Revolutionary Papers

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

Teaching Tools

The Revolutionary Papers Teaching Tools highlight methods of research to bring out relevant insights about periodicals and the politics and pedagogies they were steeped in at the time and since then. They are designed for both educational and organising settings and can be used to focus on certain features of research into the periodical. Learn more.

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Radical History Review

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A series of digital teaching tools designed with scholars, educators and organizers for the Radical History Review special issue: Revolutionary Papers: Anticolonial Periodicals from the Global South. The tools focus on a range of revolutionary periodicals and related ephemera, from the Cairo-based Afro-Asian literary magazine Lotus, the Palestinian Bayanat of the first Intifada, to the underground pamphlets from the Mau Mau movement in Kenya. They are designed to help students from all walks of life discover the grassroots, dynamic and anti-colonial histories of periodicals, revealing the buried hearts of many cultural and political movements. The tools are made to be accessible, interactive resources that provide archival, literary, and historical insights on magazines and associated print cultures and are conceived as pedagogical aids for the classroom and for political education across a range of community settings.

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Mapping the Social Lives of The Namibian Review

Presented by

Koni Benson Nashilongweshipwe Mushaandja Asher Gamedze
27 November 2025

The Namibian Review: Origins The Namibian Review: A Journal of Contemporary South West African Affairs was published between 1976-1987. Initially it was produced by the Namibian Review Group (later known as the Swedish Namibian Association) and 14 editions were printed by Namibian political exiles in Sweden between 1976-1978. In 1979 the journal was translocated from […]

Series: Radical History Review Series: Revolutionary Papers Teaching Tools