The Kampuchean Experience 1979, written by Esrom Mokgakala, who lived among the people before the Vietnamese invasion; provides a firsthand account of the revolutionary transformation of Democratic Kampuchea before the Vietnamese invasion. As a member of the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania, the author analyzes the principles of self-reliance, the mobilization of the peasantry, and the construction of a socialist state free from foreign interference.