We kick off the show reflecting on the sudden demise of Former President of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant Jerry John Rawlings.
Today’s show explores Pan Africanist leader Kwame Ture. Kwame Ture was a prominet organizer in the civil rights movement in the United States and the global Pan-African movement.
We speak to his sons Bokar Ture and Alpha Yaya Ture, and Amandla Thomas-Johnson, a Senegal-based journalist and author of the book \”Becoming Kwame Ture\”, as well as Albie Walls, member of Kwame Ture’s All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (A-APRP).
Our African Champion for today was Kwame Ture. On What\’s On today are a series of conferences and seminars about the life of the Pan-Africanist. On What\’s New was a book, Ready for Revolution, The Life and Struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) by Stokely Carmichael and Ekwueme Michael Thelwell.
