In an essay for Prison Radio, Mumia Abu Jamal, who was a radio journalist before he was imprisoned in the death of a Philadelphia policeman, noted that Wretch of the Earth author Franz Fanon was also a “revolutionary journalist.” Fanon’s reporting for the Algerian revolutionary press from 1957 to 1960, and his 1964 collection Towards the African Revolution “condemns Arab and African collaborators and dissects how French forces used torture to intimidate the Algerian resistance,” said the nation’s best known political prisoner.
The 2014 U.S. sponsored coup against the elected government of Ukraine must be the starting point for any discussion of the current crisis.
The Pan African Congress of Azania’s 1959 Manifesto provides a radical blueprint for African self-determination.
