Fighting Words : Fifteen books that shaped the postcolonial world From Communism to postcapitalism : Karl Marx and Friedrich Engelss The Communist manifesto (1848) Dominic Davies Anna Julia Coopers A voice from the South (1892) : Black feminism and human rights Imaobong Umoren Emily Hobhouse The brunt of the war and where it fell Christina Twomey W.E.B. Du Boiss The souls of Black folk (1903) : of the veil and the colour line of double consciousness and second sight Reiland Rabaka Wake up India : a plea for social reform (1913) : Annie Besants anti colonial networks Priyasha Mukhopadhyay Sol Plaatjes Native life in South Africa (1916) : the politics of belonging Janet Remmington Making freedom : Jawaharlal Nehrus An autobiography (1936) and The discovery of India (1946) Elleke Boehmer Joseph B. Danquahs The Akan doctrine of God (1944) : anticolonial fragments Rouven Kunstmann The resistant forces of myth : Miguel Ángel Asturiass Men of maize (1949) Johanna Richter The hip hop legacies of Cheikh Anta Diops Nations nègres et culture (1954) Ruth Bush Culture in transition : Rajat Neogys Transition (1961 8) and the decolonization of African literature Asha Rogers Frantz Fanons The wretched of the earth (1961) : the spectre of the third world project John Narayan The match is in the spinifex : Frank Hardy The unlucky Australians (1968) Benjamin Mountford Provenance identification and confession in Sally Morgans My place (1987) Michael R. Griffiths Freedom fighter postcolonial saint : the symbolic legacy of Nelson Mandelas Long walk to freedom (1994) Erica Lombard