Hugh Heyne Smythe was an American author, sociologist, diplomat and professor. He was an authority on African anthropology and East Asian studies. He served as the United States Ambassador to Syria from 1965 to 1967 and United States Ambassador to Malta from 1967 to 1969.

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Language: English

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Year: 1960

Pages: 196

Cataloged: Nov. 22, 2024, 2:20 p.m.

From the "An authoritative book about the social and economic causes of the 'winds of change' which is now sweeping the African continent. It is a detailed objective examination of the impact of colonialism on the African people. Jack Woodis find the basis of the contemporary revolt against white domination in the conditions of land tenure and labor, which were imposed by the Colonial Powers. Mr Woodis has spent a number of years studying African development and has had close contact with many of Africa's political and trade union leaders. It rests its arguments on a careful sociological analysis of the position of the peasant and the worker in African society…… Its author has a quite enviable command of the sources of information and by bring them together had made a real contribution to colonial sociology. ...through his close contact with many Africans he allow them to speak for themselves....a mountain of information.

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Language: English

Publisher: Lawrence & Wishart

Year: 1960

Pages: 285

Cataloged: Nov. 22, 2024, 11:35 a.m.

Essays on Pan-Africanism begins with essays by Shiraz Durrani, Abdilatif Abdulla, Issa Shivji, Firoze Manji, Sabatho Nyamsenda, Willy Mutunga and Noosim Naimasiah on various aspects of Pan-Africanism. This is followed by Remembering the Champions of African Liberation, with articles on Patrice Lumumba by Antoine Lokongo, Abdulrahman Babu by Amrit Wilson, Makhan Singh by Hindpal Singh and Piyo Rattansi, followed by Tajudeen Abdul Raheem's last Pan African Postcard (2009) and Debating and Documenting Africa - A Conversation. The Preface, Pan-African Thought, is by Prof. Issa Shivji. The book incorporates Karim Essack's compilation, The Pan African Path (1993) with historical records and documents on Pan-African history, with a new Preface by Prof. Issa Shivji. The final section has documents on Pan-Africanism, including the Kampala Declaration (1994)

ISBN-13: 9789914992106

ISBN-10: 9914992102

Language: English

Publisher: Vita Books

Year: 2022

Pages: 276

Cataloged: Nov. 21, 2024, 9:54 a.m.

‘Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...’ – Amílcar Cabral Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories showcases the intellectual foundations and practices underpinning the liberation of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde. From the importance of culture in decolonisation, to biting critiques of Portuguese colonialism, and strategies for guerrilla warfare in tropical forests, this new collection brings together select interviews, official speeches and PAIGC party directives from 1962 to 1973. Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories reveals Cabral to be a skilled diplomat and lively and pragmatic thinker, concerned with national liberation in the context of Pan-Africanism and international struggle. This edition features an exclusive foreword by Grant Farred and introduction by Sónia Vaz Borges, bringing Cabral’s contributions sharply into focus for today’s bids for freedom.

ISBN-13: 9781776421503

ISBN-10: 1776421507

Language: English

Publisher: Digital on Demand

Year: 2022

Pages: 352

Cataloged: Nov. 21, 2024, 9:49 a.m.

In The Great Climate Robbery highly respected non-profit Grain connects analysis of the food system to larger issues affecting the planet, and links peoples' struggles over food to climate change. The collected articles in this book will help readers to understand the ways in which corporations seek to control the food system, and give information and analysis to challenge this control. This book features endorsements from Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben, and Vandana Shiva. Henk Hobbelink is a member of the Grain collective, an international non-profit that works to support small farmers and social movements in their struggles for community-controlled and biodiversity-based food systems.

ISBN-13: 9781780263403

ISBN-10: 1780263406

Language: English

Publisher: New Internationalist

Year: 2016

Pages: 224

Cataloged: Nov. 21, 2024, 9:32 a.m.

Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This book reveals the nature and extent of the class struggle in Africa, and sets it in the broad context of the African Revolution and the world socialist revolution. 86pp; 1 map

ISBN-13: 9780901787125

ISBN-10: 0901787124

Language: English

Publisher: Panaf Books Limited

Year: 1970

Pages: 96

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 7:07 p.m.

A foreign correspondent’s chronicle of the Ugandan warlord and his Lord’s Resistance Army of abducted child soldiers: “a readable and compelling account” (Independent, UK). Somewhere in the jungles of Uganda, there hides a fugitive rebel leader: he is said to take his orders directly from the spirit world and, together with his ragged army of brutalized child soldiers, he has left a bloody trail of devastation across his country. Joseph Kony is now an internationally wanted criminal, and yet nobody really knows who he is or what he is fighting for. To get the truth behind the rumors and myths, Matthew Green ventures into the war zone, meeting the victims, the peacemakers and the regional powerbrokers as he tracks down the man himself. The Wizard of the Nile is the first book to peel back the layers of mysticism and murky politics surrounding Kony, to shine a searching light onto this forgotten conflict, and to tell the gripping human story behind an inhumane war and a humanitarian crisis. Winner of the Jerwood Award Long-listed for the Orwell Prize

ISBN-13: 9781846274817

ISBN-10: 1846274818

Language: English

Publisher: Granta Publications

Year: 2012

Pages: 352

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 7:05 p.m.

The history of a radical group of intellectuals who founded the New Era Fellowship, which shaped human rights precedents and social justice policy in South Africa In 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, embarked on a project they called the New Era Fellowship (NEF). In doing so they sought to disrupt and challenge not only prevailing political narratives but the very premises – class and ‘race’ – on which they were based. In different forums – public debates, lectures, study circles and cultural events – the seeds of radical thinking were planted, nurtured and brought to full flower. Taking a position of non-collaboration and non-racialism, the NEF played a vital role in challenging society’s responses to events ranging from the problem of taking up arms during the Second World War for an empire intent on stripping people of colour of their human rights to the Hertzog Bills, which foreshadowed apartheid in all its ruthless effectiveness. In subsequent narratives of liberation their significance has been overlooked, even disparaged, and has never been fully understood and acknowledged. By shining a contemporary light on the NEF and locating its contribution in current sociological and political discourse, educationist Crain Soudien shows how its members were at the forefront of redefining the debate about social difference in a racially divided society.

ISBN-13: 9781776144686

ISBN-10: 1776144686

Language: English

Publisher: Wits University Press

Year: 2019

Pages: 212

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 7:01 p.m.

Seeking to reclaim a history that has remained largely ignored by most historians, this dramatic and stirring account examines each of the definitive American cooperative movements for social change—farmer, union, consumer, and communalist—that have been all but erased from collective memory. Focusing far beyond one particular era, organization, leader, or form of cooperation, For All the People documents the multigenerational struggle of the American working people for social justice. While the economic system was in its formative years, generation after generation of American working people challenged it by organizing visionary social movements aimed at liberating themselves from what they called wage slavery. Workers substituted a system based on cooperative work and constructed parallel institutions that would supersede the institutions of the wage system. With an expansive sweep and breathtaking detail, this scholarly yet eminently readable chronicle follows the American worker from the colonial workshop to the modern mass-assembly line, from the family farm to the corporate hierarchy, ultimately painting a vivid panorama of those who built the United States and those who will shape its future. John Curl, with over forty years of experience as both an active member and scholar of cooperatives, masterfully melds theory, practice, knowledge, and analysis, to present the definitive history from below of cooperative America. This second edition contains a new introduction by Ishmael Reed; a new author’s preface discussing cooperatives in the Great Recession of 2008 and their future in the 21st century; and a new chapter on the role co-ops played in the Food Revolution of the 1970s.

ISBN-13: 9781604867329

ISBN-10: 1604867329

Language: English

Publisher: PM Press

Year: 2012

Pages: 582

Cataloged: Nov. 20, 2024, 6:55 p.m.