Amilcar Cabral, 1924-1973 Carlos Pinto Santos Translated by John D. Godinho WHEN IT ALL HAPPENED… 1924: Amílcar Cabral is born on September 12, in Bafatá, Guinea. – 1932: Moves to Cabo Verde. – 1943: Finishes secondary schooling in Mindelo, on the island of São Vicente. – 1944: Obtains a job at the National Printing Office,…
Category: Africa
Haile Selassie’s Address to the United Nations
Haile Selassie By Haile Selassie Spoken to the United Nations General Assembly on October 6, 1963. This speech is typically credited as the inspiration for Bob Marley’s hit song “War”. The translation is that provided by the United Nations, running concurrent with his speech. Twenty-seven years ago, as Emperor of Ethiopia, I mounted the rostrum…
Cuba, Cuito Cuanavale And The Revolutionary Struggle In Africa
Cuito Cuanavale: How Cuba fought for Africa’s freedom Barry Healy This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale, a heroic struggle in which, between October 1987 and June 1988, in some of the fiercest fighting in Africa since the Second World War, the South African Defence Force (SADF) were humiliatingly defeated…
Who Killed the Lion King?
Why do We Always Betray those of Us that Fight for Afrika’s Freedom? Thomas Sankara.Born on December 21, 1949, in Upper Volta, formerly Burkina Faso; died Oct 15,1987 in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. ‘I would like to leave behind me the conviction that if we maintain a certain amount of caution and organization we deserve victory……
Hugo Chavez Proud of African Heritage
President Hugo Chavez September 20, 2005
Safeguarding Nasser’s Legacy
Hoda Abdel-Nasser, daughter of the late president, has spent her professional career as a historian gathering the materials for a just assessment of her father’s life and legacy, as she explains to Gamal Nkrumah Click to view caption Nasser with Hoda and her family; A close family friend of the Nkrumahs, Nasser holds the…
Nelson Mandela’s Speech In Honor Of Muammar Gaddafi
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT A LUNCHEON IN HONOUR OF MUAMAR QADDAFI, LEADER OF THE REVOLUTION OF THE LIBYAN JAMAHARIYA Cape Town, 13 June 1999 Your Excellencies Distinguished Guests And My Dear Brother Leader Those who dedicate themselves to causes affecting the lives of millions ought to have a clear understanding of history. They…
Muammar Gaddafi vs. the New World Order
By Husayn Al-Kurdi How can a country of less than five million people, located on Africa’s northern shores and harboring much of the inhospitable Sahara desert, become the object of an aggressive US-CIA campaign of destabilization, subversion, and attack for almost three decades? And why is its revolutionary leader, Mu’ammar al-Qaddafi, so relentlessly vilified and…
