Colonialism


Heart of Darkness
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
The Wretched of the Earth
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
Discourse on Colonialism
Babel
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Orientalism
A Passage to India
Black Skin, White Masks
The Poisonwood Bible
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
Homegoing
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy KidderPoor Economics by Abhijit V. BanerjeeHalf the Sky by Nicholas D. KristofDead Aid by Dambisa MoyoThe Bottom Billion by Paul Collier
International development
224 books — 213 voters
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. AmbroseBlack Hawk Down by Mark BowdenUnbroken by Laura HillenbrandWe Were Soldiers Once... and Young by Harold G. MooreLone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell
Best Non-fiction War Books
2,199 books — 2,520 voters

My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness by Kabi NagataSister Outsider by Audre LordeIf You Could Be Mine by Sara FarizanZami by Audre LordeUnder the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Books by Lesbians of Colour
227 books — 63 voters
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradThe Wretched of the Earth by Frantz FanonThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverKing Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Books About Colonialism
685 books — 241 voters

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of ...more
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Wizard of the Crow

Arundhati Roy
It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart ...more
Arundhati Roy, The Cost of Living

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