…”If you the men of Ashanti will not go forward, then we will. We the women will. I shall call upon you my fellow women. We will fight the white men. We will fight until the last of us falls in the battlefield.”

—Ya Asantewa, an Ashanti queen who led the resistence to British colonial rule in Ghana. She succeeded in the short run, but the Ashanti were heavily outgunned

Guerrilla warfare is “unconventional warfare”. The term means “little war”. In combat, a small group of combatants use mobile tactics (ambushes, raids, etc.) to combat a larger and powerful nation state army. The guerrilla army uses ambush (advantage and surprise) and mobility (draw enemy forces to terrain unsuited to them) in attacking vulnerable targets in enemy territory.

Nyabinghi, the “hidden queen” fought to free Africans from English slavery and rule. Also called Queen Muhmusa or Tahtahme, she inspired the Nyabinghi underpinnings of Rastafarianism.

The Aba rebellion in southeastern Nigeria grew out of a traditional female rite of the Igbo. People were outraged at the colonial government’s plan to tax women, “the trees that bear fruit.” In protest, Ibo women bound their heads with ferns, painted their faces with ash, put on loincloths and carried sacred sticks with palm frond wreaths. Thousands marched on the District Office, dancing, singing protests, and demanding the cap of office of the colonial chief Okugo. When he approached one woman to count her goats and sheep, she had retorted, “Was mother counted?”

The “Texas Troubles” 1860 . An unexplained series of fires in north Texas encouraged slaveholders to form vigilance committees in preparation for insurrection.

François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture and The Haitian Slave Rebellion of 1791 was the most spectacular of the Western Hemisphere rebellions. Predated by years of attacks by maroons on plantation owners

The Stono Rebellion was the “first known” “large revolt” in North America occurred in 1739, led by Jemmy, screaming “FREEDOM” gathered some riders, stole arms and ammunition and headed south, killing whites for about ten hours after the insurrection began, eighty white militiamen encountered the freedom seekers and opened fire. Thirty-four African Americans were killed and forty taken prisoner, many of who were later hung or shot. Twenty-five whites were murdered as a result of there oppression.

Gabriel Prosser

In August of 1800, a young African named Gabriel hatched a plan for the freedom. Gabe, a freeman, and his brother Solomon, and a gang of Africans planned to take over the city. Their goal was to gain strength to negotiate over deplorable conditions endured by the enslaved. Two *enslaved nh’ggas, however, divulged Prosser’s plot to the inhumanoids at the last moment. Prosser was hung as a result for standing against the child like thinking of the white oppressors.

Denmark

Denmark Vessey is a African who had bought his freedom. He was portrayed as thinking like a master . Betrayal came by an enslaved nh’ggas which resulted in his arrests, trials, deportations, and 35 executions. It resulted in the passing of the Negro Seaman’s Act, intended to prevent entrance into Charleston by African sailors who might stir up unrest among enslaved African Americans.

Uncle Nat Turner

The most famous African killing spree was Uncle Nat’s rebellion of 1831. Set in VA. Uncle Nat and five other brothers got busy first killing cohorts Uncle Nat’s oppressor and his whole family. As they traveled through the countryside, their numbers grew to nearly sixty riders, and they left behind them at least fifty murdered so-called white supremacists. After several days, Uncle Nat’s gang was confronted and went out blazing taking out all the white cowards and perverted child molestor’s with them. Uncle Nat was never captured, a truly divine inspiration as his motive for rebellion.

A feeling of paranoia and fear descended over Southern slaveholders as never before.

Spartacus, in the successful slave uprising against the Roman Republic known as the Third Servile War

Daddy Sharpe, was the slave leader behind the Jamaican Baptist War slave rebellion

The 1733 slave insurrection on St. John

Ali bin Muhammad, who led imported east African slaves in Iraq during the Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in the ninth century;

Madison Washington during the Creole case in 19th century America;

Granny Nanny of the Maroons who rebelled against the British in Jamaica.

the Black Panther Party

The Zulu Rebellion

The Iraq War

Africans die fighting for the freedom…

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