American tribalism
Political 'tribalism' has for far too long been seen as an African problem. It is also an American problem, reflecting parallel legacies of colonialism.
Articles by
Christopher J. Lee
Christopher J. Lee, a historian, is the author of Frantz Fanon: Toward a Revolutionary Humanism and edited the annotated version of Alex La Guma's A Soviet Journey.
Fanon’s fugitive archive
'Alienation and Freedom,' a massive collection of Frantz Fanon's works, reveals his intellectual and political motivations, but also proves him enigmatic and inscrutable as ever.
The global ways of white supremacy
Donald Trump's tweets repeating white nationalist propaganda about land reform in South Africa shows white supremacy has consistently relied on an international interdependence.
Back in the USSR
In 1978, exiled South African writer and leftist Alex La Guma traveled to the Soviet Union and wrote a book about it. A new, crritical annotated edition was published in 2018.
Fanon at Ninety
Frantz Fanon remains vital not only for his bracing anti-racism and anti-colonialism, but equally for the less-recognized, empathetic politics of solidarity he cultivated and exemplified.
Every Man Gotta Right to Decide His Own Destiny
Survival is an album with a purpose. Released in 1979, it is arguably Marley’s most political recording.