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This month's book is:
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle

by Thomas Sankara

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On August 4, 1983, a popular uprising in the West African country of Upper Volta— one of the world's poorest countries — ushered in one of the deepest revolutions in African history. Its
leader was thirty-three-year-old Thomas Sankara, who became president of the new government. The country was renamed Burkina Faso.

For the next four years, the Burkina revolution carried out an ambitious program that included land reform, fighting corruption, reforestation to halt the creeping desert and avert famine,
and giving priority to education and health care. In order to carry out these measures, the government encouraged the organization, mobilization, and political education of the country's
peasants, workers, women, and youth. A high priority was put on Burkina's solidarity with freedom struggles around the world, from the battle against apartheid in South Africa to the revolu-
tionary movements in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Palestine.

On October 15, 1987, Sankara was murdered in the course of a counterrevolutionary military coup that destroyed the revolutionary government.
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The book is largely the speech he gave commemorating International
Women's Day, March 8, 1987. It's short, so I will actually get to finish one at last.

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Black Book Club meeting last night was great. Lively discussion, good ideas bantered, and a great group of people!

I seriously hope we get to come back to the life of Claudia Jones because we definitely did not get nearly deep enough into her life and work.

Last month's book:
Left of Karl Marx

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In Left of Karl Marx, Carole Boyce Davies assesses the activism, writing, and legacy of Claudia Jones (1915–1964), a pioneering Afro-Caribbean radical intellectual, dedicated communist, and feminist. Jones is buried in London’s Highgate Cemetery, to the left of Karl Marx—a location that Boyce Davies finds fitting given how Jones expanded Marxism-Leninism to incorporate gender and race in her political critique and activism.
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https://www.dukeupress.edu/left-of-karl-marx

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