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Siphiwe Baleka: Malcolm X’s Hidden Pan-African Mission | Haile Selassie, Reparations & Liberatio
Siphiwe Baleka: Malcolm X’s Hidden Pan-African Mission | Haile Selassie, Reparations & Liberatio Kwabena Ofori Osei 4 Views • 3 days ago

Siphiwe Baleka delivers a powerful Pan-African analysis of Malcolm X, challenging the mainstream narrative and placing Malcolm’s life, politics, and mission inside a deeper historical framework of African sovereignty, Rastafari, Marcus Garvey, Earl Little, Haile Selassie, repatriation, and the modern reparations struggle.This talk explores Malcolm X not only as a civil rights leader, but as Omowale — a Pan-African revolutionary working to internationalize the condition of Afrodescendant people in the United States by connecting their struggle to African heads of state, the Organization of African Unity, the World Court, and the larger question of return, repair, and liberation.Baleka connects Malcolm X’s political philosophy to the unfinished work of reparations, self-determination, African unity, and the global liberation of Afrodescendant people.Watch, share, and join the conversation: What part of Malcolm X’s Pan-African mission has been most overlooked?Timestamps00:00 — Malcolm X’s birth and why the story needs proper context00:39 — May 19, 1925: Malcolm Little is born in Omaha, Nebraska01:03 — The 1919 Ethiopian royal mission to the United States01:59 — Rastafari prophecy, the Star Order of Ethiopia, and Marcus Garvey03:14 — Earl Little, the UNIA, and the repatriation vision04:23 — African ontology, ancestral memory, and sovereignty05:42 — Malcolm X, the World Court, and repatriation to Africa06:26 — Malcolm’s 1964 interview: short-range survival, long-range return07:24 — Haile Selassie’s connection to Malcolm X’s mission07:51 — Malcolm X in Africa and his meeting with Emperor Haile Selassie08:18 — Taking racism in America before the World Court09:05 — The OAU, Tanzania, and African liberation movements10:22 — The united front: Malcolm X, MLK, John Henrik Clarke, and the OAAU11:27 — Malcolm’s assassination and the World Court strategy12:15 — Revolutionary capacity, the Black Liberation struggle, and repression13:02 — The drug war, mass incarceration, and the 13th Amendment13:43 — The OAAU’s mission to unite Afrodescendant people globally14:27 — Mortimer Planno, Rastafari, and the call for repatriation15:01 — Haile Selassie, Malcolm X, and the repatriation census15:42 — How Malcolm X’s Pan-African plan was buried16:18 — Why this history matters for reparations todayHashtags#malcolmx #siphiwebaleka #panafricanism #reparations #haileselassie #marcusgarvey #rastafari #blackhistory #africanunity #afrodescendant #repatriation #oaau #blackliberation #africandiaspora #worldcourtfacebook: @afrodescendantali Instagram: @afrodescendantali TikTok: @afrodescendantali Twitter: @afrodescendantali PURPOSE: Our Mission is to unify Afrodescendants around the issues of self-determination, Human Rights and reparations for the development of a Nation with peace and liberty through fair, equitable and just laws. Newspaper Website: muhammadspeaksnews.com Email: info@afrodescendant.org Donate: afrodescendant.org/donate

They Declared WAR on Africa in 1452 — The Truth About The Catholic Church and The  Dum Diversas | Si
They Declared WAR on Africa in 1452 — The Truth About The Catholic Church and The Dum Diversas | Si Kwabena Ofori Osei 8 Views • 3 days ago

In this powerful lecture at Langston University — Oklahoma's only HBCU — global African reparatory justice strategist Siphiwe ka Baleka breaks down the LEGAL ORIGIN of the transatlantic slave trade, revealing what Carter G. Woodson called our "miseducation."

| Time | Chapter |
| ----- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| 0:00 | Intro — The Orange Juice Analogy |
| 1:28 | Definition of Afro-Descendant & Reparations Root |
| 3:35 | Ethnocide: Destruction of African Identity |
| 4:52 | Fruit of the Poisonous Tree Legal Doctrine |
| 5:39 | Presentation Begins |
| 8:06 | 1243 AD — Pope Innocent IV's Question |
| 10:03 | Europe's Collapse: Famine & Black Death |
| 10:59 | Mansa Musa & Africa's Wealth |
| 15:47 | 1415: Prince Henry Captures Ceuta |
| 18:10 | 1433: Romanus Pontifex Papal Bull |
| 25:24 | June 18, 1452: Dum Diversas Issued |
| 26:59 | "Declaration of WAR, Not Trade" |
| 27:56 | Asientos: Monopoly War Contracts |
| 29:23 | Catholic Church Gets 50% of All Profits |
| 29:39 | US Constitution Enters the Dum Diversas War |
| 30:06 | Conclusion + Q&A |

#reparations #dumdiversas #africanhistory #siphiwekabaleka #panafrican #transatlanticslavetrade #afrodescendant #blackhistory #poisonedroot #papalbull #guineabissau #balanta #hbcu #africanunion #africandiaspora


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PURPOSE: Our Mission is to unify Afrodescendants around the issues of self-determination, Human Rights and reparations for the development of a Nation with peace and liberty through fair, equitable and just laws.

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African Fashion: The Sophisticated Craftsmanship Behind West Central African Clothing
African Fashion: The Sophisticated Craftsmanship Behind West Central African Clothing Kwabena Ofori Osei 19 Views • 19 days ago

In the Early Modern Period (around 1500-1800), West Central Africa (modern day Angola, the Congos, and Gabon) was home to a variety of different types of cloth and clothing. In this video, we discuss some of the textiles, jewelry, and other adornment that people in this region wore to cover up or show off status, primarily focusing on the kingdoms of Kongo, Ndongo, and to a lesser extent Loango. Join us as we explore some Central African Fashion History! This video is part of Untold Black History III, a collaboration for Black History Month discussing interesting and positive Black history from around the world. No Generative AI was used in the creation of this video.

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Citations:
1. Vansina, 266; Heywood, 12-13
2. Heywood; Fromont
3. Vansina; Gibson and McGurk
4. Vansina, 272; Heywood; Fromont
5. Thornton, 12-13
6. Vansina, 276
7. Vansina, 265
8. Vansina, 267-268
9. Vansina, 263
10. Thornton, 19
11. Fromont, 845
12. Heywood, 22
13. Fromont, 846
14. Heywood, 196
15. Vansina, 272-273

Sources:
Fromont, Cécile. “Common Threads: Cloth, Colour, and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Kongo and Angola.” Art History, Volume 41, Issue 5 (November 2018): 838–867,
https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8365.12400

Gordon D. Gibson and Cecilia R. McGurk, “High-Status Caps of the Kongo and Mbundu Peoples." Textile Museum Journal, Volume 16 (1977) https://archive.org/details/gi....bson-mc-gurk-high-st

Heywood, Linda M. Njinga of Angola: Africa’s Warrior Queen. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press, 2017.

Thornton, John. “Precolonial African Industry and the Atlantic Trade, 1500-1800.” African Economic History, no. 19 (1990): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/3601886.

Vansina, Jan. “Raffia Cloth in West Central Africa, 1500-1800.” Essay. In Textiles: Production, Trade, and Demand, 263–82. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 1998.

Clips used:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhznFtHhkBo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpT-4vctNY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oStCNLZBjUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ADpO6bau8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVfGarTEfc

Other Resources:

https://mavcor.yale.edu/mavcor....-journal/nature-cult

https://mavcor.yale.edu/mavcor....-journal/depicting-k

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00:00 Intro
00:45 Types of Adornment
01:37 Textiles in West Central Africa
03:44 Making Raffia Fabric
06:38 Class and Clothing
11:59 Decline of West Central African Fashion
12:35 Conclusion

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