"Truth Is On The Side Of the Oppressed." – Malcolm X
Part I: From Martinique to Blida – A Rebel Mind in the Making Frantz Fanon was not born into revolution. He was born into colonial contradiction. In 1925, under the shadow of French imperialism, Fanon came screaming into the world in Fort-de-France, Martinique—a so-called "overseas department" that was in reality a Black colony governed by... Continue Reading →
Maurice Bishop: The People’s Prime Minister of the Caribbean Prologue: A Revolutionary Cut Down, A Flame That Never Died In 1983, a Black socialist leader named Maurice Bishop was lined up against a wall by a U.S.-backed faction and gunned down. He was unarmed. He was beloved. And he had just begun building what many... Continue Reading →
Daniel Ortega: The Man Who Walked With Sandino’s Ghost Prologue: Sandino Never Died Augusto César Sandino was executed by the U.S.-backed Somoza regime in 1934, but he never truly died. He lived in the hills of Las Segovias. In the machete songs of the peasantry. In the anti-imperialist speeches smuggled from Havana. In the whispers... Continue Reading →
Prologue: The Man They Couldn’t Control Before the bombs. Before the lies. Before the bayonet and the betrayal, Muammar Gaddafi was a barefoot boy in the red sands of Sirte, raised under a sky scorched by empire. He lived in a tent. He read the Quran by lamplight. He watched colonial soldiers parade through his... Continue Reading →
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 →
