Amilcar Cabral Study Group Amílcar Cabral (center) with members of the Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC). Working people across the world are struggling against the economic domination and exploitation, which has been greatly intensified amid COVID-19 pandemic. On the 96 anniversary of the birth of Amílcar Cabral, we examine…
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Revolutionary Pan-Africanist Amilcar Cabral Considered the 2nd Greatest Leader of Humanity
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party Amilcar Cabral Source: pro-africa.org At the beginning of this year, BBC World Histories Magazine asked historians to nominate the ‘greatest leader’ –someone who exercised power and had a positive impact on humanity – and to explore their achievements and legacy. More than 5,000 readers voted, and in second place, with 25…
Civilizational Decay and Colonial Mentalities. Some Reflections on and from Frantz Fanon
Gonzalo Armúa and Jean Jores Pierre When in March 1945 the Allied Army was preparing to cross the Rhine River, advance on Germany and thus give the final blow to Nazism, among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and colonial troops was a young West Indian. He wore a Croix de Guerre medal for his…
#OmaliTaughtMe: African and Mexican Women in the Struggle for Liberation!
A continuation of the #OmaliTaughtMe special series featuring the Mexican liberation organization Union del Barrio! This week, Chairman Omali Yeshitela will be joined by representatives from the African National Women’s Organization, President Yejide Orunmilla, and ANWO’s Occupied Azania (South Africa) Coordinator, Connie Hutchison, as well as the Union del Barrio Women’s Commission: Adriana Simon, Erica…
Interrogating Systemic Racism and the White Academic Field
Nelson Maldonado-Torres “As a university and as an academic institution, you can say we are against systemic racism. But you as an academic institution are systemic racism.” Kalin Pont-Tate, co-chair of the Black Student Union at the University of California, Riverside.[1] Institutions of higher learning are following the trend in the media, public institutions,…
#OmaliTaughtMe: Unity of African and Mexican People
Uhuru, Comrades! Introducing an #OmaliTaughtMe special series: A discussion with #ChairmanOmaliYeshitela and Unión del Barrio’s Under-Secretary General Benjamín Prado on #CommunityControlOfThePolicd, #DefundThePolice, and more. Join us this Sunday as we discuss the Unity of #African and #Mexican people in the struggle against the colonial state! Home
Nkrumah: The Forces Arrayed Against Us Are Formidable
Excerpt Full Speech Step to Freedom: Address by Osagyefo the President in Accra to the Nationalist Conference of African Freedom Fighters, on 4th June, 1962. The Conference which took place in Ghana – Accra, brought together freedom fighters from all over Africa including independent and colonized states, to address the way forward to the objective…
#OmaliTaughtMe Sunday Study: The Regional Strategy
Uhuru Comrades! For this Sunday’s study we will conclude the “Unity of Theory and Practice” series with the Party’s Regional Strategy, introducing our National Director of Organization Chimurenga Selembao and our regional leaders: Malika, Matumb, Bakari, and Kobina. Join at https://apspuhuru.org
Revisiting Cabral’s ‘Weapon of Theory’
Ndangwa Noyoo Africa’s post-colonial history is one of unfulfilled missions because the national leadership has been lacking in revolutionary theory and ideology. Since so-called independence, Africa is still awaiting that moment when leaders such as Cabral will once again rise to the occasion and drive an agenda for the total liberation of Africa, from all…
The Weapon of Theory
Amilcar Cabral Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966. If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts have been removed by what we…
African Liberation Day: Historical Perspective for Pan Africanism Today
Peoples Dispatch Justice Henaku discusses the political, historical, and cultural importance of African Liberation Day for the people on the African continent, of the African diaspora and across the world. May 25 is being marked across the world African Liberation Day. It marks the foundation of the Organisation of African Unity in 1963 in Addis…
All-African People’s Revolutionary Party: African Liberation Day 2020
The All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) and the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (A-AWRU) are commemorating the 63rd Anniversary of African Liberation Day. This years theme is: “Imperialist Sanctions on Zimbabwe, Cuba and Venezuela are Acts of War: Africans Everywhere Must Fight”
