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Blackhouse Kollective Inaugural Winter School: 27-30 JULY 202

Zandi Radebe — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:44:56 +0000

Theme: Black Power Pan Africanism & Decoloniality: Communities of Knowledge and Praxis in occupied Azania The BlackHouse Kollective (BHK), is a Soweto-based registered Black Consciousness Pan-Afrikanist community organisation, inviting you to the inaugural Black Power Pan Africanism and Decoloniality Winter School. The Winter School will be held at the Funda Community College in Diepkloof, Soweto, [...]

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The ideology of Human Rights as a Eurocentric enterprise

Masilo Lepuru — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 10:29:53 +0000

Conquest, the ANC and the ideology of Human Rights in South Africa Prior to the hegemony of the Congress Tradition as epitomised by the African National Congress as a civil rights movement, 21 March 1960 was celebrated as the day of the Sharpeville Massacre. The Azanian Tradition as spearheaded by Robert Sobukwe is behind the [...]

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We must unite now or perish

Yonela Boya — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:45:16 +0000

“We must unite now or perish… We must recognise that our economic independence resides in our African union and requires the same concentration upon the political achievement.” These are words uttered by ancestor Kwame Nkruma in his speech at the founding of the Organisation of Afrikan Unity (OAU) in 1963. I begin writing this essay [...]

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Behold ,an extension of change

Xolani Mthombeni — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:57:04 +0000

Pan- Africanism is the most efficient and progressive ideology that is not only a propellant towards edifying a sense of tolerance among fellow citizens within the continent, it is also a vital receptacle of a body of principles, enabling us to embrace and understand the diversity of our dispersion. On the other hand, a lack [...]

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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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