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![Women in Zimbabwe: Interview with Silvia Baraldini](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1979Call Number: KP 019Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Austin Feminist Radio CollectiveCollection: African liberation movements
Silvia Baraldini describes her experience in Zimbabwe and the history of the Independence Movement in Zimbabwe (ex-British colony of Rhodesia), specifically how the movement for women’s rights took place within the struggle against colonialism. Gives history of Lancaster House Conference, description of the British represented by Lord Carrington, the White settlers represented by Ian Smith and his puppet Bishop Muzarewa, and of the Liberation Forces under Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkromo of ZANU and ZAPO. Discusses the first and second elections, the role of South Africa, Muzarewa’s private army, multinational corporations, Henry Kissinger’s “Detente Effort,” and Mozambique’s assistance of the Liberation Forces. Discusses the mobilization and organization of women primarily to liberate the nation and secondarily in the struggle for women’s rights. Gives analysis of patriarchy within the context of colonialism and imperialism. “Liberation through Participation.”
![Amilcar Cabral](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Amilcar Cabral, leader of PAIGC - Liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Cape Verde Islands. speaks at a conference of African-American organizations and journalists in New York. Cabral’s portions of Cabral's comments are in his book “Return to the Source."
Cabral was assassinated by the CIA and Portuguese colonialists in 1973.
NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
![Winnie Mandela interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: KP 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: African liberation movements
Winnie Mandela is interviewed on her political trajectory, discrimination she encountered, and the freedom struggle in South Africa. Speaks to her role both as a social worker and organizer with Black Women's Federation.
![Chris Hani interview](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Date: 5/29/1994Call Number: KP 046Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is a Constant StruggleCollection: African liberation movements
Chris Hani, South African freedom leader, is interviewed by Barbara Lubinski and Heber Dreher during a solidarity visit he made to the United States, just months before his assassination. Some drums and music.
NOTE: an excerpt from this tape is on Roots of Resistance, Volume 1, highlights CD.
![Amilcar Cabral](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Format: mp3Collection: African liberation movements
Amilcar Cabral, leader of the liberation Movement of Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands, assassinated by the Portuguese and the CIA. He talks informally in New York in October 1972 with representatives of African-American organizations. This talk is the basis for his book Return to the Source.
![Joe Slovo speaking at the ‘Future of Socialism’ conference](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Joe Slovo speaking at the ‘Future of Socialism’ conference
![Z.A.N.U. Woman](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A Z.A.N.U. woman discusses the Battle of Senoia, and the females place in the Z.A.N.U. Army. They make up 1/4 of the Army, and she calls for the men of Zimbabwe to liberate females from oppression and colonialism and to see them as equals.
![Julius Nyerere speech](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Julius Nyerere, the man who united the former Tanganyika Colony with the Zanzibar Protectorate to found the Republic of Tanzania, gives a speech about the historical relationship of the United States to Africa, citing its hypocritical support of segregationist South African dictatorships. He talks of the need for Africans to rule by justice, equality, and majority rule. He also welcomes President Carter’s pressure on South Africa.
![Winnie Mandela and the anti-Apartheid movement](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
1988 or 1989: Alice Walker facilitates a discussion between Paris Williams, Pearl Alice Marsh, Joyce Carrol Thomas, and Angela Davis about their thoughts on the accusation that Winnie Mandela’s bodyguards beat a South African boy. They discuss the media, racism, and sexism (sexism within the anti Apartheid movement as well as among Apartheid supporters). The tape starts and ends in the middle of a sentence.
![Winnie Mandela and the anti-Apartheid movement](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
(same as KP 048a) 1988 or 89: Alice Walker and Bernice Johnson Regan reading from Winnie Mandela’s autobiography, “Part of My Soul Went With Him.” Johnson reads the chapter titled “No Human Beings Can GO On Taking Those Humiliations Without Reaction.” Begins and ends in the middle of a sentence.