In the spring of 1845, Karl Marx wrote the now well-known line "philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it". Here, Kenyan journalist and writer Mohamed Amin Abdishukri first interpets recent events in Kenya, arguing protests have been more reformist than revolutionary. He then details how, through the founding in 2017 of Kenya's first socialist library, Ukombozi Library, a group of progressive social justice activists are working to bring revolutionary consciousness directly to the masses and encouraging them to imagine alternative realities that go beyond capitalism.

By Pascal Bianchini In this interview, Mamadou Koné, curator at the Musée historique des forces armées du Sénégal, looks back at the long history of the Senegalese riflemen, the African...