Pan-Africanism

The Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture 2017 University of Wits, South Africa [19/10/2017]

Exactly six years ago, on October 20th, 2011, Muammar Gaddafi was murdered, joining a long list of African revolutionaries martyred by the West for daring to dream of continental independence.

In 2014, an Obama appointee and Hillary Clinton ally, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, defended legalizing racial discrimination in a precedent setting case, capitalizing on the World Bank’s immunity from U.S laws.

Most people agree that the colonial project in Africa was apartheid, extended beyond the borders of South Africa to the rest of the continent. In colonial Kenya they called it the Color Bar. Color Bar restricted Africans to scrubland while whites owned the good land. 

“Che died defending no other interest, no other cause than the cause of the exploited and the oppressed of this continent. Che died defending no other cause than the cause of the poor and the humble of this earth. — Fidel Castro, October 18, 1967

Programme Director, Distinguished Guests, Sons and Daughters of Africa:

I want to greet you with an important African proverb. It says, “Until the lions and the lionesses tell their own history, the history of the hunt will glorify the hunters and not the hunted.”

1. Introductory remarks

Siyacamagusha Mafrika!

President Kagame has been on one of the numerous costly pilgrimages that he makes to the United States every year. This time he was among the several world leaders attending the annual rituals of the United General Assembly meetings.

The All African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) has spent our entire existence (50 years next year) articulating the position that anything that happens to African people anywhere on Earth is connected to African people everywhere.  We say this because we understand that existence as A

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