What is Afrocentrism? Dr. Molefi Asante, one of the pioneer in Afrocentric thought tells you what Afrocentrism is and what it is not and the direction Afrocentrism must go.

The Afrocentric paradigm is a revolutionary shift in thinking proposed as a constructural adjustment to black disorientation, decenteredness, and lack of agency. The Afrocentrist asks the question, “What would African people do if there were no white people?” In other words, what natural responses would occur in the relationships, attitudes toward the environment, kinship patterns, preferences for colors, type of religion, and historical referent points for African people if there had not been any intervention of colonialism or enslavement? Afrocentricity answers this question by asserting the central role of the African subject within the context of African history, thereby removing Europe from the center of the African reality. In this way, Afrocentricity becomes a revolutionary idea because it studies ideas, concepts, events, personalities, and political and economic processes from a standpoint of black people as subjects and not as objects, basing all knowledge on the authentic interrogation of location.

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.

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La construction en terre... pour construire la terre ! Tel est le crédo de l'entreprise solidaire CoMaLoC de Dassa (Bénin), accompagnée par SENS depuis 2010. Grâce à la formation animée par CRAterre au Bénin en novembre 2011, de nombreux autres acteurs sont en train de s'associer à la démarcher pour (re)valoriser le construction en terre.

Carl Hodges recounts the early days and incredible speed of development.

Israel Vibration's debut, one of the greatest reggae albums ever to be recorded. This compilation released in 2001.

TRACK LIST:
1. The Same Song 0:00
2. Weep And Mourn 3:58
3. Walk The Streets Of Glory 7:18
4. Ball Of Fire 11:54
5. I'll Go Through 15:57
6. Why Worry 19:58
7. Lift Up Your Conscience 24:18
8. Prophet Has Arise 28:18
9. Jah Time Has Come 31:34
10. Licks And Kicks 35:01

BONUS TRACKS:
11. Crisis (Disco Mix) 37:55
12. The Same Song (12" version) 47:12
13. Weep And Mourn (12" version) 54:11
14. Crisis (Dub) 1:00:16

⁣Dr. Wade Nobles - From Sankofa To Enyimyam

A report on the threat of biological weapons, how the Soviet Union secretly amassed an arsenal of such weapons, and how U.S. officials and scientists are racing to find a defense against their use.