Governance

Amilcar Cabral would be 90 years old on 12 September 2014 if his life had not been cruelly cut short by reactionary forces on 20 January 1973. He was 49 years old at the time and therefore 20 January 2014 marks forty one years since his brutal assassination.

“Keep always in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone’s head. They are fighting…..for material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children.

This article re-traces the weapon of theory thesis that was propounded by the charismatic, intellectually gifted and revolutionary leader of the liberation forces of Guinea Bissau, Amilcar Cabral.

I will never forget the first time that I heard the name ‘Cabral.’ It was during a planning session (for the inaugural Pan-African Youth Summit in early 2009 along with other Howard University students at Sankofa, the Washington, DC. bookstore owned by Haile Gerima).

On January 15, 2014, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would have been 85 years old, as he was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929.

Some 900 km from Cairo, 46 years old Mohamed stands in front of a blast furnace, with a temperature reaching 450°C. Each day, for the past 11 years, this has part of his job at the ferrosilicon factory in Edfu.

African Americans and Black South Africans have shared a special relationship within the larger African Diaspora.

In 2014, Americans and friends of America are mark the 50th Anniversary of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s openly-declared War on Poverty. In January, as America and the world celebrate the 85th birthday of Rev. Dr.

By the end of 2013, ‘the White man’s burden’ was proving too heavy to bear for France.

Does the international community remember Haiti four years since the earthquake of 12 January 2010? In reality, the euphemism of ‘international community’ means the Western world, that is, the US, UK and Europe, and certainly not the rest of the 150 countries and more that make up the UN.