The Party introduces bold new leadership, Mwezi Odom and Emmanuel "Lukede" Maku

Mwezi Odom (corner, right) began as a volunteer with the All African People’s Development and Empowerment Project (AAPDEP), placing her skills in the hands of the African working class for the purpose of developing self-determination.

Mwezi demonstrated her love and commitment to the struggle of African people to be free through her involvement with AAPDEP and the San Diego branch of the International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) before making the decision to join the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP).

As a member of the Party, her leadership was thrust forward with her chairing of the Hands Off Uhuru! Hands Off Africa! Counteroffensive campaign to push back the FBI attacks against the Uhuru 3, including Chairman Omali Yeshitela, and the right of African and colonized people to anti-colonial free speech

Under her leadership, this campaign has made its rounds across the globe, uniting forces from across the political spectrum to join in the fightback to drop the charges. In November of 2023, she was appointed to the post of the National Office of the Secretary General for the African People’s Socialist Party.

Through this role, she works directly under the leadership of Chairman Omali Yeshitela to build the Party, maintain and develop our organiza- tional relationships, hold the Party’s leadership accountable to the goals and mandates set forth in plenaries and congresses and much more. Comrade Mwezi has brilliantly stepped into this role, and under her leadership, the Party’s future is surely bright.

Comrade Emmanuel Maku (Lukede) joined the ranks of the African People’s Socialist Party in April of 2023 and wasted no time getting boots on the ground, beginning to organize in the U.S. Northern region. “What led me to join the Party, was ultimately the on-the-ground leadership which was armed by the theory of African Internationalism and over 50 years of relentless, principled struggle which is matched by no one. It’s pretty hard to say “no” to the only revolutionary organization worthy of leading the full capacity of Africa and all African people to a liberated, unified Africa under one socialist government led by the African working class. It’s even harder to say “no” when the Chairman asks.”

Emmanuel has been providing that same on- the-ground leadership, bringing the Party to the campus of Howard University in Washington D.C. At the “Howard U Walkout For Palestine,” where Howard students rallied at the Howard Universi- ty’s administration building against the university’s zionist military connections, students demanded that the university end its complicit support of the genocide of colonized people in Palestine. The Party was invited to speak by Howard University Students for Justice in Palestine.

In building for the Black is Back Coalition’s 15th Annual Black People’s March on the White House, Comrade Emmanuel spoke at the invita- tion of the Palestinian Youth Movement, in front of the state department at a rally to hold war criminals accountable in a people’s court. Comrade Emmanuel is bringing the Party to the people, building unity with the struggle to smash colonialism!