Isaac Saney is a Cuba and Black Studies specialist and historian at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He is the author of the recently published book Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End: Africa’s Children Return, which delves into the history of Cuba’s internationalist example, including its role in the destruction of South African apartheid. This is the first of a two-part interview. Professor Saney joins us from Halifax. (Part 2)
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A Pan-Africanist politics is necessary because weak neo-colonial states are incapable of assuring their own survival or of negotiating how their country is inserted into the world system.
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Mumia Abu Jamal on the passing of Black music great Aretha Franklin: “She returns to the celestial choir after 76 summers of earthly life.”
