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.

Kwame Ture at University of Illinois
February 14, 1990
Urbana, Illinois

The great ancestor Kwame Ture discusses a range of topics in this fascinating interview with Howard Univesity TV. For more info on the All African People's Revolutionary Party, go to www.aaprp-intl.org

During a lecture to students at Howard University, Stokely Carmichael speaks about the movement of black people toward unity with a clear, common ideology based on science. He stresses black people must put theory into practice - organize and take action. He speaks about the differences between revolutionary and reform movements; Pan-Africanism; the All African People's Revolutionary Party; scientific socialism; nkrumahism; capitalism; and imperialism.

At Bethlehem Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, DC., Stokely Carmichael leads a discussion on ways to organize people. He stresses the responsibility of each person to organize people to achieve goal. He explains the power possible when people are properly organized.

At Bethlehem Baptist Church in Anacostia, Washington, DC., Stokely Carmichael leads a discussion on ways to organize people. He stresses the responsibility of each person to organize people to achieve goal. He explains the power possible when people are properly organized.

From the archives of the UCLA Communications Studies Department. Digitized 2013.

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