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John Henrik Clarke was a prolific Pan-African scholar who committed his life to the upliftment and unification of African people. This volume contains essays on John Henrik Clarke and the Pan-African movement of which he was a part of.

Epub✔ John Henrik Clarke and Other Selections on Pan-Africanism

BlackTalk host Dr. Andy Knight talks with Dr. Adekeye Adebajo of the University of Pretoria, and Lula Adam of the University of Alberta, discussing their experiences at the Pan-African Symposium held at the University of Alberta in February 2024. All three speakers reflect on the ideas presented in the symposium, especially ideas of intellectual reparations, African scholarship, the publishing gap between Euro-North American and African journals, and practical, constructive paths forward for working to decolonize the University curriculum. 

Professor Adekeye Adebajo is a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Pretoria's (UP) Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS). Professor Adebajo holds a doctorate from Oxford University in England, and served with United Nations (UN) missions in South Africa, Western Sahara, and Iraq.

Lula Adam is the Student Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Co-Ordinator with the Dean of Students Office at the University of Alberta, and the host of the upcoming podcast "You, Me, and Us: Equity and Belonging"

BlackTalk Special Episode - Pan-African Symposium with Adekeye Adebajo and Lula Adam

AfricaNow! June 19, 2024 Exploring the Notion of Freedom

Topic and Guest: Today we want to explore the idea of freedom.  Freedom a concept that seems to be multiple and complex in meaning, is a notion that is present in every corner of the world.  In every society and culture, some idea of freedom is the cornerstone of social construct of human interaction.  The idea of freedom and various attempts to attain a measure of it, on each level of human existence, this is physical, mental, spiritual is identifiable in the historical existence of people of African descent worldwide.

Today WPFW presents Emancipated Spirits: Slavery, Freedom, and Resistance, from 5am until midnight to commemorate Juneteenth.  Thus AfricaNow! goes into its archives (July 28, 2010 show) to air a discussion which dissects the meanings of freedom in relation to Africa and the peoples of African descent.  Joining the show is Dr. Greg Carr, Associate Professor of Afro-American Studies at Howard University and Adjunct Professor at the Howard School of Law.  Professor Carr is First Vice President of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations and Editor of The Compass: The Journal of ASCAC (Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations).  First you will hear Missy Lane who was then with TransAfrica reciting Frederick Douglass’ speech on July 5, 1852. 


MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“FREEDOM SOUNDS” BY THE SKATALITES commemorating Caribbean American Heritage Month; break--“SUN GODDESS” BY RAMSEY LEWIS commemorating Black Music Month; after the break--“BLACK MAN” BY STEVIE WONDER; sign-off--“FIGHT THE POWER” (INSTRUMENTAL) BY PUBLIC ENEMY commemorating Black Music Month; closing song--“I WISH I KNEW HOW IT WOULD FEEL TO BE FREE” BY NINA SIMONE.

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Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

Photo: Freedom by Nick Youngson CC BY-SA 3.0 Pix4free

AfricaNow! Special Jun. 19, 2024 Exploring the Notion of Freedom

AfricaNow! June 26, 2024 The African University—The Politics of Knowledge and Access

Topic and Guest: Today AfricaNow!’s discussion with Professor Paul Zeleza is from our archives.  The discussion dissected the history of universities in Africa—from ancient times to the current. The conversation also highlighted the production and control of knowledge on the continent, investment in learning institutions and the ever-increasing labor source. 

Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza is Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives at Howard University.  Previously he was Associate Provost and the North Star Distinguished Professor at Case Western Reserve University (2021-2023), after serving as Vice Chancellor (President) and Professor of the Social Sciences and Humanities at the United States International University (USIU) in Kenya from 2016-2021. Professor Zeleza has held distinguished academic and administrative positions worldwide on three continents and the Caribbean region.  He has been widely published in books, journal articles and author of two collections of short stories and an acclaimed novel.  Several of his books have won international awards. His forthcoming books include Re-envisioning African and American Universities (2024), and The Chronicles of African University Leaders (2024), a volume of reflections by former vice chancellors of some of Africa’s leading universities.  Professor Paul Tiyambe Zeleza has received numerous awards from major universities for his scholarship.

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“TEACHER DON'T TEACH ME NONSENSE” BY FELA KUTI; break--“ABYSSINIA” BY THANDI NTULI; sign-off--“BREEZE & SOUL” BY KOOL & THE GANG commemorating Black Music Month; closing song--“GRAB EDUCATION” BY STEELE PULSE.

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Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

Photos:   Library at Makerere Univ.-- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Makerere_University_Main_Library.jpg   
Univ. of Ghana Legon-- https://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/features/JB-Danquah-and-the-establishment-of-University-of-Ghana-UG-650493
Manuscripts of Timbuktu-- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/17/timbuktu-manuscripts-appeal-crowdfund

AfricaNow! Jun. 26, 2024 The African University—The Politics of Knowledge and Access

AfricaNow! July 3, 2024 Thinking Through CLR James with Matthew Quest Pt. I

Topic and Guest: Today AfricaNow! goes into its archives and plays a show that explores CLR James.  In an article for Insurgent Notes, Matthew Quest asks, What Type of Historian Was CLR James? CLR James, native of Trinidad, was a historian with a speculative philosophy of history. He brought these methods to his narrative of Haiti in The Black Jacobins (1938), and later in his Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution (1977). James was influenced by historians of the French Revolution, while his approach was shaped by Leon Trotsky’s A History of the Russian Revolution, Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West, and the Edwardian radicals GK Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, both literary men who wrote polemical histories sympathetic to the social motion of commoners.

...For James, the working classes, be their wages high or low, and the unemployed possessed a hidden depth, a latent understanding, and a creative genius. Ordinary people, not professional leaders of official society, were the chief actors of history....Highlighting another important contribution of CLR James to Black radicalism, Matthew Quest unpacks his political economic analysis. Quest writes that CLR James is recalled as a Pan-African and independent socialist...

Quest goes on to argue that the Black radical tradition, after experimenting with European radicalism and socialism, never developed its own independent political economy. ...For James, there is a connection between state planning and repression of toilers, and he in no way subscribes to classical liberal market economics. We must remember that James’s mature political economy was worked out not just in response to Russia but Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal welfare state, and its repression of self-directed action during the CIO labor movement....

Today, we will explore CLR James’s thought, paying specific attention to his articulation of notions of direct democracy, worker’s self-emancipation, and meditations on autonomy with Matthew Quest.

This conversation will be presented as a three-part series where we specifically explore CLR James as a frame of reference in the context of current labor struggles, the opportunities and potential limitations of demands within labor movements [where we think through the limitations of labor demands being divorced from direct critique of imperialism and colonialisms]; and how does CLR James’ conceptualization of autonomy and direct democracy have an important part to play in conceptualization of labor movements today.

To understand the depth and range of impact of CLR James’s work, I would describe him as your ‘rappers’ favorite rapper’. Your favorite theorist, revolutionary, radical, Pan Africanist had to or at some point must come to terms with CLR James’s work. His influences are both undeniable and misunderstood.

Matthew Quest has taught African, African American and Caribbean History at universities including Georgia State University in Atlanta, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is known as a scholar of the legacies of CLR James.

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“THE AWAKENING” BY AHMAD JAMAL commemorating his birthday on July 2 (July 2, 1930— April 16, 2023); break--“KURIMA” CHIWONISO MARAIRE; sign-off--“JARABI” BY SONA JOBARTEH; closing song--“LIZOBUYA” BY MBOGENI NGEMA.

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Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

AfricaNow! Jul. 3, 2024 Thinking Through CLR James with Matthew Quest Pt. I

AfricaNow! October 9, 2024 AFRICOM—Militarism, Imperialism & Neocolonialism

Topic and Guests: October 1, 2007, marks an important date in the increased U.S. militarization of Africa.  That is the day the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) began and was started fully operating the following year on October 1, 2008. Those featured on the show today unpack Western governments’ neocolonial policies throughout the continent; foreign intervention in Haiti under the guise of Pan-Africanism; and the continued U.S. militarization of Africa through AFRICOM (the U.S. Africa Command).

The show begins with a recent conversation with Kossi Paul of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP) and active member of the Panafrican Brigade for Palestine and is on the Steering Committee of the U.S. Out of Africa Network of Black Alliance for Peace.  

The show then spotlights a portion of Black Alliance for Peace's (BAP) recent webinar launching of the 2024 International Month of Action Against AFRICOM, entitled Resisting Fascism and Neocolonialism: U.S. Out of Africa, #ShutDownAFRICOM.  The show features Booker Omole, National Vice Chairperson and National Organizing Secretary, Communist Party of Kenya; Inemesit Richardson, President, Thomas Sankara Center, Burkina Faso; and Leila A., Black Alliance for Peace from the launch. 
  
More information on Black Alliance for Peace’s campaign Resisting Fascism and Neocolonialism: U.S. Out of Africa, #ShutDownAFRICOM and it launch webinar available at  https://blackallianceforpeace.com/. 

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“ZOMBIE” BY FELA KUTI commemorating his birthday (October 15, 1938—August 2, 1997); break--“AFRIKA” BY JONATHAN BUTLER remembering his birthday (October 10, 1961—); intro to final speaker--“ON FIRE” BY TONY ALLEN commemorating his birthday (October 6, 1938—April 30, 2020); sign-off--“BLACK LIGHTNING” BY ABDULLAH IBRAHIM (DOLLAR BRAND) remembering his birthday (October 9, 1934—); closing song--“CHUCHO’S STEPS” BY CHUCHO VALDÉS & KENNY GARRETT remembering Chucho Valdés’ birthday (October 9, 1941—) and Kenny Garrett’s birthday (October 9, 1960—).

Next week we begin our Fall Pledge Drive.  Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW.  Donate online @ https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. Or on our CashApp, which is $WPFWFM write it is for AfricaNow! and include your email address. Thank you.

Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

AfricaNow! Oct. 9, 2024 AFRICOM—Militarism, Imperialism & Neocolonialism

AfricaNow! January 8, 2025 Reflections on Autonomy, Direct Democracy & Marronage with Modibo Kadalie Pt. I

Topic and Guest: In his publication Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, The Great Dismal Swamp and The Human Quest for Freedom Modibo Kadalie aptly points out, younger people “are convinced that the nation-state is not offering them a future. Newer generations of researchers are now beginning to look for evidence of community and collectivity.”  A collectivity that lies in the very fabric of Africana forms of knowing and ways of being, fully articulated in the various forms of resistance found throughout the Americas expressed as maroon communities.  In defining, mapping, and attempting to find the most articulate application of ‘democracy’ Modibo Kadalie presents an important intervention into the questions that move in and throughout discourses on democracy.  

Kadalie engages interdependent themes such as Black autonomy, radical public and social history, intimate direct democracy, social intimacy, Black geographies, and radical ecology, while centering a Pan Africanism that strengthens conceptual lens through which continuities in Africana sociopolitical thought and resistance can be further identified. Kadalie’s perspective on Black autonomy, grounded in social intimacy as being the operative mechanism for a functional democratic society, is undoubtedly rooted in his own background. Kadalie grew up in Riceboro, a Gullah-Geechee community on the Georgia coast, where he often points to African ways of being and forms of knowledge that were transmitted from generation to generation and deeply ingrained in his worldview throughout his early development.   

Today, we will listen to part one of a four-part series where we explore direct democracy, autonomy, marronage, Black anarchism, and atheism with Modibo Kadalie.  Dr. Modibo Kadalie is a social ecologist, academic and lifelong radical activist within the Civil Rights, Black Power and Pan-Africanist movements and the Founding Convener of the Autonomous Research Institute for Direct Democracy and Social Ecology (ARIDDSE). He is the author of Pan-African Social Ecology: Speeches, Conversations and Essays (2019); Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes; Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom (2022) and a number of other articles.

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--"ALL AFRICA” BY MAX ROACH remembering the legendary ancestor drummer, composer, musician’s birthday (January 10, 1924—August 16, 2007); break--“BRIDGE THROUGH TIME” BY LONNIE LISTON SMITH commemorating his birthday (December 28, 1940—); sign-off--“INSOMNIA” BY MELBA LISTON remembering her birthday (January 13, 1926—April 23, 1999); closing--“THE PURPLE CONDOR” BY DANILO PÉREZ commemorating his birthday (December 29, 1966—).

Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW.  Donate online: visit https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. Or on our CashApp, which is $WPFWFM write it is for AfricaNow! and include your email address. Thank you.

Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

AfricaNow! Jan. 8, 2025 Reflections on Autonomy, Direct Democracy & Marronage w Modibo Kadalie Pt. I

AfricaNow! January 15, 2025 Reflections on Autonomy, Direct Democracy & Marronage with Modibo Kadalie Pt. II

Topic and Guest: Follwing up from our show last week, today we will listen to part two of a four-part series where we explore direct democracy, autonomy, marronage, Black anarchism, and atheism with Modibo Kadalie.  Dr. Modibo Kadalie is a social ecologist, academic and lifelong radical activist within the Civil Rights, Black Power and Pan-Africanist movements and the Founding Convener of the Autonomous Research Institute for Direct Democracy and Social Ecology (ARIDDSE). He is the author of Pan-African Social Ecology: Speeches, Conversations and Essays (2019); Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes; Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom (2022) and a number of other articles.

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“UHURU” BY OSIBISA as we remember Osibisa’s founder/leader Teddy Osei who joined the ancestors yesterday January 14, 2025 (December 1, 1937—January 14, 2025); break--“KURIMA” BY CHIWONISO MARAIRE; sign-off--“WE WILL WIN” BY EZRA NGCUKANA; closing--“FLYING BIRD (ANOMA)” BY OSIBISA as we remember Osibisa’s founder/leader Teddy Osei who joined the ancestors yesterday January 14, 2025 (December 1, 1937—January 14, 2025).

Support AfricaNow! and your community station WPFW.  Donate online: visit https://pledge.wpfwfm.org/index.php and then on Step 1: Contribution scroll down to AfricaNow! to make your donation to the show. Or on our CashApp, which is $WPFWFM write it is for AfricaNow! and include your email address. Thank you.

Originally broadcast on WPFW 89.3FM, Washington, DC. Tune into AfricaNow! live on WPFW 89.3 FM in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area or visit www.wpfwfm.org on Wednesdays from 1:00 to 2:00PM (U.S. Eastern).

AfricaNow! Jan. 15, 2025 Reflections on Autonomy, Direct Democ. & Marronage w Modibo Kadalie Pt. II

AfricaNow! January 22, 2025 Reflections on Autonomy, Direct Democracy & Marronage with Modibo Kadalie Pt. III & Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Internationalism

Topics and Guests: Following up from our show last week, today, we will listen to Pt. III of a four-part series where we explore direct democracy, autonomy, marronage, Black anarchism, and atheism with Modibo Kadalie. Dr. Modibo Kadalie is a social ecologist, academic and lifelong radical activist within the Civil Rights, Black Power and Pan-Africanist movements and the Founding Convener of the Autonomous Research Institute for Direct Democracy and Social Ecology (ARIDDSE). He is the author of Pan-African Social Ecology: Speeches, Conversations and Essays (2019); Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes; Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom (2022) and a number of other articles.

January 20 was Martin Luther King Day commemorating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—he would have turned 96 on January 15.  AfricaNow! goes into its archives with a program in which we explored Dr. King's internationalism—its historical and contemporary impact. That program featured Dr. Clayborne Carson, who was then the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor of History and Ronnie Lott Founding Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. Currently Dr. Clayborne Carson is Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor Emeritus of History at Stanford University. Dr. Carson has devoted his professional life to the study of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the human rights movements inspired by King. His numerous publications include his award-winning book, In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Full bio is available at fsi.stanford.edu/people/clayborne-carson.  We join the original archived show (from https://soundcloud.com/africanowonline/africanow-jan-17-2024-dr-kings-internationalismhistorical-contemporary-impact) after the presentation of a portion of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech of April 7, 1957, entitled Birth of a New Nation presented soon after attending Ghana’s Independence Day celebration on March 6, 1957.

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“THE MESSAGE CONTINUES” BY NUBYA GARCIA; break--“FREEDOM SOUNDS” BY THE SKATALITES; sign-off--“HYMN TO FREEDOM” BY OSCAR PETERSON; closing--“FREE” BY STEVIE WONDER.

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AfricaNow! Jan. 22, 2025 Reflections on Autonomy, Direct Democ. & Marronage w Modibo Kadalie Pt. III

AfricaNow! January 29, 2025 Reflections on Autonomy, Direct Democracy & Marronage with Modibo Kadalie Pt. IV & Update on the Situation in Goma, DRC

Topics and Guests: The show begins with an update on the attack on the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by Rwandan-backed M23 rebels.  Featured in the conversation is   Congolese journalist Akilimali Chomachoma and Nils Kinuani, Board Director, and Immigration Coordinator for the Congolese Community of Washington Metropolitan (CCWM).

Following up from our show last week, today, we will listen to Pt. IV of a four-part series where we explore direct democracy, autonomy, marronage, Black anarchism, and atheism with Modibo Kadalie. 

Dr. Modibo Kadalie is a social ecologist, academic and lifelong radical activist within the Civil Rights, Black Power and Pan-Africanist movements and the Founding Convener of the Autonomous Research Institute for Direct Democracy and Social Ecology (ARIDDSE). He is the author of Pan-African Social Ecology: Speeches, Conversations and Essays (2019); Internationalism, Pan-Africanism and the Struggle of Social Classes; Intimate Direct Democracy: Fort Mose, the Great Dismal Swamp, and the Human Quest for Freedom (2022) and a number of other articles.  

MUSIC ON THE SHOW: intro--“TRÈS IMPOLI” BY FRANCO & T.P.O.K. JAZZ; intro segment two--“ELMINA” BY KOFI; break--“KURIMA” BY CHIWONISO MARAIRE;  sign-off--“JARABI” BY SONA JOBARTEH; closing--“FOUR” BY SONNY STITT remembering his birthday which February 2 (February 2, 1924–July 22, 1982).

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AfricaNow! Jan. 29, 2025 Reflections on Autonomy, Direct Democracy & Marronage with Modibo Kadalie Pt. IV, & Update on the Situation in Goma, DRC

Ethnic, modern, inclusive and informative, BlackTalk leaves listeners with new perspectives about anti-Black racism and Black achievement. 

BlackTalk is a podcast about the personal experiences of global Black experts and Black Canadians contextualized within the historical experience of being Black. Ethnic, modern, inclusive and informative, BlackTalk leaves listeners with new perspectives about anti-Black racism and Black achievement. The show is conversational, not judgmental. It provides a unique take on the Black experience to help people of all backgrounds open their eyes, reflect and challenge their thinking.

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