ISBN-13: 9789966466310

ISBN-10: 9966466312

Language: English

Publisher: East African Educational Publishers

Year: 1994

Pages: 186

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 2:36 p.m.

Wrestling with the Devil, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's powerful prison memoir, begins literally half an hour before his release on December 12, 1978. In one extended flashback he recalls the night, a year earlier, when armed police pulled him from his home and jailed him in Kenya's Kamĩtĩ Maximum Security Prison, one of the largest in Africa. There, he lives in a prison block with eighteen other political prisoners, quarantined from the general prison population. In a conscious effort to fight back the humiliation and the intended degradation of the spirit, Ngũgĩ - the world-renowned author of Weep Not, Child; Petals of Blood; and Wizard of the Crow - decides to write a novel on toilet paper, the only paper to which he has access, a book that will become his classic, Devil on the cross. Written in the early 1980s and never before published in America, Wrestling with the Devil is Ngũgĩ's account of the drama and the challenges of writing the novel under twenty-four-hour surveillance. He captures not only the excruciating pain that comes from being cut off from his wife and children, but also the spirit of defiance that defines hope. Ultimately, Wrestling with the Devil is a testimony to the power of imagination to help humans break free of confinement, which is truly the story of all art Source: Publisher Wrestling with the Devil: A Prison Memoir is a 2018 memoir by Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o. The book was published by the New York City-based publisher The New Press. It is an edited version of Thiongo'o's 1981 memoir, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, which was never published in the United States. Wikipedia

ISBN-13: 9781473523753

ISBN-10: 1473523753

Language: English

Publisher: Random House

Year: 2018

Pages: 272

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 2:30 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9789966462763

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: East African Publishers

Year: 1986

Pages: None

Cataloged: June 20, 2025, 2:26 p.m.

ISBN-13: 9780394713519

ISBN-10: None

Language: English

Publisher: Vintage

Year: 1983

Pages: None

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:50 p.m.

Global Histories of Work is the first title in the new series "Work in Global and Historical Perspective". This collection of selected articles written by leading scholars in different disciplines provides both an introduction and numerous insights into themes, debates and methods of Global Labour History as they have been developed over the last years. The contributions to the volume discuss crucial historiographical developments; present different professions that have gained new attention in the context of an emerging Global Labour History; critically engage the boundaries of "free" labour and the ambiguities contained in this concept; and take up and historicize current debates about "informal labour". Global Histories of Work will familiarize readers with a burgeoning fi eld of high academic, social, and political relevance. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9783110437201

ISBN-10: 3110437201

Language: English

Publisher: De Gruyter

Year: 2016

Pages: 374

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:41 p.m.

“Written on the heels of Black Lives Matter, Occupy, MeToo, RhodesMustFall, this is the novel of our time—rekindling the spirit of activism and revolution. Chaotic, confrontational, direct, and relentless, Zeilig takes on the world’s deftly disguised, seemingly well-meaning, but outrightly exploitative order. Woven around the story of an itinerant writer, activist, political theorist, this is no ordinary tale of Bianca—fighting to unravel a murder—but rather a treatise on anti-capitalist struggle narrated with revolutionary urgency….” Yusuf Serunkuma Bianca Ndour is a brilliant university professor and radical thinker. Originally from Senegal, she grew up in Nigeria, in a Shell oil compound, with her sister, Maïmouna and their friend Kaarina. A terrible incident shapes her life. In the present day, Bianca becomes involved in trying to solve the murder of the global elite, and as she travels around the world, to promote her books, these murders escalate into what becomes a social movement. Troubled by her past, Bianca rages against the rich who are destroying the world. What role does she play in events that are turning the world upside down? ‘The World Turned Upside Down is a political novel, with a black, lesbian, neurodivergent, messy, lead, and a call to seize the forces of history back to their rightful owners.’ Lena Anyuolo ‘The plot is insane and racy, the characterisation lively and a little insane, the self-honesty lacerating and playful, and the ideas solid and sound.’ Tariq Goddard

ISBN-13: 9781513685083

ISBN-10: 1513685082

Language: English

Publisher: Books Farm House & Publishers

Year: 2021

Pages: 342

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:34 p.m.

A manifesto from one of America's most influential activists which disrupts political, economic, and social norms by reimagining the Black Radical Tradition. Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, the US civil rights movement, and LGBTQ rights and feminist movements, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist. This book provides a vision for how social justice movements can become sharper and more effective through principled struggle, healing justice, and leadership development. It also offers a flexible model of what deeply effective organizing can be, anchored in the Chicago model of activism, which features long-term commitment, cultural sensitivity, creative strategizing, and multiple cross-group alliances. And Unapologetic provides a clear framework for activists committed to building transformative power, encouraging young people to see themselves as visionaries and leaders. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780807019412

ISBN-10: 0807019410

Language: English

Publisher: Beacon Press

Year: 2018

Pages: 162

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:32 p.m.

2013 marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Amilcar Cabral, a revolutionary, poet, liberation philosopher, and leader of the independence movement of Guinea Bissau and Cap Verde. Cabral\'s influence stretched well beyond the shores of West Africa. He had a profound influence on the pan-Africanist movement and the black liberation movement in the US. In this unique collection of essays, contemporary thinkers from across Africa and internationally commemorate the anniversary of Cabral\'s assassination. They reflect on the legacy of this extraordinary individual and his relevance to contemporary struggles for self-determination and emancipation. The book serves both as an introduction, or reintroduction, to one whom global capitalism would rather see forgotten. Understanding Cabral sheds light on the necessity of grounding radical change in the creation of theory based on the actual conditions within which a movement is attempting to develop. Cabral\'s theoretical ideas and revolutionary practice of building popular movements for liberation are assessed by each of the authors as critically relevant today. His well-known phrase \"Claim no easy victories\" resonates today no less than it did during his lifetime. The volume comprises sections on Cabral\'s legacy; reflections on the relevance of his ideas; Cabral and the emancipation of women; Cabral and the pan-Africanists; culture and education; and Cabral\'s contribution to African American struggles. A selected bibliography provides an overview of Cabral\'s writings and of writings about Cabral. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9782869785557

ISBN-10: 2869785550

Language: English

Publisher: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa and Daraja Press

Year: 2013

Pages: 490

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:23 p.m.

This is the fourth edition of 'Nyerere and Africa: End of an Era. It is also the largest and includes new material not found in previous editions. The work is a comprehensive study of the political career of President Julius Nyerere spanning half a century. The author takes a critical look at Nyerere's policies and influence in the domestic and international arenas for an objective evaluation of the life and times of one of the most influential leaders in the twentieth century. The major role he played in the liberation of southern Africa is just one of the subjects addressed by the author. He also provides insights into Nyerere's personality from some of the people who knew him best. Included in the book are interviews with some of the people who knew Nyerere since his childhood. Some of them were his teachers. And they outlived him. Others were his schoolmates and colleagues in government and when he was a teacher. And some of them were his students. Also included are interviews with some of his family members. This is an essential study of post-colonial Africa. It is also a study in political leadership and Cold War politics in the African context, among many other subjects addressed in the book which should serve as a reference text for scholars and laymen alike interested in Africa and the Third World in general. Source: Publisher

ISBN-13: 9780980253412

ISBN-10: 0980253411

Language: English

Publisher: New Africa Press

Year: 2006

Pages: 720

Cataloged: May 13, 2025, 2:15 p.m.