https://archive.org/details/officer-down

OFFICER DOWN by @no_slave_coasts

Topics
#FTP, #ACAB, #BobbyShmurda, #ShmoneyDance, #HotNigga, #officerdown, #agitprop, #агитпроп

source: twitter account @no_slave_coasts

https://archive.org/details/rhode-island

The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 by Jay Coughtry

Topics
#slavetrade, #blackchattelslavery, #slavery, #rhodeisland, #rhodeislandandprovidenceplantations, #britishimperialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #whitesupremacy

published in Philadelphia by Temple University Press

https://archive.org/details/africanwomen

African Women in Revolution by Wunyabari O. Maloba

Topics
#Africa, #Africanhistory, #antiimperialism, #armedstruggle, #antiblackness, #anticolonialism, #nationalliberation, #Algeria, #Kenya, #GuineaBissau, #revolution, #Mozambique, #Angola, #Zimbabwe, #SouthAfrica, #history, #feminism, #decolonisation, #womensliberation, #guerrillawarfare, #genderhistory

"This book is an ambitious, extensive and detailed analysis of the roles played by African women in seven revolutionary movements in post World War II Africa. The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in: Algeria, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The book describes and analyzes the nature and impact of women's participation in these revolutionary movements. How did these revolutionary movements define women's liberation? What is the linkage between feminist theories of liberation and national liberation? Did the national liberation movements betray women? And what has been the fate of the original commitments (and impulses) toward women's liberation and gender equality?"

https://archive.org/details/jamaica_essays

Essays on Power and Change in Jamaica by Carl Stone; Aggrey Brown; Peter Phillips; Stanley Reid; Don Robotham; Rupert Lewis; Claremont Kirton; Ralph Gonsalves; Donald J. Harris

Topics
#Jamaica, #Caribbean, #history, #economics, #socialsciences, #imperialism, #britishcolonialism, #unions, #tradeunionism, #bauxite, #agriculture, #neocolonialism, #massmedia, #nationalism, #Blacknationalism, #antiblackness

Jamaica Publishing House

https://archive.org/details/BLA-history

Thomas McCreary - Black Liberation Army History by Field Up Productions; Thomas McCreary

Topics
#ThomasMcCreary, #BlackLiberationArmy, #armedstruggle, #guerrillawarfare, #urbanguerrillawarfare, #urbanguerrillas, #unitedstatesofamerika, #history, #interview, #interviews

original YouTube upload here.

https://archive.org/details/walterrodney

Walter Rodney, un historien engagé (1942-1980) by Amzat Boukari-Yabara

Topics
#WalterRodney, #Guyana, #Guyanesehistory, #PanAfricanism, #Guyane, #Panafricanisme, #biography, #biographies, #Africanhistory, #Tanzania, #Caribbean, #revolutionaries, #marxism, #marxists, #marxisme, #biographie, #historians, #histoireAfricaine, #historiens, #colonialism, #neocolonialism, #néocolonialisme, #britishcolonialism, #anticolonialism, #anticolonialisme, #Tanzanie, #Caraïbe, #Caraïbes, #Caribbeanhistory, #histoiredesCaraïbes

Ce livre analyse la vie et l’œuvre de l’historien et homme politique de Guyana, Walter Rodney (1942-1980), ses années de formation, ses influences, son idéologie, et son action politique.

Alors que Rodney a fait l’objet d’une demi-douzaine de monographies en anglais, cet ouvrage est le premier travail en français consacré à cet historien anglophone. Il s’adresse autant à un public universitaire travaillant sur les mondes africains qu’à un public « militant » engagé sur les questions de développement et de luttes sociales.

https://archive.org/details/capitalismecameroun

Capitalisme et nationalisme au Cameroun: au lendemain de la seconde guerre mondiale (1946-1956) by Martin-René Atangana

Topics
#Cameroon, #Cameroun, #Kamerun, #Africa, #Afrique, #colonialism, #colonialisme, #nationalism, #nationalisme, #WorldWar2, #WorldWarII, #independence, #politicalindependence, #guerrillawarfare, #UPC, #UniondespopulationsduCameroun, #Françafrique

Publications de la Sorbonne, Série Afrique, 9

https://archive.org/details/mwendamoupouvava

Mwen damou pou Vava by Dany Laferrière; Frédéric Normandin; Antoine Lyonel Trouillot

Topics
#Haiti, #HaitianCreole, #KreyòlAyisyen, #TiGwav, #PetitGoâve, #childrensbooks, #booksforchildren, #creole, #kreyòl, #Vava, #VyeZo, #fiction

ISBN 1584324023
EDUCA Vision Inc.
Coconut Creek, Florida, Caribbean

https://archive.org/details/black-rebellion-in-barbados

Black Rebellion In Barbados: The Struggle Against Slavery, 1627-1838 by Hilary Beckles

Topics
#Barbados, #Bajan, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #slaverebellions, #slaveuprisings, #slaverevolts, #revolt, #rebellion, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #Caribbean, #Caribbeanhistory, #abolition, #frontiersocieties, #creolization, #creole, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #britishempire, #slavetrade, #laborhistory, #counterinsurgency

"This year (1984) marks the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the formal abolition of slavery in the English-speaking Caribbean and this work is intended to commemorate the occasion.

Finally, the most detailed research to date of the 1816 slave rebellion and its impactupon the emancipation debate is presented, which suggests that Barbadian slaves, like their counterparts in Demerara and Jamaica who rebelled in 1823 and 1831 respectively, were saying to their owners and the Imperial government, you will either grant us our freedom by law or force us to make it by war. This work is a polemical account of the changing relationships between maturing black radical consciousness and white power in Barbados during the slavery period. It goes a long way towards assisting the process of decolonising the island's general Eurocentric historiography."

(from the back cover)

https://archive.org/details/frenchsugar/

The French Sugar Business in the Eighteenth Century by Robert Louis Stein

Topics
#blackchattelslavery, #france, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #economics, #history, #Caribbean, #sugar, #sugarplantations, #Guadeloupe, #Haiti, #saintdomingue, #Martinique, #Tobago, #SaintLucia, #StLucia, #Guiana, #frenchGuyana, #Guyane, #sugarcane, #Antilles

Plantations in the French Antilles (principally in Haiti) became major sugar producers in the 18th century, and France became a main distributor to other European countries. Stein provides a clear and coherent (if sometimes repetitious) explanation of the three-pronged trade; ships from France carried slaves from Africa to the Antilles, and then returned to Europe with sugar. The slaves, most of whom died of disease and overwork, were victims of the French sugar trade.

https://archive.org/details/africville

Africville by Shauntay Grant; Eva Campbell

Topics
#Africville, #kanada, #childrensbooks, #booksforchildren, #historicalfiction, #genocide, #antiblackness, #novascotia, #halifax, #bedfordbasin, #klanada

from the publisher:

https://archive.org/details/stateagainstnation

Haiti, State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Topics
#Haiti, #Haïti, #Ayiti, #Duvalier, #Duvaliers, #Duvalierism, #Duvalierisme, #PapaDoc, #BabyDoc, #FrançoisDuvalier, #JeanClaudeDuvalier, #imperialism, #noirism, #noirisme, #antiblackness, #history, #Haitianhistory, #historyofHaiti, #colorism, #antiblackness, #capitalism, #Caribbean, #anticommunism, #nationalism, #stateterror

"In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti’s hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a historical nightmare created by the malevolent minds of the leaders and their supporters. Yet the crisis, economic and political, that faces this small Caribbean nation did not begin with the dictatorship, and is far from being solved, despite its departure from the scene. In this fascinating study, Haitian-born Michel-Rolph Trouillot examines the mechanisms through which the Duvaliers ruthlessly won and then held onto power for twenty-nine years."

https://archive.org/details/europeanimperialism

Historical Dictionary of European Imperialism by James S. Olson; Robert Shadle; Ross Marlay; William G. Ratliff; Joseph M. Rowe, Jr.; Judith E. Olson; J. Larry Murdock

Topics
#imperialism, #europe, #history, #colonialism, #dictionaries, #historicaldictionaries, #spanishempire, #spanishimperialism, #spanishcolonialism, #portugueseempire, #portugueseimperialism, #portuguesecolonialism, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #britishimperialism, #britishcolonialism, #britishempire, #dutchempire, #dutchimperialism, #dutchcolonialism, #frenchempire, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #germanempire, #germanimperialism, #germancolonialism, #belgianempire, #belgianimperialism, #belgiancolonialism, #italianempire, #italianimperialism, #italiancolonialism, #genocide, #spain, #portugal, #britain, #greatbritain, #unitedkingdom, #españa, #thenetherlands, #netherlands, #nederland, #holland, #france, #germany, #deutschland, #belgium, #belgië, #belgique, #belgien, #italy, #italia, #empire, #empires, #whitesupremacy

The major focus of this historical dictionary is on the Spanish, Portuguese, British, Dutch, French, German, Belgian, and Italian empires during the past 500 years.

https://archive.org/details/blackeurope

Black Europe and the African Diaspora by Darlene Clark Hine; Trica Danielle Keaton; Stephen Small; Allison Blakely; Dienke Hondius; Eileen Julien; Tina M. Campt; T. Sharpley-Whiting; Tiffany Ruby Patterson; Alessandra Di Maio; Fred Constant; Alexander G. Weheliye; Tyler Stovall; Jacqueline Nassy Brown; Kwame Nimako; Terri Francis; Michelle M. Wright; Gloria Wekker; Barnor Hesse

Topics
#europe, #BlacStudies, #antiblackness, #blackchattelslavery, #imperialism, #colonialism, #blackdiaspora, #AfroEurope, #netherlands, #nederland, #holland, #dutchcolonialism, #france, #frenchcolonialism, #italy, #italia, #italiancolonialism, #germany, #deutschland, #germancolonialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #blackeuropeans, #Afropean, #immigration, #migration, #immigrants, #xenophobia

This book collects multifaceted analyses of the Black diaspora in europe. “In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the contributors theorize and re-imagine a range of historical and contemporary issues related to the broader questions of blackness, diaspora, hegemony, transnationalism, and ‘Black Europe’ itself as lived and perceived realities.”

https://archive.org/details/charte-du-gong

Charte du GONG by Groupe pour l'Organisation Nationale de la Guadeloupe

Topics
#GONG, #GroupepourlOrganisationNationaledelaGuadeloupe, #Guadeloupe, #Caribbean, #nationalism, #independence, #independentists, #GONG, #Caribbean, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #france, #colonialisme, #colonialismefrançais, #Antillesfrançaises, #frenchantilles, #anticolonialism, #Caraïbes, #charte, #organizationalcharter, #imperialismefrançais, #indépendance, #leGONG, #indépendantiste

Fuck france

https://archive.org/details/menalamba0en

The Rising of the Red Shawls: A Revolt in Madagascar 1895-1899 by Stephen Ellis

Topics
#Madagascar, #Malagasy, #Merina, #Merinaempire, #Imerina, #france, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #revolt, #rebellion, #insurrection, #christianity, #menalamba, #war, #imperialism, #colonialwars, #historyofAfrica, #Africanhistory, #IndianOcean

Cambridge University Press: African Studies Series, volume 43

https://archive.org/details/albizucampos

Albizu Campos: Puerto Rican Revolutionary by Federico Ribes Tovar; Anthony Rawlings

Topics
#PedroAlbizuCampos, #biography, #PuertoRico, #Boricua, #PuertoRicannationalism, #independence, #armedstruggle, #luchaarmada, #imperialism, #colonialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #antiblackness, #PuertoRicanNationalistParty, #PuertoRicanindependence, #independentistas, #PartidoNacionalistadePuertoRico, #PNPR, #insurrection, #insurreción, #GritodeJayuya, #JayuyaUprising

PLUS ULTRA • Puerto Rican Heritage Series, #1

source: Freedom Archives

https://archive.org/details/nolutshungu_chad

Limits of Anarchy: Intervention and State Formation in Chad by Sam C. Nolutshungu

Topics
#Chad, #Tchad, #unitedstatesofamerika, #france, #Libya, #Nigeria, #militaryintervention, #foreignintervention, #civilwar, #war, #historyofAfrica, #Africanhistory, #Sahel, #UnitedNations, #UN, #ONU, #colonialism, #neocolonialism, #françafrique, #wars, #FROLINAT, #FrontdelibérationnationaleduTchad, #NationalLiberationFrontofChad, #GUNT, #GouvernementdUnionNationaledeTransition, #TransitionalGovernmentofNationalUnity, #OAU, #Organisationdelunitéafricaine, #OrganizationofAfricanUnity

Carter G. Woodson Institute Series in Black Studies
The University Press of Virginia

https://archive.org/details/ghanarevolution

Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution by C. L. R. James

Topics
#KwameNkrumah, #Ghana, #goldcoast, #revolution, #Africanhistory, #historyofAfrica, #PanAfricanism, #GeorgePadmore, #urbanization, #britishcolonialism, #britishimperialism, #proletarianization, #decolonization, #anticolonialism, #PanAfricanism, #marxism, #leninism, #socialism

A collection of essays written over a span of two decades.

https://archive.org/details/profiles_in_courage

Profiles in Courage by Carl Donofrio; Joe Fahey; Holly Frances; Andreas Digiorgio-Haag; Melody Corvid

Topics
#Facebook, #AskforPDFsfromPeoplewithInstitutionalAccess, #whitesupremacy, #antiblackness, #comments, #facebookcomments, #socialmedia

a moving, powerful, and relevant testament to the indomitable spirit and an unparalleled celebration of noble virtues. timeless lessons on the most cherished of virtues and a powerful reminder of the strength of the spirit. not just stories of the past but hope and confidence for the future.

https://archive.org/details/tanzania_debate

The Debate by Yash Tandon; A.M. Babu; V.I. Lenin; Mao Tsetung; Peter Meyns; Mahmood Mamdani; H. Bhagat; Dan Wadada Nabudere; Karim Hirji; A.B. Kayonga; S.M. Magara; Issa G. Shivji; Omwony-Ojwok; Joakim Mwami; Takyiwaa Manuh; Sipula Kabanje; Obeid Mkama; Ole Parsalaw; F.L.N. Lupa; A Student of the Professor; H. Saliwawa; J. Shao; Rohini Banaji

Topics
#imperialism, #underdevelopment, #Tanzania, #EastAfrica, #Africa, #neocolonialism, #thestate, #class, #nationalism, #antiimperialism, #socialism, #marxism, #marxismleninism, #independence, #race, #economics, #classstruggle

A debate, compiled and published by Tanzania Publishing House, on imperialism and class struggle in Africa.

https://archive.org/details/legendedesloa

La Légende des Loa: Vodou Haïtien by Déita (Mercédes Foucard Guignard)

Topics
#vodou, #vodouHaïtien, #voodoo, #Haitianvoodoo, #vodun, #loa, #Haiti, #légendes, #histoire, #spiritualité, #Ayiti

Le peuple haïtien, comme tous les peuples de la terre, a son propre univers spirituel, peuplé d'entités dont l'essence ne se laisse pas connaitre avec autant de facilité que les réalités matérielles. "La Légende des Loa du Vodou Haïtien" est un voyage à travers les péristyles du pays et des rencontres inespérées avec des initiés nous parlant de leur monde intime.

https://archive.org/details/natali_woman

Natali by Lochard Noel

Topics
#HaitianCreole, #KreyòlAyisyen, #woman, #roman, #novel, #fiction, #creole, #kreyòl, #Etazini, #Ayisyen, #immigration, #emigration, #migration, #unitedstatesofamerika, #Haiti, #Ayiti

“NATALI se istwa tout Ayisyen ki te oblije kite Ayiti, peyi yo, pou yo vin viv Ozetazini. Anpil nan yo gen yon rèv, yo vle travay pou bay rèv la fòm, ba rèv la sans pou transfòme l an reyalite.

NATALI se istwa yon ti emigre Ayisyen ki soti nan yon fanmi ‘Boat People’ ki vin Ozetazini ak pòch li vid men ak tèt li plen pwojè, ak kè li plen espwa ak detèminasyon. Se espwa ak detèminasyon sa yo ki pral ede l travè se epi ranvèse tout baryè… kèlkeswa koulè, kèlkeswa fòm baryè sa yo te ka pran.”

ISBN 1584321474
EDUCA Vision Inc.
Coconut Creek, Florida, Caribbean

https://archive.org/details/Sulwe

Sulwe by Lupita Nyong'o; Vashti Harrison

Topics
#colorism, #misogynoir, #antiblackness, #childrensbooks, #booksforchildren, #fiction

“Sulwe has skin the color of midnight. She is darker than everyone in her family. She is darker than anyone in her school. Sulwe just wants to be beautiful and bright, like her mother and sister. Then a magical journey in the night sky opens her eyes and changes everything.”

https://archive.org/details/exile2p

Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900 by Alice Bullard

Topics
#Kanak, #Kanaky, #genocide, #france, #frenchrevolution, #pariscommune, #newcaledonia, #colonization, #indigenouspeoples, #antiblackness, #southpacific, #exile, #whitesupremacy, #Melanesia, #history, #frenchimperialism, #frenchcolonialism, #thirdrepublic, #communards, #colonizers, #war, #paris, #savagery, #penalcolony, #penalcolonies, #Melanesians

According to the poet Victor Hugo, the year 1870/71 was France's année terrible. The country suffered a humiliating defeat by the Prussian military, and Parisians endured a cruel siege. In the wake of the siege, Paris exploded and revolutionaries proclaimed the birth of the Paris Commune.

The conservative government of the young Third Republic portrayed the Communards as savage destroyers of civilization. The Communards were depicted as plagued by original sin, the evil nature of fallen man, and atavistic degeneration.

These alleged traits aligned them with non-white peoples who were commonly thought to be severed from justice, liberty, and divine love. The punishment of the Communards was an odd one; some 4,500 revolutionaries were exiled to the South Pacific colony of New Caledonia with the hope that the inherent truths of nature would instill in their minds a natural morality.

However, the French government had not sufficiently considered the presence of the indigenous people of these "wilderness islands," the Melanesian Kanak. If the Communards were to be moralized by New Caledonia, how was it that the Kanak—who had lived for thousands of years on this land—did not also profit from this moralizing influence? This was just the first paradox provoked by the deportation of Parisian "political savages" to the land of these "natural savages." The surprising parallels and interactions between the Melanesians and the Parisians in their confrontation with the forces of French civilization form the substance of this book. It explores such themes as the history of the self, moralization as a means to civilization, nostalgia as a fatal illness, and colonial humanitarianism and gendered hybridity.

https://archive.org/details/terrorismindustry

The “Terrorism” Industry: The Experts and Institutions That Shape Our View of Terror by Edward S. Herman; Gerry O'Sullivan

Topics
#terrorism, #anticommunism, #fascism, #conservatism, #rightwing, #media, #massmedia, #antiblackness, #thinktanks, #NGOs, #nonprofits, #nonprofitindustrialcomplex, #terrorists, #propaganda, #unitedstatesofamerika, #whitesupremacy, #politicalviolence, #militaryindustrialcomplex

What is a terrorist act? The authors argue that experts on the subject hold imperialist views biased in favor of the status quo or government perspectives. The biases are largely a product of the “terrorism industry” that has grown up in response to government funding, which includes networks of government agencies, think tanks, and private security firms. The mass media also have a big role in promoting terrorist stereotypes, often missing a balanced perspective on a “terrorist” act. The authors also discuss the historical uses of stereotyping threatening groups.

https://archive.org/details/whoswhoincia0en

Who's Who in CIA: A biographical reference work on 3,000 officers of the civil and military branches of the secret services of the USA in 120 countries by Julius Mader; Mohamed Abdelnabi; Ambalal Bhatt; Fernando Gamarra; Shozo Ohashi

Topics
#CIA, #CentralIntelligenceAgency, #DIA, #DefenseIntelligenceAgency, #USIA, #UnitedStatesInformationAgency, #DepartmentofState, #StateDepartment, #FBI, #FederalBureauofInvestigation, #NSA, #NationalSecurityAgency, #SecretService, #OSS, #OfficeofStrategicServices, #USForeignService, #UnitedStatesForeignService, #AgencyforInternationalDevelopment, #USAID, #PeaceCorps, #MilitaryIntelligenceService, #G2, #A2, #AirStaff2, #AdmiralStaff2, #AIS, #AirIntelligenceService, #CIC, #CounterIntelligenceCorps, #GeneralStaff2, #MIS, #NationalSecurityCouncil, #NSC, #OfficeofNavalIntelligence, #ONI, #intelligenceagencies, #counterintelligence, #covertaction, #CIAagents, #CIAofficers, #spies, #anticommunism, #covertoperations, #imperialism, #unitedstatesofamerika, #ColdWar, #neocolonialism

from the foreword:

“The rulers of the USA are, of course, extremely interested in keeping the mantle of secrecy over their intelligence network. This mantle has been torn aside in not a few cases in recent months. The CIA answered by tightening up their secrecy directives and also by improving their cloak and dagger rules. The ‘invisible government’ shall have neither names nor faces.

For this reason the time appeared to have come to demask a first representative selection of leading officials and officers, collaborators and agents of the US intelligence services who are operating on five continents.”

https://archive.org/details/whoswhoincia0de

Who's who in CIA: Ein biographisches Nachschlagewerk über 3000 Mitarbeiter der zivilen und militärischen Geheindienst der USA in 120 Staaten by Julius Mader; Mohamed Abdelnabi; Ambalal Bhatt; Fernando Gamarra; Shozo Ohashi

Topics
#CIA, #CentralIntelligenceAgency, #DIA, #Verteidigungsnachrichtendienst, #USIA, #InformationsagenturderVereinigtenStaaten, #AußenministeriumderVereinigtenStaaten, #StateDepartment, #FBI, #BundesamtderErmittlung, #NSA, #NationaleSicherheitsbehörde, #SecretService, #OSS, #AmtfürstrategischeDienste, #USForeignService, #UnitedStatesForeignService, #BehördederVereinigtenStaatenfürinternationaleEntwicklung, #USAID, #PeaceCorps, #Friedenscorps, #MilitaryIntelligenceService, #G2, #A2, #AirStaff2, #AdmiralStaff2, #AIS, #AirIntelligenceService, #CIC, #Spionageabwehrkorps, #GeneralStaff2, #MIS, #NationalerSicherheitsratderVereinigtenStaaten, #NSC, #AmtfürMarinenachrichtendienstlicheAngelegenheiten, #ONI, #nachrichtendienste, #spionageabwehr, #CIAagents, #CIAofficers, #spione, #spioninnen, #antikommunismus, #verdeckteoperationen, #imperialismus, #vereinigtestaatenvonamerika, #KalterKrieg, #neokolonialismus

„Die Machthaber der USA sind selbstverständlich außerordentlich bemüht, den Mantel des Scheigens über ihr Geheindienstnetz zu breiten. Dieser Mantel ist in den letzten Monaten in nicht wenig Fällen zerrissen worden. Die CIA reagierte mit verschärften Geheimhaltungsdirektiven und verfeinerte ihre konspirativen Regeln: Die ‚unsichtbare Regierung‘ soll keine Namen und Gesichter haben.

Deshalb schien es an der Zeit, eine erste repräsentative Auswahl von leitenden Beamten und Offizieren, Mitarbeitern und Agenten des amerikanischen Geheimdienstes, die auf fünf Kontinenten eingesetzt sind, zu demaskieren.“

https://archive.org/details/theycalledusbrigands

They Called Us Brigands: The Saga of St. Lucia's Freedom Fighters by Robert J. Devaux; Patrick A.B. Anthony

Topics
#brigandage, #brigands, #Ioüanalao, #Iyonola, #Hewanarau, #Hewanorra, #StLucia, #SaintLucia, #LesserAntilles, #Caribbean, #Martinique, #Guadeloupe, #maroonage, #maroons, #marronage, #blackchattelslavery, #war, #guerrillawarfare, #guerrillawar, #guerrillas, #Caribbeanhistory, #NègMawon, #britishimperialism, #frenchimperialism, #colonialism

The Black freedom fighters of the Lesser Antilles became known as “brigands” during the french revolution. Their fascinating story has never been written, perhaps because they have been dismissed as runaway slaves in a state of insurrection. The author believed that history has been unfair to the “brigands”. He felt indebted to them for sparing the life of his great-great-great-grandmother who was left in their care when the rest of the Devaux family fled to Martinique for safety. His gratitude motivated him to attempt to exonerate the “brigands” from the stigma of their history and present them in a different light, as freedom fighters caught up in a desperate situation.

https://archive.org/details/lecongo

Un pays qui se déchirait : le Congo by Gladys Wenceslas Toudissa; Marie-Hélène Brion

Topics
#Congo, #leCongo, #CongoBrazzaville, #guerre, #guerredeBrazzaville, #histoire, #colonialisme, #néocolonialisme, #RepubilikayaKôngo, #RépubliqueduCongo, #RepublíkiyaKongó, #Brazzaville, #PointeNoire, #Niari, #Afrique, #histoiredelAfrique

L'auteur retrace dans ce livre l'histoire de Oasis, un jeune congolais qui a vécu toute son adolescence avec ses parents dans une ville qu'il sera obligé de quitter parce qu'il n'en était pas originaire. Gladys Wenceslas Toudissa, lui-même congolais d'origine, né à Kimongo dans la région du Niari, décrit avec hardiesse la cruauté des hommes pendant la guerre de Brazzaville en juxtaposant ces principaux troubles sociopolitiques que le Congo a connu depuis l'instauration de régime pluraliste.

Son vécu des années de guerre développe ici l'histoire d'un pays qui se déchirait et dénonce la violence des hommes politiques.

https://archive.org/details/leonieabo_fr

Abo: Une femme du Congo by Ludo Martens

Topics
#LéonieAbo, #Abo, #WassisHortenseLéonieAbo, #LeonieAbo, #leCongo, #Congo, #rébellionduKwilu, #républiquedémocratiqueduCongo, #CongoKinshasa, #RDC, #RepubilikayaKongoDemokratiki, #JamhuriyaKidemokrasiayaKongo, #RepublíkiyaKongóDemokratíki, #DitungadiaKonguwaMungalaata, #histoire, #biographie, #Afrique, #néocolonialisme, #histoiredelAfrique, #Kwilu

Éditions EPO / Éditions L'Harmattan
2872621032 / 2768434142

https://archive.org/details/jazz-funeral-for-uncle-tom

A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom by Harmony Holiday

Topics #artwriting, #prose, #poetry, #jazzfuneral, #jazzfunerals, #jazz, #Blackhistory, #musicalhistory, #historyofmusic, #ritual, #visualculture, #antiblackness, #culturalanalysis

Championing the tenderest of homicidal tendencies, a penchant for mercy killings and redemptive rites of passage, A Jazz Funeral for Uncle Tom is exactly what it announces it is, a book as dynamic and eternal event wherein a feminine voice leads her band of improvisers in a procession of joyous interrogation and forgiveness. This ritural is simultaneously a purging of any cowardly impulses in the speaker and in the culture she addresses and speaks as, and a releasing or banishing of unfit archetypes, readying the landscape for fresh forces by torching the weakest links in the prevailing mythos.

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dual-vector foil 2020 campaign poster

Topics #dualvectorfoil, #RemembranceofEarthsPast, #ThreeBodyProblem, #campaignposters, #elections, #2020elections, #2020campaignposters

an election campaign poster in a popular style of in the united states of amerika: red, white, & blue colors; large sans-serif lettering; & so on. the poster reads “DUAL-VECTOR FOIL 2020”, with the campaign slogan “FOR CLEANSING”.