Browsing: Liberation

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…