Pan Africanism

Malcolm X assassination sixty years ago
Domestic News

Lawsuit Filed Against Intelligence Agencies Involved in Assassination of Malcolm X

March 2, 2025 fwstaff
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
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
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
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 […]
International News

LANGUAGE LAND-MINES | SOME TIME CAPSULE MOMENTS ON YOUTUBE | RACHEL’S ARRIVAL | THE KITE OF A FLAG FLOWN IN BERLIN

October 1, 2024 fwstaff
Preview (opens in a new tab) LANGUAGE LAND-MINES Exonym : noun. A name for a place or group of people that is only used outside that place or group. To Thomas Sankara and all those […]
Mali airport attacked by rebels on Sept. 17, 2024
International News

Mali Commemorates 64 Years of Independence Amid Security Challenges

October 1, 2024 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe Mali was one of those states which declared its sovereignty from France under the leadership of President Modibo Keita, a Pan-Africanist who developed close ties with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana and […]
Domestic News

PAN AFRICAN HEARTBEAT | TELL US WHAT TIME IT IS? | EACH CAGED BREATH DRAWN

July 30, 2024 fwstaff
PAN AFRICAN HEARTBEAT To all the freedom fighters who knew the Alliance of Sahel States would see the light of day To the legacy of our ancestors George Padmore, Dorothy Padmore , Kwame Nkrumah and […]
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, finally free
Domestic News

A Pan-Abolitionist View on Julian Assange’s Release

July 8, 2024 fwstaff
By Julia Wright As freedom fighters who have seen many wars from Vietnam to Algeria, from Palestine to Kanaky, we do not take the good news that comes our way lightly. First, because we fought […]
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Domestic News

FROM ZERO TO INFINITY | WHAT IS HOPE TO ME? | RADICAL DIAGNOSIS | MAY THEY REST IN PALESTINE, RIP | ACACIA MEMORY

July 1, 2024 fwstaff
FROM ZERO TO INFINITY  ” There is nobody to watch the kitten playing     with the willow tip “ Haiku by Richard Wright in algebra class when we were children we always marveled that minus […]
U.S. political prisoner Leonard Peltier
Domestic News

A PAN ABOLITIONIST PRAYER FOR LEONARD PELTIER | WHAT DOES PEACE SOUND LIKE? | INTER-TIME

June 24, 2024 fwstaff
A PAN ABOLITIONIST PRAYER FOR LEONARD PELTIER “The only accounts we owe are to our children, the ancestors and those not yet born” -Amilcar Cabral whom I was honored to meet in Accra just as […]