Claim No Easy Victories

Firoze Manji is a Kenyan with more than forty years’ experience in international development, health and human rights work and research. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University in Canada. Dr. Manji is the founder and publisher of Daraja Press, founder and former editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan African social justice newsletter and website Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press, and the founder and former executive director of Fahamu: Networks for Social Justice, a pan-African organization. He has published widely in politics, health and development.Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a racial justice, labor, and international activist based in the United States. He is an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; the immediate former president of TransAfrica Forum; the coauthor of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin); and the author of They're Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions.Other featured contributions include: Kali Akuno, Samir Amin, David Austin, Jesse Benjamin, Angela Davis, Bill Fletcher Jr, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France,  Lewis Gordon, Firoze Manji, Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, and Olúfémi Táíwò—and others.

“The book's essayists bring some complex and interesting analysis— interlaced with Cabral's biography and an overview of his writings—to the fore. They examine the theories of class suicide and re-Africanisation, which are intrinsically linked to Cabral's revolutionary consciousness. The book’s thorough scrutiny of the impact of Cabral's struggles and African liberation movements bring perspective to his legacy and also draw attention to Black movements in the Americas, where the dialectics of culture and ideology as dissected by Cabral served as an essential tool for the unpacking of social realities. Cabral's global vision of struggle also touches on his fight for the emancipation of women, described as his rejection of that era's 'masculinist and militarist images of struggle'.” —The Africa Report“As a collection it is a timely one and will be valuable for anyone seeking to be introduced or reacquainted with debates about revolution, colonialism and culture, nationalism, and pan-Africanism.”—Claudia Gastrow, Feminist Africa

• Contributors include: Senai Abraha, Makungu M. Akinyela, Kali Akuno, Samir Amin, David Austin, Ajamu Baraka, Jesse Benjamin, Angela Davis, Demba Moussa Dembélé, Jacques Depelchin, Mustafah Dhada, Jean-Pierre Diouf, Miguel de Barros, Aziz Fall, Grant Farred, Bill Fletcher Jr, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Hashim Gibril, Nigel C. Gibson, Patricia Godinho Gomes, Lewis Gordon, Adrian Harewood, Augusta Henriques, Wangui Kimari, Redy Wilson Lima, Ameth Lo, Richard A. Lobban, Jr, Filomeno Lopes, Brandon Lundy, Firoze Manji, Perry Mars, Bill Minter, Explo Nani-Kofi, Barney Pityana, Maria Poblet, Reiland Rabaka, Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, Carlos Schwarz, Helmi Sharawy, Olúfémi Táíwò, Walter Turner, Stephanie Urdang, Chris Webb, Nigel Westmaas, and Amrit Wilson.