During 2018 the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) has been commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the publication of the seminal work “Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare” by Kwame Nkrumah in 1968. In that book he called for the formation of the A-APRP, which was founded in the same year in Guinea-Conakry under Co-Presidents Ahmed Sekou Toure […]
Women have the Right and the Duty to Fight
“The degree of a country’s revolutionary awareness, may be measured by the political maturity of its women” – Kwame Nkrumah Josina Muthemba Machel, who was in the leadership of FRELIMO, the organization that fought for the independence of Mozambique, said “… the FRELIMO war is a people’s war in which the whole people must participate, […]
Celebrating African Women
TURE’S POLITICAL AGENCY IN SERVICE OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ROLE OF AFRICAN WOMEN
(Originally published by Pambazuka News 653: SPECIAL ISSUE: Kwame Ture and the African revolution today) Kwame Ture was a champion of women’s rights and empowerment. Foremost he recognised, acknowledged and accepted that African women must lead their own emancipation On 24 May 1963, as 32 independent African countries met in the Ethiopian capital, Addis […]
African Women The Invisible Soldier: Black But Invisible
Society without women can be compared to humans without air. Africa without African women is like a mango tree without roots. The indispensible role that African women play in the development of society in general and community in particular cannot be matched or debated. However, despite this role African women from Toronto to Harare to London […]