Book Review: Elombe Brath’s Proletariat Prose

Elombe Brath (1936-2014), whose writings from two decades have been collected here in a fundraising vehicle for the memorial foundation bearing his name, was the heir of Harlem’s street orators—those men who gathered at streetcorners before and after World War II and talked about the Africa inside. Armed with a century of books, pamphlets and documents, these people educated African villages across America about the relationship between history, culture, politics and society from the perspectives of the most powerful people who had ever been colonized.

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The Politics of African-centered and Socialist Approaches to Liberation

The iMiXWHATiLiKE! crew was joined this week by Ka’ba Akintunde, Nana Boakye, Akua Oparabea, Nana Ama Nyamekye and Dr. Tony Monteiro for discussions of African-centered and Scientific Socialist pathways to liberation.  We also world premiered new music from Son of Nun and had another generally good time making a small attempt at solving the world’s…

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