Firoze Manji is a Kenyan with more than forty years’ experience in international development, health and human rights work and research. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University in Canada. Dr. Manji is the founder and publisher of Daraja Press, founder and former editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan African social justice newsletter and website Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press, and the founder and former executive director of Fahamu: Networks for Social Justice, a pan-African organization. He has published widely in politics, health and development.

Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a racial justice, labor, and international activist based in the United States. He is an editorial board member of BlackCommentator.com; senior scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies; the immediate former president of TransAfrica Forum; the coauthor of Solidarity Divided: The Crisis in Organized Labor and a New Path toward Social Justice (with Dr. Fernando Gapasin); and the author of They're Bankrupting Us: And Twenty Other Myths about Unions.

Other featured contributions include: Kali Akuno, Samir Amin, David Austin, Jesse Benjamin, Angela Davis, Bill Fletcher Jr, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France,  Lewis Gordon, Firoze Manji, Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, and Olúfémi Táíwò—and others.

Contributors include: 

Senai Abraha, Makungu M. Akinyela, Kali Akuno, Samir Amin, David Austin, Ajamu Baraka, Jesse Benjamin, Angela Davis, Demba Moussa Dembélé, Jacques Depelchin, Mustafah Dhada, Jean-Pierre Diouf, Miguel de Barros, Aziz Fall, Grant Farred, Bill Fletcher Jr, Mireille Fanon-Mendès France, Hashim Gibril, Nigel C. Gibson, Patricia Godinho Gomes, Lewis Gordon, Adrian Harewood, Augusta Henriques, Wangui Kimari, Redy Wilson Lima, Ameth Lo, Richard A. Lobban, Jr, Filomeno Lopes, Brandon Lundy, Firoze Manji, Perry Mars, Bill Minter, Explo Nani-Kofi, Barney Pityana, Maria Poblet, Reiland Rabaka, Asha Rodney, Patricia Rodney, Carlos Schwarz, Helmi Sharawy, Olúfémi Táíwò, Walter Turner, Stephanie Urdang, Chris Webb, Nigel Westmaas, and Amrit Wilson.

2013 marked the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Amilcar Cabral, revolutionary, poet, liberation philosopher, and leader of the independence movement of Guinea Bissau and Cap Verde. Cabral's influence stretched well beyond the shores of West Africa. He had a profound influence on the pan-Africanist movement and the black liberation movement in the US. In this anthology, contemporary thinkers commemorate the anniversary of Cabral's assassination. They reflect on the legacy of this extraordinary individual and his relevance to contemporary struggles for self-determination and emancipation.