Actor Kevin Navayne to Star in New Marcus Garvey Film‏

ACTOR KEVIN NAVAYNE TO STAR IN NEW MARCUS GARVEY FILM -- PRODUCTION TO BEGIN IN FALL 2014

Actor/model Kevin Navayne

Marcus Garvey is alive and well. At least the feature film is. The film which has seen its way through production company to productio

A Case Against Slavery Reparation - It's a "Pollyanna Proposal".

EDITOR, The Tribune:

I see CARICOM thinks that as a group they have a legal case against the British-French-Dutch and Spain for “retribution” as a result of their argument that our African brothers and sisters were put into indenture (slavery).

I m

West Papua: Benny Wenda, why Papuans refuse to vote in the Indonesian called elctions

WE WILL NOT VOTE!

In 2014 the Republic of Indonesia will try to hold elections in West Papua. We the Papuan peoples refuse to vote in these elections. Why?

Today West Papua is illegally occupied by Indonesia. We have a right to freedom. We wi

Bob Mugabe at 90 and Nyerere’s Legacy

Mugabe and First Family prepare to cut the birthday cake. P Courtesy

Zimbabwe’s long serving and first president Robert Mugabe aka Jongwe (cockerel) celebrated his 90th Birthday last week. For a country whose peoples’ lifespan is almost half of Mu

Ausar Auset Society Washington, DC to Enstool New Queen Mother, “Celebrating the Tradition of African Queens”

Alik Shahadah, "Africa: The Loss of Cultural Ownership"

[by Alik Shahadah] One measure of the level of destruction on Africans globally is the mass dis-ownership of culture. From domain names to grocery stores in the African world communities, it doesn’t matter if you are in New York or Nairobi, Bridgetow

Dr. Molefi Kete Asante: The Lingering Effects of Dislocation and the Prospects for an Afrocentric Victory (part1)

I have often reflected on the condition of Africans in the Americas, especially in North America, and have concluded that the social, economic, and cultural condition of our population is one of abject dislocation and dismal disorientation. We are no

In Trinidad and Tobago he's “Too black to be Prime Minister”: the shackles of mental slavery

Of all the offensive – and unintelligent – statements made in the politics of the post-independence Caribbean, an assertion, that Dr Keith Rowley, the leader of the Opposition in Trinidad and Tobago, is “too black” to be Prime Minister, has to rate

Join the Pan African Collective to Support President Mugabe: It is time to Realize Pan Africanism!

February 28, 2014, in Atlanta and Beyond

Pan-Africanist Wisdom, 1791-2013: selection from Pan-Africanist thinkers since Boukman I by Chinweizu

Epigraphs:

  The Husia teaches that we must emulate the excellence of our ancestors, study

their wise teachings, great works and good deeds in everyday life, and struggle to

embody and add to the legacy they’ve left. It states that the wisdom of the

Does Excluding Arab states from the 8th Pan-African Congress contradicts the ideals of Pan-Africanism?

Excluding Arab states contradicts the ideals of pan-Africanism

Denying Arab states from the 8th Pan-African Congress is a mark of the organisation's continued exclusionary behaviour.

The 8th Pan-African Congress marks a dramatic, racialised rupture f

Runoko Rashidi interviewed by Brisbane (Australia) Blacks: "What is Black Power and how can we enact it"?

Runoko Rashidi is a historian and anthropologist working to build bridges with Black people struggling for liberation all over the world.  He is an author and editor and world traveler and has visited Aboriginal Australia on six occasions from 1998 t

The Black Man's Burden

The problems we face in Africa can never be solved using the same political structures that we have blindly adopted since 1950's. Reading Martin Merendith's book - "State of Africa" has shocked me to appreciate that the pattern and results of black r

Sudan Solidarity Network Calls for a Ceasefire in South Sudan and a peaceful and democratic Sudan

Een Mooie Boodschap aan het Eind van het Jaar.De DECADE door goedgekeurd

David Comissiong: A Call for Zero-tolerance of anti-Black Racism in the Caribbean

The officers and members of the Clement Payne Movement of Barbados are
demanding that the Caribbean region functions and be treated as a
“Zone of Zero-tolerance of all manifestations of anti-Black racism”.

We make this Call against the background of the

Thomas Sankara and the Assassination of Africa’s Memory - Dr. Chika A. Ezeanya

Thomas Sankara was Burkina Faso’s president from August 1983 until his assassination on October 15, 1987. Perhaps, more than any other African president in living memory, Thomas Sankara, in four years, transformed Burkina Faso from a poor country

DAVID A. COMISSIONG: EXPLODING THE MYTH OF AFRICAN RESPONSIBILITY FOR SLAVERY (Part 1)

Now that our Caribbean governments have launched a serious effort to
secure the payment of Reparations for the tremendous damage inflicted
on the people of Africa and the African Diaspora during the centuries
of European orchestrated slave trade and en

The Future We Want For Africa: The African Union Diaspora Consultation on the AU Agenda 2063

I am being asked about the upcoming African Union Diaspora Consultation on the AU Agenda 2063, which is taking place in New York between the 8-10th of October, 2013.  All I know, according to CIDO, is that "The meeting is to be used to reflect on the

Harnessing the African Diaspora in Building Africa

By Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma:
President, Sierra Leone ~

 The Diaspora is pivotal to the sustainability of the ongoing renaissance of Africa. Topics relating to the Diaspora are dear to us, for the African Diaspora was very integral to the emergence of