Before he was the Father of Malawi, Hastings Kamuzu Banda was a young African scholar crossing the red clay paths of Central State University in Ohio and later walking the white-pillared corridors of Meharry Medical College in Tennessee. It was in those Black institutions—far from colonial Nyasaland—that he found the intellectual courage and cultural clarity to imagine an independent African state governed by its own people. Banda didn’t just earn degrees at HBCUs; he absorbed a vision. A vision where Black institutions were sovereign, where education was a weapon, and where leadership was forged in community, not conquest. His presidency in Malawi would later reflect both the power and pitfalls of that vision. Continue reading
Category Archives: Histolitics
HBCU Politics™ Histolitics: Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World
The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association Preamble Be It Resolved, That the Negro people of the world, through their chosen representatives in convention assembled in Liberty Hall, in the City of New York and United States of America, from August 1 to August 31, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine … Continue reading
HBCU Politics™ Histolitics: Kwame Nkrumah’s 1961 I Speak Of Freedom
By Kwame Nkrumah (President of Ghana 1951-66) For centuries, Europeans dominated the African continent. The white man arrogated to himself the right to rule and to be obeyedby the non-white; his mission, he claimed, was to “civilise”Africa. Under this cloak, the Europeans robbed the continent ofvast riches and inflicted unimaginable suffering on the Africanpeople. All … Continue reading
HBCU Politics™ Histolitics: Compromise of 1787
The Three-Fifths Compromise is found in Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of the United States of America Constitution: Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, … Continue reading
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