Daraja Press

The book provides some insightful articles from the first five issues of Nokoko on cultural politics, political economies and grammars of protest. Their intersection here provides a sharp spotlight...

Anti-Capitalist Economy in Rojava: The Contradictions of Revolution in the Kurdish StruggleAuthor: Azize AslanPublisher: Daraja PressPublication Date: Sep 18, 2023Number of Pages: 100 pagesBinding:...

Being Anti-Colonial by Jayan Nayar presents a profound critique of the contemporary engagements with 'decolonial theory' and the popular usage of 'decolonisation'. This work argues that much of the...

Cradles is a wayfaring reckoning with womb and land(s) before coasting tides and wind. Inspired by the Cradle of Humankind in South Africa - one of the earliest known homes of humans dating 2 million...

President Trump wants to build along the Mexican border. Europe has long answered this question: put up that wall but don't make it look like one. The EU is making deals with African states, making...

The book is a literary project with extra-literary objectives and implications. The texts combine various original writing styles to provoke the reader's creative imagination and makeauratic social...

First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women's lives and struggles in Britain. This new...

Postcolonial critique deconstructs global inequality in its epistemic and material dimensions. This collective comic project illuminates everyday life's coloniality as well as the decolonising...

Written with urgency out of a war-time Beirut, this poetry collection registers the griefs and the heroism of the Lebanese, under siege yet again. Sabbagh lends his lyrical voice here, to give a...

Great revolutions make history. The French revolution invented modern politics and democracy, the Russian revolution paved the way for the socialist transition. This collection of essays by world...

The essays here contribute to developing and deepening an understanding of the ecological challenges ravaging Nigeria, Africa and our world today. They illustrate the global nature of these terrors...

There was one partition of the land in 1947. Harsh Mander believes that another partition is underway in our hearts and minds. How much of this culpability lies with ordinary people? What are the...

La pire forme d'esclavage consiste a se vendre aux encheres de plein gre, se faire acheter et ensuite faire semblant d'etre libre. C'est ce a quoi revient la participation au mecanisme REDD...

These poems by Issa Shivji, lawyer, activist and Tanzanian public intellectual, were written at different times in different circumstances. They give vent to personal anguish and political anger...

Written by Karim F Hirji, a retired professor of Medical Statistics, Religion, Politics and Society focuses on the four major global religions-Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam-together...

The key lessons we drew in the two earlier books in this series, Religion, Politics and Society (RPS 2022) and Religion, Eugenics, Science and Mathematics (RESM 2023), were: Historically, religions...

THESE LETTERS AND poems are invaluable fragments of a living conversation that portrays the indomitable power in humans to stay alive in the face of certain death, evoking such intense memories of...

Cultural Resistance in India has a rich and long history - right from the days in which the British ruled over the country. Protest music occupies a central position in the organizational fabric of...

A society born of white supremacy and patriarchy must, by definition, ignore the voices of Black women. We know that unfortunately, such an attitude will also naturally seep into every stratum of...

Tariq Mehmood's Song of Gulzarina is a highly involving novel which looks at the life of Saleem Khan, who migrates from Pakistan to Bradford in the 1960s full of expectation and ends up contemplating...

Spoon and Shrapnel fuses poetry and recipes to explore the experience of surviving the Iran-Iraq War through a child's perspective. As a survivor, Sheema Kalbasi shares raw memories of fear, loss,...

Two talented girls, who are best friends, have resolved to eat bananas every day. Together with their devotion to the truth and idealistic spirit, this addiction slowly propels them far into the...

The author appeals to the energies of those engaged in a wide range of contemporary social justice struggles such as ecosocialism, antiracism, the women's movement, LGBTQ rights, and antiwar forces...

This book is an effort to contribute to the preservation of El Salvador's historical memory. It recounts the tragedy of a civil war that lasted nearly two decades and resulted in the loss of over...

A riveting account of the first decade of the work of a retired Professor of Medical Statistics. Filled with a variety of eye-opening episodes, it covers lecturing at the University of Dar es Salaam,...

Morocco, 1359. The people of Fes are living in deprivation under the rule of an unjust sultan. Zakaria is a young Muslim scholar trying to sustain his family while committing to a rigid moral code...

Under-Education in Africa: From Colonialism to Neoliberalisma collection of edited essays on diverse aspects of educational systems that were written over a period of four and a half decades. With...

One brother goes missing in action in Afghanistan, the other falls in love with an Afghan girl in England. Bitter divisions engulf an English town where young Muslims oppose the British army's...