From Kofi Piesie TV, with Dwayne Wong (Omowale) as the guest
A talk on Pan-Africanism, African leaders and law
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On Kofi Piesie TV, the historian and Pan-African writer Dwayne Wong (Omowale) tells the host that Pan-Africanism grew out of seeing the same poverty and oppression everywhere among people who share his ancestry, a system he calls “deliberately designed to be a global system which keeps African people across the world oppressed.” His biggest influences are Walter Rodney, Malcolm X, John Henrik Clarke and Marcus Garvey.
He ranks Thomas Sankara as the African leader he admires most, for pushing Burkina Faso toward self-reliance, and also discusses Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Patrice Lumumba, Steve Biko, Amilcar Cabral and Samora Machel.
Now in law school, he says political change for African people has usually come through breaking unjust laws. He traces the blues legend of a devil at the crossroads to the Yoruba trickster Eshu, evidence that “African culture is so strong that it survives in ways that aren’t even readily apparent to us.”
