Abayomi azikiwe biography samples
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By Abayomi Azikiwe
After the United States Congress outlawed participation in the Atlantic Slave Trade in , the kidnapping and importation of Africans into North America continued.
From the geographical regions on the continent where the trade in human capital thrived, there was resistance from Africans to their bondage which was designed for the purpose of gross exploitation enforced through national oppression.
Numerous revolts among the enslaved African population occurred throughout the Western Hemisphere from Brazil, St. Vincent, Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, the United States, among others. In the U.S., the plans for rebellion in Richmond led by Gabriel in ; the German Coast revolt in Louisiana in ; the Charleston incident under the direction of Denmark Vessey in ; a widespread revolt in led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia shook the ideological foundations of the slavocracy.
These acts of resistance were the most well known since under the system of African ensla
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Disarming the Black Masses Secured the Failure of Reconstruction
Lessons are to be learned from the post-civil war era to the contemporary struggle for liberation and social justice
By Abayomi Azikiwe
Editor, Pan-African News Wire
African American History Month Series No. 3
During the period of the enslavement of African people by Britain and the United States, violence was a key instrument in the maintenance of the exploitative and oppressive system.
African people between the 17th and 19th centuries prior to the eruption of the Civil War (), were largely prohibited from owning and carrying firearms.
Of course, there were exceptions during the war of separation from Britain during the s and s, when Africans fought on both sides of the conflict over who would control the 13 colonies located in the eastern region of what would become the U.S. Also, the War of , when the British attempted to retake their colonies in North America, Africans participated again in both the U.S.
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Africa Anti-Imperialist Monthly
April-June
In response to the murder and lynching of African-American George Floyd bygd the US racist police, “African singers, artists, academics, journalists, civil society and business leaders,” including ILPS vice-chairperson for Africa and the mittpunkt East Demba Moussa Dembele, released a statement of solidarity.
Addressing African-Americans, the statement reads, “We are waging… struggles to advance our common causes: democratic freedoms, dignity, equality, social justice, the rights and well-being of women and all minorities, the integrity of leaders and institutions, economic independence, and finally the control of our cultural and historic destiny.”
It proudly proclaims that “we the people of Africa are one people, and one nation. We are a billion strong nation stretched out over a whole continent, and with you in the African Diaspora, we are millions more. Together we can build the global African nation.”
Various solidarity protests ag