Malcolm X Birthday and Zimbabwe

Today, May 19, is the anniversary of Malcolm X’s birth. I like to say that we should commemorate martyrs and revolutionaries on their death anniversary, because we didn’t kno what they would be when they were born, but we kno them by the time they die. Yet Malcolm X was such a dynamic individual and thinker who struggled with his every fiber to connect with people, particularly African people, but mostly all people, that folks ought to celebrate his birthday, not just commemorate it.

Malcolm, before he died, had risen to the status of an African Internationalist. He was the first in America to analyze how Imperialism overthrew Patrice Lumumba and democracy in the Congo. He also traveled...

THE SOUTHERN AFRICA BATTLEFRONT
During the 1970s liberation war, ZANU waged armed struggle against the Rhodesian settlers’ Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) because the racist, unprincipled British colonial government washed its hands of the situation, anticipating the UDI to become Rhodesia’s Isandhlwana. Treating the settler issue in Southern Africa as tho white people were autochthonous, Imperialism also contradictorily supposed the UDI had a principled starting point for solving the land question.

At the same time, ZANU assisted their FRELIMO comrades in Mozambique against Portuguese colonialism. Portugal had lost control of the situation, simultaneously having to wage warfare on three African battle fronts,...