Source: I Speak of Freedom: A Statement of African Ideology (London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1961), pp. xi-xiv. Transcribed: Internet Modern History Sourcebook Transcription Edit/HTML: Mike B. 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,…
Category: Revolutionary Voices
Remembering Thomas Sankara
Il y a 25 ans, Thomas Sankara était assassiné : Ses visions sont vivantes comme jamais ! Eric van Grasdorff Sankara était non seulement un visionnaire, mais un précurseur réaliste et efficace. Il s’engageait de manière crédible avec des programmes concrets. Le fait qu’il ait réalisé tant de réformes dans cette courte période démontre ce…
Kwame Nkrumah: Independence Speech 1957
Courtesy of Mudiwa Libyan Revolutionary Committees Movement Independence Speech Kwame Nkrumah March 6, 1957, Accra, Ghana At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever! And yet again, I want to take the opportunity to thank the people of this country; the youth, the farmers, the women who…
Kwame Nkrumah: The People Of Africa Are Crying For Unity
Courtesy of Mudiwa Libyan Revolutionary Committees Movement ‘The People Of Africa Are Crying For Unity’ Kwame Nkrumah 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…
World Premiere of Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey With Mumia Abu-Jamal
An interview with filmmakers Noelle Hanrahan and Steve Vittoria Angola 3 News On October 6, the new documentary film entitled Long Distance Revolutionary: A Journey with Mumia Abu-Jamal, will be making its world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival, just north of San Francisco. Mumia Abu-Jamal is a veteran journalist, author of seven books,…
The Secret Scheme To Sabotage Abu-Jamal’s Appeal Rights
Linn Washington Jr. Mumia, off death row but fighting to escape life in prison, with attorney Rachel Wolkenstein and his wife Wadiya Jamal Mumia Abu-Jamal, the internationally recognized American political prisoner, thwarted a Philadelphia judge’s secretive court order that could have eliminated his future appeal rights when he filed a last- minute motion on August…
Black August 2004 by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Courtesy of Ezili Danto Ezili Danto’s Note: August 22, 2012 – On the 221st anniversary, Haiti’s revolution for economic democracy and against the tyrannical profit over people paradigm, continues… Black August 2004 by Mumia Abu-Jamal on the Haiti Revolution Mumia Abu-Jamal’s Radio Broadcasts Recorded 07-18-04 Black August 2004 MP3 Among these large bodies, the little…
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man
Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man is a 2006 documentary film about Thomas Sankara, former president of Burkina Faso. Sankara was known as “the African Che”, and became famous in Africa due to his innovative ideas, his devastating humor, his spirit and his altruism. With a gun in one hand and Karl Marx’s works in the…
Queen Mother Moore: A Life of Struggle
“You’ve got to be prepared to lose your life in order to gain your life.” Queen Mother Moore Queen Mother Moore, a long time revolutionary activist and fighter against the oppression of Black people, died on Friday, May 7 in Brooklyn, New York. Queen Mother Moore was one person about whom it could truly be…
Nhrumah’s Literary Contributions: Propagandist For Pan-Africanism And Socialist Revolution
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…
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…
