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Daraja Press is a not-for-profit publisher, based in Québec, Canada, that seeks to reclaim the past, contest the present and invent the future. Daraja is the KiSwahili word for 'bridge'.
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Kidnapped on the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza (opens the original)
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Fra Hughes, a Belfast-born activist and author of Kidnapped on the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza 2026, secured a place on the 2026 Global Sumud Flotilla after an earlier attempt in 2025 ended when his boat's engine failed near Crete. He sailed for 50 days—from 5 April to 24 May 2026—aboard the yacht Diablo with an international crew that included a former RAF fighter pilot turned captain. About 600 miles from Gaza, Israeli forces began intercepting dozens of boats. Hughes broadcast a Mayday befo
Taking up the spear with Joe Pillay (opens the original)
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Taking Up the Spear is the firsthand account of Shadrack Maphumulo, an ordinary South African who becomes a freedom fighter against apartheid. The narrative traces his life from a rural Zulu childhood, shaped by stories of the Bambatha Rebellion, to his early working years in Durban where he faces systemic racism, slave wages, and the humiliating pass laws. His entrepreneurial dreams—first a taxi, then a shop—are systematically crushed by a white supremacist government that reserves prosperity f
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