Pan-Africanism: A Primer w/ Layla Brown & Jacquie Luqman (AR&D Ep.2)

Guerrilla History

Henry

Education, History

4.8 • 669 Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2025

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

With this episode of Guerrilla History, we launch into Pan-Africanism as a great additional starting point to our series on African Revolutions and Decolonization. We bring on two marvelous guests, Prof. Layla Brown and Jacquie Luqman, to discuss the history, theoretical currents, and modern expressions of Pan-Africanism. This is a 2+ hour masterclass, you certainly won't want to miss a moment of it! Be sure to share this episode with comrades as well, we KNOW they will benefit from listening!

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Layla Brown is an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology & Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Brown's research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora. She is a member of the All-African People's Revolutionary Party (GC), and can be found on twitter @PanAfrikFem_PhD. She also cohosts the Life. Study. Revolution podcast alongside Charisse Burden-Stelly.

Jacquie Luqman is a radical activist, journalist, and is a coordinator with Black Alliance for Peace. You can follow some (but not all!) of her writings at Black Agenda Report, and watch her show Luqman Nation on Black Liberation Media. She is on twitter @luqmannation1.

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0:00.0	You didn't remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:27.4	Hello, and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm one of your co-hosts,
0:40.0	Henry Huckimacki, which you may not have known because of my voice today, but yes, I am still
0:44.1	Henry Hukimaki, joined as usual by my co-host, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director
0:50.3	of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. It's
0:54.2	nice to see you today. Good to be with you, Henry. Great to see you. Looking forward to this
0:58.5	conversation. Absolutely. A terrific conversation. And episode two of our series on African
1:06.3	revolutions and decolonization, a really, really excellent topic that we have planned. Another somewhat
1:12.2	introductory topic after our previous conversation, the introduction to African revolutions
1:17.4	and decolonization that we did with Mamadu Tal. This one is a much more conceptual and theoretical
1:22.5	episode, but you'll see when we get to it. We have two excellent guests today, people that I am
1:28.3	really, really proud to call comrades and whom I've known for many years at this point.
1:33.9	But before I introduce them, I would like to remind you listeners that you can help support
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1:48.9	And you can keep up to date with everything that Adnan and I are doing individually, as well as what the show is doing collectively,
1:55.2	by going to Gorilla underscore Pod on Twitter. Again, G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A-U-L-A-U-Skore pod.
2:04.3	So, without further ado, as I mentioned, we have two excellent guests.
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