Ajamu Nangwaya

“…when you select heroes about which black children ought to be taught, let them be black heroes who have died fighting for the benefit of black people. We never were taught about Christophe or Dessalines.

‘I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood. That the speaking profits me, beyond any other effect.’ - Audre Lorde[1]

"The ideological deficiency, not to say the total lack of ideology, within the national liberation movements — which is basically due to ignorance of the historical reality which these movements claim to transform — constitutes one of the greatest weaknesses of our struggle against imperialism, i

“Random stops of people who are not suspected of having knowledge of any specific crime under investigation is not a ‘recognized policing reason,’ except for military police in occupied territories.” –

"In overthrowing me you have cut down in Saint Domingue [Haiti"> only the trunk of the tree of liberty; it will spring up again from the roots, for they are many and they are deep." — Toussaint L’Ouverture

“From the beginning of our century until now, Haiti and its inhabitants under one aspect or another have, for various reasons, been very much in the thoughts of the American people. While slavery existed amongst us, her example was a sharp thorn in our side and a source of alarm and terror….

“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

25 May 2014 was the 56th anniversary of African Liberation Day (ALD) and it should be observed as more than a commemorative event. ALD was institutionalised by the emerging independent states in Africa to give focus, direction and resources to the struggle against colonial domination.

Toussaint, the most unhappy of men!
Whether the whistling Rustic tend his plough
Within thy hearing, or thy head be now
Pillowed in some deep dungeon’s earless den
O miserable Chieftain! where and when
Wilt though find patience! Yet die not; do thou

“We have to make sure that economically we’re free, and part of that is the whole idea of economic democracy.