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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Regimes and Resistance: Kenyan Resistance History Through Underground and Alternative Publications

Presented by

Njoki Wamai Wairimu Gathimba Kimani Waweru
15 November 2025

PALIAct Ukombozi, a Library of Revolutionary Histories. When Kenya attained its independence in 1963 from the British occupation, parliament passed an act to enable the creation of the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS). KNLS was established and mandated, among other functions, to provide library service to the public. However, the attainment of self-rule did not […]

Series: Radical History Review