One Africa Worldview

In this episode we talk with Dr. Yelena Bailey, author of How the Streets Were Made: Housing Segregation and Black Life in America.  The hood, the ghetto, the streets, regardless of what we call it, in her new book, Dr. Bailey argues that the streets are not just a physical geographical space but that they are a “ sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades.”

Dr. Bailey explains the role of government policies, advertising campaigns, colonial social sciences, and popular culture plays in shaping the confinement of Africans within these urban spaces.  A tradition of domestic and settler colonialism that she ties to the death of George Floyd.  

She explains the impacts of:

• Creation of the FHA and redlining in undermining black homeownership

She also talks about African resistance and the way African cultural production reflects that resistance. The program includes excerpts from and discussion of music by the Fugees, Nipsey Hussle, Kendrick Lamar and Buddy.

Dr. Bailey was raised in the Minneapolis area and earned her Ph.D. in literature at the University of California, San Diego.  She has taught at a number of universities and colleges including Seattle Pacific University.

The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

In this week's episode we talk with Yejide Orunmila, President of the African National Women's Organization (ANWO) about:

• Black Community Control of Childcare and the building of the Uhuru Kijiji Childcare Collectives in the U.S. and around the world

The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

African people on the continent, in Europe, in the Caribbean and in the U.S. are facing dire conditions of poverty, lack of healthcare during a pandemic, denial of quality education and housing, and suffering violent oppression from the police and military occupation forces.

This episode's guests are African Internationalists - leaders of the African People's Socialist Party -working to unify and liberate African and African people worldwide. They join us to discuss today's common experiences of Africans in the U.S. and Africa, and tomorrow's vision for the end of colonial capitalism. 

Chimurenga Selembao was born and raised in St. Petersburg, Florida, he's is a lifelong member of the Uhuru Movement currently based in St. Louis, Missouri.  As the National Director of Organization for the African People’s Socialist Party USA, Chimurenga guides the work of Uhuru Movement organizations in the United States.

Tafarie Mugeri is the African Socialist International's Director of Organization for Africa. He's from Occupied Azania (South Africa) and organizes African workers throughout South, West and East Africa.  

Today's episode looks at the campaign for the release of Reverend Errol Victor, framed and imprisoned in retaliation for challenging the system in Louisiana. We talk with:

• Belinda Parker-Brown, founder of Louisiana United International, Inc., and member of the Black is Back Coalition for Peace, Justice and Reparations.

Patrice Lumumba was elected the first Prime Minister of the Congo and took power on June 30, 1960.  Within months, Lumumba was forced out of office.  On January 17, 1961, Lumumba was assassinated under the leadership of the United States and other imperial powers. 

The assassination of Patrice Lumumba reverberated throughout the African world.  In the United States, Africans rushed the floor of the United Nations in protest.  In Cairo, protestors surrounded the United States embassy and set an embassy car ablaze.  In Belgrade, the Belgian embassy was attacked.  In London, people took to the streets and marched in protest from Trafalgar Square to the Belgian embassy.  Argued by some to be the most significant political assassination of the 20th century, the murder of Patrice Lumumba was a critical lesson in the rise of neocolonialism.

We talk with Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary General of the African Socialist International about the significance of the Patrice Lumumba and the future of the struggle for African liberation in the Congo.

SG Luwezi was born and raised in the Congo and speaks 7 languages. He is now based in London and works as an educator and organizer in African communities throughout Europe and the continent of Africa. 

SG Luwezi has come to be known as Mwalimu, meaning "respected teacher" in Swahili.  He writes a monthly column in The Burning Spear Newspaper titled “Kinshasa International” and conducts regular livestream broadcasts to the African nation on Facebook in English and in French.

January 1, 2021 marked the 217th anniversary of the Haitian revolution against French colonialism. We talk with Elikya Ngoma, Haiti Editor for The Burning Spear newspaper and musical artist.

Elikya's family is from Haiti, she speaks Kreyòl and maintains a close connection to politics in Haiti. She is also a singer and musician who has just released an album "Freedom in the Mix" featuring freedom songs in various genres and languages.

In this interview we talked with Elikya about:

• The African Revolution in Haiti, the first successful workers' revolution

In our final episode of 2020, we talk with African People's Socialist Party Chairman Omali Yeshitela about:

• African community's fight against the pandemic

Chairman Omali Yeshitela is leader and founder of the Uhuru Movement.  Over the past five decades, Chairman Omali has initiated campaigns to defend the democratic rights of the African community, to organize and raise up African women, to mobilize opposition to U.S. wars and to popularize the demand for reparations to African people.

He’s built the worldwide Uhuru Movement and the African Socialist International with branches in the U.S., Europe, the Caribbean and on the continent of Africa. He's developed the theory of African Internationalism, which can be found in his published works at burningspearmarketplace.com

The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

"The truth is that virtually every celebration done in this country and throughout Europe, certainly since the 15th or 16th century, have been celebrations of slavery and genocide.

Activists worldwide are fighting anti-African traditions and tearing down symbols of colonial slavery.

We talk with two leaders in Take Em Down NOLA,  - Angela Kinlaw and A Scribe Called Quess? - about the relationship of traditions and imagery with the material living conditions of oppressed peoples. We discuss the phenomenons of:

• Sinterklass and Zwarte Piet

The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

On December 4th, Grand Master Jay was arrested at his home in Ohio on a federal charge of pointing a rifle towards federally deputized task force officers perched on a rooftop during a rally in Louisville, Kentucky two months earlier. 

57-year-old John “Jay” Johnson is leader of the Not F’in Around Coalition (NFAC), an armed black security force formed this summer. Over 500 NFAC members from across the U.S. marched in Louisville for justice for Breonna Taylor. If convicted Grand Master Jay faces 20 years in prison.

We talk with Rakem Balogun, leader of the Dallas-based group Guerilla MainFrame and co-founder of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club.

In 2017 Raken was arrested and imprisoned under an FBI program targeting what they classified as “Black Identity Extremists''.  We discuss:

• Attacks on the constitutional rights of African people in the U.S. to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and to keep and bear arms.

The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.

On December 2nd, 2020, six Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies fired over 50 bullets into a car and hit 20-year-old Dominique Harris 38 times, killing him.

This police killing of another black man took place in a parking lot of a neighborhood store in south St. Petersburg in front of dozens of witnesses. It was filmed and went viral on social media.

On this episode we talk with lifelong St. Petersburg residents Ntambwe Bhekizitha and Akile Anai. Ntambwe is owner of Freedom Cutz Barbershop in south St. Pete and Akile's father. Akile Anai is Editor in Chief of The Burning Spear newspaper and former candidate for City Council in St. Pete. 

We talk about:

• Police role in the forced removal for gentrification of St. Pete and African communities throughout the U.S.

The People's War radio show is produced by WBPU 96.3 FM "Black Power 96" in St. Petersburg, Florida. It is hosted by Dr. Matsemela Odom and Muambi Tangu, bringing an African Internationalist perspective to the important issues of our world.