Adam Mayer's Military Marxism: Africa’s Contribution to Revolutionary Theory, 1957–2023 is a tremendously important book that serves to highlight the theoretical and practical achievements of Marxist intellectuals and Marxist states on the African continent. Mayer successfully shows that the prevalent contempt towards the achievements of radical postcolonial African states is both epistemically unwarranted and politically dangerous.

Zeyad el Nabolsy, York University

Building on his groundbreaking work, Naija Marxisms, Adam Mayer turns the lens of his powerful scholarship to the communist intellectuals who influenced liberation struggles across Africa. He concludes that intellectual historians need to study African revolutionaries now more than ever.

Onwubiko Agozino, Virginia Tech