Pan Africanism Today Secretariat All-Africa Peoples Conference Accra, Ghana 1958. May 25 is celebrated as African Liberation Day. It is a commemoration of the struggles for liberation from colonialism, and specifically marks a key date in the struggle for Pan-African unity: the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. Comprising 21 member…
Category: Africa
The Enduring Relevance of Kwame Nkrumah’s Road Map to Revolution
A-APRP In 2018 the All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) commemorated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kwame Nkrumah’s historic book “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare.” The Central Committee of the A-APRP (the organization’s leadership body) re-read and discussed the book’s continuing relevance during a series of meetings. What follows is an “interview” with the…
Finally, Africa Speaks for Itself: Ten Minutes that Shook the World
Chairman Omali Yeshitela delivers a historic 10 minute presentation in January 2019 at Oxford Union – arguing in favor of a closer African union and calling for African Revolution as the only solution to overturn the social system that is, as the Chairman so clearly articulates, “responsible for the growing immiseration of the masses of…
How African People Became the Face of Anti-Semitism
Ahjamu Umi & Onyesonwu Chatoyer Zionism as a Political Movement First, in order for anyone to fully comprehend the contradictions that the Zionist movement presents, its essential for us to understand the difference between Zionism – a political movement – and Judaism, a faith practice. Judaism as a religion is, of course, one of the…
Frantz Fanon: The Brightness of Metal
The Tricontinental On this earth there is that which deserves life. – Mahmoud Darwish Frantz Fanon was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique on 25 July 1925. He died in the United States, from leukaemia, on 6 December 1961. He was thirty-six years old. At thirty-six he had been a protagonist in two wars,…
Decolonization, Decoloniality, and the Future of African Studies: A Conversation with Dr. Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Duncan Omanga At the sidelines of the recently concluded African Studies Association (ASA) annual meeting held in Boston (November 21–23, 2019), Prof. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, a prominent voice on the debate on decolonization, had a conversation with Duncan Omanga, program officer for the African Peacebuilding Network and the Next Generation Social Sciences program, on the…
Who Was the Woman Behind Lumumba?
Annette Joseph-Gabriel The life of Lumumba advisor, Andree Blouin, offers lessons about the historically racialized and sexualized representations of women of color in politics. Fifty-nine years ago today, on January 17, 1961, Congolese prime minister and independence leader, Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated by firing squad. In the months leading up to his death, the world’s…
The Class Struggle as Driving Force of History: The Unique and Dynamic Contribution of the Philosophy of Ahmed Sékou Touré
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,…
President Thomas Sankara: A 70th Birthday Tribute
Chika Ezeanya-Esiobu President Thomas Isidore Noel Sankara would have turned 70 on the 21st of December 2019. At the tender age of 37, however, he was felled by bullets from soldiers loyal to his best friend, Blaise Campaore. Thomas Sankara’s passion was Africa’s advancement; his experimental field was Burkina Faso. What President Sankara wanted to…
Thomas Sankara: Speech Before the General Assembly of the United Nations
Delivered: In French, at the United Nations General Assembly, in New York City, on 4 October 1984. Source of the Translation into English: United Nationas (1984), United Nations General Assembly Official Records, 20th Plenary Meeting, Thursday, 4 October 1984, at 10.40 a.m., New York, (A/39/PV.20), pp. 405-410. This edition: Marxists Internet Archive, January 2019. I…
How to Find a Tiger in Africa: Searching for Agostinho Neto (1922 –1979)
T.P. Wilkinson The history of liberated Angola, like the history of the world, cannot be told by humanity’s oppressors. “In the jargon of the ‘West,’ anyone called a communist who becomes a head of state must be a dictator.” What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I…
The “Other” Farewell Letter from Ernesto Che Guevara to Fidel Castro is Published
Javier Larraín Just a few days ago, in the city of Havana, the Ernesto Che Guevara Study Center and the publisher Ocean Sur presented Epistolario de un tiempo. Letters 1947-1967, a voluminous copy that groups and classifies dozens of letters written by Ernesto Che Guevara throughout his life; most of them known, but distributed in…
