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Africa

African and Caribbean Politics

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

by Stephen Howe
“Precise and courageous ... A landmark.”—Brian Appleyard, Sunday Times
After the Party

by Andrew Feinstein

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

5 posts
Algiers, Third World Capital

by Elaine Mokhtefi

A fascinating portrait of life with the Black Panthers in Algiers: a story of liberation and radical politics

18 posts

The Battlefield

by Hugh Roberts
A radical corrective to Western misconceptions that reduce Algeria’s tragedy to a clash of stereotypes
2 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
Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse

by Aletta J. Norval
The Groundings with My Brothers

by Walter Rodney

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

22 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

26 posts
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

by Walter Rodney

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

34 posts
How to Be a Revolutionary

by C. A. Davids

An extraordinary, ambitious, globe-spanning novel about what we owe our consciences
Ibn Khaldun

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

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
Insurgent Empire

by Priyamvada Gopal

How rebellious colonies changed British attitudes to empire

29 posts
Lord Leverhulme’s Ghosts

by Jules Marchal

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

7 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
Saviours and Survivors

by Mahmood Mamdani
Darfur and the ideological use of the language of genocide.
3 posts
Tomorrow They Won’t Dare to Murder Us

by Joseph Andras

Lyrical and radical, a debut novel that created a sensation in France

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.

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