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#Harambee63 and 63 pairs of gumboots
I love gumboots. I love all my 63 pairs of gumboots. The History of Gumboots Gumboots were first worn in the Battle of Waterloo, a battle by the British against Napolean’s army (French). The British and Germans, in gumboots were led by the Duke of Wellington (British). Hence the name, Wellingtons and ...
#Harambee63 – (Video) Samora Machel on NeoColonialism and Nationalization
“People don’t defend abstractions. They defend concrete things, the land is a concrete thing, a dwelling a school, a hospital thing. The struggle, the enemy is a concrete thing.” [youtube=http://youtu.be/bvj0Feq5vpI] Samora Machel led the battle against colonialism, against the Portuguese and at ...
#Harambee63 – (Video) Miriam Makeba and Songs of Resistance
Songs were used as an archive for history in particular, histories of oppression. From the Negro Spirituals derived from Field Songs, sang by slaves who were working on cotton farms in the U.S., to KLFA ( Mau Mau) songs sang by detainees as they were transferred to detention camps and reserves, to Miriam Makeba, who ...
#Harambee63 (Video) Colonel Gaddafi (1978)
“I wish that all the world goes back to the words of Jesus and read the words again, because they are acting against God now.” – Gaddafi (1978) http://youtu.be/ZlvLthYwBiM A documentary about Gaddafi and his idea of Jamahiriya (Jamuhuri/ Free Republic) – 1978
#Harambee63 (Video) Kwame Nkrumah Independence Day Speech (Ghana, 1957)
“Our independence is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa.” – Dr Kwame Nkrumah 6th March 1957 [youtube=http://youtu.be/AUVLbMwQZYM] “We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now on, there is a new African in the world! That new African is ready to ...
#Harambee63 – (Video) Colonialism vs. Civilisation
“It is fundamental to remember. It does not mean that we are a resentful people, but we must remember” – Aime Cesaire (1985). It is not only today that one comes across the argument made by fellow Africans, that colonialism did good to the continent of Africa. Some consider that went on for over 200years ...
#Harambee63 (Video) Nairobi – Atemi
http://youtu.be/CcrZgAdkUMI Nairobi is love.
#Harambee63 African Philosophy of Zikism – Nnamdi Azikiwe
Zikism was Nigeria’s equivalent of Kusema na Kutenda, or amongst the KLFA (Mau Mau) Kuuga na gwika. Zikism was a philosophy created by Nnamdi “Zik” Azikiwe. His policy appealed to all including farmers – often the base of any peasant uprising that has seen revolutionary change, globally. Zikists, ...
#Harambee63 – (Video) Pacification “Hammering” – British Colonies
The process by which Kenyans were killed and intimidated in order to give up land and to stop further uprisings against the British colonialists. They were punitive murder campaigns that also saw livestock stolen from the Africans. In 1894, Fort Hall (Murang’a) was captured under Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen. A ...