Dwayne Wong
@DOmowale
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Everyone who was fighting colonialism was not fighting for the same thing. Some were fighting to replace the colonizers as exploiters of the African masses. Jomo Kenyatta in Kenya was a classic example of this.
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This is the point that Kwame Ture made
Religion has played an indescribably important role in the struggle of the New Afrikan people. Harriet Tubman didnโt go into slave territory over and over again because Marx told her to, she did it because her God told her that her people must be free and she was an instrument
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The primary source for Abubakari joining an expedition to explore the Atlantic is Mali's oral history and Al-Umari's written account. Neither account suggests that Abubakari sailed to the Americas and then returned to establish trade. Also, what does being a Guyanese have to do
Primary sources are in the text. You are showing me that you haven't read it, dont know how to read it and probably never will read it. In Afrikan history, oral testimonies are considered primary. You probably don't know this and are completely unfamiliar with contemporary
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Directing me to read a secondary source only further proves my point that there are no primary sources to support the claim.
Do me a favor and learn to read French literature and then come back to me about "no primary sources". Dr. Pathe Diagne and Dr. G Diawara have repeatedly debunked this false claim.
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Pan-Africanism played a very important role in ending apartheid, but once apartheid was finished many of the leaders within the ANC completely abandoned an anti-colonial Pan-African vision. The ANC effectively kept the same system in place, leading to some of the worst rates of
South Africa has become an ungrateful country. Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Tanzania, Mozambique, the entire continent invested political capital, resources, and even lives to help end apartheid. Yet decades later, South Africa repaid that Pan-African sacrifice with waves of
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There are no primary sources (either written documents or Mali's oral history) which indicate that Abubakari successfully sailed to the Americas and then returned to Africa to establish continued trade. The speculative nature of this claim is demonstrated by the fact that the
The "never returned" part is false. The gossypium hirsutum(american cotton) found in Cape Verde in the 1460s came from West Afrika. The trade between the continents continued after Abubakari's 14th century voyage.
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One of my biggest critiques of "They Came Before Columbus" is that Ivan Van Sertima treats the idea of Abubakari sailing to the Americas as a fact when the reality is no one knows what happened to him and his fleet. As Walter Rodney pointed out in "How Europe Underdeveloped
@usc_4 @Freetownmkteer @Kamjiverse Mansa Musa tells a story to Al Unari that the king who came before him sailed the Atlantic and never returned. No one is certain were the missing fleet went.
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Jaja of Opobo was deposed by the British and exiled to Barbados. His exile in Barbados became the subject of a folk song in Barbados about the exiled king.
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Pan-Africanism is about the unity of African people. Itโs not a cult of personality, although certain individuals have tried to use it that way. This is something that Iโve criticized Umar Johnson for over the years, but itโs not just him alone.
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St. Vincent and the Grenadines has a new prime minister after 24 years.
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From left to right: Khafra Kambon, Tubal Uriah Butler, Makandal Daaga, and Lasana Kwesi.
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The slave trade and colonialism disrupted Africa's political development.
Africans already had well organised states Ashanti empire, fate confederacy or Mali that even had a constitution. The problem is that Africa was never allowed to transitional naturally to governing extremely multi- cultural societies of a massive land area .
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Guinea-Bissau is the latest example of the problem of political instability in Africa. When existing political institutions are weak, it leaves room for the military to seize power. This has especially been a problem in Guinea-Bissau.
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When the European powers involved in the area (namely Britain, France and Portugal) intervened to end slavery and serfdom in their respective colonies, they were simply undoing their own handiwork. -Walter Rodney
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Rare video footage of Funmilayo Kuti. She was one of Africa's greatest anti-colonial leaders.
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Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of black consciousness [...] He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or
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X continues to be a reminder of how much some of us have regressed politically. In the 1960s, Malcolm X was advocating that African Americans learn from the successes of our Kenyan brothers and sisters to apply what they did to the African American struggle. Kenya recently
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