"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Comrade Babu: Zanzibar’s Marxist and the Internationalism of African Liberation "The fight against imperialism cannot be local. It must be united, international, and rooted in socialist transformation." — Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu Revolution from the Coast: The Marxist of Zanzibar Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu was a leading figure in the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and a committed Marxist... Continue Reading →
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man and the Struggle for a Free AfricaRevolutionary Legacy Series | Weaponized InformationEpigraph: "You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. It comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas." — Thomas SankaraIntroductionThomas Sankara was not simply a political leader. He was... Continue Reading →
Julius Nyerere: The Teacher Who Tried to Liberate Africa Without Selling It "Capitalism means that the masses will work, and a few people—the capitalists—will benefit. Socialism means that the people will work for the benefit of the people."— Julius K. NyerereThe Educator-in-Chief of African SocialismJulius Nyerere didn’t seize power with a gun or inherit it... Continue Reading →
"There is no true independence without economic sovereignty." — Modibo Keïta The Revolutionary Schoolmaster Modibo Keïta didn’t rise to power through the barrel of a gun. He came with a book in one hand and socialism in the other. A teacher by training, a revolutionary by necessity, Keïta led Mali through one of the most... Continue Reading →
Part I: From the Colony to the Union Hall — The Early Life and Political Formation of Ahmed Sékou Touré Ahmed Sékou Touré was born on January 9, 1922, in Faranah, a modest town along the Niger River in what was then French Guinea. The grandson of Samory Touré—the legendary West African resistance fighter who... Continue Reading →
"There is no contradiction between the bullet and the ballot when the people are fighting for their lives."— Dr. John GarangThe Rebel Who Refused to Be DividedJohn Garang was not the West’s ideal African leader. He was too educated, too disciplined, too pan-African. A Ph.D. from Iowa State University and a battlefield general in Sudan’s... Continue Reading →
Education as Liberation or DomesticationPaulo Freire is often cited, rarely read, and even more rarely understood. Stripped of his radicalism by liberal educators and neoliberal institutions, he has been sanitized into a harmless champion of “critical thinking.” But Freire was no liberal. He was a revolutionary—an insurgent thinker who understood that education is never neutral.... Continue Reading →
When Study Becomes a Weapon Walter Rodney was not a university intellectual. He was a guerrilla scholar. A revolutionary historian. A Black radical who understood that knowledge—real knowledge—is a tool of class struggle. From the lecture hall to the sugarcane field, Rodney refused to separate theory from practice. His work was not designed for tenure,... Continue Reading →
A Revolutionary Forged in FireSamora Machel was not merely the first president of independent Mozambique—he was its uncompromising revolutionary architect. Trained in medicine, hardened in war, and guided by Marxism-Leninism, Machel led the people’s liberation army not just to defeat Portuguese colonialism, but to destroy the colonial state in its entirety.He was no puppet of... Continue Reading →
"Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven… but woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation." — Yeshua ben Yosef (Luke 6:20, 24) The Radical from Nazareth Yeshua ben Yosef—known to most as Jesus—was not the blond-haired pacifist of Renaissance paintings or the domesticated prophet of American... Continue Reading →
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