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Message from Mumia Abu-Jamal to OWS

Message from Mumia Abu-Jamal to OWS

By | December 18, 2011 at 2:36 pm | No comments

Message from Mumia Abu-Jamal to OWS dictated while in Administrative Custody at SCI Mahanoy in Frackville, PA. Thursday, December 15, 2011 My Friends of OWS, My message will have to be brief. But let not this brevity take from it, its strength. You are the central...

Posted in: Africa, Europe, International Solidarity, Networking, News, North America, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives

Free Mumia Abu Jamal Now! Is It Too Much To Ask?

Free Mumia Abu Jamal Now! Is It Too Much To Ask?

By | December 9, 2011 at 1:46 am | No comments

Free Mumia Abu Jamal Now! Is It Too Much To Ask? By Nana Akyea Mensah The Associated Press reported recently: "Abu-Jamal was convicted of fatally shooting Faulkner on Dec. 9, 1981. He was sentenced to death after his trial the following year." [1] That makes today, 9th...

Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, Networking, News, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives

Gaddafi’s assassination: Bombing Africa into ‘civilisation’

Gaddafi’s assassination: Bombing Africa into ‘civilisation’

By | November 10, 2011 at 11:37 pm | One comment

On the Gaddhafy Assassination, Kwesi Pratt Is Damn Right! Feature Article | By Nana Akyea Mensah Mr. Kwesi Pratt, Jnr., a leading member of the Socialist Forum and managing editor of the Insight newspaper, was certainly not amused at hearing the news concerning the death of...

Posted in: Africa, Europe, International Solidarity, Libya, News, North America, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives

“Nkrumah was doing more to undermine our interests than any other black African.”

“Nkrumah was doing more to undermine our interests than any other black African.”

By | October 24, 2011 at 1:13 am | No comments

 "Nkrumah was doing more to undermine our interests than any other black African." This reaction focuses exclusively on the references to Nkrumah in the Opinion section of al-Jazeera, “What does Gaddafi's fall mean for Africa?” by Mahmood Mamdani Last...

Posted in: Africa, Ghana, International Solidarity, Libya, News, Situational Awareness, Tanzania, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives

Gaddafi’s death: African Union lifts Libya’s suspension

Gaddafi’s death: African Union lifts Libya’s suspension

By | October 21, 2011 at 11:58 pm | 2 comments

Gaddafi's death: African Union lifts Libya's suspension Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - The African Union (AU) has lifted Libya's suspension and allowed the National Transitional Council (NTC) to occupy the country's seat at the continental body, following Thursday's death of...

Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, Libya, Networking, News, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives

Africa: Democratic uprisings brutally suppressed

Africa: Democratic uprisings brutally suppressed

By | September 3, 2011 at 3:44 pm | No comments

The significant alignment of forces behind the governments facing popular uprisings in Southern Africa shows the powers behind the NATO in bed with the regimes under fire. It bears the same similarities with the patterns we saw in Tunisia and in Egypt. How do you expect France...

Posted in: Africa, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, Ethiopia, Gabon, International Solidarity, Ivory Coast, Libya, Morocco, Networking, News, Self-Mobilisation, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives, Togo

Libyan Rebels Lost Legitimacy For Killing African Migrants!

Libyan Rebels Lost Legitimacy For Killing African Migrants!

By | August 30, 2011 at 5:44 pm | No comments

I just read a report from the USAfricaonline.com,with the awful banner "KILLINGS: Libya rebels said to be murdering Black African migrant workers", posted on Aug 29th, 2011, which vindicates my position that Ghana needs not to rush in giving recognition to the rebels who have...

Posted in: Africa, Libya, News, Self-Mobilisation, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives

Is Africa Rushing To Recognize The Libyan Rebels?

Is Africa Rushing To Recognize The Libyan Rebels?

By | August 27, 2011 at 8:24 pm | No comments

AU and the Politics of Recognition of the Libyan Rebels, A Roll Call A Pan-Africanist Brief - Situational Awareness Wikipedia is doing a very good job in helping to see clearly what is going on in Africa, so far as the politics of the recognition of the Libyan rebels is...

Posted in: Africa, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gambia, International Solidarity, Ivory Coast, Libya, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Situational Awareness, Sudan, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives, Togo

Karl Marx Is Hot, Is Capitalism Doomed?

Karl Marx Is Hot, Is Capitalism Doomed?

By | August 19, 2011 at 2:22 pm | No comments

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Karl Marx Is Hot"][/caption] Joe Weisenthal writes in Karl Marx Is Hot: With things going the way they are, a lot of people are talking about big history in action, whether it's the breakup of the Eurozone, or the...

Posted in: Africa, International Solidarity, News, Self-Mobilisation, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives

Subscribe to Pan-Africanist Briefs

Subscribe to Pan-Africanist Briefs

By | July 30, 2011 at 10:15 am | No comments

Dear All! We are happy to invite you to join our online briefings. We live in a very exciting moment of history in the struggle for the continental emancipation of Africa. As Hamid Dabashi puts it, “I think the ability of the people, the democratic will of the people to...

Posted in: General, International Solidarity, Networking, News, Self-Mobilisation, Situational Awareness, The Pan-Africanist Imperatives