Many colonies in Africa attained independence through negotiated settlements. However, several others engaged in armed liberation struggles, for example, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and the Portuguese colonies of Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Newly independent states provided liberation movements with bases on their territories and political, military, intellectual, ideological, material, and moral support. In West Africa, Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, a notable pan-Africanist, declared in his Independence Day speech in 1957, “Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the African continent.” In East Africa, Julius Nyerere and Jomo Kenyatta, the first presidents of independent Tanzania and Kenya respectively, showed similar commitment to Pan-Africanism and anticolonialism by hosting refugees fleeing armed struggles in Southern Africa. Tanzania hosted the Organization of African Unity Liberation Committee supported anticolonial resistance and liberation movements. President Nyerere supported them for “challenging injustices of empire and apartheid” and declared, “I train freedom fighters”. He encouraged Tanzanians living around liberation movement camps to welcome these movements and their freedom fighters and also protect them from agents of colonial governments. Support also came from many other countries on the continent including Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Algeria. The latter provided sanctuary to representatives of liberation movements such as Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa.
Depuis 10 ans, Soviet Suprem soulève les foules, à l'endroit, à l'envers et toujours de la gauche vers la gauche. A l'heure du nouveau désordre mondial, plus que jamais, la planète a besoin de ses deux « gêne-héros » pour donner son rythme à la révolution du dance floor : Sylvester Staline, allias (R.Wan de Java) et John Lénine (allias Toma de La Caravane Passe).
Pour ce 10ème anniversaire, ils seront accompagnés de l'inénarrable Didier Croute-Chef aux platines et aux percussions, du (…)
« 30 ans après la fin de la guerre de Bosnie-Herzégovine, où vont les Balkans ? », mercredi 28 janvier,19h30-21h30, à la Cantine Pas Si Loin.
Rencontre et débat pour toutes et tous avec Jean-Arnault Dérens, historien et rédacteur-en-chef du Courrier des Balkans.
Evénement gratuit, inscription recommandé sur helloasso
Cantine Pas Si Loin (Artagon Pantin)
34 Rue Cartier Bresson
93500 Pantin