French Partisans on the 1945 Sétif massacre in Algeria In May 1945 the French state committed a massacred thousands in Sétif, Algeria after a street…
The post-war strike wave in East, West, and Southern Africa From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East…
A brief history of the state - humanaesfera How did the state become distinct from the castes and presented itself as a neutral entity that hovers and contrasts with a so-called civil…
1947 General Strike, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) An account by T. B. Dissanayake of the 1947 general strike in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka
Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience Ato Sekyi-Otu's Fanon’s Dialectic of Experience invites us to see Fanon as a dramatist enacting a movement of experience—the drama of social…
Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics An analysis of Frantz Fanon's psychiatric writings by Nigel C. Gibson and Roberto Beneduce.
Reflections on Pan-Africanism Transcript of speech given on November 20, 1973. James discusses George Padmore's break with the USSR, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius…
The 1945 Nigerian General Strike In 1945 a general strike involving tens of thousands of workers began with railway workers, then spread to other nationalised industries…
The Iva Valley miners strike and massacre at Enugu colliery, 1949 On the 18th November 1949, 21 striking miners and a bystander were shot dead at a British government…
Mwalimu Nyerere and the challenge of human rights Article from Pambuzuka which examines Nyerere's record on human rights. While the article is generally pro-Nyerere it details some of the…
The Rise and Fall and Insurrection of Trade Unionism in Tanzania An overview of the development of trade unions in Tanzania between the 1920s and 1990s by Tanzanian…