Red Africa - Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics

Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anticolonial struggles in Africa. Contemporary debates on Black radicalism and decolonisation have lost sight of the concerns that animated their twentieth-century intellectual forebears. Okoth responds, challenging the claim that Marxism and Black radicalism are incompatible and showing that both are embraced in the anti-imperialist tradition he calls 'Red Africa'.The politics of Black revolutionary writers Eduardo Mondlane, Amilcar Cabral, Walter Rodney and Andree Blouin gesture toward a decolonised future that never materialised - instead it was betrayed, violently sup- pressed, or erased. We might yet build something new from the ruins of national liberation, something which sustains the utopian promise of freedom and refuses to surrender. Red Africa is a political project that hopes to salvage what remains of this tradition.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Ochieng Okoth, Kevin Ochieng Okoth
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.10.2023
• EAN: 9781839767371
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-737-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Salvage Editions
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Political science & theory, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Political science and theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Marxism & Communism