On Imani-day (Sat) 17th June this year, a small gathering assembled at the Hector Pieterson memorial sculpture in Brixton’s Max Roach Park for the annual Soweto Uprising Commemoration, organised by Alliance of Afrikan Women, Mama Lindiwe & the Azanian Family, Way Wive Wordz and the Pan-Afrikan Society Community Forum. The…

Recent topics on Afrika Speaks have dealt with issues such as: Are Black women safe in the UK?; What will make our children safe in school?; 15 Minute Cities – building community or advancing repression?; Are we ready for Artificial Intelligence? and most recently, Are we politically homeless? A recurring…

We return to this this issue covered a year ago (1), in light of the fact that for the last month and a half, the political future of Diane Abbott MP, the first Afrikan woman elected to UK parliament (and the longest serving Afrikan Member of Parliament), has hung in…

Seventy-eight years some of the leading lights of the independence movement descended on the northern English city of Manchester for the historic Fifth Pan-African Congress (PAC). Unlike the previous events, W.E.B. Du Bois had least to do with organising it (much of that work was undertaken by George Padmore) (1)…

Sixty years ago this month, the Organisation of African Unity with a charter: (a) To promote the unity and solidarity of the African States; (b) To coordinate and intensify their cooperation and efforts to achieve a better life for the peoples of Africa; (c) To defend their sovereignty, their territorial…