Mukasa Dada fka Willie Ricks struggles with colon cancer

[Akyeame Kwame]

I am glad to hear that he was released from the hospital. That is a difficult place to be for any Afrikan. Meda ase for the update and I'll c what we can scrape together on behalf of the BlackNificent family...



AK

[Im The Truth]

Mukasa Dada is about to begin chemotherapy for his colon cancer and he and his wife NEEDS financial support more than ever. Please send him and his wife what you can! I was at Mukasa house yesterday to drop off a package but right when I thought I was about to able he said come on in and began to tell me about his cancer and chemotherapy and what was necessary to survive chemotherapy he'll need money for medicine and other things. Please help if you can! You all can use the Donate To The Talking Drum Collective link above or click here.

[Akyeame Kwame]

Mukasa Dada is about to begin chemotherapy for his colon cancer and he and his wife NEEDS financial support more than ever. Please send him and his wife what you can! I was at Mukasa house yesterday to drop off a package but right when I thought I was about to able he said come on in and began to tell me about his cancer and chemotherapy and what was necessary to survive chemotherapy he'll need money for medicine and other things. Please help if you can! You all can use the Donate To The Talking Drum Collective link above or click here.

I just donated. It didn't have a way to specify where it's going to but I would like for the entire amount to go to Baba Mukasa.

AK

[Im The Truth]

It'll go straight to him.

[Akyeame Kwame]

Uhuru Truth,

Good to hear Black from you. My account was charged twice for some reason. Could you correct it to one charge?

Asante sana,

AK

[Im The Truth]

ok I got you

[Jacuma]

We were with Baba Mukasa yesterday evening and he asked us (Truth and myself) to send a Revolutionary Asante sana to all of you who have supported him in this time of need, he also asked us to thank Obadele Kambon (AK) for the sorely needed financial support, Warrior Queen Mamazen for the thoughtful blanket (he uses it everyday) and Warrior Queen Fenix for considering him for an interview, he will call you in the pm today.

As many of you know he is receiving chemotherapy for the next 11 weeks, so far his spirits are still up and he is still calling for an Afrikan Revolution we will continue to keep everyone updated...

PS any support you can forward even if its a phone call will be appreciated Uhuru!!

[Fenix]

I just spoke with Baba Mukasa. It was an amazing experience. I'm working on typing the interview right now. I encourage you all to call to send well wishes and soak up some of his wisdom!

[Fenix]

Today is Baba Mukasa's birthday!

[Mamazen]

HAPPY EARTHDAY WARRIOR KING!!

[XXPANTHAXX]

48 Years of Struggle for the Liberation of African People!
A Fundraiser and Tribute for Mukasa DaDa (Willie Ricks)

Saturday, April 19, 2008 4-p.m.

Cosby Center Auditorium Spelman College

This courageous Pan-African freedom fighter became actively involved in the struggle for human rights as early as 15 years old. During the era of the 60's Brother Mukasa became an organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Mukasa faced white racist terrorism from the Ku Klux Klan, White citizen's councils and police, when he was sent to rural towns in the South to encourage voting rights and to politically educate the Africans (Black People) concerning their rights as citizens.

"They thought they had found a solution in the idea of black political power. Willie Ricks (Brother Mukasa), another SNCC staffer on the Meredith march, reduced this concept to two words: black power. The two were forcefully expressive and could be used to make a lively chant, as Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Ricks (Mukasa) soon showed". (Black Awakening in Capitalist America), p.21-22, by Robert L. Allen)

Mukasa and Kwame with SNCC helped raise the freedom cry for Black Power in the Mississippi Delta transforming the call to one of power among African youth in urban cities in the United States, throughout the Americas, Africa, Britain, and the Caribbean.

Brother Mukasa has not stopped giving us revolutionary inspiration and information to fight the forces of oppression and exploitation world-wide. From Alabama to Africa, Brother Mukasa continues to introduce generations after generations to the work of Fannie Lou Hammer, Ella Baker, Martin Luther King, Amy and Marcus Garvey, Mbalia Camara, Kwame Nkrumah, Seku Ture, Kwame Ture, Steve Biko, Yasser Arafat, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.

Brother Mukasa is receiving medical treatment for cancer. His friends, comrades and family are coming together to help with his medical expenses.
On April 19, 2008 (Saturday) from 4:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Spelman College, Cosby Center Auditorium...Come hear former SNCC members and many comrades and the family of Brother Mukasa. The program is free to the public. Donations will be greatly appreciated.

For More Information Contact 404-561-6309 or 404-394-0800 Email: afrgive@bellsouth.net We encourage everyone to come to the Planning Meeting on April 6, 2008 4 P.M. at ITC (International Theological Center). Take I-20 West to Joseph E. Lowery Blvd turn right on M.L. King and turn right to parking lot at Sunset Ave. (from Austell turn Left on J.E. Lowery Blvd)

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3079 Campbellton Rd. S.W. Suite 114
Atlanta, GA 30344 (404) 344-5454
Usa

[ISS Community College]

Greetings Abusua,
Our sincerest blessings to Baba Mukasa's healing. He was there for me when he saw I needed his support once and I know the entire Sankofa Community is there for him. Many of us have been making weekly contributions through a collection by the Saturday Night Drum Circle at Silver's Delight Carribean Cafe, located in the Carriage Plaza, corner of Dorsey and East Point Streets, owned and operated by one of the Sankofa Community College Instructors and Jamaican Chef husband.
When you stop in to support them, ask for "The El Ma's Nsom" Kangen Alkaline Water, established in memory, honor and support of Sankofa Community College's founder ancestors, Mamma Akua Thelma Forniss Prince, Mamma Nsom Primpeh, Baba Ahmed Adullah and Nana Asa Baffour Amontkwazia, bottled by Sankofa. Proceeds toward the medical treatment and healing of the PanAfrakan community. Sankofa Community College provides this Kangen water for Baba Mukasa's healing. You can obtain literature on Alkaline Water at Silver's Delight, or by writing Akosoa@SankofaCC.com.
Honor & Peace
--Akosoa TjuhuTiy