This is a passionate plea for Africans home and abroad to seize the times, unite and change their conditions permanently. A tribute and a call to recognise our beauty and our ever going doom and how to mitigate it in the fullness of time.
Alieu Bah
Politics and Society The real dragon: George Jackson and the Black August tradition
Black August honours the tradition of the black liberation struggle, especially the Soledad Brother George Jackson and his comrades who became revolutionaries in the penal system of America. Jackson was a guiding theorist of the Black Panthers and worldwide communism. Here the essay extends to honour and remind us all of other revolutionary ancestors.
Politics and Society Decolonisation is a material struggle
Decolonisation is not an academic event or philosophical discourse alone but a practice rooted in the material struggles of the peoples. It is about moving from armchair discourse to one grounded in the lives and afterlives of the dispossessed majority of the Global South.
Politics and Society African Liberation Day and freedom blues
African Liberation Day is set aside to reflect on our gains as a people trying to be free. Here the reflections bring the personal at the heart of the ongoing movement of Africans into liberatory history. The grand narrative meets the tale of a little town’s attempt at a win against capital.
Politics and Society Claim no easy victories: What I learnt from Amilcar Cabral
A contemplation on a righteous and revolutionary life. The writer here goes through a preliminary meditation so as to inspire and return to the source, the current struggle and context of the continent. Grounding it in the life of Amilcar Cabral and the people he struggled with.
Politics and Society Kwame Nkrumah: Reflections on the Theoretician of the African Revolution
A tribute and reflection on one of the larger than life figures of the African struggle. Nkrumah is here situated within a human and humane canon of struggle for redemption whose promise and fullness finds itself expressed in his work as theoretician and ideologue of Pan Africanism.
Politics and Society Africa isn’t an opinion or an opiate: An Ode to the ever defiant motherland
Writing from the time honoured capital of Africa, Addis Ababa, Alieu Bah brings home the need for a balanced view of the continent. Not one locked in exotic discourse or Job like lamentation but one that is at once righteous and striving.
Politics and Society Frantz Fanon: A love letter to the Philosopher of the colossal mass
A tribute and reminder on the imperative need to study and internalise the analysis Fanon shared with the oppressed majority of the earth.
Politics and Society Human Rights is a sham: A dispatch from the Neocolonial state
A reminder to Africans on the imperative need to move beyond the liberalist mere discourse of rights, towards an objective and concrete overhaul of their material condition. Alieu Bah here used his country, The Gambia as a pretext as to the failure of that liberal Democratic model and contemplating the complicity of the new kind of African activist in this scheme of neocolonialism.