Okoth Kevin Ochieng - Red Africa Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Salvaging a decolonised future Red Africa makes the case for a revolutionary Black politics inspired by Marxist anti - colonial struggles in Africa. Kevin Ochieng Okoth revisits historical moments when Black radicalism was defined by international solidarity in the struggle against capitalist - imperialism that together help us to navigate the complex histories of the Black radical tradition. He challenges common misconceptions about national liberation showing that the horizon of national liberation was not limited to the nation - building projects of post - independence governments. While African socialists sought to distance themselves from Marxism and argued for a third way socialism rooted in traditional African culture the intellectual and political tradition Okoth calls Red Africa showed that Marxism and Black radicalism were never incompatible. The revolutionary Black politics of Eduardo Mondlane Am lcar Cabral Walter Rodney and Andr e Blouin gesture toward a decolonised future that never materialised. We might yet build something new from the ruins of national liberation something which clings onto the utopian promise of freedom and refuses to let go. Red Africa is not simply an exercise in nostalgia it is a political project that hopes to salvage what remains of this tradition which has been betrayed violently suppressed or erased and to build from it a Black revolutionary politics capable of imagining new futures out of the uncertain present.
Title: Red Africa Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics
Author(s): Okoth Kevin Ochieng
Publisher: Verso Books
Barcode: 9781839767371
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 10/3/2023
Series: Salvage Editions
Category: Marxism & Communism