Image: “Apartheid No.”, Faustino Pérez, 1977 [Organisation in Solidarity with the People of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL)] Reflecting on the THE IDEOLOGICAL TENDENCIES AND POLITICAL PRE-DISPOSITIONS OF THE BLACK 'LEFT' IN AND AROUND THE ANTI-APARTHEID AND AFRICAN SOLIDARITY MOVEMENT IN THE 1970'S AND 8O'S: SOME THOUGHTS & NOTES, Prexy Nesbitt suggests that: “There were certain political moments and certain African liberation movements “that highlighted the tendencies and orientations more than the normal ups and downs of African solidarity work. Three of those moments were: 1) the 1974 Sixth Pan Africanist Congress and decisions taken as to who would be invited to it and who would be allowed to participate in it; 2) Cuba's entry into the Angolan liberation struggle after the invitation extended to Cuba by Agostinho Neto, the then President of the MPLA; and,3) the over-all performance and steady demise of the Pan-Africanist Congress(PAC) throughout the 1970's and 80's in direct proportion to the steady increase in support and relationship of US activists and supporters to the African National Congress(ANC).” Today, you will listen to Pt. 1 of a conversation we recently had with Prexy Nesbitt, where we begin to construct a framework – an activist-intellectual biography – a point of entry into understanding the role of study & struggle/theory & practice, as a central pillar in Black Radical praxis, a praxis specifically rooted in a critical Africana human rights consciousness. Its purpose to present, explore, map, and construct contemporary pathways into the constellation of ideas and practices that fundamentally resist a global world order that is rooted in race/racism, colonialism-imperialism, capitalism through the people who were in engaged in collective struggle. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Prexy Nesbitt was educated at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Nineteenth Century Russian Literature. He went on to attend the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Northwestern University; and Columbia University. His work includes direct and indirect activity in six Southern African liberation movements: African National Congress (ANC); Mozambique Liberation Front (FRELIMO); Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA); Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU); and the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU); the Southwest African People's Organization (SWAPO), the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). Returning to Chicago in the 1980s, he worked as a labor organizer and as special aide to then Chicago mayor Harold Washington. He was later appointed consultant to represent the country and its interests in the United States, Canada, and Europe by the independent Mozambique government. He also engaged many formations that included, but not limited to, the Chicago Committee for the Liberation of Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau American Committee on Africa; the Institute for Policy Studies; the African National Congress; Labor Against Apartheid; Chicago Coalition for Illinois Divestment from South Africa (CIDSA). As an activist and an educator, he has organized and taught throughout the U.S. and around the world. Other audio: Samora Machel, Son Of Africa [snippet] - https://icarusfilms.com/if-samo Makaya McCraven - Universal Beings - Holy Lands (feat. Brandee Younger) Keyshia Cole - I Changed My Mind [instrumental] Laura Mvula - Sing To The Moon Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa: https://www.jstor.org/site/struggles-for-freedom/southern-africa/ Africa Information Service: https://africanactivist.msu.edu/organization/210-813-696/