151st birthday of WEB Du Bois

(Born 23 February 1868, Great Barrington, Mass, US)

Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe

SOCIOLOGIST, historian, African peoples-centred scholar, freedom activist extrordinaire, towering public intellectual – decades before “public intellectual” becomes in vogue albeit problematically

(Marcus Roberts Trio – with expanded ensemble, “Deep in the shed” [Roberts, piano; Roland Guerin, bass; Jason Marsalis, drums; solos from expanded ensemble: Etienne Charles, trumpet; Ron Westray, trombone; Wess Anderson, alto saxophone; recorded: live, Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, US, 1 February 2008])

*****Herbert Ekwe-Ekwe is author of the recently published The longest genocide – since 29 May 1966 (2019)  (https://re-thinkingafrica.blogspot.com/2019/01/published-longest-genocide-since-29-may.html)

Twitter@HerbertEkweEkwe

150th birthday of WEB Du Bois

(Born 23 February 1868, Great Barrington, Mass, US)

Sociologist, historian, African peoples-centred scholar, freedom activist extrordinaire, towering public intellectual – decades before “public intellectual” becomes in vogue

(John Coltrane Quartet,  “Equinox” [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone; McCoy Tyner, piano; Steve Davis, bass; Elvin Jones, drums; recorded: Atlantic Studios, New York, US, 26 October 1960])

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149th birthday of WEB Du Bois

(Born 23 February 1868, Great Barrington, Mass, US)

Sociologist, historian, African-centred scholar and freedom activist, towering public intellectual – decades before “public intellectual” becomes in vogue

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

98th anniversary of the start of the 1st Pan-African Congress, Paris, France, 19 February 1919

(Working session of the congress with WEB Du Bois, the versatile intellectual, in the middle of the picture)

The February 1919 Pan-African Congress in Paris, France, convened by WEB Du Bois and Ida Gibbs Hunt, is the first of five high-profile international congresses after World War I (1914-1918) that demands the restoration of African independence in continental Africa/the Caribbean/Americas and enhanced cooperation among African peoples globally after 400 years of the enslavement and conquest and occupation and underdevelopment of African peoples and Africa by the European World

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148th birthday of WEB Du Bois

(Born 23 February 1868, Great Barrington, Mass, US)

Sociologist, historian, African-centred scholar and freedom activist, towering public intellectual – decades before “public intellectual” becomes in vogue

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

147th birthday of WEB Du Bois

(Born 23 February 1868, Great Barrington, Mass, US)

Sociologist, historian, African-centred scholar and freedom activist, towering public intellectual – decades before “public intellectual” becomes in vogue

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe

146th birthday of WEB Du Bois

(Born 23 February 1868, Great Barrington, Mass, US)

Sociologist, historian, African-centred scholar and activist, towering public intellectual – decades before “public intellectual” becomes in vogue

Twitter @HerbertEkweEkwe