Pan-African Social Ecology

Modibo Kadalie has spent nearly six decades as an activist, organizer, teacher, and scholar in the ongoing struggle for Pan-African freedom. In this collection of interviews and public talks, he reflects on the sit-ins, boycotts, strikes, urban rebellions, and anticolonialist movements that have animated the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. Kadalie demonstrates how forms of directly democratic organizing that have evolved through these freedom struggles also present the promise of a ecological future. In so doing, he explains that direct democracy is the key to both Black liberation and ecological security.

This concise, radical, and iconoclastic book calls on present and future generations of activists to reconnect with the spirit of these movements without lionizing individual leaders or lending legitimacy to any government or politician.

Praise for Pan-African Social Ecology...

"Empowering and helpful to scholars and activists alike." —Eusi Kwayana, author of The Bauxite Strike and the Old Politics

"Modibo Kadalie is a storyteller—in the most honorable and powerful sense of the word—who opens up the possibilities of fundamental social transformation ... reminding us that power and truth always reside in the people, not their 'leaders.'" —Natsu Saito, author of Settler Colonialism, Race, and the Law

"Modibo Kadalie elaborates a vision of Pan-African social ecology roted in the Black anarchist tradition, people's power, ecofeminism, and lessons from global struggles. ...Following C.L.R. James's dictum that 'any cook can govern,' Kadalie lifts up—and acts in concert with—ordinary people who have fought to preserve their autonomy and re-make the world." —Jackie Wang, author of Carceral Capitalism