Revolutionary Movements in Africa: An Untold Story

While the revolutionary leftist movements of the 1960s and '70s in Europe, the United States and Latin America have been the subject of abundant literature, similar movements that emerged in Africa have received comparatively very little attention. This book sheds new light on these political movements.

Africa's left were extremely active in these years. With pro—Soviet movements, Maoism, Trotskyism, Guevarism, Pan—Africanism and the Black Panthers, the rumble of revolution was felt across...