A-APRP Portion of Comrades from the A-APRP 50th Anniversary Commemoration in Ghana Several 50 Year activities commemorating Kwame Nkrumah writing and publishing of the “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare” in 1968 were organized by the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) in Ghana in September of 2018. These activities demonstrated a living example of Nkrumah’s call…
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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….
Unite or Perish: A Pan-African Cry
Kwame Nkrumah remained committed to the fight against capitalism and its effect: the underdevelopment of Africa. On the occasion of the commemoration of his 109th birthday, we should revisit his call for a united continent. Adjei-Gyamfi Yaw How good and pleasant it would be before God and man to see the unification of all Africans….
Fred M’membe: The Progressive Socialist Wave Has Dawned on the African Continent
Lusaka Times The 2021 presidential candidate of the Socialist Party, Fred M’membe was recently in Ghana where declared that a progressive wave has dawned in Africa. Speaking at the Founder’s Day celebrations in Winneba, Ghana on Friday, September 21, 2018, Dr M’membe declared that Dr Kwame Nkrumah’s socialist revolutionary ideas were on the resurgence, and…
Who Was Kwame Nkrumah, Leader of the First Independent African Country?
Rute Pina Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum in Accra, capital of Ghana / Nina Fideles “We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world! Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.” With those words, African political leader Kwame…
Ghana: Pan-African Activists Remember Slavery at Africa’s Largest Slave Trading Post
Rute Pina More than 400 people from 50 countries are taking part in conference in Winneba, Ghana / Nina Fideles Activists from 50 countries gathered on Thursday to remember the forced dispersion of black people – also known as African diaspora – at Africa’s largest slave trading site. The group met at the São Jorge…
3 Words Describe Kwame Nkrumah: ‘Africa Must Unite’
Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind. Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought. It is clear that we find an African Solution to our problems and that this can only be found in African unity. Divided we are…
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…
Amilcar Cabral: Imperialism, Betrayal and the African Liberation Struggle
Amilcar Cabral’s Speech at the Funeral of Kwame Nkrumah English Transcript: Homage to Kwame Nkrumah Amilcar Cabral – Conakry Guinea 1972 After the speeches we have heard today and, most of all, after the statement, as militant as it was moving, by our elder brother and companion in struggle, President Ahmed Sekou Touré, what more…
Kwame Nkrumah | The People of Africa are Crying for Unity
‘The People Of Africa Are Crying For Unity’ Introduction African Union has its roots in the Organisation of African Unity (OAU). It is thus fitting to look back in order to look forward. On 24 May 1963, as 32 independent African countries met in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to find ways to unite the…
Kwame Nkrumah | I Speak of Freedom
Kwame Nkrumah 1961 For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilise” Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people. All…
Kwame Nkrumah | African Socialism
Kwame Nkrumah 1967 The term “socialism” has become a necessity in the platform diction and political writings of African leaders. It is a term which unites us in the recognition that the restoration of Africa’s humanist and egalitarian principles of society calls for socialism. All of us, therefore, even though pursuing widely contrasting policies in…
