FORUM THE ROLE OF PANAFRICAN MEDIA

On the 14th anniversary of the founding of the magazine Reparatión Africana, this one in collaboration with www.malcolmgarveyuniversity.com, we celebrate our annual conference The roll of Pan-Africanist media. The first meeting was hosted in 1994 by Radio voz de Afrika te voice of the NBPP Spanish chapter. After Durban conference 2001 the African organization youth front FOJA convention past resolution called, dont hate the media, do it.  The Participants in that historic day  (GEA Magazine, In Action Newspaper, African Cultures Magazine, Afrotown Newspaper, Afrika Voice Radio, Africa Radio Aqui and VAllekas Radio). In 2007, within the framework of the preparatory work and meetings of the World Tribunal for Black Reparation, the magazine Reparatión Africana was born, as a voice to the media, activists and African communicators from Spain, Equatorial Guinea and Latin America interested in reparation and not depending on the neocolonial media narrative of those countries. The objective is to bring together recognition of the grassroots media at the service of the community and the democratic, womanist and popular struggles of the African world that stand out for a mediatic commitment to freedom. The FORUM are focus on journalists, editors, bloggers, communicators and historical media had outlets such as The Negro World, The Crissis, The Accra Evening News, Mohammed Speak, Nation Time, The Black Panther, Burning Spear or Mumia Abu Jamal, who for more than a century have built the Pan-Africanist consciousness and the freedom of African communicators at home and abroad. In this edition we are going to collectively build among all and as pan-Africanists, we seek to exercise our right to produce communication and self-managed information, which disputes the discursive and narrative hegemony of the neocolonialists. A grassroot strategy that dissents, builds, criticizes Uncle Tom. but assuming responsibility for what it means to generate, reflect, and share counter-information.

Likewise, we want to invite the African community itself to use, generate and trust, value, and support economically its own media.

Abuy Nfubea

Founder of Reparation Africana & director of  Conference

SPEAKERS 2021

Efia Nwangaza, Founding/President and CEO  Afrikan-American Institute for Policy Studies & Planning, Malcolm X Center for Self Determination/Human Rights, and WMXP/95.5fm Community Radio, Greenville,SC Civil/Human Rights Organizer-Advocate, Popular Educator, Guest Columnist, Television/radio host and media justice activist. Ms. Nwangaza is the founding president and chief executive officer of the Afrikan-American Institute for Policy Studies & Planning and WMXP-LP (95.5 fm) Community Radio, Greenville, SC She is the founder and coordinator of the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, a human rights institute and multimedia action center for community capacity building and human rights advocacy. She is the Outside Media Representative for Free South Carolina Movement, Introducing the Free South Carolina  Movement,? Ms Nwangaza served as co-cluster leader in U.S. Human Rights Network Universal Periodic Review (UPR) to the UN Human Rights Council, Geneva. She conducted extensive outreach and co-authored the Network's reports on U.S. Political Prisoners and authored Domestic Political Repression report. To prepare for lobbying in response to the U.S. submission, she participated in the 4th International Training Session on UPR. She designed and launched the successful historic campaign to “Put USA Political Prisoners on the Global Human Rights Agenda;” they are referenced in 3 of 4 of the USA UN treaty reviews. The African American Institute is a volunteer, grassroots, community based think tank which engages theoreticians, practitioners, and consumer constituencies in evaluation, formulation of responses, and dissipation of information on issues and policies affecting the quality of life of persons of African Descent (Blacks) here and abroad. It promotes self-determination and advocacy through the use of social media, current technology, and human rights frame works, with a primary focus on individual and community empowerment.

WMXP-LP, "The Voice of the People, Reclaiming the Drum" is South Carolina's only African Centered, non-commercial, community based, driven, operated and funded FCC licensed FM radio station. It serves to do media and radio training as a tool, amplify the voices of activists, and enhance and extend the voice of the traditionally unheard. The Malcolm X Center for Self Determination and WMXP Community Radio is widely known for human rights work, in the United States and abroad. Local work includes going into the prisons as well as the public school system and churches. Its annual Malcolm X and Kwanzaa celebrations, periodic Retreats for a Black Agenda and October 22nd Coalition Stolen Lives Commemorations, legal services and lifeline for Katrina Survivors, campaigns for political prisoner release, social prisoners’ rights, reparations, and against imperialist wars, police intimidation and violence have informed local thinking and activities even when unacknowledged. Internationally, we have co-authored joint reports, participated in hearings and delegations to hold the U.S. government accountable for its human rights violations and failure to comply with its various treaty obligation; particularly as it relates to people of color, its political prisoners, and others in custody.

Efia Nwangaza, a frequent anti-war speaker, was the national Not in Our Name (NION) spokesperson and two term representative to the national United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) Steering Committee. October, 2002, NION made the call and mobilized nearly 100,000 people, from coast to coast, pledge resistance to the then anticipated US attack on Iraq. The UFPJ coalition, US largest, works to  consolidate and strengthen national anti-war/occupation efforts. Ms.Nwangaza has represented both, throughout the United States and abroad. Efia Nwangaza is past national co-chair of the Jericho Movement for Amnesty and Freedom of US Political Prisoners, Prisoners of War, and Exiles. It was prisoner/exile founded in 1998 and is their official voice. She continues her work by supporting individual prisoners and Dr. Mutulu Shakur's call for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to resolve the status and future of US political prisoners. Efia Nwangaza was a member of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s UN Fourth World Conference delegation to Women, NGO Forum, Beijing, China, 1995, sponsored by National African-American Women and the Law Network. She lectured on "Health Care: A Human Right and Key to Self-Determination" and contributed to US delegation's race language for the Platform for Action, adopted by UN Conference. She was a member of Greenville's Healthy Community organizing committee; a coalition which included DHEC, GHS, St. Francis Hospital, Greenville Planning Commission, among others. Ms. Nwangaza represented the National Conference of Black Lawyers on the Center for Constitutional Rights' Delegation to Haiti, following President Bertrand Aristide's 1994 post-coup return. The Delegation examined judicial and electoral reform, status of women/girls, human rights, Truth Commission formation, and sustainable development, made recommendations, and designed projects which remain in effect to date.

Efia Nwangaza is the descendant of reparations activist and an organizing, founding, and past national board member of NCOBRA. Ms.Nwangaza was the chair of the NCOBRA Litigation Committee's Wealth and Poverty Task Force and past chair of NCOBRA's International Commission. She participated in the successful campaign to have the UN's Durban, South Africa conferences on Racism which characterized the enslavement of Africans and their descendants as a crime against humanity and validated the demand for reparations in the final documents of both the non-governmentaland governmental meetings. She also made workshop presentations on the Death Penalty in the United States and Reparations as a Step toward Getting Beyond White Supremacy. In addition to work on reparations at the UN World Conference on Racism, Ms. Nwangaza, as Co-Chair of the National Executive Committee of the October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression, and Criminalization of a Generation launched the Coalition's widely received, 2001, international campaign against global militarization of civilian law enforcement with the Stolen Lives: Killed by Law Enforcement CD, . The CD is a tool for self-empowerment and advocacy which cites the cases of more than 2000 people killed by US law enforcement and the grassroots efforts to end the practice.

Ms. Nwangaza is a founding member of AI-USA Group #182, 1980, Greenville, South Carolina. She has been a member of the AIUSA National Steering Committee of Program to Abolish the Death Penalty. She has served as local group moderator, organizing and founding Southern Regional Planning Group member and is the SC/Greenville death penalty abolition coordinator. She built media visibility and recognition for local group's efforts, as media source and organizing model. Regionally, she collaborated on prototypes for next phase AIUSA's dismantling racism work. She was named Amnesty International-USA first Human Rights Defender in 1999 when it came to her defense against the South Carolina Bar for her work against the death penalty and racial profiling.  Ms. Nwangaza is a past member of the national Board of Directors, N.O.W. (1990-1994), African-American Institute for Research and Empowerment (1994-1996),SC-ACLU (1994-2000), Co-Founder Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self-Determination organizing committee and SC State Coordinator.

EDUCATION:

SPELMAN COLLEGE; BA, 1971, Psychology; Temple Univ., MA, 1974, History; Golden Gate Univ. School of Law; JD, 1978; Institute for Achievement of Human Potential; Cybernetic Developmentalist Certification, 1972  HONORS: South Carolina General Assembly Joint Resolution for Public Service; County of Greenville Public Service Award, City of Greenville Public Service Proclamation, NOW Margie Cazaras Special Achievement Award, Greenville Branch NAACP 10 Most Influential Black Leaders, Rosa Parks Award (Inaugural) Greenville Church & Human Rights Association, Kuptic Church Lifetime Achievement Award; 50th Anniversary Student Activisim Recognition from the Cities of Atlanta, Georgia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Every Black Girl Legacy Award (Inaugural).

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