Pan-African

On This Day In 1987: Burkina Faso’s Pan-African President Thomas Sankara Was Assassinated

By Mideast Monitor Photos: YouTube Screenshots On this day in 1987 Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara was assassinated in a coup plot involving ...

Nkrumah and Kennedy

Burkina Faso Coup and Other Woes—United States of Africa remains Imperative

Kwame Nkrumah shown with Kennedy during a state visit to the United States in 1961. The U.S. was already working to depose him. In ...

Blaise Compaore

Justice for Thomas Sankara: Extradite Blaise Compaore To Burkina Faso!

Convicted killer Blaise Compaore A military court in Burkina Faso on January 6, 2022 handed a life-sentence to former president Blaise Compaore for his ...

Kenneth Kaunda

One Week After His Death, Tributes Continue For Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda, Last of the Liberation Giants

The late Kenneth Kaunda. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Leaders from across the world continue to pay tribute to Kenneth Kaunda, Zambia’s founding president and Pan ...

Kaunda

Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda Dies–Africa loses last of original Pan African giants

Kaunda shown with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. back in the day. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Zambia’s founding president and Africa’s foremost statesman Kenneth Kaunda ...

Malcolm X

Malcolm X’s 96th Birthday—Honor Legacy By Building Stronger Bonds With Africa

Malcolm X. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress.  Malcolm X, who would be 96 years old today, was a great Pan-African visionary who understood the ...

President John Magufuli

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli: Lala Salama, Great Son of Africa

The late President Magufuli. Photos: Facebook. [Opinion] By Sandra Aikaruwa Mushi Dear Western Media, I tend to oversleep on Saturdays as my weeks are ...

Milton Allimadi

Pan-African Coalition Calls On Biden Administration To Reject Uganda’s Rigged Presidential Election And Sanction Human Rights Abusers

Milton Allimadi, Black Star News publisher at the United Nations protest. Photo: Mike Muganga A broad coalition of Pan-African, and African organizations have joined ...

rudderless government

#EndSARS: Why All Africans Must Support The Nigerian Struggle

Nigeria’s ineffective President Muhammadu Buhari. Photo: Wikimedia Commons  [Speaking Truth To Power] I send greetings to Pan African sisters and brothers throughout the continent ...

Padmore settled in London, UK in 1936. There he helped foster a radical milieu of Pan-Africanist intellectuals

Pan African Profile: Activist, Author, Journalist George Padmore

[George Padmore] Padmore’s international journalism and other writings linked African-American struggles with liberation movements in Africa and with African Diaspora peoples around the world ...