Black World Salutations: Walter Rodney (1942 - 1980)

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-03-26 14:17:52

After being expelled from Jamaica, Rodney returned to Tanzania. There he lectured and continued to support the liberation struggle of the people of Tanzania and other parts of Afrika. His stay in Afrika played a big part in his decision to publish his seminal work, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.

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A Letter to Mkhulu Mangaliso Sobukwe

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-02-28 00:00:00

I decided to write this letter to you to share my thoughts with you about where I think we find ourselves as Afrikan people. We learn from the older generation of activists about your glorious deeds and the immeasurable sacrifices you and your peers made, in defence of our natural right as Afrikans to be human beings worthy of dignity and respect, in the land of our Ancestors.

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“They Are Going to Kill Me Soon” – Omowale El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Malcolm X

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-02-14 00:00:00

Like many Black consciousness activists of my generation, the name Malcolm X occupies a profoundly special place in my heart. I remember during our student activist days how Warrior Mendo Ramncwana and I used to dedicate hours and hours to watching VHS recordings of his speeches.

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75th Anniversay Of The Birth Of Robert Nesta Marley |1945-1981

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-02-08 00:00:00

This week, the Black world marked the 75th anniversary of the birth of the late great, Robert Nesta Marley. To think he was only 36 when he died, yet his ideas as conveyed through song, continue to have a profound impact on our understanding of the self and the world.

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REVIEW: Vuka Machel – A Blacks Only Conversation

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2020-01-20 00:00:00

It is for this and other reasons that, I regard Vuka Machel as a rare and beautiful moment of Black resistance. A moment of resistance at a time when many of us Black people have chosen the posture of collaboration - as opposed to resistance against the multifaceted system of white supremacy/capitalism/neoliberalism/violence against Black women/ and anti-blackness in general.

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Thomas Sankara

Black First Land First Black Salutations 2019-10-16 07:30:05

Sankara transformed the nation from being impoverished to self-reliant, economically independent and socially progressive. He denounced the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) as instruments of imperialism from which he rejected loans.

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Mugabe Belongs To Us

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2019-09-06 14:39:22

uBab'Mugabe didn't just fight British settler-colonialism in Zimbabwe and white racism, but he also supported (not just theoretically), the Liberation Movement (which the DA was not part of) in Southern Afrika, by among others, providing protection, accommodation, training and passage to the leaders of the BCM, PAC and ANC and their armed wings (Azanla, Apla and MK).

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Marcus Mosiah Garvey: 132 YEARS

Veli Mbele Black Salutations 2019-08-28 00:00:00

"Negroes, keep your heads high. The day of the unscrupulousness of the white race fooling all the Negroes is over. They will have to remake the universe to fool me. In no department of learning can they close my eyes.

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