The human cost of Africa’s longstanding exploitation by foreign imperialist powers within the global capitalist economy are well documented, and today Africa is suffering under the disproportionate impact of the climate emergency. In this context, the imperative of anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist critique for a socialist African future has never been more urgent. Voices for African Liberation presents 38 interviews with African and Africanist socialists conducted by the Review of African Political Economy between 2015 and 2023, bringing to life older voices of liberation and lost radical histories alongside newer initiatives, projects, and activists who are engaged in the contemporary struggles to reshape Africa – to make, win, and sustain a revolutionary transformation in our devastated world.

Interviews in this collection include leading scholar-activists such as Samir Amin, Issa Shivji, and Hakim Adi, to significant national figures such as Guy Marius Sagna, Marjorie Mbilinyi, and Trevor Ngwane, to more local and less well-known activists and organic intellectuals such as Yusuf Serunkuma, Lena Anyuolo, and Bienvenu Matumo.

Part I: Lessons From the Past

1. John Saul (2015), “Life in a Struggle that Continues!”
2. Hakim Adi (2017), Pan-Africanism and Communism
3. Victoria Brittain (2023), Lives Invisible to Power
4. Jesse Benjamin (2020), A Life of Praxis with Walter Rodney
5. Anne Braithwaite (2021), Walter Rodney and the Working People’s Alliance
6. Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja (2021), A People’s Historian
7. Reinhart Kössler (2016), Namibia, Genocide and Germany
8. António Tomás (2023), Amílcar Cabral’s Life, Legacy and Reluctant Nationalism
9. Pascal Bianchini (2018), Senegal’s Street Fighting Years
10. Explo Nani-Kofi (2016), Rawlings and Radical Change in Ghana
11. Mosa Phadi (2018), Understanding Steve Biko
12. Tamás Szentes (2018), To be Bravely Critical of Reality
13. Frej Stambouli (2021), When I was a Student of Fanon
14. Jean Copans (2019), Radical Scepticism

Part II: Weapon of Theory

15. Samir Amin (2017), Revolutionary Change in Africa
16. Issa Shivji (2021), Let a Hundred
Socialist Flowers Bloom
17. Lena Anyuolo (2021), Politics,
Poetry and Struggle
18. Max Ajl (2021), A People’s Green New Deal
19. Ndongo Sylla (2022), Economics and Politics for Liberation
20. Tunde Zack-Williams (2021), Alternatives to Western Prescriptions
21. Lyn Ossome (2019), Talking Back
22. Hannah Cross (2021), Borders and Corporate Domination
23. Ray Bush (2022), Justice, Equality and Struggle
24. Yusuf Serunkuma (2021), Oil, Capitalists and the Wretched of Uganda
25. Nombuso Mathibela (2017), Protest, Racism and Gender in South Africa
26. David Seddon (2021), Riots, Protests and Global Adjustment

Part III: Militants at Work

27. Abioudun Olamosu (2017), Looking Back to Move Forward
28. Nnimmo Bassey (2021), Extraction-Driven Devastation
29. Bienvenu Matumo (2022), The Struggle for Change in the Congo
30. Trevor Ngwane (2016), South Africa’s Fork in the Road
31. Antonater Tafadzwa Choto (2016), Resistance, Crisis and Workers in Zimbabwe
32. Yao Graham (2016), Pan-African Challenges
33. Guy Marius Sagna (2021), Decolonising a Neo-Colony
34. Esther Stanford-Xosei (2022), Afrika and Reparations Activism in the UK
35. Femi Aborisade (2019), The Roots of the Crisis in Nigeria
36. Irene Asuwa and Cidi Otieno (2022), Imperialism and GMOs in Kenya
37. Habib Ayeb (2018), Food Sovereignty and the Environment
38. Marjorie Mbilinyi (2017), Gender and Politics in Africa

April 2024
532 pages, Ebb Books
Paperback 9781739985202
Ebook 9781739985295