Pan Africanism

Mandela quote on Palestine
International News

Palestine and the World

August 24, 2025 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe “The Israeli Zionists are convinced they have successfully camouflaged their new kind of colonialism. Their colonialism appears to be more ‘benevolent,’ more ‘philanthropic,’ a system with which they rule simply by getting […]
Don Freeman (1939-2025) speaking in Cleveland, July 30, 2011
Domestic News

Don Freeman, 1939-2025, Veteran Cleveland-based Activist Leaves Profound Political Legacy

August 7, 2025 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe During the 1960s, the city of Cleveland, Ohio was at the center of several political trends emerging within the African American community nationwide. Its burgeoning African American working-class population, many of whom […]
RIP Dr. Jerry Ward
International News

ON THE MAP OF OUR HEARTS | JERRY WARD | THE MADLEEN- THE TIP OF AN ICEBERG OF FLOTILLAS | GAZA’S SEASONS | AN ABSENCE OF DEER

June 30, 2025 fwstaff 0
“It is the 80th anniversary of the publication of “Black Boy”. To honor its author whose ashes were interred in 1960 in the French cemetery of Pere Lachaise, Paris, a Wright aficionado who is also […]
Nelson Mandela and Leila Khalid
International News

Africa Liberation Day Must Advance the Struggle for Continental Unity and a Liberated Palestine

June 1, 2025 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe Note: These remarks were prepared for and delivered in part to the African Liberation Day (ALD) webinar held on Sunday May 25, 2025. The event was sponsored by the All-African People’s Revolutionary […]
NYU withheld diploma from Logan Rozos for speaking out against Gaza genocide at graduation
International News

ONE TWO THREE VIETNAMS | THE FEAR OF LETTING FEAR GO | THEIR TIME, OUR TIME | 1925-2025 – A CENTURY OF GRADUATION RESISTANCE | YOU CAN’T PUT A PRICE ON CREATIVITY, BUT YOU CAN PUT A TARIFF ON IT

June 1, 2025 fwstaff 0
ONE TWO THREE VIETNAMS to Mohammed Khatib of Samidoun who made time to uplift us with his words on Mumia’s 71st Birthday even though he had just been released from illegal arrest a few hours […]
Niger CNSP leaders greet masses and political rally
International News

Niger Uranium and Regional Security in the Sahel

May 22, 2025 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe On July 26, 2023, the military-led Committee to Safeguard the Homeland (CNSP) took power in the West African state of Niger. Immediately the burgeoning anti-French sentiment inside the country erupted and a […]
Malcolm X assassination sixty years ago
Domestic News

Lawsuit Filed Against Intelligence Agencies Involved in Assassination of Malcolm X

March 2, 2025 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe On Sunday afternoon February 21, 1965, Malcolm X (El Hajj Malik El Shabazz) was gunned down as he stood at the podium of the Audubon Ballroom to address hundreds of people attending […]
Malcolm X and African American expatriates in Ghana during May 1964
Domestic News

Malcolm X, Pan-Africanism and the Cold War (Part II)

February 28, 2025 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe On June 4, 1964, Malcolm X (El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz) gave an interview with Philadelphia talk show host Joe Rainey over W-DAS where he discussed various aspects of his evolving worldview influenced by […]
African troops captured by Germans in France during WWII
International News

France Admits World War II Massacre of African Troops

December 10, 2024 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe It has been 80 years since the French military authorities gunned down hundreds of African troops from Senegal during World War II. On this anniversary of the incident, President Emmanuel Macron finally […]
United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in 1959
International News

United Nations Releases New Report on the Death of Former Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in 1961

October 30, 2024 fwstaff 0
By Abayomi Azikiwe September 18, 1961, was a significant day in the struggle surrounding the African liberation movements aimed at ending colonialism on that continent. United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and the entire crew […]