Browsing: Pan African

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’…

It’s time for Africans to start asking uncomfortable questions, according to renowned Pan-Africanist Joshua Maponga. And that includes scrutinising what warped interpretation European Christianity has brought…

For Wednesday’s Wisdom this week, we remember the words of great Congolese pan-African revolutionary Patrice Lumumba (1925-61). They’re as relevant as ever, with his home country…

The word ‘terrorist’ has been bandied around since the US kicked off its ‘War on T*rror’ in 2001 and really even before that. But who gets…

The struggle against censorship and in defence of independent media that serves the interests of the African majority has become a vital part of the Pan-Africanist…

On 2 December, Kenyan lawyer Martha Karua announced she has gathered a ‘Pan-African’ group of lawyers to defend Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye (@kizzabesigye1 of @FDCOfficial1…

Ahead of the 60th anniversary of Pan-Africanist Malcolm X’s assassination, Dr Ilyasah Shabazz, his third daughter, said at a New York City press conference on 15…