Air and Steel

On Africa

Oh man you're gonna see the circle in a second, you're gonna love this

Alright. With Africa, the resource I go back to most heavily (and that I still probably haven't read in-full, cover-to-cover, full disclosure - just being honest) is How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Another great author is Frantz Fanon. Check out The Wretched of the Earth!

Check out Aimé Césaire - text here.

TODO: okay yeah there's a whole bunch more to talk about here! Very much TODO: Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation, tie back in with Mao in Asia, Women hold up half the sky. TODO: Tie all that back in with The Woman Question, that includes LGBTQ+ folks too! TODO: AAPRP tie in TODO: figure out what the heck is going on in austalia. TODO: Kwame Ture speeches


But with that, we can kinda move back into the modern era of the US, with the slave trade and new learnings in mind. We can now approach works like Settlers and Black Skin, White Masks with the context necessary.

We can understand the behaviors of our forefathers and their enemies better in order to forge our understanding of the present, into the future. You can pretty much attack any of the articles or works mentioned so far, you've got a bit of modern history from all the continents at least (missing LOTS of details, ha, I kinda apologize and kinda don't).


Continuing on to the next geographic region on my brain: Palestine


index tags: Communists, Reading List, Africa, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney, Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, Aimé Césaire, Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah, Kwame Nkrumah, Kwame Ture


category tags: World History


Hi! Aaron, nice to meet ya. This site is where I'm documenting as I go, in order to keep my learnings and thoughts in an easily accessible digital notebook. My purpose in life is organizing (engineering, if you will) and building the change I want to see in the world; to help as much as possible, while I've got the chance to do it.