Webinar presentation by author/publisher Frantz Derenoncourt, Jr. on the birthday of the late, great Haitian Revolutionary (May 20, 2020)

⁣Bayyinah Bello Interview 2017

The Last Poets
1970

How ancient African spiritual system became religion in the hands of the heathen Europeans.

⁣Voices From The Days of Slavery: Mrs. Laura Smalley

This video highlights how a pastoralist community in Mandera, Kenya applied knowledge gained in a pastoral field school to improve their livelihood through fodder production.

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Let’s reclaim our food sovereignty and transform the industrial food system! African organisations, including the African Centre for Biodiversity, participating in the Autonomous people's response to the UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS), coordinated this event, as part of the three days of global mobilisation, which took place during the UNFSS pre-summit, from 25 to 28 July 2021.

We Africans reject the UNFSS, as a continuation of the neocolonial development and agrarian extractivist agenda on our continent. The UNFSS paints African food systems as deficient, and in need of more Western saviour technology, productivity and competitive enhancement. Yet this will only serve to further weaken systems already eroded by decades of state neglect and economic subordination.

Strengthening African food systems, and food producers needs to be grounded in human rights, biodiversity and broader socio-ecological wellbeing. This event brings together small-scale food producers, agricultural workers and vulnerable consumers, to launch the African common position and collectively voice our priorities and solutions for the continent’s food systems and ecologies. Together, we can begin to outline a people’s pan-African vision for food system transformation, from the ground up.

Featured:
Moderators: Mariam Mayet, African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) and
Mateus Santos, La Via Campesina (LVC)

Presentation of the common position:
Introduction to the vision: Mateus Santos
The vision we defend: Mariam Mayet
What we denounce: Elizabeth Mpofu, Zimbabwe Small Holder Organic Farmers' Forum (ZIMSOFF)/ LVC
What we call for (FR): Dieudonné Pakodtogo, Réseau des Organisations Paysannes et de Producteurs de l'Afrique de l'Ouest (ROPPA)

Voices from the Ground:
Youth and women: Nzira Deus, World March of Women
Fisherfolk: Christiana Saiti Louwa, World Forum of Fisher Peoples
Small-scale family farmers / Peasants: David Otieno, Kenyan Peasant League
Urban food insecure: Samuel Ikua, Habitat International Coalition (HIC)
Indigenous people: Ali Aii Shatu, Indigenous Peoples of Africa Co-ordinating Committee
Agricultural workers (FR): Mohamed Hakech, Fédération Nationale Du Secteur Agricole (FNSA/MAROC)

Closing performance: “Tell the children”, a poem by South African Poet Khadija Tracey Heeger

You can read the declaration (and please sign your organisations on to endorse it) here: https://docs.google.com/docume....nt/d/e/2PACX-1vTVDdM

To find out more about this event, click here: https://www.acbio.org.za/africa-responds-unfss
Follow the social media conversation: #FoodSystems4People
For more information on the counter mobilisation, please click here: https://www.foodsystems4people.org/

Free Your Mind: A Revolution In Words Literary Festival, keynote address by Dr. T'Shaka. Dr. T'Shaka is an activist, scholar, renowned public speaker, professor, workshop leader, author, organizer and visionary of exceptional influence. For 38 years Dr. T'Shaka was a Professor at San Francisco State University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Dr. Oba T'Shaka (formerly Bill Bradley) led the San Francisco Civil Rights Movement and addressed such issues as economic apartheid and job discrimination within San Francisco and as well as - See more at: http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=2....000636401#sthash.bdi

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Malcolm X His Transformations and a introduction to Malcolm through reviewing some of the critical scholarship on Malcolm X.

DR. ASA HILLIARD, III The former Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education has said the following about Dr. Oba T'Shaka's book The Political Legacy of Malcolm X "Oba T'Shaka has written a book which dwarfs all other writings on Malcolm X. Both Alex Haley and George Breitman suggest that Malcolm made fundamental changes in his position toward the end. It is T'Shaka's contention, and it is this contention that his work documents, that the substance of Malcolm's thought did not change, even though the form may have changed. A careful reading of T'Shaka's book will show that he has eclipsed both of these writers, one of whom has an international reputation."

Dr. Nathan Hare, Clinical Psychologist, Sociologist and Innovator of the Discipline of Black Studies, said ot Dr. Oba T'Shaka's book The Political Legacy of Malcolm X: "For Oba T'Shaka's good work in the organization and uplift of African and African American peoples, he has achieved both national and international eminence. Had I not already regarded Oba T'Shaka as one of the key social philosophers in the Afro-American race today, a reading of this manuscript on the life and death of Malcolm X would have been instructive to me. Its careful even meticulous scholarship is reminiscent of W.E.B. Dubois', The Philadelphia Negro."

Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, noted author, scholar and public intellectual in The New York Times Book Review section, reviewed all the major books on Malcolm X, and ranked The Political Legacy of Malcolm X number one In his review of Dr. T'Shaka's book he wrote: "The Political Legacy of Malcolm X is a clear exposition of Malcolm's political ideas as a revolutionary black nationalist."

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Dr. T'Shaka will explain a key part of Self-Knowledge: Knowing and Being an essential dimension of God Within Us, the dimension of our Ka or our Destiny. This dimension of being human, is our life purpose, that brings joy and meaning to our lives and to the lives of others.