Over 500 activities planned for African Liberation Week 2024
Members of Africans Rising across the continent and diaspora have planned to hold over 500 actions as a part of the annual African Liberation Week mobilisation
See Monica’s emotional response after winning Artistic Activist of the Year 2023
On Friday 15 December, 2023, activists and movement workers across the continent and African diaspora were acknowledged and appreciated in a virtual activism awards ceremony organized by Africans Rising.
African Unity: The Answer to African Democracy
Are we going back to the 1960(s), what do Coups mean to African democracy? These questions were asked by the Africans Rising coordinator, Hardi Yakubu in his opening remarks as he set the pace for discussions during a webinar organised…
Lead on Africa Day
This morning, I celebrate Africa Day with all Africans. I wish we could give this day more reverence as Afrikan people as we do to some holidays like Christmas and Easter. We are all Afrikans first before we belong to…
Awakening Our Collective Humanity through Utu-consciousness: Ending Systemic Violence Against Women – Lynching of Women Upon Accusations of Witchcraft
by Kerubo Abuya, PhD As we commemorate International Women’s Day on March 08, 2022, let us remember the late Sigara Onkware, Sindege Mayaka, Agnes Moraa Ototo, and Jemima Nyang’ate Mironga, who were brutally attacked, abducted from their homes, thoroughly beaten…
No New Water on Earth, Only New Battlegrounds
Coumba Toure, @Kuumbati Storyteller; Movement Co-coordinator, Africans Rising; Board Chair, TrustAfrica Koni Benson, Organiser and historian at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa; Research Fellow, Blue Planet Project Meera Karunananthan, Feminist geographer, Carleton University – Canada; Co-director,…
As a Pan-Africanist and a feminist, I want to see Jacob Zuma held accountable. Here’s why
I am passionate about South Africa despite its painful history: the horrors of Dutch colonization, the segregation that predated apartheid, and the deep wound of the apartheid era along its crimes against humanity. During this year’s Day of the African…
The Exigency of Strengthening Pan-African Solidarity Today
The rise in the wave of resistance movements of the African peoples around the middle of the last century has been said to be connected to the titanic rise in the desire of the African to assert her full humanhood…
Senegal has a law criminalizing slavery: Here is why that matters
[vc_row][vc_column][vcmp_buttons vcmp_button_type=”d-button-mini” vcmp_button_text=”Français” vcmp_button_url=”https://africansrising.org/le-senegal-a-adopte-une-loi-qui-criminalise-lesclavage-voici-pourquoi-cela-est-important/” vcmp_button_icon_show=”vcmp-icon-show” vcmp_button_icon=”adtheme-icon-file” vcmp_button_align=”vcmp-align-left” vcmp_button_border_type=”vcmp-border-round” vcmp_button_text_color=”#ffffff” vcmp_button_background_color=”#00591f” vcmp_button_border_color=”#000000″][vc_single_image image=”15469″ img_size=”large” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]It has been eleven years since Senegal’s National Assembly passed a law declaring the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of African people a crime against…
Africans Are Rising
[vc_row][vc_column][vcmp_heading vcmp_heading_text=”Africans Are Rising”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Today when a person is born with black skin, there is a heavy determinism related to their skin tone that diminishes their life expectancy, their access to quality education, food, and healthcare as well as their access…
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