All-African People's Revolutionary Party | |
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Abbreviation | A-APRP |
Founder | Kwame Nkrumah [1] [2] Kwame Ture Lamin Jangha [3] Amilcar Cabral Franz Tagoe |
Founded | 1968[1] [2] |
Youth wing | Young Pioneers Institute [1] [2] |
Women's wing | All-African Women's Revolutionary Union [4] |
Ideology | Nkrumahism-Touréism-Cabralism [5] Pan-Africanism Black nationalism African socialism Communism Scientific socialism Anti-colonialism Anti-Zionism |
Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
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The All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP) is a socialist political party founded by Kwame Nkrumah [1] [2] [6] [7] and organized in Conakry, Guinea in 1968. The party expanded to the United States in 1972 and claims to have recruited members from 33 countries. [8] [1] [2] [9] According to the party, global membership in the party is "in the hundreds". [10]
Nkrumah's goal in founding the party was to create and manage the political economic conditions necessary for the emergence of an All-African People's Revolutionary Army that would lead the military struggle against "settler colonialism, Zionism, neo-colonialism, imperialism and all other forms of capitalist oppression and exploitation." [11] [1] [2] [9]
As described by Dave Blevins and other scholars like Carole Boyce Davies, "the ideology of the A-APRP is Nkrumahism—Toureism, which takes its name from the founder, and his primary colleague in arms, President Ahmed Sekou Toure." [2] [9] Since then, the party has changed its official ideology to Nkrumahism-Touréism-Cabralism. [12]
Kwame Nkrumah, the founder, introduced the party's concept and philosophy in his book, Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare - released in 1968 by Panaf Books, ISBN 9780317280678
Some of the key concepts include:
The party supports:
In an attempt to articulate effectively the issues facing African people and the African woman, the A-APRP also infused gender politics into its ideology and organisational structure. This resulted in the formation of the All-African Women's Revolutionary Union in 1980. This women's wing of the party emerged specifically to address issues surrounding gender oppression with racism and classism. [4]
The building of the A-APRP began to take form in 1968 with the creation of "the first A-APRP Work-Study Circle in Guinea under the leadership of Kwame -Ture", and later in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, England, France, and numerous countries in Africa. Since 1968, the A-APRP "has recruited Africans born in more than 33 countries." [9]