Professor PLO Lumumba Calls Africa to Unite

Keynote speech delivered by Prof PLO Lumumba at the Pan-African Parliament. As we celebrate Africa Day, we must remind ourselves that there is a lot of work to be done. Africa has made her gains, but those gains have been modest. We could have done better.

Afrocentrism

Shujaa al-Rashid Culture implies our struggle; it is our struggle. Sekou Toure  Garveyism and Afrocentrism, while different, are grounded in their shared nature of being expressions of a call for National conscience. Both call upon their adherents to recognize an “acknowledgment and need to return to origins” (Asa G. Hilliard III). The phrase suggests an understanding…

Steps to a Socialist Pan-African Movement

Nicholas Mwangi A recently published book by Vita books publishers Essays on Pan-Africanismedited by Shiraz Durrani & Noosim Naimasiah contains essays on Pan-Africanism written by Pan-Africanist intellectuals at various times. In its preface, Prof. Issa Shivji says writings on Pan-Africanism never become dated for the desire of Africans globally for freedom continues burning, sometimes dimming into…

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…

Insurgent Theory in Times of Crisis: Dani Wadada Nabudere’s The Political Economy of Imperialism

CORINNA MULLIN Dani Wadada Nabudere (1932-2011) was a prolific Marxist-Leninist, Pan-Africanist, anti-imperialist scholar, freedom fighter, lawyer and politician whose knowledge production was firmly rooted in his extensive and diverse political experience. It is remarkable that he is not more renowned worldwide given his stature. It is hard to make sense of a figure like Nabudere…

20 Years After Durban: Africans and Afro-Descendants Colonized or Emancipated?

Mireille Fanon Mendes France The 20th anniversary of the World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) is an opportunity to analyze the state of African descended people. Reparations for centuries of crimes against humanity must still be paid. At the end of the Durban -2001- conference, the international community, many NGOs, social movements and members of what…