THEMATIC GUIDE THROUGH THE AUDIO FILES

What follows is a thematic breakdown of one of Kwame Ture's most fiery presentations to an African student body since his intellectual and political evolution to Pan-African activity. The time period was November, 1980 and the place was San Jose State University. The All-African People's Revolutionary Party was engaged in a serious campaign of recruitment on this campus and had heightened the ideological debate among all students, especially those of African descent and ascent. The audience drew Kwame Ture's inspiring oratory to an unforgettable level. Listen to it for yourself and decide if this is an accurace assessment.

The file choices are Flash (which is delivering sound in an MP3 format) and RealAudio. My preference is Flash but the option is yours. You have to wait for the download for Flash but the quality of most of recording is worth the wait. There is, however, some edge damage to the very beginning of the recording causing Kwame Ture's voice to be higher than it acutally is. This problem corrects itself within 20 seconds. The lettering of parts is slightly erratic but generally follows a scheme. Each segment listed below has the segment's playing time in "m" (minutes) and "s" (seconds).

Zizwe Mtafuta-Ukweli

aka. Dr. Zizwe Poe

PART 1
playing time: 7m 20s

1. Introduction
2. The world needs more conscious men and women.
3. The oppressed must be organized for liberation.
4. All people should live the truth.
5. Capitalism undermines the People's will to live the truth in order to usurp their resources.
6. Capitalism is an unjust system.

PART 2
playing time: 4m 05s

1. The truth is NOT subjective.
2. The truth is theory put into concrete action.

PART 3A
playing time: 14m 05s

1. When the oppressed student cheats, their people are cheated.
2. Consciousness requires struggle against the capitalist system
3. Revolution is a science and must be studied as such.
4. The People instinctively love justice.
5. Capitalism makes people arrogant in their ignorance.
6. There are only two economic systems. . . .

PART 3B
playing time: 7m 49s

1. Religion is used by good people for good and by bad people for bad.
2. If Christians would read the bible it would stop the confusion.
3. Christianity was created by Africa but was mutated by European Imperialism.
4. History guides future action.
5. African and American Indian civilizations were more just and supportive to women than European civilizations.

PART 4A
playing time: 4m 41s

History never repeats itself but people do repeat mistakes.
Therefore we must correct our mistakes and know history so we don't repeat them.

PART 4B
playing time: 8m 11s

1. Comparison of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
2. A qualifying comparison of principles and tactics.

PART 4C-D
playing time: 4m 12s

1. (cont.) Comparison of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X.
2. A comparison of principles and tactics.
3. The relationship between honesty, consistency, and truth.

PART 4E
playing time: 1m 34s

The problem of identity for Africans in America (a).

PART 4F
playing time: 5m 05s

1. The problem of identity for Africans in America (b).
2. Capitalist propaganda informs many of our decisions and opinions including those around identity.

PART 4G
playing time: 3m 46s

1. Africa made great contributions that are often unknown to today's students.
2. We must see that Africa is primary.
3. People must get their land back.
4. Justice is a qualitative, not a quantitative, question.

PART 5A
playing time: 6m 40s

The historical impact of Garvey on the Pan-African movement and the reincarnation of the Black Star Line in Nkrumah's Ghana.

PART 5B
playing time: 7m 47s

1. What we need is organization!
2. Capitalism gives you individual solutions to collective problems.
3. Capitalism offers quantitative change at the expense of qualitative change.

PART 5C
playing time: 2m 41s

1. Organization is a pre-requisite of liberation.
2. A call to join the A-APRP.

PART 5D
playing time: 3m 53s

Africa will be free, unified, and socialist, no force on Earth can stop this.

PART 5E
playing time: 7m 10s

1. Revolution is a science, it must be studied.
2. If you do not struggle for your people, capitalism will make you an enemy of your people.

PART 6
playing time: 3m 16s

Closing