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Daraja Press<\/strong> was founded to amplify voices and stories that centre the wretched of the earth\u2014those who live under occupation, who face state violence, who are dispossessed, who organise and resist. Our commitment is to the political in its most embodied sense: the struggle against repression, the fight for liberation, the hard work of building alternatives from the ground up. We publish books that can be tools for organising, for understanding and challenging power, for imagining and then building a different world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja Press publishes to reclaim the past, contest the present and invent the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja Press <\/strong>is a not-for-profit publisher, based in Qu\u00e9bec, Canada, that seeks to reclaim the past, contest the present and invent the future. Daraja is the KiSwahili word for \u2018bridge\u2019. As its name suggests, Daraja Press seeks to build bridges, especially bridges of solidarity between and amongst movements, intellectuals and those engaged in struggles for a just world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We seek to build upon, develop and support interconnections between emancipatory struggles of the oppressed and exploited across the world. In a phrase, our aim is to nurture reflection, shelter hope and inspire audacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our advisory board is comprised of the following: Kali Akuno, David Austin, Nnimmo Bassey, Bill Fletcher Jr, Molly Kane+, Wangui Kimari, Micheline Ravololonarisoa, Coumba Toure, Walter Turner, Michael Neocosmos, Joan Kuyek+. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would like to acknowledge the many people who have provided advice and reviews of proposals including Nigel C Gibson, Kevin B Anderson, Wende Marshall, Micere Githae Mugo, Brian Murphy, Howard Waitzkin, Richard Pithouse, Joe Oloka-Onyango, Sylvia Tamale, Issa Shivji, Zarina Patel, Zahid Rajan and many others. Our thanks also to Kate McDonnell who does most of our design work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja Press publishes print books, e-books, pamphlets, campaign materials, and video and audio content, including recent series of more than 100 podcasts under the theme Organising in the time of Covid-19.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We actively encourage cooperation with other publishers and have co-published with some 20 other publishers. Many of our titles are published in Kenya by Zand Graphics Ltd for distribution at local prices in East Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orders from bookstores and libraries in the USA should be sent to AK Press https:\/\/www.akpress.org<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Orders from bookstores and libraries in the UK should be sent to Turnaround-UK https:\/\/turnaround-uk.com<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daraja Press, PO BOX 541 Wakefield, QC J0X 0C2, Canada
info@darajapress.com<\/a>, https:\/\/darajapress.com\/staging<\/a>
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For EU product safety concerns, please contact us at info@darajapress.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Praise for Daraja Press<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Through its republishing of historical works, Daraja Press reminds us of the long history of emancipatory thinking on our continent; but it also introduces us to new thinking, and makes connections (builds \u2018bridges\u2019) between the current emancipatory intellectual work of Africa and that of others engaged in emancipatory struggle throughout the globe. Reflecting on the words we read (and those we hear, through Daraja\u2019s podcasts) inspires us with hope, and gives us courage. Without Daraja, the world would be an infinitely poorer place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Anne Harley<\/strong>, University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a time when deep and complex issues are treated superficially at local and global levels, Daraja Press publishes books that help unearth the foundational basis of understanding and dealing with the complexities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Nnimmo Bassey<\/strong>, co-recipient of the 2010 Right Livelihood Award, also known as the \u201cAlternative Nobel Prize\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unassuming Daraja Press works diligently to produce alternative and counter narratives from a postcolonial perspective. It is positioned as one of the few \u201cDavids\u201d facing off the powerful \u201cGoliaths\u201d in the arena of academic publishing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Sylvia Tamale<\/strong>, author, Decolonization and Afro-Feminism <\/em>and African Sexualities<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja is a crucial publisher of radical thought from and for popular struggles around the world, centring the voices of organic intellectuals from today\u2019s movements and grounded in our own activist histories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Laurence Cox<\/strong>, co-editor, activist\/academic social movements journal Interface<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja is a critical building instrument for our revolutionary movements and connecting them throughout the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Kali Akuno<\/strong>, co-founder, Cooperation Jackson, Mississippi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja Press is a crucial node for advancing the collective struggles for the liberation of oppressed people around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Zophia Edwards<\/strong>, Asst Prof, Sociology, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja has the unique talent for picking important but often dense academic topics and books and then transforming them into lucid and accessible reading. Additionally, their modest pricing, clean design, and efficient distribution of print is commendable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Bhakti Shringarpure<\/strong>, Associate Professor, English & WGSS, University of Connecticut, Editor-in-chief, Warscapes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflection, critical analysis, hope as a revolutionary act. These all describe what Daraja Press brings into the world via its pamphlets, books, podcasts, and special series such as \u201cOrganizing in the time of COVID-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Maywa Montenegro de Wit<\/strong>, Assistant Professor, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Center for Justice, UC Santa Cruz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following \u2013 and expanding upon \u2013 the paths forged by such visionary publishers as New Beacon Press and Race & Class \u2013 Daraja Press continues to elucidate, inspire, and push the boundaries of writing from Africa and the diaspora \u2013 in the richest sense of both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Ramsey Kanaan <\/strong>\u2013 Publisher, PM Press<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without fearless words, silence would roam free. Daraja voices the words tyranny can\u2019t silence. \u2014 Tariq Mehmood, <\/strong>an award-winning novelist and documentary filmmaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An amazing achievement. Daraja Press books have rescued revolutionary thought and hope from the past three decades of neoliberal gloom and doom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Issa Shivji<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus of Public Law & First Julius Nyerere Professor of Pan-African Studies, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja Press has created a truly intersectional dialogue between Marxism and critical theory, on the one hand, and, on the other, anti-imperialist thinking emanating from the Global South, especially in terms of African liberation. It is a unique and truly global platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Kevin B. Anderson<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UC-Santa Barbara<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja can be relied upon to offer some of the most probing analysis of the most urgent challenges of our time. Preciously and presciently, the press exemplifies one of the most coherent visions of the role of written ideas in unfinished struggles for human liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Jane Anna Gordon<\/strong>, author of Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement <\/em>and co-editor (with Drucilla Cornell) of Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja Press has become one of the most innovative and exciting publishers in the world today. \u2014 Howard Waitzkin<\/strong>, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Health Sciences and Sociology, University of New Mexico<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja, the KiSwahili Word for \u201cbridge\u201d is just that, a bridge between radical angers, something we need so desperately in this world of fragmented suffering and multiple resistances. A wonderful selection of books, a breeze of stimulation for those of us who get lost so easily in our own locality or our own continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 John Holloway<\/strong>, author Hope in Hopeless Times<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to mention that Daraja\u2019s publications have truly outstanding themes, and I am glad there is a publisher centering the kind of work you put out<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Leonardo E. Figueroa Helland<\/strong>, Chair and Associate Professor of Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management (EPSM), The New School, New York<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From its inception, Daraja Press has been courageous, pathbreaking and unorthodox in its approach to publishing. It has sought out new titles and encouraged writers\u2013new and not-so-new\u2013to come forward and bring their thinking to a global audience. Daraja Press has not shied away from controversy, offering works from a wide range of viewpoints. In every case, the presentation and quality of anything offered by Daraja Press has been top quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Bill Fletcher, Jr., <\/em><\/strong>trade unionist\/writer, coeditor, Claim No EasyVictories<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daraja Press addresses head-on, creatively with critical reflection, the challenges of colonialism, capitalist exploitation, ecological disaster, racism, and sexism in the global struggles for dignity, freedom, liberation, and redemption among and from the proverbial Damned of the Earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014 Lewis R. Gordon<\/strong>, Chair of Awards, The Caribbean Philosophical Association, and Distinguished Scholar, The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Daraja Press\u2019s publisher Firoze Manji is the recipient of the 2021 Nicol\u00e1s Crist\u00f3bal Guill\u00e9n Batista Lifetime Achievement Award<\/strong> from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He is a Transnational Institute (TNI) Associate. In addition, Love after Babel and other poems<\/strong> by Chandramohan S was the winner of the Nicol\u00e1s Crist\u00f3bal Guill\u00e9n Batista Outstanding Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and Revolutionary Hope vs Free-Market Fantasies<\/strong> by John S Saul has been nominated for the Rik Davidson \/ Studies in PoliticalEconomy Book Prize in Political Economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

You can download our latest catalogue here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n