African liberation movements
African liberation movements arose from a growing nationalism among previously divided African communities, the unfulfilled promise of self-determination following the end of World War II and the weakened economic and political capacities of Western Europe.
Our collection contains a wide range of materials representing liberation movements from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, and the Congo (DRC). Our collection also features containing Human Rights Reports from South Africa, IKWEZI, a revolutionary Azanian journal, and a sub-collection containing general resources about the continent. This collection includes audio and paper materials.
Strengths of the collection include materials on the role of women in African liberation struggles and national reconstruction, an interesting assortment of periodicals from Southern Africa, speeches and interviews with revolutionary leaders from across the continent, audio from solidarity events in the United States, and a set of human rights reports compiled during the transition from Apartheid to democracy in South Africa.
Our collection contains a wide range of materials representing liberation movements from Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Eritrea, and the Congo (DRC). Our collection also features containing Human Rights Reports from South Africa, IKWEZI, a revolutionary Azanian journal, and a sub-collection containing general resources about the continent. This collection includes audio and paper materials.
Strengths of the collection include materials on the role of women in African liberation struggles and national reconstruction, an interesting assortment of periodicals from Southern Africa, speeches and interviews with revolutionary leaders from across the continent, audio from solidarity events in the United States, and a set of human rights reports compiled during the transition from Apartheid to democracy in South Africa.
Documents
![Statement by People Occupying South African Airways](images/thumbnails//33667.jpg)
States reason for occupying South African Airways in San Francisco - no business as usual until apartheid overthrown
![Down With South African Airways](images/thumbnails//33665.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeDate: 1/14/1985Volume Number: 14-JanFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calling for demo of South African Airways, 360 Post, SF, as part of movement against apartheid
![Solidarity with the Uprising of the People of South Africa](images/thumbnails//33666.jpg)
Publisher: Southern Africa Freedom Committee--All-Peoples CongressDate: 9/15/1984Volume Number: 15-SepFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Calling for rally at Bank of America, Market and Powell, SF, to support Prop J to end investment of city pension funds doing business with South Africa
![Embargo South Africa Not Nicaragua!](images/thumbnails//33664.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom Rising! Africa Solidarity CommitteeFormat: StatementCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Statement re: Reagan imposing trade embargo against Nicaragua, yet saying sanctions against South Africa won't work
![Shut Down South African Airways](images/thumbnails//33660.jpg)
Format: EphemeraCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Card calling for demonstrations against South African Airways in San Francisco on second Wednesday of each month
![Art Against Apartheid](images/thumbnails//33657.jpg)
Publisher: United Nations Center against ApartheidDate: 2/28/1985Volume Number: 28-FebFormat: FlyerCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Africa Festival Calendar listing art exhibitions in San Francisco, proceeds going to "Liberation movements of Southern Africa"
![Boycott - The Gods Must Be Racist](images/thumbnails//33658.jpg)
Asking people to picket the Elmwood Theater in Berkeley and Vogue Theater in San Francisco against film The Gods Must Be Crazy
![United Freedom Front Attacks Apartheid](images/thumbnails//32925.jpg)
Publisher: United Freedom FrontDate: 12/16/1982Volume Number: 16-DecFormat: CommuniqueCollection: Anti-Apartheid Solidarity
Communique