Liberation and the Decolonized Mind
The manifestos, memoirs and theory of the independence and anti-apartheid struggles. These writers fought on two fronts at once: to seize the colonial state, and to reclaim the mind, language and culture it had tried to remake.
The Wretched of the Earth
Frantz Fanon
The psychiatrist of the Algerian revolution anatomizes colonial violence.
Read why it mattered →Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism
Kwame Nkrumah
Independence on paper, control in practice.
Read why it mattered →Return to the Source
Amilcar Cabral
Culture as a weapon of the liberation struggle.
Read why it mattered →I Write What I Like
Steve Biko
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
Read why it mattered →Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
From a Transkei childhood to Robben Island to the presidency.
Read why it mattered →Ujamaa: Essays on Socialism
Julius Nyerere
Socialism drawn from African familyhood, not imported class war.
Read why it mattered →Thomas Sankara Speaks
Thomas Sankara
He who feeds you, controls you.
Read why it mattered →Facing Mount Kenya
Jomo Kenyatta
An African turns anthropology into a defense of his own people.
Read why it mattered →Not Yet Uhuru
Oginga Odinga
Flag independence was not yet real freedom.
Read why it mattered →Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
His farewell to English as a language of fiction.
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