Firoze Manji is head of CODESRIA's Documentation and Informa- tion Centre. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Pambazu- ka News (www.pambazuka.org) and Pambazuka Press/Fahamu Books (www.fahamubooks.org), and founder and former executive director of Fahamu, Networks for Social Justice (www.fahamu.org). Amongst other books, he coedited African Awakening: The Emerging Revolutions (Pambazuka Press, 2011) with Sokari Ekine. He is an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) in Washington, DC, visiting fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, and board member of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. He is on Facebook and Twitter. 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 Pol- icy Studies; the immediate former president of TransAfrica Forum; the coauthor (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin) of Solidarity Divided; and the author of They're Bankrupting Us-And Twenty Other Myths about Unions. He can be reached at billfletcherjr@gmail.com. His website is www.billfletcherjr.com. He is on Facebook and Twitter.
The book's 46 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, June 2014As a collection it is a timely one and will bevaluable for anyone seeking to be introduced or reacquainted with debates about revolution, colonialism and culture, nationalism, and pan-Africanism. Claudia Gastrow, Feminist Africa
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