Africa - Red Voice

Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition (Book Review)

Black Anarchism and the Black Radical Tradition is a much-needed short and accessible text offering a history of Black anarchic revolutionaries and landmark documents within the Black Radical Tradition.

Africa

Black Against Profit (Pt. 4): From Timbuktu to Babylon

With help from Wynter, Rodney, Gomez, Achebe, and Inikori, among others, the following essay will attempt to fill in some of the missing pages of primitive accumulation, concerning all that Africa lost in the vile traffic of our people across the Atlantic.

Trans Liberation

For Those Seeking or in Flight: Black Trans*feminist Nihilism

"Where Black feminism stumbles is a failure to recognize the noted absence within the historical record/archives of resistance and rebellion from Black trans people, specifically Black trans women/transfems."

Africa

My Gender is Marronage: A Revisitation

"A vulnerable soul... flies not because she is reducible to spirit or resistance but because she is a complex human responding to the conditions forced onto her."

Africa

Black Against Profit, Pt. III: The African Mode of Production (for C.A. Diop)

"This article, which is dedicated to the Senegalese historian, scientist, and politician Cheikh Anta Diop, will discuss the historical falsification of Egypt by the imperialist world, and its consequences for the understanding of precolonial African society."

African Liberation

Gimmie The Loot, Gimmie the Loot!: How the looting of the Congo is far more serious and deadly than the "looting" of a few American stores

"Kwame Nkrumah referred to the Congo as the heart of Africa. Mao Tse-Tung is quoted as saying that "whoever controls the Congo, controls the world." Thus, when the Congo becomes the free, the world becomes free. Africa becomes free. The resources of the planet become free. Humanity becomes free!"

Black liberation

To the Ones Who Can Fly: A Message from the Whirlwind

"We must establish a love of freedom. And we must center those on the bottom, so that we take charge of our destinies at last, and have full participation in the liberation of us all.”

Fiction

Love in the Time of COVID

"She was certain that being honest and strategic about endeavours and desires can be profound and deeply meaningful to both lovers and the movement to redeem the children of the Third World, in the time of COVID-19 and beyond."

History

Sharpeville-Langa Massacre: 60 Years Later

"As adherents of Pan-Africanism today, it is our duty to mark the 60th Commemoration of the Sharpeville and Langa Massacres differently from all other previous commemorations. Let us use this opportunity to draw courage from the fallen heroes as we advance towards a Socialist Azania."

Decolonization

Go Back and Fetch It: Black Radical Ecology and the African-Centered Paradigm

"But Afrocentric paradigms locate divinity in the material world, such that change is most affected through engagement with nature. This allows us to see our empowerment and transformation within the planet."

Neocolonialism

WHERE TO FOR PAN-AFRICANISM? - Entrenchment of Class Struggle & Neocolonialism in Africa

"The prerequisite of a correct and global strategy to defeat neo-colonialism is the ability to discover and expose the way in which a state becomes neo-colonialist. It is this absence of ideology which poses a great danger to the ultimate liberation of the African people..."

Criticism

Bad Faith and Afropessimism: Notes Toward a Debate

"...the social world is not a product of natural laws, but is sustained by free human activity... voluntary human attitudes can make a difference in shaping the structures and outcomes of that world."