Revolutionary Papers

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

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AWA (La revue de la femme noire) short lived 20th Century Senegalese journal magazine founded by Annette Mbaye d’Erneville. A pioneer in promoting Afro-feminism in midcentury West Africa, its first issue published in 1964 and its final issue published in May 1973. It was published monthly and with a voluntary production, printed at Abdoulaye Diop’s […]

In 2024, rebellions emerged across Kenya, uniting generations and tribes against the latest neocolonial violence leveraged against the people of Kenya through the state apparatus. More specifically, newly elected President Ruto proposed a finance bill that would impose astronomical taxes on goods, such as a 16% sales tax on bread, and higher import taxes. Ultimately, […]

This paper focuses on the poetry produced by the women of Umkhonto WeSizwe (MK), the armed military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) in the pages of its magazine, Dawn, These poems serve as an archive of women’s individual and collective thinking about their role in the liberation struggle. As a monthly MK journal […]

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