SOCIALISM IS NOT A 'WHITE' CONCEPT

Today, 15 November, marks 27 years since the passing of pan-African icon Kwame Ture in Conakry, Guinea. To honour his lifelong commitment to struggle, we are remembering a few of his words of wisdom.

In this clip, Ture dispelled the pernicious myth that socialism is a “white” concept and showed how Africans were discouraged from exploring it. He spoke directly from experience, drawing on his illustrious, decades-long record in the struggle for African liberation worldwide.

Ture’s lifelong commitment to pan-Africanism took him from his childhood in a decolonising Trinidad and Tobago to the United States, where he chaired the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and initiated the Black Power movement. Later in life, he relocated to the mother continent, serving as an adviser to visionary Guinean president Ahmed Sékou Touré and founding the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party.

Although Ture was taken from us at just 57, his teachings will continue to inspire generations of revolutionaries to come.