The All African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) was founded in 1968 in Guinea-Conakry, West Africa. The A-APRP was founded by Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of Ghana. Nkrumah founded the A-APRP while he was in exile in Guinea, having been overthrown by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA- Criminals in Action) staged coup on February 24, 1966. Nkrumah, who four years before the coup had co-founded the Organization of African Unity (OAU), which is now the African Union (AU), learned from the sabotage that overthrew his government, along with similar neo-colonial events such as the CIA-backed sabotage in the Congo in 1960-61, and the coup in Mali in 1968, that the state centered approach of the OAU/AU would never address the fundamental issue of neo-colonialism e.g. colonial/capitalist control of Africa (through establishing puppet regimes). So, Nkrumah wrote and published the "Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare" in 1968. In this manuscript he called for the creation of the All African Committee for Political Coordination (A-ACPC) which would consist of all the genuine Pan-African revolutionary parties throughout the African world. In the "Handbook" Nkrumah strategized that once all those liberation movements/parties were united, that unified formation would come together to form the A-APRP which would serve as the governing body for the implementation of Pan-Africanism which we define as one unified socialist Africa. The A-APRP would govern the All African People's Revolutionary Army (A-APRA) - the armed wing for the African revolution.
Although Nkrumah had written about the objective and the strategy to achieve it, he had no intention of stopping there. Although his earlier efforts to recruit Malcolm X to carry out this strategy had not reached fruition (because of the government inspired assassination of Malcolm), he now reached out to Amilcar Cabral, the young revolutionary from neighboring Guinea-Bissau who had based the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC), one of those liberation parties that would eventually serve as a primary component for the A-ACPC, in Guinea-Conakry, to prioritize building the A-APRP. Nkrumah also reached out to Stokely Carmichael (who later became Kwame Ture), who responded by pledging to move to Guinea, which he did in 1969, to dedicate his life to building the A-APRP. The first A-APRP work study convened circa 1968/69 with Nkrumah, Stokely Carmichael, Amilcar Cabral, and Lamin Jangha, a student from Gambia.
Nkrumah died from cancer in Romania in 1972. Cabral was assassinated by neo-colonialist agents the following year, but Kwame Ture continued to carry out the vision articulated in the "Handbook" for the final 30 years of his life. Today, the A-APRP has active chapters in several geographical areas of Africa, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, and throughout the U.S. As of July 2013, the A-APRP begun organizing to start a chapter here in Oregon. We are working to build work study circles here in Portland that will join work study circles functioning and organizing all over the African world. All in the tradition of that first work study circle in Guinea-Conakry in 1968. If you are of African descent, you are an African and belong to the African nation. Maybe you live somewhere in Portland. Maybe in Central Oregon. Maybe you are at the University of Oregon or Oregon State. Maybe Southern Oregon, Eastern Oregon. Wherever you are in Oregon, you are not alone. Contact us African, and let's talk about how we can help you start an A-APRP work study circle today.
Although Nkrumah had written about the objective and the strategy to achieve it, he had no intention of stopping there. Although his earlier efforts to recruit Malcolm X to carry out this strategy had not reached fruition (because of the government inspired assassination of Malcolm), he now reached out to Amilcar Cabral, the young revolutionary from neighboring Guinea-Bissau who had based the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau (PAIGC), one of those liberation parties that would eventually serve as a primary component for the A-ACPC, in Guinea-Conakry, to prioritize building the A-APRP. Nkrumah also reached out to Stokely Carmichael (who later became Kwame Ture), who responded by pledging to move to Guinea, which he did in 1969, to dedicate his life to building the A-APRP. The first A-APRP work study convened circa 1968/69 with Nkrumah, Stokely Carmichael, Amilcar Cabral, and Lamin Jangha, a student from Gambia.
Nkrumah died from cancer in Romania in 1972. Cabral was assassinated by neo-colonialist agents the following year, but Kwame Ture continued to carry out the vision articulated in the "Handbook" for the final 30 years of his life. Today, the A-APRP has active chapters in several geographical areas of Africa, Europe, Canada, the Caribbean, and throughout the U.S. As of July 2013, the A-APRP begun organizing to start a chapter here in Oregon. We are working to build work study circles here in Portland that will join work study circles functioning and organizing all over the African world. All in the tradition of that first work study circle in Guinea-Conakry in 1968. If you are of African descent, you are an African and belong to the African nation. Maybe you live somewhere in Portland. Maybe in Central Oregon. Maybe you are at the University of Oregon or Oregon State. Maybe Southern Oregon, Eastern Oregon. Wherever you are in Oregon, you are not alone. Contact us African, and let's talk about how we can help you start an A-APRP work study circle today.