Djibo Sobukwe Dowmload PDF Ahmed Sékou Touré (referred to in this paper as AST or Touré) was a prolific Pan African, nationalist union leader in Guinea, Conakry when Guinea was still under French Colonialism. His disciplined organizing and activism was a decisive factor in the fusion of the trade union movement with the political party,…
Category: Pan-Africanism
International Dimensions in the Resistance to the Atlantic Slave Trade and Colonialism
Abayomi Azikiwe Beginning in the early decades of the 15th century, the African continent faced an unprecedented onslaught where human traffickers and colonisers sought to conquer the people for the purpose of labour exploitation, strategic territorial advantage and the plunder of natural resources. Prior to this period, Western Europe had not been the centre of…
Reflections on the 60th Anniversary of the Convening of the First AAPC Conference in Accra
Abayomi Azikiwe After more than six decades since the gathering of the first All-African People’s Conference (AAPC) in Accra, Ghana on 8-13 December 1958, renewal of revolutionary Pan-Africanism is needed on the continent and globally. At that time Ghana was the fountainhead of Pan-Africanism where the previous year the Convention People’s Party (CPP) and its…
Pan-Africanism as Internationalism
A-APRP January 1st marks the revolutionary anniversaries of Haiti and Cuba, two of the most successful and perhaps the most important revolutions in the Western Hemisphere (known to the indigenous as Turtle Island). As we remember the contributions of comrade Fidel Castro and go into the new year, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party invites you to…
Nkrumah’s All Africa People’s Conference: The Zimbabwean Factor
Brooks Marmon This December marks the 60th anniversary of the All African People’s Conference (AAPC) in Accra, Ghana. The nearly weeklong event in 1958 convened some 200 people representing 60 organisations from 27 countries, including prominent pan-African personalities like Patrice Lumumba and Tom Mboya. It marked a decisive shift in the organisation of pan-Africanist conferences…
Socialism in Africa or One Unified Socialist Africa: The 2-Line Struggle of the African Left
Sobukwe Shukura, A-APRP Central Committee Political Critique of the recently concluded PAT conference in Winneba, Ghana The Pan-Africanism Today (PAT) conference distinguished itself from the right opportunism of 7th PAC (hosted by the neo-colonialist forces in Uganda) and 8th PAC that made no ideological commitment to socialism or mass organizations like workers, women or youth….
Afrocentricity: An Important Feature of the Pan African Tradition
Adjei-Gyamfi Yaw Pan Africanism mural in Tanzania. Photo: Michael Branz/ CC BY 2.0 Afro-centricity, a feature of Pan-Africanism presents Africa with a remedy to the effects of Euro-centrism. It’s time Africans recognized the importance of viewing issues from the African perspective in order to reap the full benefits Afro-centricity offers. Introduction. Following the abolishment of…
Uprooting Colonialism and Dismantling Colonial Ways in the Afrikan Community
Veli Mbele The author offers a detailed analysis on how to decolonise African minds and to fight against neo-colonialism, not only in South Africa, but also across Africa. Introductory remarks Siyacamagusha Mafrika! In the spirit of our ancestors, whose names are unknown and bodies were violently snatched from Afrika and scattered of all over the…
Marcus Garvey and the Afrikan Revolution in the 21st Century
Veli Mbele This paper deals with the meaning of Mwalimu Marcus Garvey and the Afrikan Revolution in the 21st century. Mwalimu Garvey is without doubt one of the most important figures of the Afrikan Revolution in the last 50 years and today, more than 70 years after his passing, his mission of total and unapologetic…
Canada’s Role in the Overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah
Yves Engler Friday, February 24 is the anniversary of the 1966 coup against leading Pan-Africanist Kwame Nkrumah. Canada played a key role. Following the coup, the Canadian High Commissioner in Accra C.E. McGaughey, wrote that “a wonderful thing has happened for the West in Ghana and Canada has played a worthy part.” A half-century and…
Nkrumah: Model Challenge for Ghana’s Rulers
Yao Graham Kwame Nkrumah brought the Convention People’s Party into power within two years of its formation, creating independent Ghana, writes Yao Graham. An overwhelming electoral victory gave Nkrumah a platform for mass anti-colonial mobilisation around Africa. Accra became a staging point for the African anti-colonial movement with the All-African People’s Conference, drawing delegates from…
Pan-Africanism in Mwalimu Nyerere’s Thought
Issa G Shivji Outlining the essential differences between the respective approaches of Julius Nyerere and Kwame Nkrumah, Issa G. Shivji discusses the gradualist and radical positions of two pillars of the Pan-Africanist movement. Underlining the notion of an independent African state as a ‘national liberation movement in power’ as being at the very core of…
