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
Orientalism
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
A Passage to India
Black Skin, White Masks
The Poisonwood Bible
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Homegoing
The Colonizer and the Colonized
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerNervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaWhen a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter GodwinMukiwa by Peter GodwinThe Last Resort by Douglas Rogers
Books Set in Zimbabwe
130 books — 100 voters
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le GuinAnarchism and Other Essays by Emma GoldmanV for Vendetta by Alan MooreChomsky On Anarchism by Noam ChomskyThe Conquest of Bread by Pyotr Kropotkin
Anarchist books
477 books — 380 voters

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael BeahDon't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight by Alexandra FullerHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall SmithWhen a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
africa_book_club_meetup
176 books — 70 voters
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
228 books — 217 voters

Being “Dutch” in the Indies by Ulbe BosmaThe Defining Years of the Dutch East Indies, 1942-1949 by Jan A. KrancherAmerican Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia by Frances GoudaThe Jakarta Method by Vincent BevinsThe British Occupation of Indonesia, 1945-1946 by Richard D. McMillan
Indo, Indische, Dutch East Indies
103 books — 5 voters
Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi DangarembgaFrom Another World by Ana Maria MachadoAya by Marguerite AbouetMy Bones and My Flute by Edgar MittelholzerQueer as Folk Tales by James Penha
Postcolonial Young Adult Literature
40 books — 4 voters

Jamaica Kincaid
Do you know why people like me are shy about being capitalists? Well, its because we, for as long as we have known you, were capital, like bales of cotton and sacks of sugar, and you were commanding, cruel capitalists, and the memory of this so strong, the experience so recent, that we can't quite bring ourselves to embrace this idea that you think so much of. As for hat we were like before we met you, I no longer care. No periods of time over which my ancestors held sway, no documentation of co ...more
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place

Chinua Achebe
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their own experience.
Chinua Achebe, There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

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