Can the UN be used as a practical tool to advance the African revolution?

A Pan-Africanist analysis of the United Nations requires that the institution be assessed through a dialectical materialist lens, through the positive and negative aspects of its historical development and current reality. The question is not simply whether the UN is “good” or “bad” in the abstract, but rather: under what conditions has it served as a terrain of struggle for the oppressed and to what extent should African peoples place trust in the United Nations today. . . .

Burkina Faso: La Patrie ou la Mort… Venceremos

On August 4 1983 at 9:30 pm, power went out across Ouagadougou. Thirty minutes later, Captain Thomas Sankara, a young military officer previously the prime minister of Upper Volta before becoming a political prisoner under the same regime, announced on the radio that the government had been overthrown. . . .