Introduction Watch a virtual panel discussion on historical and present-day anti-apartheid cultural movements from South Africa to Palestine. Moderated by Tings Chak of the Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Hannah Priscilla Craig of Artists Against...
Liberation School introduction: This interview by journalists from the monthly Afrique Asie newspaper was conducted roughly ten months after Thomas Sankara, the leader of a progressive and socialist faction within the military, led a revolution in Upper Volta. The...
The following is the text of a speech Walter Rodney delivered 50 years ago at Queens College, New York, USA in 1975. Along with Cheddi Jagan’s article, “Pragmatism and rightist opportunism,” it was published in the 1986 pamphlet, Yes to Marxism! by the People's...
This article was first published by Liberation News on April 17, 2024. Introduction One day after his inauguration, Bassirou Diomaye Faye — Senegal’s new self-proclaimed “left Pan-Africanist” president — announced that the new government will conduct an audit of the...
Editor's note: We're republishing this article from two years ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Amílcar Cabral's assassination on January 20, 1973. Introduction Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was born September 12, 1924 in Bafatá, Guinea-Bissau, one of...
Liberation School introduction The contemporary situation in Burkina Faso is quickly changing, and the new Prime Minister, Me Kyelem Apollinaire de Tambela, identifies with the tradition of Thomas Sankara. He has also written an important book on Sankara and the...
Introduction In a recent book on the ongoing relevance of Walter Rodney’s work, Karim F. Hirji notes that, “as with scores of progressive intellectuals and activists of the past, the prevailing ideology functions to relegate Rodney into the deepest, almost...
Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of this speech—titled “Blacks must take responsibility for their own history and contribute to universal civilization"—and the second installment in a Liberation School series of previously...
Sign the petition demanding the recording of Sankara's assassination trial! Liberation School introduction This is the first English translation of this interview and the opening installment in a Liberation School series of previously untranslated work by Thomas...