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The Verso Book of Dissent

Edited by Andrew Hsiao and Audrea Lim

From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad

44 posts
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

19 posts
The Groundings with My Brothers

by Walter Rodney

A remarkable book on the international operations of racism and the global meaning of Black Power

18 posts
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

by Walter Rodney

An exemplary work of political, economic, and historical analysis, powerfully introduced by Angela Davis

19 posts

The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, et al.

A powerful document of theday-to-day realities of Black women in Britain

19 posts
The Other

by Ryszard Kapuściński

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European

2 posts
The Russian Revolution

by Walter Rodney

Renowned Pan-African and socialist theorist on the Bolshevik Revolution and its post-colonial legacy

10 posts
The Battlefield

by Hugh Roberts
A radical corrective to Western misconceptions that reduce Algeria’s tragedy to a clash of stereotypes
1 post

Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts

by Jules Marchal

The definitive account of exploitation in the Congo, introduced by Adam Hochschild

5 posts
After the Party

by Andrew Feinstein

“The most important book about South Africa since the demise of apartheid in the early 1990s." – Scotsman

4 posts
Saviours and Survivors

by Mahmood Mamdani
Darfur and the ideological use of the language of genocide.
3 posts
Conspiracy to Murder

by Linda Melvern
Voted the Best Book on Africa by Foreign Affairs and Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice.
3 posts

Unfinished Business

by Terry Bell and Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza
This book pulls back the curtain on the 'political miracle' of the new South Africa.
Afrocentrism

by Stephen Howe
“Precise and courageous ... A landmark.”—Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times
Imagining Home

Edited by Robin D.G. Kelley and Sidney J. Lemelle
A fresh and creative approach to the history of Pan-Africanism and diasporic movements.
4 posts
African and Caribbean Politics

by Manning Marable
Studying Ghana, Guyana and Grenada to discover the problems affecting democracy in the African diaspora.
4 posts

Ibn Khaldun

by Yves Lacoste
A sympathetic yet incisive study of the great North African polymath.
1 post