Revolutionary Papers

Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Leftanti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production. Read More

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Kimani Waweru Njoki Wamai
Regimes and Resistance: Kenya’s Resistance History through Underground and Alternative Publications
1 October 2024
Kimani Waweru Njoki Wamai

This essay introduces the Revolutionary Papers teaching tool on the publications at Ukombozi Library, which houses leftist and revolutionary publications from Kenya and around the world. Through different movements’ publications, the authors map Kenyan resistance history through regimes of the colonial and postcolonial periods. A reading of Kenya’s history through alternative movements and the leftist publications produced during these different regimes contests the dominant narratives that have been advanced by the right-wing postindependence regimes… read more