How Guinea and the PDG Helped Shape Modern Pan-Africanism

 Ahjamu Umi Today, the European left has embraced African revolutionaries like Amilcar Cabral from Guinea-Bissau.  If you follow their writings on his contributions, you would believe he was a Marxist-Leninist who was seeking to build a Marxist-Leninist party in Guinea-Bissau.  In Ghana, the truth and actual legacy of Kwame Nkrumah is finally being brought to the surface and as…

Thomas Sankara – Decolonization, Love, and Trust in the People: A New Humanity for Ending Oppression

Takudzwa Hillary Chiwanza Thomas Sankara understood that liberation—embodying the whole process of decolonization — originates from the admission that the oppressed have internalized the oppressor. Colonial oppression in Africa did not end with the attainment of political independence. Rather, direct colonial domination on African peoples by the colonialist bourgeoisie of Europe and the United States…

Liberal Democracy: The Bedfellow of Fascism

Erica Caines Dead US senator John McCain went to Ukraine and stood on stage with neo-Nazi Oleh Tyahnybok back in 2013. Antifascism, as a politic and concept, has grown more appealing in the last 6 years because of the rise of right-wing authoritarianism domestically and globally rooted in patriarchy and ongoing (settler) colonialism. Nonetheless, there…

35 Years After His Assassination, Thomas Sankara Still Inspires Liberation in Africa

Nigel Flanagan People gather for a wreath laying ceremony in front of the building where Thomas Sankara was assassinated in 1987 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, April 6, 2022, after the verdict of the trial of his assassins. | Sophie Garcia / AP Thirty-five years ago this month, one of Africa’s greatest revolutionaries was murdered by…

Chairman Omali Yehsitela Speaks at REFAL in Newark, New Jersey

Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks at a “Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa!” event hosted by the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations at the REFAL center in Newark, New Jersey. Demand Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! HandsOffUhuru.org/petition

Chairman Omali: The Significance of White Solidarity with Black Power

On Sunday, October 9, 2022, Chairman Omali Yeshitela speaks to the Toward Justice Committee of the First Unitarian Universalist Church of St. Louis about the significance of the Black Power Blueprint, reparations to African people and solidarity from the white community. Learn more about the Black Power Blueprint at blackpowerblueprint.org