Topics: The 60th Anniversary of the All African People’s Conference, Ghana • The Marijuana Justice, Equity and Reinvestment Conference • Anti-Gentrification Campaign in Atlanta. Guests: Mwalimu K-Q Amsata (Coord., North American Pan African Federalist Congress, Flagler, FL), Kassandra Frederique (State Policy Director, Drug Policy Alliance, New York, NY) and Kamau Franklin (Founder, Community Movement Builders, Atlanta, GA)
![U.S. president Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha stand at the “Door of No Return” during their visit to the Cape Coast Castle, Ghana, July 11, 2009](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/how-ghana-made-itself-the-african-home-for-a-return-of-the-black-diaspora-1.jpg)
By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Quartz Africa — In a recently released music video, Fuse ODG and Damian Marley (Bob Marley’s youngest son) explore the themes of slavery, colonialism, black pride…
Topics: Connecting the Diaspora to Africa • The Impact of the Mid-Term Elections on Blacks and the Progressive Movement. Guests:
H.E. Arikana Chihombori-Quao (African Union Ambassador to the U.S., Washington, D.C.), Bill Fletcher (Labor and Social Justice Activist, Washington, D.C.) and Maurice Mitchell (National Director, Working Families Party, New York, NY)
![Kwame Nkrumah](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/kwame-nkrumah-910x512.jpg)
Africa did not gain Independence from her erstwhile colonial masters, we regained’ it! Africa was independent before they arrived! By Sebastiane Ebatamehi, The African Exponent — We can never talk enough of Kwame Nkrumah when ever the African narrative is analyzed. He is the perfect martyr, a hero unappreciated and one who despite the betrayal from a people he loved with all his heart, left behind a compass that would guide…
![Religions In Africa 1900 – Today. Why Are Africans Poor?](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/religions-in-africa-1900-today-why-are-africans-poor-1.jpg)
By Daniel Mwambonu, The President of Global Pan Africanism Network (GPAN) — Percent of Population Practicing Indigenous African Religions (1900, 1970, and 1990), and Percent of Population Practicing Major Religions in…
In a recent address to the Pan-African Unity Dialogue in New York, the African Union’s Ambassador to the USA, H.E. Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, called for closer collaboration between the countries on the African continent and the growing African Diaspora communities in the Americas. She argued that a fully engaged diaspora holds the key to the future development and empowerment of Africa which, in turn, will result…
![The first of the century, the extensive history provides an in-depth look at the voices and bodies that shaped the century.](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/author-releases-centurys-most-extensive-pan-african-history-1.jpg)
“African history is considered rather unimportant, but the history of the African diaspora isn’t considered at all,” Hakim Adi said. By teleSur — “Pan-Africanism: A History” a recently released book…
![Hon. Samia Yaba Nkrumah](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/hon-samia-yaba-nkrumah_ibw21.jpg)
By Milton Allimadi — Rampant and pervasive corruption in Africa and the widespread impoverishment of the masses is not by accident. Africans who know what needs to be done to…
![Stokely Carmichael of SNCC at Florida A&M University, 1967](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/carmichael-910x512.jpg)
By Charisse Burden-Stelly — The Black Studies movement, inaugurated in the late 1960s by student- and community-based demands for a “more relevant education,” represented the intellectual expression of political Pan-Africanism in United States colleges and universities. According to St. Clair Drake, “Pan-Africanism ha provided a distinct global focus for Black Studies since the programs became a part of the campus scene in the late sixties and early seventies…
![Kwame Nkrumah: Ghana’s first president and a revered Pan-Africanist](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/kwame-nkrumah-ghanas-first-president-revered-pan-africanist-1.jpg)
By: Dennis Agaba — Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was the first prime minister and president of Ghana, having led it to independence from Britain in…
![Samia Nkrumah's push for African Unification and Integration](https://ibw21.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/samia-nkrumahs-push-african-unification-integration-1.jpg)
By Kimberley Hibbert — SHE has been called a new Mandela because of her passion, vision and mission to revive the ideologies and teachings of her father Kwame Nkrumah, the…