Welcome to the third installment of Ready for Revolution: A Digital study guide to raise our collective consciousness. This weeks subject matter is Pan-Africanism, undoubtedly a favorite here at The Ginger Root. You may notice there are less recommendations for this study area compared to previous installments; this is because much of the previous recommendations also fall under this category! Pan-Africanism IS and SHOULD be wide reaching! Below are study questions, and subsequently the recommendations. As usual, at the end there is a visual representation of this installments recs.
Study questions
- Why is it crucial to globalize the Black liberation struggle?
- What similarities are present in African struggle across the diaspora?
- How can we build diasporic connectivity?
- How can I tap into this struggle? What can I contribute?
Books
- Decolonial Marxism – Walter Rodney
- Stokely Speaks: From Black Power to Pan Africanism – Stokely Charmichal (Kwame Ture)
- Pan Africanism: A History – Hakim Adi
- Return to the Source – Amilcar Cabral
- We Are the Heirs of the World’s Revolutions – Thomas Sankara
- Class Struggle in Africa – Kwame Nkrumah
- Toward the African Revolution – Frantz Fanon
- Pan Africanism or Communism – George Padmore
- Wretched of the Earth – Frantz Fanon
- White Malice: The CIA and Covert Recolonization of Africa – Susan Williams
- Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head – Warsan Shire
- Black Skin White Masks – Frantz Fanon
- Neo Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism – Kwame Nkrumah
Films/documentaries/videos
- Footprints of Pan Africanism (documentary)
- I Bring What I love (documentary)
- Lumumba (film)
- Unconscious to Consciousness speech by Kwame Ture (video)
Other resources
- Africa World Now Project (website/YouTube channel)
- I Mix What I Like (website)
- Afro Marxist (YouTube channel)
- Black Liberation Media (YouTube channel
- Hood Communist Radio (podcast)