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561 works of pan-African thought. 11 matching current filters.
Account of Birmingham campaign of 1963 and the broader civil rights movement.
King's final book analyzing the future of civil rights movement and calling for economic justice.
King's account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and development of his nonviolent philosophy.
A groundbreaking feminist analysis of women's oppression in Arab society, combining personal memoir with medical observations and political critique. Addresses female genital mutilation, virginity codes, prostitution, and the politics of religious law.
A philosophical inquiry into how Africa was invented by colonial discourse through missionary accounts, anthropology, and philosophy. Mudimbe shows how the colonial library created a distorted knowledge of Africa that Africans themselves have often had to inhabit.
A theoretical framework rooting African-American literature in the West African tradition of the trickster Esu-Elegbara, showing how Black writers signify on one another and on white literary tradition through double-voiced discourse.
A legal scholar's argument that mass incarceration has replaced Jim Crow as a system of racial control, targeting Black men through the War on Drugs, stripping rights, and creating a permanent undercaste within the formal law.
An oral history of Serowe, Botswana's largest village, assembled from interviews spanning three generations from the reforming chief Khama III to the cooperative movement of the 1960s. Head reveals an Africa that endures and self-organizes.
Antjie Krog covered South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission for radio, and this book is her account — testimonies, poetry, analysis, and her own emotional unraveling as she witnessed the TRC hearings.
An examination of how Muslim youth in the diaspora — from Harlem to Paris to Dakar — use hip-hop, gnawa, and protest music to forge a global identity that connects Islamic and Black Atlantic traditions.
The UK title of Country of My Skull — Krog's account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Published under different titles in different markets.