This interview was taken from Black Agenda Report This book challenges the myth that 1994 was the turning point in South Africa – because the liberation process is unfinished. “Forced removals were not considered in the famous 1994 Truth and Reconciliation Process.” In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their […]
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Featured Book: Children of Sugarcane by Joanne Joseph
This review was written by Niren Tolsi and originally appeared on New Frame The new novel, Children of Sugarcane, reckons with the “colonial fingerprints” on our contemporary society, while providing a nuanced view of indenture and its afterlives. Joanne Joseph isn’t as tall as she appears on television. This is the first, and most banal, impression […]
Featured Book: Red Road To Freedom by Tom Lodge
This is a lightly edited excerpt from Jeremy Cronin’s review of Tom Lodge’s book Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party 1921–2021 (Jacana, 2021). This review was first published in the centenary edition of African Communist (Issue 205, Second and third quarters 2021). In late July 1921 a pioneer Communist Party of South Africa, later renamed […]
Featured book: Silvia Federici – Beyond the periphery of the skin
In a time of ecological crisis, it is unsurprising that questions of the body have become a focal point within contemporary radical politics. One of the great strengths of Silvia Federici’s peerless work in this regard is to remind us that bodies have multiple histories. There are the histories of techniques of capturing and disciplining […]
Featured book: Aaron Kamugisha – Beyond Coloniality
Featured Book: Kathryn Yusoff – A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Kathryn Yusoff’s A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None locates the origins of climate change in slavery while exploring the grammars of capture, extraction and displacement.