13 best-selling nonfiction books like Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah

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Class Struggle in Africa

By: Kwame Nkrumah

4.40

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-col…

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1. The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

By: Audre Lorde

4.35

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

The Black Unicorn is a collection of poems by a woman who, Adrienne Rich writes, "for the complexit… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
"[…] your smile has been to war"

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"I have died too many deaths that were not mine."

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"Our labor has become more important than our silence."

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

"and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we are silent we are still afraid So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive"

-Audre Lorde, The Black Unicorn: Poems (Norton Paperback)

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2. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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3. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.37

Format: 32 pages, Library Binding

Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happin… read more

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"Would you walk away from Omelas?"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

"Of course I didn’t read James and sit down and say, Now I’ll write a story about that “lost soul."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

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4. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

By: bell hooks

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between variou… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

By: Audre Lorde

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction

6. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

By: Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: There are Alternate Cover Editions for this edition of this book . In this pathb… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. Assata: An Autobiography

By: Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) lay in a hospital, close to deat… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

By: C.L.R. James

4.55

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A classic and impassioned account of the first revolution in the Third World. This powerful, intens… read more

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  • politics
  • race
  • history
  • nonfiction

9. A Small Place

By: Jamaica Kincaid

4.02

Format: None pages,

Lyrical, sardonic, and forthright, A Small Placemagnifies our vision of one small place with Swifti… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

10. Thinking in Systems: A Primer

By: Donella H. Meadows , None

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Meadows' Thinking in Systems, is a concise and crucial book offering insight for problem solving on… read more

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11. Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

By: Thomas Sankara , None

5.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

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12. Tar Baby

By: Toni Morrison

4.22

Format: 649 pages, Paperback

Ravishingly beautiful and emotionally incendiary, Tar Babyis Toni Morrison's reinvention of the lov… read more

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13. Discourse on Colonialism

By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more

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14. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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15. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

By: Mildred D. Taylor

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Why is the land so important to Cassie's family? It takes the events of one turbulent year—the year… read more

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"Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out."

-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

"It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there’s gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not."

-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

"As soon as we were outside, I whipped my hand from his. 'What's the matter with you? You know he was wrong.' Stacey swallowed to flush his anger, then said gruffly, "I know it, and you know it, but h…"

-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

"Biting the hand that feeds you, that's what you're doing Mary Logan, biting the hand that feeds you.' Again Mama laughed, 'If that's the case, Daisy, I don't think I need that little bit of food.' Wi…"

-Mildred D. Taylor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)

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16. Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

By: Vladimir Lenin

4.23

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitali… read more

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  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"Crises of every kind — economic crises more frequently, but not only these — in their turn increase very considerably the tendency towards concentration and monopoly."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"At the basis of these swindles and manipulations lies socialised production; but the immense progress of humanity, which achieved this socialisation, goes to benefit the speculators."

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"But suppose, for the sake of argument, free competition, without any sort of monopoly, would develop capitalism trade more rapidly. Is it not a fact that the more rapidly trade and capitalism develop…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

"As long as capitalism remains what it is, surplus capital will never be utilised for the purpose of raising the standard of living of the masses in a given country, for this would mean a decline in p…"

-Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism

17. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement

By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more

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18. Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

By: Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

4.00

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

A powerful indictment of the ways elites have co-opted radical critiques of racial capitalism to se… read more

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  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • nonfiction
"A philosopher Briana Toole clarifies, by itself, one's social location only puts a person in a position to know; 'epistemic privilege' or advantage, on the other hand, is achieved only through delibe…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"Elites do often make the environment worse and block solutions, but to blame the problem of elite capture entirely on their moral successes and failures is to confuse effect for cause. The true probl…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"To opt for deference, rather than interdependence, may soothe short-term psychological wounds. But it does so at a steep cost: it may undermine the goals that motivated the project--and it entrenches…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

"As Carter G. Woodson realized, many of our decisions are shaped by decisions that someone with more power made before us. The whole social structure affects how institutional systems, like schools, f…"

-Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)

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19. We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

By: Mariame Kaba

4.67

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"Organizing is both science and art. It is thinking through a vision, a strategy, and then figuring… read more

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  • theory
  • politics
  • race
  • nonfiction
"That does not mean, however, there should be no consequences. It means real consequences. Consequences that really matter. It means transforming the conditions that exist in the first place for this …"

-Mariame Kaba, We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

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20. Class Struggle in Africa

By: Kwame Nkrumah

4.40

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-col… read more

Similar categories in Kwame Nkrumah's Class Struggle in Africa book and Kwame Nkrumah's Class Struggle in Africa

  • africa
  • race
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • political science
  • nonfiction
  • african literature
  • social issues
  • economics
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21. Black Africa: The Economic and Cultural Basis for a Federated State

By: Cheikh Anta Diop

4.58

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

This expanded edition continues Diop's campaign for the political and economic unification of the n… read more

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  • africa
  • race
  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • african literature
  • economics

10 must-read history books like Class Struggle in Africa by Kwame Nkrumah

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism

bell hooks

3.91

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Noam Chomsky , Edward S. Herman

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Assata: An Autobiography

Angela Y. Davis , Assata Shakur , Lennox S. Hinds

4.80

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15 Top history books like The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution by C.L.R. James

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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding

4.42

Transform Your Habits

The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Howard Zinn , Vijay Prashad

4.10

Transform Your Habits

The Wretched of the Earth

Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

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A Dying Colonialism

Frantz Fanon , Haakon Chevalier

4.02

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