Rethinking Africa is a forward looking blog dedicated to the exchange of innovative thinking on issues affecting the advancement of African peoples wherever they are. We provide rigorous and insightful analyses on the issues affecting Africans and their vision of the world.
Tuesday, 9 May 2017
202nd birthday of Martin Delany
(Born 6 May 1815, Charles Town, Virginia, US)
INFLUENTIAL African freedom nationalist, physician, writer, who notes, memorably, “every people should be originators of their own destiny” – the very breathtaking resilient resolve
that powers the ongoing Biafra freedom movement in southwestcentral Africa
(Charles Mingus Sextet – with Eric Dolphy, Cornell University 1964, “Meditations” [personnel: Mingus, bass; Johnny Coles, trumpet; Dolphy, flute, bass clarinet; Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone; Jaki Byard, piano; Dannie Richmond, drums; recorded: live, Cornell University, 18 March 1964])
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