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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.
List of contents
1 Decolonisation and the Decline of the 'Bandung Spirit'
2 From Black Studies to Afro-pessimism: The Making of an Anti-politics
3 Racial Capitalism and the Afterlives of Slavery
4 Négritude and the (Mal)practice of Diaspora
5 Whose Fanon? On Blackness and National Liberation
6 Neo-colonialism, or, The Emptiness of Bearing One's Flag
7 Remnants of Red Africa
About the author
Kevin Ochieg Okoth is a writer and researcher based in London. He is part of the Salvage Editorial Collective and is a regular contributor to the
London Review of Books. He holds an MPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford and regularly participates in conferences, speaking on themes related to anti-imperialism and twentieth century anti-colonial movements. He is a founding editor of Nommo Mag.
Report
Provocative and polemical, Red Africa probes the limits of contemporary discourses of Black Studies and returns to the neglected histories of Marxism on the continent, finding resources for charting new emancipatory futures. Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
