Daraja Press imprint: 8 books

Citizenship, identity and belonging in Kenya

University of Nairobi & SAMOSA-Festival Colloquium

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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017

Every couple of years, an inspired group of people, led by the editors of AwaaZ Magazine (www.awazmagazine.com), organise a festival in Nairobi, Kenya, that goes by the name ‘SAMOSA’—South Asian Mosaic of Society and the Arts— bringing together different communities through art, music, dance,...

Jackson Rising

The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi

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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017

Mississippi, the poorest state in the U.S. with the highest percentage of Black people, a history of vicious racial terror and concurrent Black resistance is the backdrop and context for the drama captured in the collection of essays that is Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and...

Oil Politics

Echoes of Ecological Wars

by Nnimmo Bassey
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016

The essays here contribute to developing and deepening an understanding of the ecological challenges ravaging Nigeria, Africa and our world today. They illustrate the global nature of these terrors. These essays are not meant just to enable for coffee table chatter: they are intended as calls to action,...

October 1917 Revolution

A Century Later

by Samir Amin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017

Great revolutions make history. Conservative resistance and counter-revolutions only delay their progress. The French revolution invented modern politics and democracy, the Russian revolution paved the way for the socialist transition, while the Chinese revolution connected the emancipation of those...
by Karim F Hirji
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017

Soon after its publication in 1972, Walter Rodney’s How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (HEUA) gained global popularity among progressive students, scholars and activists, and people concerned with African affairs. His innovative application of the method of political economy was a prime contributor...

Silence Would be Treason

The Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death. Reading through the treasure trove of the letters and poems compiled here as The Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa evoked such intense memories...

Finding a Voice

Asian Women in Britain

by Amrit Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018

Finding a Voice - Asian Women in Britain published in 1978 and winner of the Martin Luther King award, was, and remains, an influential feminist book. Based on interviews, discussions and intimate one-to- one conversations with South Asian women, conducted often in Urdu, Hindi or Bengali (if they...
by Tariq Mehmood
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018

One brother goes missing in action in Afghanistan, the other falls in love with an Afghan girl in England. Bitter divisions engulf an English town where young Muslims oppose the British army’s presence in Afghanistan, whilst white youth condemn the Muslims as traitors. To the disgust...
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