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“Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere alikuwa mtetezi wa uafrika. Kwa sababu yake tunajua sisi ni nani.”

Julius Nyerere Africanism Defender Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere Julius Kambarage Nyerere Mwalimu Mtetezi Tunajua Sisi Ni Nani Uafrika We Know Ho We Are

Author:Enock Maregesi

“Acknowledging that my skin was, in fact, Cocoa as it is, would have destroyed their narrative about who I really was. Therefore they had to convince everyone (but mostly themselves) that my skin colour was black, which is obviously not. They wanted to lessen the value of my skin, my people, and my origins.”

Motivational Quotes Mitta Xinindlu Black People Black History Month Africans Black Skin Africanism Roots And Origins

Author:Mitta Xinindlu

“Whenever a word ''nigga'' is spoken, It's always followed by the same question, Can white people say nigger ? and the correct answer is Not really.”

Race Racism Hatred African American Blacks Africanism Nigga

Author:Auliq a

“Der Afrikanismus ist das Vehikel, durch das sich das amerikanische Ich als nicht versklavt, sondern frei erfährt, als nicht abstoßend, sondern begehrenswert, nicht hilflos, sondern priviligiert und mächtig, nicht geschichtslos sondern geschichtlich, nicht verdammt, sondern unschuldig, nicht ein blinder Zufall der Evolution, sondern fortschrittliche Erfüllung eines Schicksal.”

Book:Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

Source: Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination

“Autonomy, newness, difference, authority, absolute power: these are the major themes and concerns of American literature, and each one is made possible, shaped, and activated by a complex awareness and use of a constituted Africanism that, deployed as rawness and savagery, provided the staging ground and arena for the elaboration of that quintessential American identity.”

Literature American Literature Africanism

Book:The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Source: The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

“Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.”

Language Prejudice Ugly Charming Gross Africanism

Author:Alice Childress

“African nationalism is meaningless, dangerous, anachronistic, if it is not, at the same time, pan-Africanism.”

Ifs Dangerous Patriotism Nationalism Meaningless Julius Africanism

Author:Julius Nyerere

“As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan- Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.”

“The Pan-Africanism that envisaged the ideal of wholeness was gradually cut down to the size of a continent, then a nation, a region, an ethnos, a clan, and even a village in some instances But Pan-Africanism has not outlived its mission. Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices”

Should Remember Political Nations Vision Practice Cutting Economic Ideals Size Missions Guides Psychological Instance Regions Village Continents Wholeness Clans Africanism

Author:Ngugi wa Thiong'o

“The philosophy of Africanism holds out the hope of a genuine democracy beyond the stormy sea of struggle”

Philosophy Struggle Democracy Sea Genuine Stormy Stormy Seas Africanism

Author:Robert Sobukwe

“The development of Africa will not happen without the effective participation of women. Our forefathers' image of women must be buried once for all.”

Happens Women Development Buried Participation Effectiveness Forefathers Active Participation Africanism

Author:Ousmane Sembene