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#Patrice_Lumumba (1925–1961)
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Patrice Lumumba was prime minister of a newly independent #Congo for only seven months between 1960 and 1961 before he was murdered, fifty-six years ago today. He was thirty-six. Yet Lumumba’s short political life — as with figures like Thomas Sankara and Steve Biko, who had equally short lives — is still a touchstone for […]

#POLITICS #Assassination #Belgium_Congo #Cold_War #colonialism #Death_Anniversary #DRC #History

Incredible Angela Davis Lecture Ties Together Liberation Struggles Past and Present
▻http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/angela-davis-biko-lecture

In commemoration of the 39th anniversary of the murder in detention of Bantu Stephen Biko, the 17th annual Steve Biko lecture is delivered by Professor Angela Davis author, activist and...

#Flotsam: “How come there ain’t no brothers up on the wall?”
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Long before #RhodesHasFallen, but long after Steve Biko and Black Consciousness, Spike Lee (in Do the right thing) predicted the world historical events at the University of Cape Town last.....

#AFRICA_IS_A_COUNTRY

Long Walk to #Toronto
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It is a warm and breezy Sunday afternoon in Toronto, just the kind of weather that makes us question whether we should be going into a dark movie house to catch one the “hottest” screenings at this year’s international #FILM fest, or hanging a left to a sunny outdoor patio to quench our thirst with a cold […]

#MEDIA #NELSON_MANDELA #Justin_Chadwick #Mandela:_Long_Walk_to_Freedom #Nelson_Mandela #Sharpeville #Steve_Biko #Walter_Sisulu #Winnie_Mandela