Browsing: Pan African

With our continent experiencing a renaissance in pan-African, anti-imperialist sentiment – as embodied in revolutions and new alliances in the Sahel – it’s an apt time…

Six decades ago, the African world was robbed of two revolutionary giants. Kenya’s freedom fighter Pio Gama Pinto and pan-African revolutionary Malcolm X were assassinated within…

Last year, agents of imperialism accused African Stream, an independent Pan-Africanist news outlet, of being ‘secretly funded’ by Russia. The attacks, beginning with false reports by…

Pan-Africanist icon and Zimbabwe’s first post-independence leader, Robert Mugabe, was born on this day, 21 February, in 1924. The larger-than-life politician, who died of cancer at…

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…

In this 1964 clip, we see Pan-Africanist Malcolm X (1925-65) pushing back on CBS News reporters who, like mainstream media past and present, love to strip…

On this day in 1979, pan-Africanist singer, actor and activist Paul Robeson died at 77. During his life, Robeson’s anti-imperialist views put him in the crosshairs…

Pan-African activist Arikana Chihombori-Quao tells a funny story here about getting to her hotel room in Ghana, only to find a portrait of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth…

Search for ‘African Stream’ on Wikipedia. Notice how the first line immediately alleges that our pan-African, anti-imperialist outlet is a Kremlin proxy? As far back as…

Guinea’s first president and Pan-Africanist leader, Ahmed Sékou Touré (1922-84), championed the revolutionary idea that Africa should ‘liquidate all dependence complex’ by striving to achieve ‘real’…