NICOLE KALI

 

PAN-AFRICAN REVOLUTION

APRIL INDEX

African-Americans connected to African, Caribbean and Asian leaders to change the white world order.

They organized anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist rebellions against the 500-Year-War. These are four who recurringly appear in my thoughts.


HENRY SYLVESTER WILLIAMS

It must be stressed that Caribbean revolution linked throughout the Black diaspora on three continents: America, Africa and Europe. Williams founded the African Association in 1897.

Why? He immediately realized potential for unity among British colonies. Williams' life there propelled him to change Africa's circumstances.

Henry attended school in Trinidad, a historic birthplace of Black resistance. He got to know Kofi Intim-Ghana's prince at the time (Centre for Pan-African Thought).

By 1900, Williams organized the first Pan-African Conference in London. Three years later he became the first barrister in South Africa's Cape colony.

W.E.B. DUBOIS

He is a timelessly relevant leader in the Pan-African movement. DuBois has a multitude of achievements, most of which concerned Black geneaology, African history and Black sovereignty.

Encyclopedia of the Negro. DuBois' work ranged from philanthropy and sociological studies, to diplomatic missions. He was the United States' Special Envoy to Liberia during the 1920's (Credo).

The Pan-African Conferences began in 1900, and W.E.B. DuBois became their ideological godfather soon after their inception. Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah and DuBois met in 1945's Pan-African Congress.

They stayed good friends until his late years of life. W.E.B.'s Ghana visit inspired others in Pan-African and Black Power movements to do the same. (Ghana and the Black Power Movement)


W.E.B. DuBois and Nnamdi Azikiwe, Nigeria's first African governor at his
inauguration. Azikiwe hailed the scholar as a "cornerstone of African freedom".

Without his steadfast dedication to global freedom, Black lives would not be the same.

CLAUDIA JONES

An often unsung heroine of Pan-African ideals, Jones gave

forty years of her life to anti-racism causes.

She is also a Caribbean revolutionary like Williams. In a truly prophetic fashion, she called out the growing anti-Russian sentiments precluding the Cold War. Jones also denounced anti-Semitism in the far right wing (Pan African News).

MALCOLM X

"From 1954 to 1964 was the era in which we witnessed the emerging of Africa.

The impact that this had upon the civil rights struggle in America

has never been fully told." (Malcolm's Last Speech)


The Turning Point That Shaped Our World Today (The Afro News, 10-21-14)

W.E.B. DuBois - the father of modern Pan-Africanism (New African, 12-03-13)

The Pan-African Congresses, 1900-1945 (BlackPast.org)

Claudia Jones: A Life of Struggle and Exile (Pan African News, 2-08-10)

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