Durham, N.C. Africa News Service, 1976-77. Three issues of this weekly bulletin focused on providing comprehensive reporting and analysis on political, economic, and social developments across the African continent, especially related to anti-colonial and liberation movements. The bulletin was issued by the non-profit Africa News Service, which was founded in..... More
Durham, N.C. Africa News Service, 1976. A single issue of this weekly bulletin focused on providing comprehensive reporting and analysis on political, economic, and social developments across the African continent, especially related to anti-colonial and liberation movements. The bulletin was issued by the non-profit Africa News Service, which was founded..... More
New York: Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, [1972]. This issue of IFCO News focuses on liberation struggles in Namibia, Malcolm X Liberation University, George Jackson and criminal justice in the U.S., organizing Chicanos in South Texas, and the World Council of Churches' Program to Combat Racism. It also includes a...... More
London: Central Asian Research Centre, 1960. "The following account of the development of Russian interest in and writing on Africa has been compiled from Russian sources, and principally from publications that have appeared since the Second World War. Its purpose is to throw light on the thinking, writing and discussion..... More
Cambridge, Mass. Africa Research Group, [1969]. A critique of Israel's imperialist role in Africa - aided by the U.S., which was originally published as a shorter article in Leviathan (September, 1969) and repinted in Tricontinential (no. 15, 1969). Stapled wrappers, 16 pp. Wilcox Collection stamp to the top edge of..... More
Tema, Ghana: Ghana Publishing Corporation, 1972. The accounts of four European travelers to Africa's Gold Coast, George Maclean, Captain Kenneth Mackenzie, Dr. Benjamin Knowles, and Henry Meredith, who were all involved in tragic or malevolent circumstances. Includes 16 plates. A scarce title. Small trade paperback, 98 p., illus. A near..... More
New York: American Committee for France & Algeria, 1962. First edition. Fifteen corner-stapled leaves mimeographed on rectos only (includes cover and contents sheets). A report situating the Algerian nationalist movement within the broader Communist revolution. The American Committee for France & Algeria published a newsletter called “Integration” and argued for..... More
Richmond, B.C. LSM Information Center, 1972. Third printing. "Toward an International Strategy was first printed in Monthly Review, April 1968 under the pen-name of J. Michael Dawn. An earlier draft of this paper, entitled, "Notes Toward a Strategy for North American Revolutionaries" was printed in Pensamiento Critico (Havana, September 1967)."..... More
Richmond, B.C. Information Center, Liberation Support Movement, [1972]. "The following Statement of Principles was presented by LSM Information Center Director, Don Barnett, at the 1972 Easter Conference of European support groups together with African Liberation movement representatives, held in Lund, Sweden, April 1-3. The Appendix contains a resume of LSM's..... More
Durban, South Africa: The Dolphin Press Ltd., 1979. Second Edition. In this book, the right wing, South African journalist Ivor Benson warns of the Communist, Jew-financed infiltration of Africa and the dismantling of colonialism. This second edition includes an introduction titled "The Third South African War" and a new chapter..... More
Brooklyn: Worldwide Africa Communications Corp. 1989. An issue of this pan-African newspaper published in Brooklyn (and not to be confused with African Connections, a Los Angeles-based newspaper). Articles covering the African diaspora in the U.S., as well as news and udpates on African countries. Tabloid format printed in red, green..... More
Brooklyn: Worldwide Africa Communications Corp. 1989. An issue of this pan-African newspaper published in Brooklyn (and not to be confused with African Connections, a Los Angeles-based newspaper). Articles covering the African diaspora in the U.S., as well as news and udpates on African countries. Tabloid format printed in red, green..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 1971. First Vintage Books Edition. The mass market edition of Carmichael's influential collection of speeches and articles, in which he "traces the dramatic change of consciousness of American blacks from the Civil Rights Movement through Black Power to solidarity with the Third World and the nationhood..... More
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Dar es Salaam University Press, 2002. Trade paperback, xix, 197 pp. Some edge wear and creases to corners, but a very good, unmarked copy. More
[Chicago]: Chicago Public Library, 1969. A bibliography of material on the black experience available at the Chicago Public Library and compiled by James M. Davis and Karen Gilles. Organized in the following sections: I. Roots in the Old World II. The Black Experience in America III. White Over Black IV..... More
New York: Teachers College Press, 1969. A monograph (the fifth in a series) on Tanzania's educational policy. Stapled wrappers, xi, 39 pp. A near fine copy. More
Hamburg: Georg Westermann, 1917. First edition. Wrappers with some toning to edges; browned spine; the front free endpaper has come loose, but still present; cheap paper browned, although clean throughout. In German. Discusses the economic life of South Africa in the context of its water power. Uncommon. More
Detroit: Radical Education Project, [1971?]. A contemporaneous reprint of a pamphlet first issued by the National Headquarters Information Bureau of ZAPU on the liberation struggle in Zimbabwe against white, British colonialism. Stapled wrappers, 12 pp., two LNS illustrations, one photograph. Some toning to the edges, else a near fine copy. More
Amherst: Drum, 1987. A double issue of this long-running, irregularly published black literary magazine published by students UMass-Amherst from 1969-1988. Selected content for this double issue includes a poem by Andrew Salkey to James Baldwin, an excerpt of a Jamaica Kincaid story, part I of Bill Strickland's article, "The Rise..... More
New York: Herder and Herder, 1971. First Edition. This collection of erotic African folk tales was based on the work of German ethnologist Leo Frobenius (1873-1938) from his 12 expeditions to Africa between 1904 and 1935. 8vo. Cloth boards, 284 pp., dust jacket. Tape to jacket flaps, some chipping near..... More
London: The Publicity and Information Bureau, African National Congress of South Africa, [ca. 1970]. Includes "The Struggle for Full Trade Union Rights" by John Gaetsewe; "Starvation in the Midst of Plenty, a memorandum to the I.L.O. by SACTU; "Stop Immigration to South Africa," an appeal by SACTU to European workers..... More
London: Christian Action Publications, 1971. Second Edition. An International Defence and Aid Fund pamphlet describing "South Africa's racial labour code and explain[ing] how apartheid affects employment, wages, and trade unionism and how it diminshes workers' rights generally." Stapled wrappers, 88 pp. Light wear to wrappers, but unmarked internally. A very..... More
Johannesburg: S. A. Institute of Race Relations, [ca. 1961]. A study on the feeding habits and customs of urban Africans based on a survey conducted among 600 unskilled workers in Pretoria. The results of the survey found that approx. 70-80% of these workers may be suffering from dietary deficiencies which..... More
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico: Institute of Caribbean Studies, 1979. "The Jonestown holocaust offers important lessons for the Caribbean. This essay unravels them, with emphasis on the vent's meaning in the areas of US-Caribbean relationships, American religious penetration of the region, the Caribbean as haven for messianic cultism, Jonestown as a...... More
Chicago: Third World Press, 2013. The long-awaited publication of Malcolm X’s 1964 diary, which details his trip to Africa and the Middle East, including his pilgrimage to Mecca. The entries provide intimate access to Malcolm’s thoughts, experiences and trepidations, which are helpfully annotated by the editors and supplemented with commentary..... More