Chairman of the African Peoplea’s Socialist Party
Founder of the Uhuru Movement
Omali Yeshitela is the most powerful proponent of the African Liberation Movement today, as well as the foremost black political thinker of our time. He is a speaker, activist, theoretician and organizer of campaigns such as “ALL diamonds are blood diamonds.”
Following in the footsteps of previous black leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, Mangaliso Sobukwe, Patrice Lumumba and Malcolm X, Omali Yeshitela points to a positive future for the African Continent through the slogan made famous by the Garvey Movement of the 1920s, “Africa for Africans, at home and abroad.” He sends a bold message, calling on African people worldwide to unite their homeland, liberate their people and dispense with colonial borders that continue to divide and oppress.
Fiery, uncompromising and courageous as the leader of the movement for a liberated Africa, Omali Yeshitela has struggled for black freedom for 40 years.
Omali Yeshitela has built the African Socialist International, bringing together African people from throughout the world to unite and liberate Africa. He has exposed the basis for poverty and suffering throughout the African world, and document the expropriation of Africa’s resources through the slave trade, direct colonialism and the economic and political domination that continues today.
Leader of the Uhuru Movement, and Chairman and founder of the African People’s Socialist Party, Yeshitela continues to be on the frontlines of struggle, building African-worker controlled institutions, developing ground-breaking political theory, writing countless books and articles, speaking worldwide, fighting write my paper cheap for reparations, galvanizing allies, influencing the popular culture and bringing African people together to liberate Africa and all its resources.
Omali Yeshitela has faced arrests, trials, imprisonment and personal sacrifice in his struggle to complete the Black Revolution of the Sixties. Chairman Omali never stopped building fighting organizations in the interests of the African working community. He survived the U.S. government’s attack on the Black Power Movement of the 1960s that imprisoned, assassinated or silenced most black revolutionaries by driving them underground. For this he has been called “the last man standing.”
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