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Atticus Bagby-Williams, Nsambu Za Suekama: Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition (Paperback, Daraja Press) No rating

Thi swork shows how Black anarchism has emerged from roots in Pan-Africanism, the Black radical …

I really enjoyed this short publication. The book talks about the limitations of European and North American (read white) radical political philosophies to the lived and organizing experiences of many in the African diaspora in the so-called USA, grounded in Cedric Robinson's "Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition". The booklet talks about waves of development in the Black anarchist tradition and touches briefly on influential examples, it's relationship and antagonism to "Classical" and US-born Individualist anarchism up through today, and some visions of Black autonomy to come. I got a lot from this short publication and would suggest it to others.