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Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Oppressed, talk & discussion (with Ira Schor)
Date: 4/14/1988Call Number: CD 016Format: CDProducers: NY Marxist SchoolCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Paulo Freire talks at the NY Marxist School with Ira Schor on Pedagogy of the Oppressed.
Interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Date: 10/5/1999Call Number: PM 169Format: Cass A & BProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
General statements by Dhoruba Bin Wahad while he visited San Francisco in 1999.
Interview with Dharuba Bin Wahad
Date: 10/5/1999Call Number: PM 170AFormat: Cass AProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
General statements by Dhoruba Bin Wahad while he visited San Francisco in 1999.
Joe Slovo speaking at the ‘Future of Socialism’ conference
Joe Slovo speaking at the ‘Future of Socialism’ conference
Speech by Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe to African Americans
Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe gives a speech to African Americans living in Harlem, at a rally on Harlem Day, August 23, 1980. On the occasion of Zimbabwe’s admission to the United Nations, Mugabe thanks people for their support of Zimbabwe’s struggle for national independence and against colonial racist white rule. He celebrates the victory of the black man in Zimbabwe and the continued struggle for non-racialism and equality. He ends his speech with the hope that the victory of Zimbabwe will inspire the oppressed Africans in South Africa and Namibia.
Interview with Joyce Kangai of the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) Women’s League
A representative from the New York Material Aid Campaign for ZANU interviews Joyce Kangai, Publicity Secretary of the ZANU Women’s League. Kangai talks about how the Zimbabwean elections are being discredited and attacked by outside, imperialist forces such as Britain, Ian Smith of Rhodesia, Rhodesian armed forces, and South Africa. She states that these armed forces are all harrassing ZANU, attempting to forcibly keep the organization from the polls, and trying to eliminate democratic elections by claiming ZANU violated the ceasefire and by attacking ZANU leaders and supporters & their families, and homes. She also speaks about the increased participation of ZANU women in the struggle against the oppressors, the conditions of life for women under the whites and the goals and needs of the women of ZANU.
PAC Chairman Nyati Pokela interview (Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa)
Date: 11/13/1982Call Number: AFR 009AFormat: Cass AProgram: Songs of FreedomCollection: South Africa
Judy Jensen of the Material Aid Campaign for ZANU interviews the Chairman of South Africa’s PAC (Pan Africanist Congress). Nyati Pokela speaks about the history and purpose of the PAC and explains what Bantustans are and why they were created. He explains why the PAC and the ANC (African National Congress) deem it necessary to engage in armed struggle against the Apartheid government, and how the PAC’s leaders lead by example by taking risks for the cause. Pokelu details the role of women in the struggle and the conditions of the black population of South Africa, and explains the unequal development of different African countries toward independence. He talks about the similarities between the struggles in South Africa and the US, and calls for solidarity with the PAC and Africa’s cause.
Joyce Kangai of the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) Women’s League
Joyce Kangai of the ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union) Women’s League speaks about the Zimbabwean people losing their land, outside forces imposing their power, and the oppressive nature of colonialism on language and culture. She calls the women to fight for liberation, and explains how they can be part of the struggle.
Teurai Kangai and Ahmed Obafemi on history of the RNA (Republic of New Africa), and ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union).
Tirai Kangai speaks on the RNA (Republic of New Africa), the liberation of Zimbabwe, pan-africanism, and talks about the history of the struggle for independence in Zimbabwe by ZANU (Zimbabwe African National Union). He also speaks about how ZANU is engaging in armed struggle against British and US imperialism.
Samouri Marksman on African and Caribbean People
Date: 1/16/1985Call Number: AFR 012Format: Cass A & BProgram: African Activists in AmericaCollection: Africa- General Resources
Michael Warren, chairman of African Activists in America, speaks about Maurice Bishop, and introduces Samouri Marksman. Marksman speaks about struggles of African people around the world; how Europeans control Latin American economies, cultures, and societies, and the struggle for Latin American independence; the struggle to alter the slave relationship with Europeans in the Caribbean and Africa; criticizes the IMF (International Monetary Fund) ; and American politics in South Africa and the struggle against Apartheid.
