Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics

Excavating the history of Marxism and Black revolutionary politics <i>Red Africa </i>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'.<br><br> The politics of Black revolutionary writers Eduardo Mondlane, Amílcar Cabral, Walter Rodney and Andrée 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. <i>Red Africa</i> is a political project that hopes to salvage what remains of this tradition.

• | Author: Kevin Ochieng Okoth
• | Publisher: Verso Books
• | Publication Date: Oct 03, 2023
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781839767371
• | ISBN-10: 1839767375