Browsing: Liberation

In this video, filmed right after the liberation of Khartoum, a boy relates what life was like under occupation by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary…

The liberation of Khartoum has been celebrated across Sudan. For the men who were being held captive in the capital by the United Arab Emirates-backed Rapid…

Today, 17 February, would have marked Huey P Newton’s 83rd birthday. A gang assassinated the Black Panther Party (BPP) co-founder after he dedicated his life to…

We explore the life of the great pan-African leader Kwame Nkrumah. After spending a year in a British colonial jail for organising a ‘positive action’ campaign…

The liberation of Black people will not come out of an individualistic pursuit of capitalist success – as embodied by figures such as Rockefeller or DuPont.…

Afro-Caribbean revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon is perhaps the most influential anti-colonial thinker of his time. He died on this day, December 6th, in 1961. His…

Niger hosted the historic ‘Conference in Solidarity with the Peoples of the Sahel’ on 19-21 November in its capital, Niamey. Socialists worldwide representing popular movements, labour…

In this clip, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo responds to a journalist’s question about Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger’s breakaway from – and potential for rejoining -…

This week’s Wednesday Wisdom scoop from the late author and thinker Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) serves as a reminder of the significance of history when…