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  • Book Review: Community Policing in Nigeria: Rationale, Principles, and Practice Authors: Emmanuel C. Onyeozili, Biko Agozino, Augustine Agu, and Patrick Ibe Publisher: Virginia Tech Publishing (USA) and Fourth Dimension Publishing (Nigeria), 2021.

    Nigeria
    Chinenye Cynthia Izuchukwu | Arts & Book Reviews
    16.10.2025

    A review of Community Policing in Nigeria highlights how true safety is people-driven, exposing the failures of state-centered security.

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews Nigeria

  • Freedom libraries. Liberating minds for action against oppression and exploitation

    Freedom Libraries
    John Graversgaard | Arts & Book Reviews
    29.05.2025

    Graversgaard argues that “There is really a great need for hope and inspiration for the youth in the Global South, and Freedom Libraries [in community and workers’ spaces] can be one of the tools…” 

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews

  • South Africa’s liberation struggle history revisited

    RLS
    Peter T Jacobs | Arts & Book Reviews
    23.10.2019

    Through reviews of two books, the author reflects on lessons that contemporary protest movements can learn from past anti-systemic revolts in South Africa.

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews South Africa Protest movements in South Africa

  • The Zerai Model of gendered people-centred approach to governance, ICT and social justice

    The Zerai Mode
    Biko Agozino | Arts & Book Reviews
    08.10.2019

    The author posits that from the perspective of African women, it is impossible to ignore racism and sexism while organising against poverty.

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews African Women, ICT and Neoliberal Politics

  • Sustainable art

    Sustainable art
    Odomaro Mubangizi | Arts & Book Reviews
    31.08.2019

    Through this piece of art, the artist expresses his views on what he calls “sustainable art”.

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews Sustainable art

  • In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front

    In Praise of Blood
    Ann Garrison | Arts & Book Reviews
    20.06.2019

    Ann Garrison shares her opinion on Judi Rever’s recent book, In-Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a book that has given an audacious account of what happened during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews Rwanda In Praise of Blood

  • Us: We have met the enemies and they are us

    Official picture of the movie Us
    Biko Agozino | Arts & Book Reviews
    28.04.2019

    In this review of the American film Us, the author highlights the movie’s core message that most of the times, we, human beings, are our own enemies. 

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews US

  • Working class and the power of capital

    Farooque Chowdhury | Arts & Book Reviews
    18.03.2019

    Michael D. Yates, in chapter 5 of his recently released book – Can the Working Class Change the World?– conducts an important task of assessing the power of capital. Below is a review of that chapter. 

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews The power of capital

  • Working class: Achievements and the unfinished war for emancipation

    The Great October Revolution
    Farooque Chowdhury | Arts & Book Reviews
    12.03.2019

    What has the working class achieved so far in its war for emancipation? Are not the exploited of the earth encountering unfinished work in their struggles against the most experienced and resource-rich class the world has witnessed till today? These questions are apposite while examining the class struggle on the world stage.

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews struggles of the working class

  • Nigerian writer hits 50-language milestone

    Pambazuka News | Arts & Book Reviews
    29.01.2019

    The year 2018 ended on a high note for the Nigeria born writer Mohammed Umar who is celebrating in London after getting his books translated and published into 50 languages. 

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews Nigeria Mohammed Umar

  • The comeback kid: With love from the Africa diaspora

    Doreen Lwanga | Arts & Book Reviews
    25.01.2019

    Happy New Year Pambazuka Newsworld! Hopefully, we can all keep our New Year resolutions! This time I, too, want to maintain and excel at all my resolutions, especially, to stay here, writing forever!

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews African diaspora

  • Workers, agents of radical change

    Farooque Chowdhury | Arts & Book Reviews
    17.01.2019

    To what extent has the working class been an agent of radical change? The author discusses steps, proposed in the third chapter of Can the Working Class Change the World?, that need to be taken for workers to bring about radical change.  

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews Working class

  • Expropriation and capital’s development

    Farooque Chowdhury | Arts & Book Reviews
    17.01.2019

    In this review of Can the Working Class Change the World?, the authorreflects on the question whether the working class can defeat capitalism, its chief antagonist. 

    Tagged under Arts & Book Reviews Expropriation

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