Red Africa

Salvaging a decolonised future

Auteur

Kevin Ochieng Okoth is a writer and researcher based in London. He is part of the Salvage Editorial Collective and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books. He holds an MPhil in Political Theory from the University of Oxford and regularly participates in conferences, speaking on themes related to anti-imperialism and twentieth century anti-colonial movements. He is a founding editor of Nommo Mag.

Texte du rabat

We still have a lot to learn from the politics of Eduardo Mondlane, Amílcar Cabral, Walter Rodney, Andrée Blouin. We might yet build something new from their political thought, something which clings on to the utopian promise of freedom and refuses to let go.

‘Provocative and polemical, Red Africa probes the limits of contemporary discourses of Black studies and returns to the neglected histories of Marxism on the continent, finding resources for charting new emancipatory futures’

• Adom Getachew, author of Worldmaking after Empire

  ‘A fiercely argued case for looking to the anticolonialism and Marxism of Red Africa in our current engagements with decolonisation. Okoth’s critical assessment of certain variants of "decolonial studies" and "Afro-pessimism" is welcome’

• Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent Empire

  ‘This is an important defence of the emancipatory politics of Eduardo Mondlane, Amilcar Cabral, Frantz Fanon and Walter Rodney from the reactionary perspectives of Afro-pessimism and African nationalism, raising the question of whether things might indeed have turned out differently had radical women such as Andrée Blouin been more intimately connected with the struggle for self-determination’

• Firoze Manji, co-editor of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

Résumé
Excavating the history of Marxism and Black revolutionary politics

Contenu

1 Decolonisation and the Decline of the ‘Bandung Spirit’
2 From Black Studies to Afro-pessimism: The Making of an Anti-politics
3 Racial Capitalism and the Afterlives of Slavery
4 Négritude and the (Mal)practice of Diaspora
5 Whose Fanon? On Blackness and National Liberation
6 Neo-colonialism, or, The Emptiness of Bearing One's Flag
7 Remnants of Red Africa