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
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Orientalism
A Passage to India
Black Skin, White Masks
The Poisonwood Bible
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
Homegoing
Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Culture and Imperialism
Things Fall Apart by Chinua AchebeThe Poisonwood Bible by Barbara KingsolverHalf of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieHeart of Darkness by Joseph ConradCry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
Africa (fiction and nonfiction)
1,768 books — 1,647 voters
Ambedkar by Salim YusufjiAmbedkar by Gail OmvedtIconoclast by Anand TeltumbdeAmbedkar's Preamble by Aakash Singh RathoreThe Social Context of an Ideology by M S Gore
Ambedkar — Books About Babasaheb
26 books — 3 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
471 books — 372 voters


Eurocentrism is quite simply the colonizer's model of the world. ...more
J.M. Blaut, The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

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

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