth year of... Read more »