As nations go, Tanzania is in its infancy. It was born in April 1964 of a union of Tanganyika, a former British colony, and Zanzibar, tiny islands off the East Coast of Africa which were formerly Arab dominated. This program explores many of the problems facing this struggling nation - poverty, sickness, education, and lack of trained manpower. Beyond this, the program focuses on Tanzania's policy of non-alignment in the Cold War and its willing acceptance of foreign aid from both Free World and Communist Bloc countries.

As nations go, Tanzania is in its infancy. It was born in April 1964 of a union of Tanganyika, a former British colony, and Zanzibar, tiny islands off the East Coast of Africa which were formerly Arab dominated. This program explores many of the problems facing this struggling nation - poverty, sickness, education, and lack of trained manpower. Beyond this, the program focuses on Tanzania's policy of non-alignment in the Cold War and its willing acceptance of foreign aid from both Free World and Communist Bloc countries.

Ted Vincent explores the work of Harry Haywood (born Haywood Hall), who, in addition to being a member of the African Blood Brotherhood, also initiated the Black Belt Republic scheme into the Communist Party, and continued as a Black Nationalist theorist

Credit To: Pacifica Radio Archives

A panel discussion on the violence in South Africa between the Inkatha Freedom Party and The African National Congress (ANC). Panelists include: Chris Hani, Harry Schwarz, and Sipo Mzimela.

Ted Vincent discusses Hubert H. Harrison, a socialist and Garveyite, who participated in the Harlem Renaissance, as well as Samuel Alfred Haynes, a Garveyite columnist with a noteworthy social consciousness.

A revealing documentary compilation from historic footage shot by the National Institute of Cinema in Mozambique which looks at the rehabilitation of former colonial government collaborators by the government of Samora Machel (former president of Mozambique).

A Luta Continua explains the military struggle of the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO) against the Portuguese. Produced and narrated by American activists Robert Van Lierop, it details the relationship of the liberation to the wider regional and continental demands for self-determination against minority rule. It notes the complicit roles of foreign governments and companies in supporting Portugal against the African nationalists. Footage from the front lines of the struggle helps contextualize FRELIMO’s African socialist ideology, specifically the role of the military in building the new nation, a commitment to education, demands for sexual equality, the introduction of medical aid into the countryside, and the role of culture in creating a single national identity.

Credit To: WGBH Archives

After winning independence in 1961 from the British, President Julius K. Nyerere set to instill ideas of self-development, self-governance and social justice in Tanzania. This short film describes the idea of African Socialism aka. "Ujamaa" as a response to the challenge of development in terms of the pressures under which newly emerging nations labor and emphasizes the strength of working together for the benefit of their nation.

Credit To: Minerva Films and McGraw-Hill Book Company

⁣Kwame Ture: Revolutionary Without An Organization

All African People's Revolutionary Party ancestor and former member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and later the Black Panthers Kwame Ture speaks on lessons learned from the African liberation struggle in the 60s. This talk was filmed at the University of Chicago on February 18th, 1989.


Learn more about the All African People's Revolutionary Party at aaprp-intl.org.