All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP)

It doesn’t boil down to a simple “yes” or “no.”

Key to the development of “Douvan Jou Ka Leve” is the question of identity and whether the African people in Ayiti as a whole are experiencing an identity crisis, including ‘spiritually.’

Before colonialism and slavery, African people were growing, raising, hunting and fishing for our own food in a sustainable way. We were people who produced life for ourselves.

If the coronavirus pandemic underscores anything, it is the absolute necessity for African people to unite in our historic mission to once again become a self determining, self-governing people.

There are now more than 100 confirmed cases in the U.S., with 31 of those in Washington state, which also has the first related deaths (nine).

On Friday, October 11 at 7:30pm, Black Power 96 Station Manager Themba Tshibanda will host a special online webinar to discuss the plans of the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project to bring its own non-commercial FM radio station back onto the airwaves with a new format featuring the complete library of speeches by Chairman Omali Yeshitela, along with special presentations by other leaders of the African liberation movement.

Talib Sankofa, a brother previously associated with the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project’s (AAPDEP) Washington state tour to end infant and maternal mortality, recently sent me a report from Ghana, where he currently resides.

HOUSTON—Once again it is the Juneteenth time of year. In Houston, Texas that means “Juneteenth, ‘Not Yet Uhuru’ Freedom and Music Festival.”

People get ready! It’s time for African families and communities to come together and organize for disaster preparedness and health emergencies!