Mukasa dada biography of william

Moving away from much of the philosophy of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. It was Mukasa who took on the extremely dangerous responsibility of heading out ahead of the march into the small Mississippi delta towns to organize the African masses around the Black Power slogan. In doing so, Mukasa risked being captured and terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist white supremacist groups that were actively engaging in violence against civil rights workers.

Willie Ricks was known for his significant contribution to the rhetoric, mobilization and emergence of Black Power.

Confident of this, Mukasa urged newly elected SNCC Chairperson Kwame Ture then known as Stokely Carmichael to express the new slogan during his speech on the grounds of a public school where marchers were set to camp out after gaining approval to do so. A new phase of the civil rights movement was launched and nothing in this country would ever be the same again.

Today, Mukasa continues to participate in the movement for justice for African people. He is active in the fight for revolutionary Pan-Africanism. Ahjamu: So we know that you have been engaged in serious Pan-Africanist work for decades. We know that neocolonialism is a major obstacle in Africa today.

Biography: Willie Ricks, also known as Mukasa Dada, was a prominent civil rights activist, community organizer and leader in the struggle for equal rights.

And in relationship to that, would you please comment on the legacy of Barack Obama? Mukasa: He is a neo-colonial agent. And the last act that he made as president, was to drop bombs on Africa. Ahjamu: Thank you very much. And the next question kind of related, but would you give us your opinion rather, Lou Khosla on the question of Africans calling themselves Americans or attaching the title of American to themselves in any way?

Mukasa: Africa was balkanized broke up into pieces itself, the continent of Africa. And then they broke up the world into a lot of different pieces under colonialism and imperialism, and they renamed a whole lot of areas in the world.