August 2012
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“How is it that with the amazing array of talents diasporan Africans possess,...”
– David L. Covin
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“As long as the worldwide denigration of Black people remains, black people have...”
– Julius Nyerere
July 2012
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“People who do not perceive themselves as Africans are not going to organize on...”
– David L. Covin
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“…in spite of frontiers and ethnic differences, we are of one mind and have...”
– Patrice Lumumba
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“It is true that culture is one, and the general effects of true culture are the...”
– Edward Wilmot Blyden
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“By overthrowing me, they only cut down the trunk of the tree of liberty of...”
– Toussaint Louverture
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“We can say that Pan-Africanism is a political and cultural phenomenon which...”
– Olisanwuche Esedebe
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“Essentially, Pan-Africanism is a recognition of the fragmented nature of the...”
– Timothy Murithi
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“Beyond the rhetoric, Sankara died because of his patriotic and progressive...”
– Cheriff M. Sy over at Pambazuka: http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/43671 (via chikenna)
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“For instance, how many Africans (not just men but women too) will accept the...”
– Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem
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“Europe stretches out her hands on every side to squeeze the darker races to her...”
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From an editorial by Dusé Mohamed Ali in a November 1912 edition of his paper, the African Times and Orient Review, as quoted in Hakim Adi and Marika Sherwood, Pan-African History, Routledge, 2003.
Mohamed Ali was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on 21 November 1866 to an Egyptian father,...
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Become a Friend of Pambazuka →
studentofafrica:
I get a lot of my information/news/commentary on Africa and African affairs from Pambazuka Press. I can’t explain their mandate quite as well as they can so here’s a cut-&-paste:
“Pambazuka News is produced by a pan-African community of some 2,600 citizens and organisations - academics, policy makers, social activists, women’s organisations, civil society organisations,...
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“We all know that the future belongs to our youth and it is imperative that they...”
– John Evans Atta Mills
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“This century must be Africa’s century in terms of development.”
– Kenyan President Raila Odinga, in an interview with CCTV on the first day of FOCAC (via fuckyeahafricarocks)
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“There is slowly arising not only a curiously strong brotherhood of Negro blood...”
– W.E.B. Dubois
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“We can say with confidence today that our vision has been richly rewarded, for...”
– Kwame Nkrumah (1963)
My question is, do you think African unity is no longer a dream as Nkrumah states?
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“I distrust people who talk to me about objectivity and despise people who run...”
– George Padmore
The Pan-African Connection: from slavery to Garvey and Beyond by Tony Martin
(via gravalicious)
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“The erstwhile sleeping giant is gradually rising from the stupor and debris of...”
– George Padmore
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“Most of the rich countries are attracted to Africa’s poverty rather than its...”
– Andrew Mwenda (via b-sama)
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“You are implementing programs that have been agreed upon by everybody, so you...”
– Nkosazana Dlamini-Zulu on whether it would be difficult to unite the AU despite the difference between “Anglophone” and “Francophone” countries. (via fuckyeahafricarocks)
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“As for our relationship with the political class, what relations would you have...”
– Thomas Sankara (via fuckyeahthomassankara)
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June 2012
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May 2012
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Prof. Wole Soyinka's Speech Speaking Truth To...
saharareporters:
I must begin by thanking you for the honour of this invitation to address you. I am glad that I did not have to decline, pleading the truthful excuse that I am, unfortunately, still saddled with a heavy load of unfinished business elsewhere. In any case, I have come to accept that it is a condition of human existence to be saddled with this particular affliction - unfinished...
April 2012
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“Before a seed germinates it must first decay. A mango tree grows out of a...”
– Dr. Ali Mazrui
February 2012
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Watch
RECOMMENDED DOCUMENTARY: We Will Not Lie Die Like Dogs
WE WILL NOT DIE LIKE DOGS profiles AIDS activists from Nigeria, Uganda, Burkina Faso, and Zambia. Honest and provocative testimonies of individuals living with the epidemic include two HIV-positive women fighting stigma and discrimination, a doctor working to care for HIV-infected children in rural villages, and a reggae artist using his...
January 2012
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“I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black,...”
– Muhammad Ali, 1975 (via bitsofrealpanther)
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“I am black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture...”
– Franz Fanon ” Black skin white masks” (via safari-black)
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“I wish that they be told that the future of the Congo is beautiful and that it...”
– Patrice Lumumba- His last letter to his wife. (via jolibilite)
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“They don’t know nothing about black pearls, I will show them. Why the world...”
– Andre 3000 (via chocolatehighhh)
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