Pan-Africanism
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 ...
New Organization Works for United States of Africa: Convention for Pan-Africanism and Progress (CPP)
Kwame Nkrumah. Photo: U.S. Archives This is a defining moment for Africa which is experiencing a reawakening from North to South and East ...
Pan-African Profile: H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin)
[H. Rap Brown\Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin] Black Past: “Brown was born in 1943 and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1960 he joined the Non-Violent ...
Ghana’s Jerry Rawlings’ Dies at 73—His Was One of Africa’s Few Great Military Coups
Jerry Rawlings. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Africa has witnessed many ruinous military coups that led to much death and destruction. There have also been a ...
Pan-African Profile: Léon Damas Co-Founder of Négritude Movement
[Léon Damas] Black Past: “In 1934, the three founded the journal L’Étudiant Noir, a platform for a pan-Africanist literary and cultural movement that Damas, ...
Pan-African Profile: Léopold Sédar Senghor Co-Founder of Negritude Movement
[Léopold Sédar Senghor] Black Past: “As time progressed he increasingly became more attached to his African traditions and less interested in assimilation. These ideas, ...
Pan-African Profile: Aimé Césaire Co-Founder of Negritude Movement
[Aimé Césaire\Negritude Movement] BlackPast: “The journal explored the expression of a Pan-African worldview under colonization. The concept of Negritude, a word coined by Césaire, ...
Pan-African Profile: Edward Wilmot Blyden “Africa for the Africans”
[Edward Wilmot Blyden] BlackPast: “Blyden challenged the arguments about black inferiority that were increasingly popular in Europe and North America during this period. He ...
Pan-African Profile: CLR James Author of ‘The Black Jacobins’
[C.L.R. James] Black Past: Pan-African Movement figure Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in the British colony of Trinidad on January 4, 1901. Photo: ...
Judge Rules Belgium Must Return Patrice Lumumba’s Tooth to Congo
[Patrice Lumumba Tooth] The Guardian: “The tooth had been seized from a Belgian policeman who admitted taking it while helping to dispose of Lumumba’s ...
