Revolutionary man of action Che Guevara was born on this day (14 June) in 1928 - in Rosario, Argentina.
According to late Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella (1916-2012), the Argentine saw Africa as the weak link of imperialism. Che not only cared about bringing change to his own country or his second home, Cuba, but wanted the entire Global South to be freed from colonialism. And that saw him take up the fight in the Congo, the beating heart of Africa.
According to late Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella (1916-2012), the Argentine saw Africa as the weak link of imperialism. Che not only cared about bringing change to his own country or his second home, Cuba, but wanted the entire Global South to be freed from colonialism. And that saw him take up the fight in the Congo, the beating heart of Africa.
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He went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1964 to support the Simba rebellion. Che's involvement was at the request of Congolese rebels seeking assistance against the Western-backed neo-colonial government in Kinshasa. He provided military training and guidance to the rebels. His aim was to help them fight against the forces that had executed Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, three years earlier.
After his time in the DRC, he moved to Tanzania, where he worked with the revolutionary government of Julius Nyerere, providing military training to Tanzanian forces to remove the last remnants of colonial and imperial influence in the region. Che invited revolutionary fighters from all over Africa to Tanzania to establish a revolutionary base for the continent's liberation.
He's a leader respected, revered and remembered in the hearts and minds of millions of Africans. Che saw the struggle in Africa as an integral part of the worldwide struggle against imperialism.
To mark his birthday, we’ve assembled some of his most memorable quotes. Which one touches you the most?
Sources
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-9/che-guevara-is-executed
https://mondediplo.com/1997/10/che
https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/07/11/borders-versus-people-part-ii-congo-a-classic-african-tragedy/?tztc=1
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/political-reforms/inside-che-guevara-s-secret-visit-to-tanzania-2-2676316
https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2024/10/08/che_guevara_and_victor_dreke_in_the_african_congo_1063589.html
https://www.newsocialist.org.uk/fifty-fifth-anniversary-death-che-reading-young-guevaras-us-working-class-friend-or-enemy/
https://roape.net/2023/11/02/revolutionary-movements-in-africa-an-untold-story/
He went to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in 1964 to support the Simba rebellion. Che's involvement was at the request of Congolese rebels seeking assistance against the Western-backed neo-colonial government in Kinshasa. He provided military training and guidance to the rebels. His aim was to help them fight against the forces that had executed Congo's first prime minister, Patrice Lumumba, three years earlier.
After his time in the DRC, he moved to Tanzania, where he worked with the revolutionary government of Julius Nyerere, providing military training to Tanzanian forces to remove the last remnants of colonial and imperial influence in the region. Che invited revolutionary fighters from all over Africa to Tanzania to establish a revolutionary base for the continent's liberation.
He's a leader respected, revered and remembered in the hearts and minds of millions of Africans. Che saw the struggle in Africa as an integral part of the worldwide struggle against imperialism.
To mark his birthday, we’ve assembled some of his most memorable quotes. Which one touches you the most?
Sources
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/october-9/che-guevara-is-executed
https://mondediplo.com/1997/10/che
https://www.theelephant.info/analysis/2019/07/11/borders-versus-people-part-ii-congo-a-classic-african-tragedy/?tztc=1
https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/magazines/political-reforms/inside-che-guevara-s-secret-visit-to-tanzania-2-2676316
https://www.realclearhistory.com/articles/2024/10/08/che_guevara_and_victor_dreke_in_the_african_congo_1063589.html
https://www.newsocialist.org.uk/fifty-fifth-anniversary-death-che-reading-young-guevaras-us-working-class-friend-or-enemy/
https://roape.net/2023/11/02/revolutionary-movements-in-africa-an-untold-story/
HISTORY
Che Guevara is executed | October 9, 1967 | HISTORY
On October 9, 1967, socialist revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara, age 39, is killed by the Bolivian army....
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HOW TO ARGUE WITH A STOLEN ARTEFACT HOARDER!
If you’re going to try and defend European museums holding on to stolen African artifacts, you’d better wheel out somebody with better arguments than the rambling Frenchman in this video. However, no colonial excuse can withstand the truth. African Stream’s Wambura Mwai goes to town on every colonial talking point he tabled.
Sources
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/10/12/stealing-africa-how-britain-looted-the-continents-art
If you’re going to try and defend European museums holding on to stolen African artifacts, you’d better wheel out somebody with better arguments than the rambling Frenchman in this video. However, no colonial excuse can withstand the truth. African Stream’s Wambura Mwai goes to town on every colonial talking point he tabled.
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https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2021/10/12/stealing-africa-how-britain-looted-the-continents-art
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The 'Jim Crow' era of the late 19th century in the United States is one you hear of often. However, do you know what Jim Crow entailed?
Swipe through these slides for key facts on how the US institutionalised socio-economic and political discrimination against Black people.
Swipe through these slides for key facts on how the US institutionalised socio-economic and political discrimination against Black people.
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https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/timeline/jimcrow.htm
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/understanding-jim-crow-setting-setting
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedom-riders-jim-crow-laws/
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/jim-crow-era
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/what.htm
https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/blackrights/jimcrow
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/jim-crow-laws-andracial-segregation/
https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/jim-crow-segregation/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/black-codes-and-jim-crow-laws
https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/act-to-prohibit-the-intermarriage-of-races-1866
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/timeline/jimcrow.htm
https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/understanding-jim-crow-setting-setting
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedom-riders-jim-crow-laws/
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/jim-crow-era
https://jimcrowmuseum.ferris.edu/what.htm
https://library.law.howard.edu/civilrightshistory/blackrights/jimcrow
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/eras/civil-war-reconstruction/jim-crow-laws-andracial-segregation/
https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/1-segregated/jim-crow.html
https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/jim-crow-segregation/
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/black-codes-and-jim-crow-laws
https://www.oregonhistoryproject.org/articles/historical-records/act-to-prohibit-the-intermarriage-of-races-1866
Facing History & Ourselves
Understanding Jim Crow (Setting the Setting)
David Cunningham, chair of the Department of Sociology at Brandeis University, explores systems of racial separation and institutionalized segregation known as Jim Crow.
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PIETER KRIEL: POLITICAL FREEDOM WITHOUT ECONOMIC POWER IS A SCAM
In this clip, author and activist Pieter Kriel describes South Africa’s democracy as a ceasefire rather than a peace, and he is not mistaken.
Despite Black South Africans holding political power since 1994, they have remained systematically locked out of the country’s white-controlled economic engine.
The African National Congress (ANC), the party that led the way to South Africa’s independence from white rule, ascended to power with promises based on the Freedom Charter, which called for land reform and equal rights. However, under pressure from foreign actors, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the ANC government welcomed free trade and privatisation. It also introduced a ‘willing buyer, willing seller’ policy that restricted land reform.
In this clip, author and activist Pieter Kriel describes South Africa’s democracy as a ceasefire rather than a peace, and he is not mistaken.
Despite Black South Africans holding political power since 1994, they have remained systematically locked out of the country’s white-controlled economic engine.
The African National Congress (ANC), the party that led the way to South Africa’s independence from white rule, ascended to power with promises based on the Freedom Charter, which called for land reform and equal rights. However, under pressure from foreign actors, including the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, the ANC government welcomed free trade and privatisation. It also introduced a ‘willing buyer, willing seller’ policy that restricted land reform.
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Continued……As of 2022, white settlers owned 72 per cent of private agricultural land, and according to the World Bank, South Africa is the world’s most unequal country. Just as Kriel explains, Black townships are still crowded, schools are underfinanced, and youth unemployment stands at 45.5 per cent, based on a 2024 report done by the Department of Statistics South Africa. Meanwhile, predominantly white suburbs are retrofitted with electric fences as hunger drives protests amongst working-class communities.
Throughout the continent, liberation movements have taken control only to discover that they inherited colonial economies built to extract, not develop. From Nigeria’s oil wealth, which has not benefited most Nigerians, to Kenya’s colonial land grabbing, most postcolonial African states remain in economic bondage.
Until Africans reclaim land, labour, and capital, any claim of freedom is token.
Video credit: @pieterkrielorg (X)
Sources
https://pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles/ZAF
https://www.anc1912.org.za/the-freedom-charter-2/
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SAFRICA-ELECTION/ECONOMY/egpbonzrgvq/
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099125003072240961/pdf/P1649270b73f1f0b5093fb0e644d33bc6f1.pdf
https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201802/landauditreport13feb2018.pdf
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-29/whites-own-73-of-south-africa-s-farming-land-city-press-says
https://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=17266
https://www.statista.com/topics/6914/oil-industry-in-nigeria/#:~:text=With%2015%20operating%20pipelines%20and,the%20value%20of%20all%20exports.
https://mokoro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pol_econ_land_reform_sa.pdf
Throughout the continent, liberation movements have taken control only to discover that they inherited colonial economies built to extract, not develop. From Nigeria’s oil wealth, which has not benefited most Nigerians, to Kenya’s colonial land grabbing, most postcolonial African states remain in economic bondage.
Until Africans reclaim land, labour, and capital, any claim of freedom is token.
Video credit: @pieterkrielorg (X)
Sources
https://pip.worldbank.org/country-profiles/ZAF
https://www.anc1912.org.za/the-freedom-charter-2/
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SAFRICA-ELECTION/ECONOMY/egpbonzrgvq/
https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099125003072240961/pdf/P1649270b73f1f0b5093fb0e644d33bc6f1.pdf
https://www.gov.za/sites/default/files/gcis_document/201802/landauditreport13feb2018.pdf
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-29/whites-own-73-of-south-africa-s-farming-land-city-press-says
https://www.statssa.gov.za/?p=17266
https://www.statista.com/topics/6914/oil-industry-in-nigeria/#:~:text=With%2015%20operating%20pipelines%20and,the%20value%20of%20all%20exports.
https://mokoro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/pol_econ_land_reform_sa.pdf
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Ghana’s economy appears to be on the mend, with the latest economic data showing cooling inflation and a national currency steadily gaining value.
Under President John Dramani Mahama, who was inaugurated for a second term in January, the gold-rich West African state is implementing a range of fiscal reforms to balance its budget after years of dependency on bailouts from neo-colonial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank.
Swipe on for details on Mahama’s bold policies to revive Ghana - including establishing diplomatic relations with the neighbouring Alliance of Sahel States (AES).
Under President John Dramani Mahama, who was inaugurated for a second term in January, the gold-rich West African state is implementing a range of fiscal reforms to balance its budget after years of dependency on bailouts from neo-colonial institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank.
Swipe on for details on Mahama’s bold policies to revive Ghana - including establishing diplomatic relations with the neighbouring Alliance of Sahel States (AES).
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