African Revolutions and Decolonization: Intro to Pan-Africanism (Guerrilla History)

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🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

With this episode of Guerrilla History, we launch into Pan-Africanism as a great additional starting point to our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization. We bring on two marvelous guests, Prof. Layla Brown and Jacquie Luqman, to discuss the history, theoretical currents, and modern expressions of Pan-Africanism. This is a 2+ hour masterclass, you certainly won't want to miss a moment of it!

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Layla Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora. She is a member of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (GC), and can be found on twitter @PanAfrikFem_PhD. She also cohosts the Life. Study. Revolution podcast alongside Charisse Burden-Stelly.

Jacquie Luqman is a radical activist, journalist, and is a coordinator with Black Alliance for Peace. You can follow some (but not all!) of her writings at Black Agenda Report, and watch her show Luqman Nation on Black Liberation Media. She is on twitter @luqmannation1.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody. So today we are going to put on our feed today and tomorrow a couple episodes from our good friends and comrades over at guerrilla history. They're doing a series on African revolutions and decolonization and extensive series that I think is really important and really interesting historically, theoretically, and just conceptually for those of us on the left
0:23.5	to understand revolutions and decolonization movements in Africa in particular.
0:28.3	And they're doing this really, really cool series on African resistance, revolution, and decolonization
0:33.2	that we wanted to promote on our RSS feed and give you know, give people an episode or two to listen to,
0:40.4	and hopefully we'll then migrate over, subscribe to guerrilla history and listen to the other episodes
0:46.4	in this growing series. And they wrote a little, you know, short little article kind of
0:52.6	promoting the African Revolution and Decolonization
0:55.8	series that I want to read for you so you can get an idea of the series and what they're
1:00.8	trying to do with it. So founders of the militant podcast, Gorilla History, Henry Hakamaki
1:05.5	and Adnan Hussein introduced their new series on African revolutions and decolonization.
1:11.9	Focusing on African struggles and revolutions, they invite listeners to encounter radical perspectives from the continent
1:17.1	and beyond, challenge their assumptions about history, and learn about the struggles of those
1:21.9	who dared to resist depression in Africa. Hukamaki and Hussein argue for a nuanced understanding of the revolutionary movements
1:29.4	that define Africa's past and continue to shape its future. In a world decisively shaped by the
1:36.3	legacies of colonialism, imperialism, and the extension of capitalism, the importance of studying
1:42.3	African revolutions and the process of decolonization
1:45.2	cannot be overstated. The guerrilla history's upcoming 30-part series, African revolutions
1:51.1	and decolonization on the guerrilla history podcast, endeavors to illuminate the complexities
1:56.3	surrounding these topics, combining case studies of revolutionary struggles, as well as thematic and
2:02.7	theoretical explorations of political and economic processes across the continent and its place in the
2:08.9	global system. By engaging deeply with historical examples and vital intellectual currents,
2:15.0	guerrilla history aims to forge a rich understanding of the revolutionary
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