Abayomi Azikiwe

[Author’s Note: This address was delivered at the Detroit branch of Workers World Party public forum held on Saturday, 22 April 2017.  The event examined various anti-imperialist struggles taking place around the world from the Middle East and Africa to the Democratic Pe

United States President Donald Trump has pledged to intensify the war against the people of Somalia which has gone on for decades.

Funeral services were held on March 29 for Ahmed Mohamed “Kathy” Kathrada, a longtime member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa.

Somali community representatives in Yemen have issued a statement denouncing the brutal killing of 42 people and the injuring of 120 others when their vessel was struck in the Red Sea area near the port city of Hodeida on March 17.

With March 6 representing six decades of statehood for the West African nation of Ghana, this time provides an excellent opportunity for a political, economic and historical assessment of post-colonial developments on the continent.

By the 1880s the post-slavery institutionalization of national oppression and economic exploitation of people of African descent was well underway in the United States.

Alongside and in opposition to the rise of colonialism across the African continent, a movement of resistance to European domination surfaced during the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries.

Germany’s colonial role in Africa has been highlighted again as the Tanzanian government has placed the European state on notice that it will file an official complaint over the atrocities committed during the early 20^th century.

Note: This is the text of a lecture delivered at Henry Ford College in Dearborn, Michigan, in honor of African American History Month on February 8, 2017.

One leading figure in the 20^th century movement for African liberation in the United States and around the world is Audley Eloise Moore, widely known as Queen Mother Moore.