The Rebirth of the African Phoenix A View from Bablyon

For years Roger McKenzie has been a trusted advisor and a brilliant thought partner when it comes to global organizing and liberation. His thoughtful analysis informed by decades of experience and appreciation for the challenges and brilliance of working people around the globe are what is needed today. -From Dr Toni Lewis - founder member of the Global African Workers Institute Roger McKenzie's research and writing are putting modern Pan-African Marxism on a solid theoretical footing, following - and developing - a trail that was blazed by the likes of Walter Rodney, Claudia Jones, Amilcar Cabral, Kwame Nkrumah and W.E.B. Du Bois. Marx famously said that ""the philosophers have only interpreted the world; the point, however, is to change it."" Roger is no ivory tower theoretician, and his intellectual output is closely linked to real-world social movements for socialism, for liberation, and against imperialism, racism, war and ecocide. As such, he joins a global renaissance of Pan-African thought and activism, grounded in historical materialism and the struggle for a better world, epitomised in Africa itself by the new wave of resistant states in the Sahel, and in the West by groups such as the Black Alliance for Peace. - Carlos Martinez Author of 'The East is still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century by Praxis Press and co-editor of Friends of Socialist China' Roger's deep knowledge and commitment to Africa and a lifetime of anti Racism and trade union solidarity makes him well placed to write this historical and future analysis. - Jeremy Corbyn MP for Islington North Roger McKenzie powerfully reminds us that Africa and its people are not just central to our past but essential to our collective future. This timely work challenges us to confront the legacies of colonialism, inequality, and division, and calls for a new multilateralism rooted in justice, solidarity, and self-determination. McKenzie's vision is clear: a reborn Africa will be the heart of a fairer, freer world. A must-read for all who believe in true global liberation. - Bell Ribeiro-Addy MP for Clapham and Brixton Hill and chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Afrikan Reparations