The Real Dragon: George Jackson and the Black August Tradition
By Alieu Bah "I don't want to die and leave a few sad songs and a hump in the ground as my only monument. I want to leave a world…
Memento Mori: On Death, Dying and Revolutionary Urgency
Image By Pawel Janiak By Alieu BahI have known loss. I have known grief. Immense loss that makes you forget how to grieve because the sadness and helplessness in the…
Reject the Finance Bill: Young Kenya Rises in a Summer of Revolt
By Alieu BahThis essay is dedicated to the defiant memory of Rex Kanyike Masai, a martyr of our times.A historical moment has been unleashed on the streets and highways of…
May Day and other Proletarian blues
Alieu BahIn the seemingly eternal rains of Nairobi, sitting in a seat that’s newly acquired by my comrade who seems to be pretty excited about it, I enter into those…
Passion and Principle: An attempt at a Mwamko Story
Imagine a meeting of dreamers in a wide, lush and green compound sitting at the edge of the highest point of Africa, swarmed, at this time, by organizers and activists…
Let’s get Free: Notes of Struggle to the Third World
"We have a beautiful history, and we shall create another in the future that will astonish the world." — Marcus GarveySilent sorrows, like open wounds, are a marker of the damned…