Continued……Sources
https://www.snljamaicantours.com/tours/accompong-january-6

https://jis.gov.jm/information/get-the-facts/the-maroons-and-the-abeng/

https://www.penn.museum/sites/expedition/guerilla-warfare-in-eighteenth-century-jamaica/

https://discover.vacaymenow.com/listing/accompong-maroon-festival/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Maroon_War?

Who were the Maroons? https://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/against-slavery/black-resistance-against-slavery/the-maroons-of-jamaica/

Fought against slavery https://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/against-slavery/black-resistance-against-slavery/the-maroons-of-jamaica/

First Maroon war https://face2faceafrica.com/article/how-the-maroons-from-africa-battled-the-british-in-jamaica-and-won-in-the-1700s
https://discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/against-slavery/black-resistance-against-slavery/the-maroons-of-jamaica/

Second Maroon war https://jamaicatimeline.com/history/maroon-2ndwar.html

Deportation to Canada
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240731/what-happened-trelawny-town-maroons

British breaking the agreement
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240731/what-happened-trelawny-town-maroons

Petition to go to Sierra Leone
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240731/what-happened-trelawny-town-maroons

Legacy today.
Accompong https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/legendary-community-that-fought-for-its-freedom-in-jamaica

Moore Town https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3xW808tdJE

https://schoolhistory.co.uk/early-modern/second-maroon-war

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2018/04/07/what-triggered-the-second-maroon-war-in-1795

Captain Cudjoe
https://nlj.gov.jm/history-notes/The%20Maroons%20edited%20final.htm

Maroon Festival
https://maroonfestja.com/about-us

BLACK TOWN EATONVILLE WINS AGAINST DEVELOPER

Freed enslaved Africans established the town of Eatonville on 15 August 1887. The Florida municipality is one of the earliest self-governing Black towns in the United States. It embodies the spirit of Black resilience and freedom, having emerged from the shadows of slavery to foster a vibrant community of landowners, educators, and leaders. 

However, in 2023, Eatonville residents waged a struggle to prevent land appropriated for educational purposes from being sold to a private developer.

What came of their struggle? Watch and find out.

Continued ….Sources

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/town-of-eatonville-incorporated

https://jamesmadison.org/the-history-and-legacy-of-eatonville-floridas-pioneering-african-american-town-2

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eatonville-florida-residents-fight-over-land

https://jamesmadison.org/the-history-and-legacy-of-eatonville-floridas-pioneering-african-american-town-2

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eatonville-florida-residents-fight-over-land

https://archive.org/details/lifetimesofjosep0000mitc/page/n3/mode/2up

https://www.floridatrend.com/article/17832/the-town-that-freedom-built

https://www.neilsberg.com/insights/eatonville-fl-population-by-year/?utm_source=chatgpt.com#:~:text=In%202023%2C%20the%20population%20of%20Eatonville%20was%202%2C284%2C%20a%200.04%25%20increase%20year%2Dby%2Dyear%20from%202022.%20Previously%2C%20in%202022%2C%20Eatonville%27s%20population%20was%202%2C283%2C%20a%20decline%20of%200.39%25%20compared%20to%20a%20population%20of%202%2C292%20in%202021

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eatonville-florida-residents-fight-over-land

https://datacommons.org/place/geoId/1219650?utm_medium=explore&mprop=income&popt=Person&cpv=age,Years15Onwards&hl=en

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eatonville-florida-residents-fight-over-land

https://www.splcenter.org/presscenter/splc-hopeful-affirmative-resolution-hungerford-property-after-courts-ruling/#:~:text=%E2%80%94%20The%20Ninth%20Judicial%20Circuit%20Court%20dismissed,(P.E.C.)%20and%20Hungerford%20descendant%20Bea%20Leach%20Hatler.&text=Judge%20Alvaro%20denied%20that%20motion%20as%20moot%2C,sale%20of%20the%20Hungerford%20property%20at%20issue.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eatonville-florida-residents-fight-over-land

https://capitalbnews.org/historic-black-towns-survival

$10K TOILET SEAT? PENTAGON’S
BLOATED BUDGET

If you had to take a wild guess at which country's military forked out a whopping $10,000 for a toilet seat, what would your answer be? Spoiler alert: It's not some 'corrupt' African state. It's the good old USA.

In November 2024, news broke that the Pentagon had failed its seventh consecutive audit, shedding light on the astronomical levels of corruption that run rampant within the US Department of Defence.

By 2027, the defence budget is projected to surpass $1 trillion for the first time. And those ridiculously bloated contracts with contractors? Yeah, they help explain the eye-watering price of defending, or more truthfully, expanding the US empire.

Continued……. In this 2024 report, African Stream's Kenneth Kaigua delves into the jaw-dropping prices the US paid for subpar goods. He also pulls back the curtain on the revolving door that links politicians with arms manufacturers.

Washington's 2025 $848.3 billion defence budget dwarfs the combined spending of the next 10 biggest country budgets. 

Maybe it's high time we rebranded the US military headquarters as the Penta-con!

Sources

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/exclusive-inside-secret-world-us-commandos-africa

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/the-air-forces-10000-toilet-cover/2018/07/14/c33d325a-85df-11e8-8f6c-46cb43e3f306_story.html

https://insidedefense.com/insider/austin-discloses-financial-ties-defense-contractors

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/13/us/politics/lloyd-austin-private-public.html

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/08/cheneys-multi-million-dollar-revolving-door/

https://www.wired.com/2008/09/dumb-as-a-bag-o/

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/07/hegseth-trump-1-trillion-defense-budget-00007147

https://archive.ph/iczyt

KWAME TURE: AFRICAN UNITY COMING SOON

On 29 June 1941, Stockley Carmichael was born in Trinidad before moving to the US at the age of 11. There, he would grow to become a revolutionary figure. In 1968, Carmichael adopted the name he is famously known for, Kwame Ture, in honour of his friends and political allies, the great pan-Africans, Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's founding father and Guinea's Sekou Touré, encompassing his ideals, which connected the struggles of Black people in the US to the continent. 

For Ture, a founding member of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party, a revolution in the diaspora would have to be linked to a revolution - and the sovereignty of Africans - on the continent. 

In this clip, he offers a compelling perspective on the evolution of Pan-Africanism within the broader context of societal development. Drawing on his deep study of history, Ture observed that human societies typically follow a distinct pattern of growth:

Continued……Beginning as families, expanding into clans and villages, then forming nations, and ultimately organising on a continent-wide scale. 

While this trajectory is common to all peoples, Ture argued that Africa’s path would accelerate significantly due to the disruptive forces of capitalism and colonialism. While imperialism violently interrupted Africa's natural progression, he argues, it also strengthened ‘the force and desire for continental unity.’ 

Today, we celebrate Kwame Ture as one of the greatest Pan-Africanists of the 20th century who left us blueprints on liberation and unity in the ongoing struggle for African self-determination and sovereignty.

Sources

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/carmichael-stokely-kwame-ture-1941-1998/

https://mobile.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Kwame-Ture-The-U-S-civil-rights-activist-who-changed-his-name-to-honor-Kwame-Nkrumah-and-Sekou-Toure-1742279

https://thedig.howard.edu/featured-people/kwame-ture

https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/individuals/stokely-carmichael

https://www.biography.com/activists/stokely-carmichael

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Stokely-Carmichael

THE MOTHER OF ALL KARENS

A UK tribunal has just ruled that calling someone a Karen is “borderline racist, sexist and ageist.” That’s right — a term created to describe racialised ennoscriptment is now being reframed as a slur.

But what about the original Karen — Karen Blixen?

The Danish aristocrat and author once owned a 6,000-acre coffee plantation at the foot of Kenya’s Ngong Hills during British colonial rule. The land had belonged to the Maasai, who were forcibly removed to make way for settlers like her. Blixen lived in luxury, waited on by African servants, while penning books soaked in white-saviour tropes and colonial nostalgia.

Yet today, Nairobi still honours her legacy — with a suburb, a museum, and a certain colonial snobbery that persists in the spaces named after her.

Continued….. If we’re going to talk about Karens, let’s start with the ones whose privilege was written into law, backed by violence, and still defended in polite society.

African Stream’s Wambura Mwai went to explore the legacy she left behind.

This week's African proverb encapsulates the awakening of Africa. Our people are moving to a new beat - no longer following the imperialist pied piper. This is most striking in the Sahel, where revolutionary rhythms have been shaking things up for a few years now in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger - where, for example, the French national anthem is no longer heard ringing out from military bases occupied by the former coloniser. The West used to play their leaders like fiddles, but the puppets are gone, and a new generation of African chiefs is now in charge.

DRC TO PALESTINE: GLENCORE’S GLOBAL WEB OF DESTRUCTION

As the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) celebrates 65 years since flag ‘independence’ on 30 June 1965, we maintain it was a sham and sovereignty is non-existent, like for many African countries. 

African Stream tells the story of Glencore, the shared adversary Palestine and the DRC have, profiting from misery on both sides, a clear case for international solidarity.

The Swiss-based commodity trader and miner helps fuel Israel’s military onslaught in Gaza by selling coal to Israel from South Africa and Colombia. Elsewhere, it makes millions from the extraction of minerals in the DRC. However, corrupt deals have allowed it to avoid DRC taxes, and its activities have left a trail of environmental destruction.

Continued……African Stream’s William Sakawa examines the web of suffering that this conglomerate has rained on the world and the need for a unified response.

Sources

https://mediareviewnet.com/2024/08/glencores-israeli-bound-coal-becomes-the-next-test-of-south-africas-anti-genocide-stance/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2022/05/26/bribery-scandal-to-cost-glencore-11b---billionaire-execs-avoid-blame-for-now/