Akala (@AkalaMusic) Great Reads
Akala‘s Great Reads is a weekly series of book reviews and recommendations to help promote both reading and the sharing of knowledge.
EP28: ‘ The History of White People’ by Nell Irvin Painter.
EP28: ‘Tao Te Ching’ by Translastion by Thomas Cleary
Amazon here
EP27: ‘The Healers’ by Ayi Kwei Armah
EP26: ‘Shakespeare on Power‘ (Pengiun Great Reads)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Power-Penguin-Great-Ideas/dp/0141043865
EP25: ‘Bending the Bow: An Anthology of African Love Poetry’
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bending-Bow-Anthology-African-Poetry/dp/0809328429
EP24: ‘Can’t Stop Won’t Stop’ by Jeff Chang.
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cant-Stop-Wont-History-Generation/dp/0091912210
jeffchang.net
EP23: ‘Ruins of Empire’ by Pankaj Mishra.
EP22: ‘Malgudi Days’ by R.K. Narayan
EP21:‘ Love in the Time of Cholera’ by Gabriel García Márquez.
EP20: ‘The Dead Emcee Scrolls’ by Saul Williams.
https://twitter.com/SaulWilliams
EP19: ‘Saga’ by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples.
https://twitter.com/fionastaples
EP18: ‘The Ruins of Empires’ by C. F. Volney
http://africaworldpressbooks.com/the-ruins-of-empires-by-c-f-volney/
EP17: ‘RASL’ by Jeff Smith.
EP16: ‘Fictions’ by Jorge Luis Borges.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fictions-Jorge-Luis-Borges/dp/0141183845
EP15 : ‘When We Ruled’ by Robin Walker.
http://www.whenweruled.com/
https://twitter.com/blackhistoryman
EP14 ‘Damming the Flood’ by Peter Hallward.
EP13 ‘The Collected Works of Khalil Gibran’ by Khalil Gibran
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collected-Works-Kahlil-Gibran/dp/1841593109
EP12 ‘A Dying Colonialism’ by Frantz Fanon
https://www.amazon.com/Dying-Colonialism-Frantz-Fanon/dp/0802150276
Click to access Frantz-Fanon-A-Dying-Colonialism.pdf
EP11 ‘Race First: The Ideological and Organisational Struggles of Marcus Garvey and the Universal Negro Improvement Association” ‘ by Tony Martin.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Race-First-Ideological-Organisational-Improvement/dp/0912469234
EP10 ‘The Telling Room’ by Michael Paterniti.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Telling-Room-Betrayal-Greatest-Brilliance/dp/1480540935
https://twitter.com/MikePaterniti
EP9 ‘Death by Black Hole’ by Neil Degrasse Tyson.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Death-Black-Hole-Cosmic-Quandaries/dp/039335038X
https://www.facebook.com/neildegrasse…
EP8 ‘The Blood Never Dried’ by John Newsinger.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Never-Dried-Peoples-History/dp/1905192126
EP7 ‘Millenium’ by Dr Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Millennium-History-Last-Thousand-Years/dp/0552994820
EP6 This week’s book is A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James.
https://twitter.com/marlonjames5
EP5 This week’s book is Makeda by Randall Robinson.
http://www.randallrobinson.com/
EP4 “When China Rules the World” by Martin Jacques
EP3 “The Many Headed Hydra” by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Many-Headed-Hydra-Revolutionary-Atlantic/dp/1859844200
EP2 The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
https://www.hermann-hesse.de/en
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Glass-Bead-Game-Vintage-Classics/dp/009928362X
EP1 The Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti.
18th October 2016
w/c 17th October 2016