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Blossom of Thought
Hosted by Life Nkam · EN
Join me and our guests as we speak about Health, Politics, Economics, Spirituality, Education, Psychology, and living an inspired life.
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J Trimble & S Shakura: Organizing Activities in Southern & East Africa
Dec 1, 202401:04:24Tap to summarizeTo realize their growing yearning for a liberated and unified Africa, Africans are organizing themselves throughout the continent and its diaspora. In this episode, John Trimble and Sobukwe Shakura join me to discuss their organizing activities in Southern and East Africa, respectively. They each have been organizing for over 40 years and are a cadre with the All African Revolutionary Party Some of the issues they discuss are land reclamation, the struggle against neocolonialism, the Green Revolution of Multination Corporations and the negative impact these have on the environment, local farmers and over the food sector. This episode takes us into the success and challenges of organizing in both South and East Africa as the Pan-African project reverberates across the continent and the diaspora. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africanism/support
Transcribe →From Black Power to Pan-Africanism
Nov 1, 202400:06:02Tap to summarizeThis is an anthological episode dealing with Black Power and the intricacies of Pan-Africanism. In this regard we host the voices of Kwame Ture, Ahjamu Umi, and Kwame Nkrumah. Pan-Africanism has come a long way - going as far back as the 1900s or from the days of Marcus Garvey through W.E.B Du Bois who kept the lights of Pan-Africanism burning till the 1945 Pan-African Congress with George Padmore (from the Caribbean) and Kwame Nkumah representing the Motherland. It is a fact that the struggle of Africans in North America produced what is known as Black Power in the 60s of the Civil Rights Movement.However, it is argued that Black Power naturally mutates or evolves to Pan-Africanism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africanism/support
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Inem Richardson: From Captain Thomas Sankara to Captain Ibrahim Traore
Sep 15, 202400:56:42Tap to summarizeInem Richardson, journalist with African Stream, co-founder of the Thomas Sankara Center/Burkina Books (Centre Thomas Sankara Pour La Libération et L’Unité Africain), sits down with me to discuss the Burkinabe peoples wrestles against colonial and imperialist West, such as France, in the past 4 decades. Inem is also A member and cadre of the All African People’s Revolutionary Party. She is originally from The Bay Area in Northern California, but she currently lives in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Burkina Books is a Pan-African library and political education center. Inem gives us a detailed account of the political and socio-economic struggle of the Burkinabe people from the days of that great son of Africa and Pan-Africanist, Captain Thomas Sankara, until right before the current leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traore. She eloquently ties into the conversation the external relations created by Sankara’s leadership with other revolutionary countries like Cuba, Nicaragua, among others. This discussion is inspired by her article - Burkina Faso: La Patrie ou la Mort… Venceremos - published by Hood Communist, an online Pan-african Media. This episode is part one of two episodes. The second episode will cover where this one leaves off all the way to the present and prevailing socio-economic and political conditions in Burkina Faso under the leadership of Captain Ibrahim Traore. We anticipate covering a lot about the Sahel with Inem in the near future. To connect with Inem, and to support the Pan-african work she does in the Sahel, please visit: https://www.instagram.com/burkinabooks/?hl=en https://tinyurl.com/sahelbooks https://tinyurl.com/nigerlibrary https://tinyurl.com/burkinalibrary https://patreon.com/burkinabooks --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africanism/support
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Pius Vilakati: Appraising the Swazi Struggle 2.0
Sep 2, 202400:32:36Tap to summarizePius returns to conclude his appraisal of the mass struggle for liberation and against the regime in Swaziland. He speaks of international solidarity vs. the so-called international community and which of these can support revolutionary changes in Swaziland. Pius is very candid on whether the monarch has a place in the modern political, economic, and social fabric of society. The Multi Stakeholder Forum is not revolutionary according to him, hence, the Communist Party of Swaziland is not a member of this forum. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africanism/support
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Pius Vilakati: Appraising the Swazi Struggle
Aug 18, 202400:42:11Tap to summarizeFor an appraisal of the struggle for democracy in Swaziland, Pius Vilakati sits down with me. Pius is Central Committee Member and Head of Research and Policy Development of the Communist Party of Swaziland (CPS) and a former International Secretary of the CPS. He is former President of the University of Swaziland Student Representative Council (SRC) and a former prominent member of the Swaziland National Union of Students (SNUS). He has been exiled in Azania/South Africa for over a dozen years. After the 2021 uprising and protests for democratic reforms in Swaziland, things are back to normal and no more protest against the regime. Nothing has changed though: there are still about 100 people who died during the uprising, dozens and dozens maimed and disabled, 100s imprisoned including the 2 MPs (Bacede Mabuza and Mthandeni Dube) that were recently sentenced to 25 and 18 years respectively for calling for democratic changes. King Mswait’s regime has failed to conduct a transparent, independent, and impartial investigation into the killings and other human rights violations resulting from the security forces’ excessive crackdown on protestors, and the regime has not been moved an inch on the calls for democratic changes. Pius views the uprising as a positive step forward, but is also convinced that nothing much would unless the masses are organized with political education. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africanism/support
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Ahjamu Umi: Organizing Lessons From the 60s
Jul 9, 202401:00:14Tap to summarizeAhjamu Umi returns to talk about Organizing Lessons from the 60s. Ahjamu is a dedicated activist/organizer/author who has engaged in on the ground work throughout Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and throughout the U.S. for 4 decades now. His latest work is "A Guide for Defense against White Supremacist, Patriarchal, and Fascist Violence" - it's a manifesto designed to provide guidance for how to organize neighborhoods on a block by block basis. He is also a long time organizer with the All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP). Ahjamu elucidates on some of the positives, errors and lessons to be drawn from organizing during the Civil Rights movement era. Some of the highlights of this episode include military self-defense, organizational Internal conflict and government manipulation, non-violence, urban rebellions, and ultimately Pan-Africanism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africanism/support
Transcribe →Pan African Homage to Dr. Martin L King Jr.s Legacy
Jan 22, 202400:27:57Tap to summarizeIn this episode, Africans from all over the world share their thoughts about the honourable Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s legacy and contribution to the world struggle for justice and humanity. This episode published just a few days after King's birthday - January 15. We are greatful for the Africans who have taken their time, space, intellects and energy to make this episode a success. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africanism/support
Transcribe →Imani Na Umoja: Democratic Resilience in Guinea Bissau
Dec 23, 202300:59:41Tap to summarizeWe connect with Imani Na Umoja in Guinea Bissau to talk about the recent political upheavals in the country and the lessons that can be learned by rest of Africa from Guinea Bissau's democratic centralism. We further discuss the history of Amilcar Cabral's party, the Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), struggle against western colonialism and imperialism to the present day. Imani serves in the Political Beaureu of African Party of Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), serves on the National Secretariat of the PAIGC as a Director of PAIGC Amilcar Cabral Political Ideological Training School. Imani is a member of the Central Committee of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (AAPRP). He also serves on the Coordination Counsel of West African Peoples Organization WAPO, and is a member of the Steering Committee of Black Alliance for Peace US Out of Africa Network. Find Imani @ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100018704652336 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/africanism/support
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