Pan-Africanism

This year’s Africa Day, also known as Africa Liberation Day, marked the 55th anniversary of the formation of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the predecessor of the African Union (AU).

Queen Elizabeth II is not just a symbolic head of state. Her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria made the plundering of the Third World an acceptable business activity. In 1952, Elizabeth became Head of the Commonwealth and Queen Regnant.

A recently-held African National Congress (ANC) Land Summit (19-20 May 2018) was convened in the Republic of South Africa just several months after the passage of a parliamentary resolution which would theoretically redistribute white-owned farms to the African majority.

Moeletsi Mbeki [[i]]’s statement about Julius Malema as “a black racist” – as he pushes for land expropriation without compensation – in an article on The Citizen newspaper website dated 15 May 2018 is misleading and problematic at various level

In order to argue this conclusion, there will be an investigation into who exactly Black students are and what are their experiences in today’s South African universities, what defines a South African university and what role the Black student activist ought to play in universities, as part of th

Introductory remarks

Siyacamagusha Mafrika!

In the spirit of our ancestors, whose names are unknown and bodies were violently snatched from Afrika and scattered of all over the world like worthless grain. Camagu!

Ordinarily, it would probably be wisest to ignore this furore as just another outburst by a celebrity who is seeking to garner publicity for himself.

Certainly not!  My book – The Dialectic & the Detective: The Arab Spring and Regime Change in Libya – is not only anti-establishment and anti-imperialist; it is also a scathing indictment of bourgeois media in their role as outriders for naked imperialist aggression.

Left criticism of French imperialism in Africa provides a stark example. Incredibly, the primary contemporary criticism North American leftists make of French imperialism on that continent concerns a country it never colonised.

I got to know June soon after she published Kwame Nkrumah: The Conakry Years: His Life and Letters in 1990, which I reviewed, and we became friends.