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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 8d

🖊️“I have said my piece, and now I lay my Pen”: Syl Cheney-Coker at 80.
🎗️Gberie pays tribute to #Syl #Cheney-#Coker, the renowned exiled #Sierra #Leonean #poet and #novelist, on his #80th birthday of a globally #impactful life.

📍More here: tinyurl.com/PZ-Syl-CC
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Syl Cheney-Coker 2 Proceedings of the Medellín International Poetry Festival, Syl’s presentation at the 11th Edition.Image Credits: Revista Prometeo YouTube (2007 upload) /Cephas (2025 screenshot and edits)

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 8d

🔥Strengthening the #Private #Anti-Retroviral #Supply #Chain in #Nigeria.
👉Mbamalu calls for #rethinking the #production and supply of anti-retroviral #drugs in #Africa.
📍More here: www.pambazuka.org/ARV-Nigeria
#ARV #HIV/AIDS #Wellbeing
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USAID and PEPFAR collaborate to provide Anti-Retroviral Drugs to Africa, 18 December 2015. Image Credits: Oris Chimenya/USAID. Via Flickr/Wikimedia

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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 9d

🔥What became of #Greek #philosophy once the African source was destroyed?
👉Explore with Agozino answers to the #African question in #Western philosophy.
📍More here: www.pambazuka.org/Karl-Marx
#Marx
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Portrait of Karl Marx (1818–1883). Image taken before 24th August 1875. Image Credits: John Mayall/International Institute of Social History/Cephas (2025 edits

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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 9d

🔥In "Breaking the #siege on GAZA means breaking the siege on ALL OF US," Gadha boldly calls for global #solidarity against the siege on #Gaza and its #extensions across the world.
📍More at www.pambazuka.org/Gaza-Siege
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Sumud Flotilla bound for Gaza in protest against the siege of Gaza, September 17, 2025.Image Credits: Yassine Gaidi, Facebook

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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 9d

🔥Memory and Futures: Building #Justice and #Solidarity Between #Africa and Its #Diasporas.
👉Keynote address given by Vinson III and Zeleza at the African Burial Ground National Monument, New York, during the 80th Session of #UNGA.
📍More here: tinyurl.com/PZ-Memory-Fu...
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Part of the audience at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City, 25 September 2025. Image Credits: Tiyambe Zeleza

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 10d

🔥High-Level #Pan-#African Meeting on #African #Memory, #Justice and #Reparations.
#Pambazuka welcomes the historic calls by #progressive sections of the #AfricanUnion and their #Caribbean counterparts at the meeting.
📍More at tinyurl.com/PZ-PanAfrica...
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

President Faye of Senegal delivering his remarks at the African Burial Ground National Monument in New York City, 25 September 2025. Image Credits: Tiyambe Zeleza

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 10d

🔥Reflections on the UN General Assembly: Better together-80 years and More for Peace, Development and Human Rights.
#Pambazuka #Editors critically reflect on the #80th #Anniversary of the #UN General Assembly (New York, 23-29 September 2025).
📍More at tinyurl.com/PZ-UNGA80
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Seal for the United Nations outside the United Nations Headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, New York, 28 May 2024. Image Credit: Famartin

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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 11d

🎗️Assata Shakur: Free in Life, Free in Spirit (1947–2025).

👉GPAM honors #Assata #Shakur, beloved #freedom fighter, exiled black #liberation #revolutionary #activist who lived free and joined the ancestors free in Havana, #Cuba.

📍More here: pambazuka.org/Assata-Shakur
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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 11d

📖Take a read of the informative content of #issue906. As the #UN celebrates its #80th #Anniversary, what is its future in the light of #UNGA2025? Also about #AssataShakur, memory, justice, ARVs in #Africa, #Gaza, and more...

📍See pambazuka.org
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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 13d

🎗️Tribute: #Okello #Oculi (1942-2025), #Scholar, and #Pan #Africanist Activist Bows Out.
Ozoemena pays #tribute to the late Professor Okello Oculi, who passed on July 26, 2025, in Abuja, #Nigeria.
📍More here: pambazuka.org/Ozoemena-Tri...
#Uganda
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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 14d

🔥Will Tigray Pass the #Crossroad or Fail?
Adem draws on direct engagement with communities in #Tigray and highlights perspectives often absent in international debates on #Ethiopia's post-war #future.

📍More here: pambazuka.org/Will-Tigray-...
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Destroyed buildings in Mekelle, Tigray (2022). Mulugeta Atsbeha/VOA

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 14d

🔥US Africa Command at the Center of President Trump’s National Security #Policy Toward Africa.

📍Volman has more details here: pambazuka.org/US/Africa-Co...

#AFRICOM #USA #Africa #Trump #Security
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Gen Dagvin (Commander AFRICOM) receives the flag from Admiral Grady (Vice chair JCOS) in Stuttgart, August 15, 2025. Staff Sgt Emely, AFRICOM

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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 17d

✊Global Pan African Movement Stands in #Solidarity with the People of #Venezuela.

📍Take a read here: www.pambazuka.org/Venezuela-So...

#US #Caribbean #LatinAmerica
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social @patriote221.bsky.social

2024 election campaign in Venezuela. Image credit: Confidencial YouTube/Cephas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D60ETHoODwk

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 17d

🔥"The #Caribbean Must be a #Zone of #Peace" #CARICOM revisits the ever-relevant speech of Premier Dr Eric Williams at Arima, Trinidad, July 17, 1959, on the #Chaguaramas question and #US #military #bases.

📍More here: www.pambazuka.org/Caribbean-Pe...
#Guyana #Venezuela
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CARICOM Heads at Day 1 Plenary Sessions of the 48 Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community, February 2025. Image credit: CARICOM

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 20d

🔥#Liberation #Movements (LMs) have strayed away from their Founding #Principles.
📖Take a read of the #reflections, #assessment and #decisions of the movements from their #Summit held in #Johannesburg in July 2025.
📍More here: tinyurl.com/PZ-LMs-Summit
#SouthAfrica #Mozambique
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Liberation Movements Summit in Johannesburg, July 2025. SABC News YouTube/Cephas

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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 20d

🔥In "Pan-Africanism Lives in Africa’s Youth: Traoré Is the Proof," Bashiir reflects on the #resurgence of #PanAfricanism among #African #youth, with #BurkinaFaso's #Traoré as a symbol of bold #leadership and #continental awakening.
📍More at tinyurl.com/PZ-Traore-as...
#Sahel
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Ibrahim Traoré, during a meeting with the AU Peace and Security Council in Ouagadougou, August 2023. Lamine Traore/VOA

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 23d

🔥In "Maurice Tempelsman and the #Criminal Diamond #Cartel," Campbell critically reflects on the #legacies of #MauriceTempelsman, the renowned #diamond dealer.
📍More here: pambazuka.org/Maurice-Temp...
#SouthAfrica #DeBeers #USA #Africa #Mining

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Maurice Templesman, 2012 photo. Nagygs2012/Cephas

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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 23d

🔥Issue 905 offers critical analysis and inspiring insights about #militarized #extraction of #diamonds, the Pan African quest for #liberation, and calls across the global south for #unity, and #peace.
👉Click the link 🔗 pambazuka.org for more.
#USA #Venezuela #Tigray #CARICOM
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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 23d

🔥 In "The #People’s #Summit for #Korea: Korea’s Struggle in the #Global #Fight Against #Imperialism", Hong highlights the #organising that has been underway for the #unification of the #Korean #peninsula.
📍More here: pambazuka.org/Peoples-Summit
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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 28d

🔥Political #Repression in the Lead Up to #Cameroon’s October 2025 #Presidential #Election

📍@ambermurrey.bsky.social reveals more at: www.pambazuka.org/Political-Re...

@malangwa.bsky.social @cameroun.bsky.social @africaelects.bsky.social @africanarchives.bsky.social @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

President Paul Biya and wife Chantal Biya at the Olembé Stadium to preside over the opening of the 2021 CAN in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Image credit: Jeanpierrekepseu, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ouverture_CAN_(7).jpg

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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · Sep 12

🕯️In "The #Intellectual Giant #Uganda Forgot - A Tribute to #Okello #Oculi," Otim remembers the #Nigerian-based, #Pan-#Africanist, Ugandan #novelist, #poet and #champion of the #rural #poor.
📍Take a read at: pambazuka.org/Okello-Oculi
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Professor Okello Oculi. Image credit: NTA Network YouTube/Cephas

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · Sep 12

🔥 Opicho challenges #PanAfricanists on the #"Revolutionary #Obligations to forego ‘Secondary #Social #Contradictions’ for ‘Primary Social Contradictions’ in the Quest for #Global
#Pan-#African #Engagement"
📍More here: tinyurl.com/PZ-Global-Pa...
@malangwa.bsky.social @ambermurrey.bsky.social

Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, symbolizing Pan-Africanism. Image credit: Ayotunde Agbede via unsplash

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · Sep 11

📄In "An Open Letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa," Qekema
reminds #SouthAfrica’s President #Ramaphosa of his Black consciousness roots and calls for #social #justice for the country’s majority #Black community.
📍More at tinyurl.com/PZ-Letter-to...
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President Ramaphosa of South Africa. Image credit: The White House.

pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · Sep 11

🔥What are the #sexual #myths and #race questions dictating #immigration #politics in the #West? Sule
critically answers these questions.
📍Take a read here: tinyurl.com/PZ-Immigrati...
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pambazukanews.bsky.social @pambazukanews.bsky.social · Sep 11

🔥Through the #UnitedStates of America's #"Third #Country #Deportees" policy, Mother #Africa is quickly becoming a #dumping #ground for #Western #security #risks #(criminals).
👉See Madondo's critical analysis of the trend at: tinyurl.com/PZ-US-Deport...
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A deportation flight from the US. Image credit: CBP Photography.

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