#Pan African

[missmayhemvr]

Like halfway through "how Europe underdeveloped Africa" cause I decided I'd read/listen to it after I had a strong base on knowledge on African history and just holy fuck is he right about nearly everything so far.

Having learned about how extensive African trade was prior to the 18th century and how heavily most African kingdoms shifted in the 16th it's very clear that what he points out in the way the slave trade and the need to aquire firearms grew the European economies while near completely emptying out African economies and how the hard shift to European import goods after Europe had grow through the use of African slave labor and monopoly of trade routes is still a largely still at play in the era of neocolonialism.

The way that Walter Rodney not just points out that this is true, but the depth to which he covers a variety of African kingdoms, their economies, and cultural practices puts even some college level courses to shame while also showcasing the exact ways in which some of these stronger or more expansive kingdoms like the Ashanti, oyo, borno, Kongo, and Benin kingdoms had explicitly tried everything to get guns through any other trade and how the Ashanti, merina, Ethiopian, Burundi Benin kingdoms sought our education and scholars to begin industrialization and the systematic way in which Europeans and Americans prevented that is just, well it's damming.

It's a continuing reminder how from the first stage of European expansion and control they had precisely zero good intentions for the peoples of Africa. That Europe saw Africa as nothing more than a way to grow itself, it's institutions and improve its economies by depriving Africa of labor, materials and freedom which is true to this day, most starkly in the Congo but true across the whole region.

But while the book shows the crimes of Europeans without sugar coating, it also doesn't glorify the African leaders and more importantly those that became collaborative with European despitism. It also does not abide by the word games the European powers like to play and goes in depth to the way Europeans had no actual interest in ending slavery, and that while invading the various kingdoms and communities to "end slavery" the created some of the most brutal slave conditions on this side of the globe, not just in Leopolds Congo but in French forced labor camps and British controlled regions, with the Portuguese being particularly up front about it.

Truly a shame that like most other black radicals Rodney was murdered so young. The rarity to which black radicals even get to 40 shows how desperately capitalist and white supremist try to prevent even the slightest push back from black voices. It also makes clear how much we all need to know this stuff, from debois's black reconstruction to nkrumah's neoimperialism these books give a great understanding of the past and the precise way in which we arrived to the current situation.

I pray that with the new scramble for Africa that is unfolding in front of our very faces, the genocides in the Congo, and Sudan, and the way in which these interlock with the genocide of Palestinians, that we all take the time to properly read and reflect so that we may properly organize and fight back for a fully free and sovereign Africa and Palestine and a world free from white supremacy.

#black liberation #colonization #politics #indigenous liberation #world of the oppressed #pan african #the colonized #How Europe underdeveloped Africa #walter rodney

[the-penandpaper]

Thread🧵of 10 Free PDFs 📚 :

1. The Possessive Investment in Whiteness by George Lipsitz

2. Free PDF 📚 The Debt: What America Owes to Black 'people

3. Free PDF 📚: The Myth of Black Buying Power by Jared Ball

4. Free PDF 📚: Eric Williams' Capitalism & Slavery

5. Free PDF 📚: Black Capitalism by Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

6. Free PDF 📚: The Color of Money 'Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap'

7. Free PDF 📚: The Half Has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist

8. Free PDF 📚: Black Awakening In Capitalist America

9. Free PDF 📚: Black Geographies and the Politics of Place

10. Free PDF 📚: Charter Schools, Race and Urban Development (the charter school takeover in New Orleans)

#pan african #black people #books #free books #pdf download #pdf #pdfbooks #imperialism #anti capitalism #capitalism #politics #history #color of money #charter schools #buying power #reparations

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Stephen Millies

An Aug. 22 rally outside the French mission to the United Nations in New York City demanded that French banks and corporations get their bloody hands off Niger. The December 12th Movement called the action.

Niger and other former French colonies in Africa have been looted for generations. While French nuclear power plants depend on Niger’s uranium, less than one-fifth of Niger’s population can access electricity.

The neighboring country of Mali — also a former French colony — has over 800 gold mines but no gold reserves in its treasury. France has zero gold mines, yet it has 2,437 tons of gold worth over $160 billion. That’s what imperialism looks like.

#Niger #Mali #France #imperialism #colonialism #Big Banks #nukes #uranium #NYC #protest #solidarity #Pan African #Black Liberation #D12 #Struggle La Lucha

[blackstar1887]

Unraveling Identity: Cam'ron, African Americans, and a Pan-African Perspective

#cam'ron #african culture #african americans #pan africanism #black power #dr amos wilson #amos wilson #blueprint for black power #black identity #africa #african development #pan african #hip hop

[kemetic-dreams]

Dr. Anna J. Cooper is one of the most neglected figures in the history of Pan-Africanism. Cooper, who was born into slavery, became a prominent scholar and was one of the first African women to earn a Ph. D. She was also one of the attendees at the Pan-African Conference in 1900.

#african #african american #ph.d #panafrican #afrakan #kemetic dreams #brownskin #afrakans #africans #brown skin #african culture #anna cooper #anna j cooper #pan african

[dalion]

#black panther wakanda forever #shuri #black panther #marvel #mcu phase 4 #Queen #wakanda #doomwar #X-men #comics #marvel comics #pan african #tchalla #dora milaje #bastet #royal family #vibranium #letitia wright #namor #fantastic four #bring the noise #legacy #disney princess #Nubia #the avengers #okoye #queen ramonda #wakanda forever

[flagwars]

Flag Wars Bonus Round

#polls #flags #vexillology #flag wars #pansexual #pan african

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture on the idea of having black educational facilities in a capitalist nation.

#stokely carmichael #kwame ture #notes from readings #pan african

[afrotumble]

Ben Enwonwu, Nigeria (1917 - 1994)

Ben Enwonwu was a painter and sculptor, one of the first true African modernists who by 1946 was exhibiting in a group show alongside Picasso in Paris. He grew up in the cosmopolitan market town of Onitsha in Nigeria, a centre of Igbo culture and colonial rule.

His work is a consummate mix of local and foreign culture influences that was enhanced by his intellectual pursuits for independence and the freedom of his birth country.

#ben enwonwu #nigeria #africa #pan african #art #sculpture #painter #sculptor #painting

[trafficlighttriobracket]

Round 1

#polls #tumblr polls #bracket #my polls #tournament #color bracket #fandom polls #actual polls #color poll #color tournament #flags #pan african #voltron #keith voltron #hunk voltron #pidge voltron

[amtvisuals]

Happy to be alive

#black joy #self portrait #pan african #smile #joy #mood #happy #love

[missmayhemvr]

I think a fundamental thing presented by Walter Rodney is that Africa did not have money invested into, even for the build up of security forces that very literally enslaved them, that money that was used to pay those forces were literally paid by the taxes generated by very people that were being oppressed. Every mile of rail and road was funded by the oppression itself.

Europes singlural investment was just the arms and a portion of the forces that was used to initially colonize Africa. European capitalist were very happy to bring that up until they started getting push back.

Why do I bring this up today, how does this relate? Well look at the cop city build up, what's the purpose of that and why are companies and banks across the US investing in that? It's for extreme oppression that will pay super profits for them. It's to engage in literal urban warfare across the US, most likely to boost the slave raiding process that is our policing system which grants billions of dollars to the accounts of these businesses through prison slave labor.

#walter rodney #black liberation #politics #colonization #world of the oppressed #pan african #the colonized

[the-penandpaper]

Live Stream: Prison Abolition Film Series--> Watching 'Manufacturing Guilt- A Short Film About Mumia Abu Jamal's Case

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In case you missed the livestream...no worries. Here's a link to watch on YouTube.

#pan african #black people #politics #history #mumia abu jamal #police brutality #free all political prisoners #resistance #political prisoners #prison industrial complex #police abolition #prison abolition #free documentary #short film

[spookybonkcopdiplomat]

#african history #black culture #aesthetic #black art #black fashion #black history #tribal mask #igboland #pan african

[deadassdiaspore]

#PAIGC #Pan African #Revolutionary African Women #Guinea-Bissau #Carmen Pereira

[nanapoley]

AmaAtta-Aidoo: Beyond Words

In the Halls of Literature, we’ve lost an extraordinary literary luminary, a profound voice ,who enriched the literary landscape with her remarkable contributions. The life and work of a #Ghanaian writer and activist, AMA ATTA AIDOO’s legacy will forever resonate within the corridors of literature. Her luminescent soul possessed an unparalleled ability to transmute words into masterpieces,…

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#Activist #African Literature #AMA ATTA AIDOO #feminist #Ghana #Ghanaian writer #Literature #pan African #writer