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Play about Makak, a charcoal burner who dreams of becoming an African king, exploring colonialism and identity.

Coming-of-age novel following G. in colonial Barbados, exploring the end of colonial rule.

West Indians on a ship to England, exploring the immigrant experience and post-colonial identity.

Essays on Caribbean identity, colonialism, and the Prospero-Caliban relationship in Shakespeare's Tempest.

Prequel to Jane Eyre telling the story of the 'madwoman in the attic' as Antoinette Cosway in Jamaica.

Padmore's analysis of Pan-Africanism as alternative to Communism for African liberation.

Exposé of British colonial exploitation across Africa.

Official record of the 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress that launched African independence movements.

Groundbreaking thesis that British industrial capitalism was funded by profits from the slave trade.

Analysis of Black life and labor in the Caribbean under colonial rule.

Novel about a Jamaican religious community and its charismatic leader, exploring colonialism and resistance.

Analysis of Algerian revolution's social transformations including role of women and radio.

Posthumous collection of political essays on Algeria, Africa, and decolonization.

Poetic essay arguing colonialism dehumanizes both colonizer and colonized, comparing it to Nazism.

Adaptation of Shakespeare's Tempest from Caliban's perspective as colonized subject.

A crew push a boat up a Guyanese river in search of a legendary Amerindian settlement, mirroring and reversing the journey of conquest. The crew are simultaneously historical and spiritual doubles, alive and dead, explorer and explored.

An educated Guyanese engineer, unable to find work due to racism in postwar Britain, becomes a teacher in London's East End, a memoir of navigating race, class, and the possibilities of connection across the color line.

Manuel returns to Haiti after years in Cuba and attempts to bring water — and reconciliation — to his drought-stricken village divided by a blood feud. A lyrical socialist novel rooted in Vodou and peasant life.

Four generations of women in Guadeloupe, from slavery to the mid-20th century, told through the voice of Télumée. A lyrical, feminist celebration of Black women's resilience rooted in Creole culture.

Set in a Trinidadian yard in the years before and after independence, the novel follows the people of Calvary Hill as they celebrate Carnival — Aldrick the Dragon Man, Fisheye, Sylvia — and the limits of rebellion.

The story of Caribbean migrants to post-war London — Moses, Galahad, Cap, Big City — navigating racism, poverty, and loneliness. Written in a lyrical Trinidad dialect, it invented a new prose voice.

Set in San Cristobal, a fictional Caribbean island at independence. Fola, a middle-class woman, attends a Vodun ceremony and is transformed, setting off events that culminate in revolution.

First volume of The Arrivants trilogy, tracing the Atlantic journey of enslaved Africans and their descendants through jazz, blues, and Caribbean rhythms. Brathwaite invented the concept of 'nation language.'

Second volume of The Arrivants trilogy, set in Africa — following the poet's search for roots in Ghana. Draws on Akan ritual, drum rhythms, and oral tradition.

Third and final volume of The Arrivants trilogy, returning to the Caribbean to interrogate what remains after the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism — and what can be built.

Padmore's major work arguing that Pan-Africanism — not Communism — is the correct path to African liberation. He broke with the Comintern in 1934 and became Nkrumah's advisor on Pan-Africanism.

Emily, an English woman visiting her father's Caribbean plantation in the early 19th century, and Cambridge, an enslaved African man who converted to Christianity, each narrate their experience of the same place.