African Revolutionary Writers

African Revolutionary Writers

Comrades of the CU Africa Forum,

I am compiling a new series on African Revolutionary Writers.

It will be channelled through the CU Africa Forum in due course. First, it will go out as work-in-progress to the Communist University list (read it on the blog if you wish, here).

Please send any suggestions of other authors to include, and if possible, texts, be they articles, speeches, links to pages on the Internet, or text files.

Here is the African Revolutionary Writers list as it is at present. Click on the names for further information (mostly from Wikpedia).

Name	Dates	Main Candidate Text	Date
Olaudah Equiano	1745 - 1797	Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano	1789
Toussaint L’ouverture	1743 - 1803	Haiti Constitution	1801
Frederick Douglass	1818 - 1895	My Bondage and My Freedom	1855
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje	1876 - 1932	Native Life in South Africa	1916
George Padmore	1903 - 1959	What Must Be Done?	1931
Moses Mauane Kotane	1905 - 1978	Cradock Letter	1934
CLR James	1901 - 1989	Notes on Dialectics	1948
Gamal Abdel Nasser	1918 - 1970	Memoirs of 1st Palestine War	1955
Paul Robeson	1898 - 1976	Here I Stand	1958
WEB Du Bois	1868 - 1963	Africa in Battle Against Colonialism	1960
Albert Luthuli	1898 - 1967	Peace Prize acceptance	1960
Ousmane Sembene	1923 - 2007	God’s Bits of Wood	1960
Patrice Lumumba	1925 - 1961	Speech in front of Baudouin	1960
Frantz Fanon	1925 - 1961	The Wretched of the Earth	1961
Govan Mvuyelwa Mbeki	1910 - 2001	The Peasants Revolt	1964
Kwame Nkrumah	1909 - 1972	Neo-Colonialism, Last Stage of Imperialism	1965
Oginga Odinga	1911 - 1994	Not Yet Uhuru	1967
Martin Luther King	1929 - 1968	Beyond Vietnam	1967
Ayi Kwei Armah	1939 -	The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born	1968
Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane	1920 - 1969	The Struggle for Mozambique	1969
Oliver Tambo	1917 - 1993	Speeches ex ANC web site	1970
Malcolm X	1925 - 1965	By Any Means Necessary	1970
Alex La Guma	1925 - 1985	In the Fog of the Season’s End	1972
Ngugi wa Thiong’o	1938 -	Homecoming	1972
Henry Winston	1911 - 1986	Strategy for a Black Agenda	1973
Walter Rodney	1942 - 1980	How Europe Undeveloped Africa	1973
Agostinho Neto	1922 - 1979	Sacred Hope	1974
Julius Kambarage Nyerere	1922 - 1999	Freedom and Development	1974
Samora Machel	1933 - 1986	Sowing the Seeds of Revolution	1974
Sékou Touré	1922 - 1984	Strategy and tactics of the revolution	1978
Bantu Stephen Biko	1946 - 1977	I Write What I Like	1978
Amilcar Cabral	1924 - 1973	Unity and Struggle	1980
Cheikh Anta Diop	1923 - 1986	Civilisation or Barbarism	1981
Angela Davis	1944 -	Women, Race and Class	1981
Ruth First	1925 - 1982	Mozambican Miner: Proletarian and Peasant	1983
Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo	1955 - 1991	Cooking the rice inside the pot	1985
Thomas Sankara	1949 - 1987	Thomas Sankara Speaks	1987
Albert Memmi	1920 -	Coloniser and colonised	1991
Mahmood Mamdani	1947 -	Citizen and Subject	1996
Issa Shivji	1946 -	The Struggle for Democracy	2003
Samir Amin	1931 -	The American Ideology	2004
Ahmed Ben Bella	1918 -	Liberation still unachieved	2006
Muammar Gadaffi	1942 -	The One-State Solution	2009

  

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Image: Amilcar Cabral

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