Amilcar Lopes Da Costa Cabral

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-09-22 03:56:06

“Africa and the world are yet to recover from Sankara’s assassination. Just as we have yet to recover from the loss of Patrice Lumumba, Kwame Nkrumah, Eduardo Mondlane, Amílcar Cabral, Steve Biko, Samora Machel, and most recently John Garang, to name only a few. While malevolent forces have not used the same methods to eliminate each of these great Pan-Africanists, they have been guided by the same motive: to keep Africa in chains.” — Antonio de Figueiredo, February 2008.

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Nathaniel Julies Through Biko’s Eyes – A Memorial Reflection

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-09-08 04:11:47

There is something deeply disturbing about being Black in the world we live in - and that is the realisation of how fragile our very existence is.The realisation that, regardless of your social status, the very fact, nature or duration of your existence is not something that you have control over as a Black person.

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Es’kia Mphahlele’s Homage to Mama Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

Dr. Tshepo Mvulane Moloi Black Salutations 2020-08-19 04:04:59

As part of women’s month commemorations, it is fitting to remind ourselves as a contemporary South African public, about the poem penned by the ‘Prophet of Marabastad’ Es’kia Mphahlele, entitled Tribute to Zodwa Veronica, a Great Woman.

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133 Year Birthday Tribute to Mwaliumu Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-08-18 04:52:26

"In a world of wolves one should go armed, and one of the most powerful defensive weapons within the reach of Negroes is the practice of race first in all parts of the world."-Kumkani Marcus Garvey

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British Must Return Kgosi Luka Jantjie’s Head

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-07-29 04:11:31

When will we, who call Ga-Kgosi Galeshewe home, ever have the guts to confront the diamond- stealing- murdering- raping British, for what they did to our Warrior King, Kgosi Luka Mpolokeng Jantjie? (1835-1897).

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A Letter to MaDlomo: Warrior Queen Zindziswa Mandela

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-07-23 03:32:14

I am telling you all of this MaDlomo, to remind you of how many of your own 'comrades' would prefer that we don't openly talk about the fact that, as the Reverend Akhona Gxamza once remonstrated “We can’t be scrap metal collectors in the land of our birth”.

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Adieu Ntongela Masilela (1948-2020)

Dr. Tshepo Mvulane Moloi Black Salutations 2020-07-20 03:19:13

It was with despair, to receive the dreadful news on Monday morning, 6th of July 2020 that South African Professor Ntongela Masilela, had transitioned to the ancestral realm. At the time of his death, it is noteworthy to read that the faculty directory of Pitzer College (an undergraduate liberal Arts and Sciences Institution), in the United States of America (USA) to date still depicts Masilela, as a Professor Emeritus of Creative Studies and World Literature, whose expertise namely included ‘Third World Literature’, ‘Commonwealth Literature’, ‘Central European Literature’, ‘African Literature’, ‘Latin American Literature’, ‘Literary Theory’, ‘Postmodernism’ and ‘Ancient Asian Literature’

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Black World Salutations: Patrice Lumumba

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-07-04 18:15:41

“[T]he only thing which we wanted for our country is the right to a worthy life, to dignity without pretence, to independence without restrictions. This was never the desire of the Belgian colonialists and their Western allies…” - Patrice Lumumba’s Letter from Thysville Prison to Mrs. Lumumba.

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