enlighteners and civilizers

http://pambazuka. org/en/category/ features/ 58974 The life of Juan Almeida LLusif Sadin Tassé 24/9/2009 Issue 449 Interview by Tidiane Kassé Juan Almeida, the only Afro-Cuban to hold the title of Revolutionary Commander, died on 11 September. The second...

http://pambazuka. org/en/category/ features/ 58958 Nkrumah at 100 Dr Ama Biney 21/09/09 Commemorating the centenary of Pan-African ‘political prophet’ Kwame Nkrumah on 21 September, Ama Biney pays tribute to ‘a titan of the anti-colonial struggle and...

www.BlackAgendaReport.com Ivan Van Sertima: Fighting Racism Through Science By Glen Ford 06/03/2009 Prof. Van Sertima almost single-handedly introduced and defended the proposition that Africans made significant contact with the people of the Americas,...

http://spreadingrhythm.blogspot.com/ After learning of the death of the eminent scholar, Dr. Ivan Van Sertima, my heart became saddened, but my mind became encouraged. Why? Because in this lifetime, we had the opportunity to receive firsthand hidden truths...

http://www.tadias. com/2009/ 02/23/black- history-month- leo-hansberry- founder-of- ethiopian- research- council/ Leo Hansberry, Founder of Ethiopian Research Council Tadias Magazine By Ayele Bekerie Published: Monday, February 23, 2009 in Featured and...

Malcolm X’s speech is just as valid today as it was back then which proves that the situation of African Americans have barely changed in the US. Hort The Ballot or the Bullet delivered 12 April, 1964 in Detroit, MI [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version...

Professor Ivan Van Sertima, another great African warrior historian has left us to join the ancestors. Professor Van Sertima was the first person to inform me that the first people in the New World were black people. Also, he was the first person to make...

Professeur Ivan Van Sertima, un autre grand historien Africain nous a quitté pour rejoindre nos ancestres. Il etait le premier à nous faire savoir que les premiers habitants du nouveau monde etaient des noirs. Quand tout le monde disait que les noirs...

ASALH mourns passing of John Hope Franklin Association for the Study of African American Life and History 525 Bryant Street NW C.B. Powell Building, Suite C-142 Washington DC 20059 . John Hope Franklin, the scholar who was a pioneer in the field of African...

Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye: De Gorée à Cambérène Toujours la Mer... Amadou Lamine Sall Poète, Lauréat des grands Prix de l’Académie française 8/2/09 L’orée de ce 21ème siècle voit s’éclipser des figures emblématiques de notre paysage politique et culturel....