34 years ago today approximately 25,000 Afrikans took to the streets of London in a show of strength and solidarity and to protest against state sanctioned/perpetrated injustices against the community – most recently manifested in the event termed the “New Cross Massacre” where 13 young Afrikans perished in a suspected…
Author: Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement
The Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement would like to thank the hundreds who came out to pay due honour to our Eminent Prophet and King at the Omowale Malcolm X observance on 22/02, also streamed live on Galaxy 102.5FM. The commemorations don’t stop there. This Kuumba-day (Fri) 27.02.15 sees the first…
The essence of studying our heroes and sheroes is not simply to know of them and what they did, but to imbibe their spirits, so we may personify them and thus fulfil their mission. The mission of Omowale Malcolm X was as much prophetic as it was socio-political. Those of…
WHO KILLED OMOWALE MALCOLM X? At approximately eight minutes after 3pm on Umoja-day (Sunday) 21st February 1965, moments after he began address addressing an Organization of Afro-American Unity event Omowale Malcolm X was slain and martyred by assassin’s bullets. An act witnessed not only by the gathering of around 400…
As we continue to honour the life and legacy of Prophet Omowale Malcolm X, it has to be stated that the meaning and location of that legacy remains a source of contention. For some, the enduring narrative is one of transformation typified by his “change” away from separatism when…