REVOLUTIONARY VOICES AGAINST IMPERIALISM Pan-African News Wire Steve Bantu Biko, a political activist and writer, is regarded as the father of the Black Consciousness movement in the Union of South Africa. Biko’s short 30-year life was consumed with the development of an acute awareness of the evils of apartheid, the social system under which non-whites…
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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…
Thinking Fanon: 50 Years Later
Fanonian translations in and beyond ‘Fanon Studies’ Nigel C. Gibson The documentary Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work (Algeria/France, 52 mins.), director Cheikh Djemai uncovered and interviewed scores of former associates of Frantz Fanon, a psychiatrist, philosopher and political leader. He became a spokesman for the Algerian revolution against French colonialism, and as…
Fanon: The Pitfalls Of Nationalist Consciousness
Frantz Fanon, 1961 The Wretched of the Earth Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon Source: Les damnés de la terre by François Maspéro éditeur in 1961; First published: in Great Britain by Macgibbon and Kee in 1965; Transcribed: by Dominic Tweedie. History teaches us clearly that the battle against colonialism does not run straight…
Africa And The Struggle Against Imperialism: Fourty Years After Kwame Nkrumah
April 27 marked the fortieth anniversary of the passing of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the founder of modern-day Ghana and a leading theoretician of the post-World War II national liberation movement for unity and socialism. Nkrumah’s legacy is still very much a part of the ongoing efforts of the peoples of Africa and the world who…
Remembering Ahmed Ben Bella
The first president of independent Algeria (1963-1965) Ahmed Ben Bella passed away on April 11th, 2012 at the age of 96 years. At the time of his death we are reprinting the interview he granted us in Geneva on April 16, 2006. – Silvia Cattori Ahmed Ben Bella is one of the great figures of…
Ahmed Ben Bella Inspired Millions Around The World
Algerian leader made monumental contributions to the African Revolution Abayomi Azikiwe Libya 360° Ahmed Ben Bella, 95, passed away on April 11 leaving a legacy of struggle for national independence, state building and democratic processes in the 20th and 21stcenturies. His name became legendary during the 1950s when he and other Algerians initiated the movement…
PAIGC Statement on the Military Coup in Guinea-Bissau
African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape – Verde National Secretariat of the Central Committee Permanent Committee of the Political Bureau PRESS RELEASE Gathered today, April 14, 2012, in Bissau, at the National Headquarters of the Party, under the chairmanship of Comrade Commandant, Manuel Saturnino Domingos Costa, First Vice-President of the Party, the Permanent…
Nord-Sud XXI Tribute To President Ahmed Ben Bella
President Ahmed Ben Bella: A Rare Hero and an Unique Inspiration On Wednesday, April 11, 2012, President Ahmed Ben Bella, Algeria’s first president and the hero of its independence passed away at age 95. This iconic figure passed away in Algiers, the capital of the country he immensely loved and whose freedom he cherished at…
Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal
RussiaToday Full interview. RT has become the first TV channel in the world to speak to former journalist and Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal since he was removed from death row in January. Abu-Jamal will spend his life behind bars. Considered by many to be a flagrant miscarriage of justice, the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal has…
