This text tells the full history of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) and the New Afrikan Independence Movement. Edward Onaci shows how New Afrikans remade their lifestyles to create a self-consciously revolutionary culture, and argues that the RNA's tactics and ideology were essential to the evolution of Black political struggles.

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Birth of the New Afrikan Independence Movement: a historical overview -- The fruition of Black Power: paper-citizenship and the intellectual foundations of lifestyle politics -- Revolutionary name choices: self-definition and self-determination -- New Afrikan lifestyle politics -- Cointel's got blacks in hell: state repression & black liberation -- For New Afrikan people's war: lessons and legacies of the New Afrikan Independence Movement -- On terrorism, lingering silences, and the inextinguishable determination to free the land.