Showing posts with label Pan-Africanism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pan-Africanism. Show all posts
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Monday, 1 December 2014
Sunday, 1 September 2013
Pan-African Youth Dialogue Summit 2013
Venue:
Eden Grove
Date: September 4 – 6
Date: September 4 – 6
Tuesday
3 September
16:00
– 22: 00 Arrivals, Registration and Welcome Cocktail
Wednesday
4 September
09:00
– 09:10 Opening of Summit
Allan
Magubane
Welcoming
09:10
– 09:20 Vice-Chancellor’s Office
09:20
– 09:30 PAYD Chairman Xolani Nyali
Thursday, 2 August 2012
C.L.R. James: A Revolutionary Vision for the 20th Century
by Anna Grimshaw, Marxists Internet Archive
C.L.R. James died in May 1989. His death coincided with the explosion of popular forces across China and eastern Europe which shook some of the most oppressive political regimes in human history. These momentous events, calling into question the structure of the modern world order, throw into sharp relief the life and work of one of this century’s most outstanding figures. For James was pre-eminently a man of the twentieth century. His legacy reflects the scope and diversity of his life’s work, the unique conditions of particular times and places; and yet at its core lies a vision of humanity which is universal and integrated, progressive and profound.
Wednesday, 20 June 2012
C.L.R. James, A History of Pan-African Revolt (1939,1969)
Reviewed by Mathew Quest, Insurgent Notes
A small and dangerous volume, this republication of C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969. A product of two periods in his life and work, his first British years (1932–38) where he emerged as the author of The Black Jacobins, the classic history of the Haitian Revolution; and his second American sojourn (1969–79) where he was a mentor to Black Power activists who had been members of SNCC, the Black Panther Party, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; this book documents famous and obscure race and class struggles in two parts written from the vantage of 1939 and 1969 respectively.
A small and dangerous volume, this republication of C.L.R. James’s A History of Pan-African Revolt is a concise survey of Black freedom struggles in the United States, the Caribbean, and on the African continent from 1739–1969. A product of two periods in his life and work, his first British years (1932–38) where he emerged as the author of The Black Jacobins, the classic history of the Haitian Revolution; and his second American sojourn (1969–79) where he was a mentor to Black Power activists who had been members of SNCC, the Black Panther Party, and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers; this book documents famous and obscure race and class struggles in two parts written from the vantage of 1939 and 1969 respectively.
Monday, 19 December 2011
Walter Rodney, The Dar es Salaam School and the Current Situation
by Dani Wadada Nabudere, 2006
Walter Rodney made a significant contribution to the African academy, the Pan-African revolution, and human emancipation. This was fully demonstrated in his activist commitment to the cause of the liberation of the people of Africa and those of African descent in the Diaspora and it is this achievement that has brought us here together to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his cowardly assassination in 1980. It is also this commitment that gives us an opportunity to revisit these important historical events on our continent, the African Diaspora and the world at large.
Walter Rodney made a significant contribution to the African academy, the Pan-African revolution, and human emancipation. This was fully demonstrated in his activist commitment to the cause of the liberation of the people of Africa and those of African descent in the Diaspora and it is this achievement that has brought us here together to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his cowardly assassination in 1980. It is also this commitment that gives us an opportunity to revisit these important historical events on our continent, the African Diaspora and the world at large.
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
‘Toward the African Revolution’: In the wake of Frantz Fanon
Aziz Salmone Fall, Pambazuka
On my way by plane to the pan-African Congress being held in Munich [1], I re-read ‘Toward the African Revolution’ to fire myself up and reassure myself that this was still the right path. ‘Toward the African Revolution’ will be the theme of our round table on 6 December this year as we mark the 50th anniversary of Fanon’s death. This round table will follow the film we are showing in his honour.
On my way by plane to the pan-African Congress being held in Munich [1], I re-read ‘Toward the African Revolution’ to fire myself up and reassure myself that this was still the right path. ‘Toward the African Revolution’ will be the theme of our round table on 6 December this year as we mark the 50th anniversary of Fanon’s death. This round table will follow the film we are showing in his honour.
Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Aspects of the International Class Struggle in Africa, the Caribbean and the Americas|
by Walter Rodney, 1974 (Via Marxists.Org)
Political conferences of the oppressed invariably attract a
variety of responses - varying from cynical conviction that they are an utter
waste of time to naïve optimism that they will change the face of the world. In
actuality, popular struggle continues from day to day at many different and
more profound levels; and its intensity at any given time primarily determines
the relevance and utility of the conference as a technique of co-ordination.
The Sixth Pan-African Congress scheduled for Dar es Salaam in June, 1974
consciously aims at being heir to a tradition of conferences which grew out of
the response of Africans to their oppression in the first half of this century.
Therefore, its rationale must be sought though a careful determination of the
co-ordinates of the contemporary endeavours of the African people everywhere.
Friday, 24 June 2011
Frantz Fanon: Our Contemporary Zeitgeist
by Ntongela Masilela, Berlin, 1986
The death of Frantz Fanon on December 6th, 1961, at the relatively young age of 36, which today here in Berlin gives us the occasion to commemorate its passage 25 years ago, was felt in many European, American and African intellectual and progressive circles to have been an event of great importance in African intellectual history. In a Presence Africaine issue of 1962, in a section devoted to homages concerning Fanon, Aime Cesaire, the great Martiniquan poet and Fanon's mentor, eulogised him as the theoretician of revolutionary action and of the process of decolonisation. Kwame Nkrumah, then the President of Ghana and the living embodiment of the Pan-Africanist philosophy, in the same review, characterised Fanon as the liberator and emancipator of Africa, whose ultimate aim was to bring about the unification of Africa. Jean-Paul Sartre, the French exponent of Existentialist philosophy, then in the process of attempting to forge a synthesis between Existentialism and Marxism in his colossal but digressive book, Critique of Dialectical Reason, published in 1960, in a preface to Cesaire's play of 1966 Une saison au Congo about the tragic Congo events of 1960, wrote that both Lumumba and Fanon were great men who died at the same age and in the same year; their different historical visions and political praxes represented that which was pre-eminently the best in human culture and civilization.
The death of Frantz Fanon on December 6th, 1961, at the relatively young age of 36, which today here in Berlin gives us the occasion to commemorate its passage 25 years ago, was felt in many European, American and African intellectual and progressive circles to have been an event of great importance in African intellectual history. In a Presence Africaine issue of 1962, in a section devoted to homages concerning Fanon, Aime Cesaire, the great Martiniquan poet and Fanon's mentor, eulogised him as the theoretician of revolutionary action and of the process of decolonisation. Kwame Nkrumah, then the President of Ghana and the living embodiment of the Pan-Africanist philosophy, in the same review, characterised Fanon as the liberator and emancipator of Africa, whose ultimate aim was to bring about the unification of Africa. Jean-Paul Sartre, the French exponent of Existentialist philosophy, then in the process of attempting to forge a synthesis between Existentialism and Marxism in his colossal but digressive book, Critique of Dialectical Reason, published in 1960, in a preface to Cesaire's play of 1966 Une saison au Congo about the tragic Congo events of 1960, wrote that both Lumumba and Fanon were great men who died at the same age and in the same year; their different historical visions and political praxes represented that which was pre-eminently the best in human culture and civilization.
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