Baba Mutabaruka gives interesting perspective to the Burchell 'Patwa in Parliment' incident that occured in May 11

In this talk, Shahid Bolsen breaks down what is actually behind the manufactured anti-immigrant wave sweeping South Africa — who built it, how it works, and why it is happening right now in this specific moment in history.
He treats it as what it is: not a sociological phenomenon, but a forensic case. An arson. And he names the arsonists.
Starting with the basic fact that South Africa is the only country in the BRICS+ world where the colonial management class never actually left — they lost political power in 1994 but kept the land, the mines, the banks, the media, and the financial system — Shahid maps the full chain of actors producing the xenophobia campaign: from the Oppenheimer family's think tank and AfriForum's Washington lobbying operations, through the Democratic Alliance and the Patriotic Alliance inside the Government of National Unity, all the way down to Leon Schreiber's Home Affairs ministry deporting 51,000 Africans a year under a program literally called "Operation New Broom."
He places all of this within the global transition from unipolarity to multipolarity — arguing that the anational owners of global financialized capital are not trying to stop the transition. They accepted it. They are managing it. The question they are asking is whether they can arrive at the post-transition multipolar world still holding the keys to its most critical continent.
Africa is the last open contest. Every other major region has been claimed. And within Africa, three countries have the mass to anchor continental spheres of influence: Egypt, Nigeria, and South Africa. Egypt is effectively untakeable. Nigeria is under coordinated pressure. South Africa is already under management — and the campaign to keep it that way is running at full speed.
The xenophobia campaign serves three simultaneous objectives: it redirects Black working-class anger away from the colonial structure that produced their poverty; it severs South Africa's solidarity relationships with the African countries it needs as partners in any genuinely independent future; and it justifies a state enforcement apparatus — in DA hands — that is doing the actual work of African removal on the ground.
And it is the same playbook being run in America. Keep the poor fighting the poor, while the people who own the structure watch from behind their walls.
This talk connects it all — the street marches, the parliamentary coalitions, the Trump executive order, the PEPFAR cuts, the ambassador expulsion, the continental power contest — into one coherent picture.

Dr. Monique Swift delivers a powerful acceptance speech and tribute.

⁣Heru, Dr. Baruch, and Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé on Polygyny: UNIA Community Focus Radio

Are y'all still seeing this today?

⁣Mhenga Malcolm X: Opens for Fannie Lou Hamer [1964]

Journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy travels across India to investigate the underbelly of the Indian economic miracle. Underneath the glittering surface of India's economic boom lie the ugly realities of modern-day India: mass suicide by debt-ridden farmers, a rise in Hindu nationalism, discrimination against Muslims and a caste system that condemns millions to a life of servitude.

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I Wish I Knew · John Coltrane Quartet

Ballads

℗ A Verve Label Group Release; ℗ 1962 UMG Recordings, Inc.

Released on: 2002-01-01

Producer: George Douglas
Producer: Bob Thiele
Studio Personnel, Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
Author: Mack Gordon
Composer: Harry Warren

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Recording of the virtual launch of AEF's new video, hosted on June 11th 2021.

With the participation of filmmaker Rucha Chitnis, AEF grantee partner Rutendo Zendah from the African Centre for Biodiversity and Pius Ranee from the North-East Slow Food & Agrobiodiversity Society, as well as Anna Lappé from Panta Rhea Foundation, an AEF donor.

0:07 Intro
1:05 Migration History
1:25 Igbo Genetics
2:00 Nsibidi Writing
2:35 Material Culture
2:50 Eri Genealogies
4:00 Nri rituals
7:35 Igbo Months

⁣Chance encounter with Uber Driver who moved all the way to Ghana to Meet Okunini Obadele Kambon

Amos Wilson Lectures on Types of Love, Black/Afrikan Relationships, Child Rearing, Self-Love, The Basis of Sound Relationships, Origins of Courting, Self-Knowledge, Children a Gift to Society, Community Role in Child-Rearing, Love Instinct, Death/Hate Instinct, Fear, Marriage, Intimacy, Happiness Rooted in Hatred & Fear [A MUST SEE FOR ALL AFRIKANS BEFORE ENTERING INTO AN AFRIKAN RELATIONSHIP.]

The idea that “Africans sold Africans” has been repeated so often that people treat it like complete history, when it is anything but. It strips away context and forces a modern racial reading onto a pre-colonial African world that did not organise itself around European ideas of race. Africa was not one people and it was not one identity. It was made up of kingdoms, empires, nations and ethnic groups with their own political systems, cultures and interests. So when conflict happened, it was not “Black people selling Black people” in the way that phrase is now used. It was political conflict between distinct societies, just as Europe had its own wars between rival states and kingdoms.

What Europe created through the transatlantic slave trade was something different in scale, structure and purpose. This was not simply an extension of local wars. It was a racialised, hereditary and industrial system built for profit, conquest and extraction. European demand drove it, expanded it and turned human beings into global commodities on a scale the world had not seen before. That is why the “Africans sold Africans” argument is not serious history. It is a lazy deflection that avoids naming Europe’s central role in designing, racialising and profiting from the transatlantic slave trade.

⁣Renewed and growing Afrophobia-Xenophobic tensions and violent incidents against Black African migrants in South Africa, has drawn strong condemnation across Africa and the Diaspora.