After the Year of Africa: W.E.B. Du Bois, Immanuel Wallerstein, & the Sociology of Decolonisation www.jhiblog.org/2025/08/25/a...

📝 My new article on Immanuel Wallerstein is out in Journal of World-Systems Research. It builds on my earlier piece for @roapejournal.bsky.social and examines how Marxism shaped The Modern World-System. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

📝 My new article on Immanuel Wallerstein is out in Journal of World-Systems Research. It builds on my earlier piece for @roapejournal.bsky.social and examines how Marxism shaped The Modern World-System. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

In today's think-piece, Sam Chian discusses Immanuel Wallerstein alongside W.E.B. Du Bois as a theorist of decolonization and Pan-Africanism.

1/🧵 Immanuel Wallerstein is known for his world-systems analysis. But few recall that his ideas were shaped by engagement with African decolonisation. In the 1960s, #Wallerstein lived and travelled across #Africa, meeting #Fanon and Samir Amin, and admiring #Nkrumah and Cabral.

2/🧵 To learn more about Wallerstein decade-long engagement with African liberation, read Sam Chian’s article in the latest #ROAPE: “Immanuel Wallerstein as Africanist: From Modernisation to #Marxism in the 1960s” buff.ly/guHkkIj

To mark Fanon’s 100th, Sam Chian revisits The Wretched of the Earth, examining Fanon’s critique of the national bourgeoisie and the working class while exploring his faith in the peasantry and international solidarity to achieve socialism. #Fanon100 buff.ly/7YXVZnn