As
leader of the Uhuru Movement Omali Yeshitela is considered
the most powerful proponent of the African Liberation Movement
today, as well as the foremost black political thinker of
our time. A speaker, activist, theoretician and organizer
of campaigns such as “ALL diamonds are blood diamonds,”
Yeshitela is visiting cities in the U.S., Africa and Europe
this year, following the publication of his new book, One
Africa! One Nation!
He
will discuss one of his most important projects, the African
Socialist International (ASI), the organization of African
people from throughout the world organizing for a United
States of Africa as the birthright of African people everywhere.
 Yeshitela’s
new book, One Africa! One Nation! compiles powerful
presentations by representatives of the ASI, offering
a glimpse at efforts to build that organization and the
significance of its emergence in the world. It includes
moving reports by Yeshitela as well as by Africans from
Europe, the Caribbean, South America, and Africa itself.
They expose the basis for poverty and suffering throughout
the African world, and document the expropriation of Africa's
resources through the slave trade, direct colonialism
and the economic and political domination that continues
today. The book also offers timely analysis of recent
events including the devastation in black communities
after Hurricane Katrina, and political struggles in Haiti.
Following in the footsteps of previous black leaders such
as Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Mangaliso Sobukwe, Patrice
Lumumba and Malcolm X, Omali Yeshitela points to a positive
future for the African Continent through the slogan made
famous by the Garvey Movement of the 1920s, “Africa for
Africans, at home and abroad.” He sends a bold message,
calling on African people worldwide to unite their homeland,
liberate their people and dispense with colonial borders
that continue to divide and oppress.
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