Image The Raven #18: Anthropology Anarchism and Africa An issue of the anarchist journal The Raven from 1992 with articles on anthropology and Africa. Contents of mixed quality and usefulness…
Image The Class Struggle in Africa - Samir Amin In this 1964 pamphlet, Samir Amin surveys the development of classes and class relations in Africa from the earliest village communities to the…
Image Stanley’s exploits, or, civilising Africa David Nicoll berates Stanley and his cheerleaders in the press who thought that massacring Africans in the cause of ‘civilising’ them was a price…
Image Necropolitics An essay tracing the origin of modern sovereignty to the right over life and death.
Image The society of enmity The contemporary era is undoubtedly characterized by forms of exclusion, hostility, hate movements, and, above all, by the struggle against an…
Image The African Liberation Reader (Vols. 1 - 3) The three volumes of the African Liberation Reader collect documents from national liberation movements across Africa. Many of these movements…
Image Experiences of Democracy in Africa: Reflections on Practices of Communalist Palaver as a Method of Resolving Contradictions A classic essay on popular democracy in African tradition by Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba…
Image Emancipation, freedom of taxonomy? What does it mean to be African? Firoze Manji, drawing on a libertarian and anti-state reading of Amilcar Cabral, looks at the…
Image An Open Letter to my Compatriots in Algeria Seeking to erode Algerian-Moroccan enmities stoked by nationalism and to share perspectives on his own experiences in the February 20th Movement…
Image Amussu: An Experiment for a Cinema from Below An indigenous filmmaker's theoretical and practical reflections on the decolonisation of North African cinema, collective filmic narratives,…
Image Walter Rodney's "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa" Notes on a classic work of dependency theory.