From the United States, Britain and back to Africa the Osagyfo has continuing resonance Author’s Note: The following are excerpts from a presentation delivered in a class for the Marxist School of Theory and Struggle in New York City on June 16, 2012. The class was entitled Revolutionary Voices From the Oppressed World. The class…
Category: Africa
Revolutionary Perspectives: Nicaragua And Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya
Link >> Lizzie Phelan and toni solo discuss events since the 2011 elections and their context Part one: Witnessing Revolution and counterrevolution over three decades in Nicaragua Women and the Sandinista Revolution Part two: Renewable energy revolution Psy-warfare against Nicaragua by European and American media and intellectuals The background of the solidarity between Gaddafi’s Libya…
The Hour Of The Furnaces: Neo-Colonialism, Violence And Liberation
Part I Part II Part III “The camera is the inexhaustible expropriator of image-weapons; the projector, a gun that can shoot 24 frames a second.” Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, “Towards a Third Cinema” (via thevirtualself) “This legendary underground film criticized neo-colonialism and called for the overthrow of the Argentine government. Intended to be a…
Patrice Lumumba: The Sacrifice Of A True African Leader
Photo: Patrice Lumumba (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961), the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Congo Republic was murdered by a CIA- sponsored plot, over 50 years ago. We must move forward, striking out tirelessly against imperialism. From all over the world we have to learn lessons which events afford. Lumumba’s murder…
Afro Venezuelans and Chávez Frías
Afro Venezuelans and Hugo Chavez The Impact of Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution on the Afro Venezuelan Communities, a forum organized in Washington, DC, by IPS’ SALSA and Grupo Afro Descendiente. Professors Gerónimo Sanchez-Garcia and Alejandro Correa-Ortega, from the Instituto Universitario de Barlovento (IUB) of Venezuela, spoke about the advances of Afro descendants in the education system…
Kony 2012 And America’s Conquest Of Africa’s Mineral Wealth
Nile Bowie As public interest in African affairs briefly found a place in mainstream talking points following a controversial viral video campaign about Ugandan rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), both the United States and the African Union are mobilizing military forces to Central Africa to counter further threats to civilian safety posed by…
From Nicaragua to Syria, Journalism is Dead. Long Live Psy-warfare.
By Jorge Capelan and toni solo Journalism has been rendered obsolete by the reporting practice of media in NATO countries and their allies. Recent wars from the Ivory Coast to Libya and now Syria only confirm what was already clear after the chain of wars in the 1990s, in former Yugoslavia, Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, the…
US In Uganda: $50 Million More To Help Museveni Hunt Kony?
Ann Garrison US Senate Armed Services Comittee-Uganda-Kony-Barbara Allimadi.mp3 >>
Finding The Land Of Punt, Africa’s Lost Great Civilization
Thomas C. Mountain Pan-African News Wire After many years of often rancorous debate, Africa’s last, lost, great civilization, The Land of Punt, has been proven to be located in the modern east African country of Eritrea. Using laboratory analysis of Baboon mummies from Punt found in ancient burials in Egypt scientists have conclusively established that…
Joseph Kony Has Been Dead For Two Years
An informant in contact with Libya 360° has confirmed that the Lord’s Resistance Army leader, Joseph Kony, died two years ago. He was captured in Northern Uganda during an operation sponsored by US Special forces who participated in the capture, torture and execution of Joseph Kony, hundreds of his fighters and children (many pre-teen) who…
