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Bantu Steve Biko’s mini biography and he speaks on The Black Consciousness Movement

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:00:52 +0000

This is a rare interview which took place just before the assassination of Steve Bantu Biko, he speaks on The Black Consciousness Movement. Your browser does not support the video tag. Mini Biography of Bantu Steve Biko. Posted on YouTube by @Duron Chavis

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National Liberation and Culture [Amilcar Cabral Series]

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2015 16:44:22 +0000

source: http://www.historyisaweapon.com/ This text was originally delivered on February 20, 1970; as part of the Eduardo Mondlane (1) Memorial Lecture Series at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, under the auspices of The Program of Eastern African Studies. It was translated from the French by Maureen Webster. When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture [...]

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8 African Countries Whose Independence Is a Direct Result of the Teachings of Marcus Garvey

Consciousness Admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 22:12:33 +0000

Source: AtlantaBlackStar.com Zimbabwe Zimbabwe, formerly known as Rhodesia, is one of the greatest examples of a country being impacted by Garveyism. According to an article titled “The Seeds are Sown: The Impact of Garveyism in Zimbabwe in the Interwar Years,” Marcus Garvey’s teachings had an “electrifying effect on colonial Zimbabwean migrant workers in South Africa, [...]

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25 Facts about Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 21:43:44 +0000

Source: http://www.blackhistorystudies.com 1. Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jnr was born on 17 August 1887 in St Ann’s Bay, Jamaica. His parents were Malcus Mosiah Garvey Snr, a stone mason and Sarah Jane Richards, a domestic worker. The Garvey’s had 11 children, nine of whom died in early childhood. Only Marcus Garvey and his eldest sister Indiana [...]

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Mini biography of Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:23:32 +0000

Remember Sobukwe! Footage on a great son of Africa, one that has been deliberately erased from the history of South Africa UNFORTUNATELY MOST OF THE FOOTAGE ON SOBUKWE DOESN’T ALLOW FOR US TO EMBED ON THE SITE, BUT YOU CAN JUST GOOGLE OR YOUTUBE HIS NAME FOR MORE CONTENT.

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Memo to the OAU submitted by Malcolm X

Consciousness Admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:09:24 +0000

Source: http://www.panafricanperspective.com The Organization of Afro-American Unity has sent me to attend this historic African Summit Conference as an observer to represent the interests of 22 million African-Americans whose human rights are being violated daily by the racism of American imperialists. The Organization of Afro-American Unity has been formed by a cross section of America’s [...]

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Kwame Nkrumah: I Speak of Freedom (1961 Speech)

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:56:47 +0000

Source: http://www.panafricanperspective.com For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyed by the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilise”Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent of vast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the African people. All this makes [...]

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Speech(1999) Road to Pan-Africanism : Dr.Motsoko Pheko

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:45:20 +0000

Source: http://www.panafricanperspective.com The following is by Dr. Motsoko Pheko former President of the PAC : Road to Pan-Africanism Motsoko Pheko Johannesburg (The Sowetan, November 15, 1999) Following the dark cloud of slavery and colonialism in Africa, visionary African leaders realised that it was imperative that all Africans – wherever they might be – should unite to [...]

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The History of Pan Africanism

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:18:29 +0000

Source : http://www.padeap.net “Pan Africanism can be said to have its origins in the struggles of the African people against enslavement and colonisation” Dr Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem (Pan Africanism: Politics, Economy and Social Change in the Twenty-first Century) And this struggle may be traced back to the first resistance on slave ships – rebellions and suicides [...]

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Black Consciousness Movement of Azania

Consciousness Admin — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 23:03:57 +0000

Source : http://www.sahistory.org.za Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) was the external arm of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), and had offices in Botswana, England, the United States, Canada, France, Belgium and Germany. The aftermath of the June 16 unrest in Soweto witnessed thousands of students leaving South Africa to join liberation organisations (primarily the ANC [...]

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