Siaka/Introduction

I'm an African who grew up mostly in the tidewater region in Virginia. I don't know exactly what my genetic makeup is since I'm not that interested in DNA tests, but going by Virginian slave birth/trade documentation as well as oral tradition passed down from family, my people (more than likely Angolans) were enslaved on plantations along the Rappahannock river before becoming sharecroppers after the Civil War. They didn't stop doing agricultural jobs until relatively recently because they've either took up jobs related to the Church or worked for the Government as Hispanics started to replace demand for low skilled labor in the south. Growing up in Dixie I've had an extensive experience with white supremacy as my mom used to work as a nurse for plantation owners (they still exist) to make ends meet.

I'm 19 years old and have been politically active since graduation as I had been planning on committing myself to revolution as soon as school ended. My biggest influence in high-school was initially Huey Newton but I later found myself agreeing with Kwame Ture more as his beliefs are more consistent with that of Garvey, Malik al-Shabazz and Jalil al-Amin; all of which I base my Black Nationalism off of. Because of that I read Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Toure before eventually joining the All-Afrikan People's Revolutionary Party where I currently do work in Political Education. My goal in terms of party contributions is to create a network of party led community programs across poor communities in Guinea-Conakry and hopefully even manage to merge the party with major pan-Afrikan organizations in the country to expand this outreach.

I'm an Nkrumah-Toureist and a Scientific Socialist but by no means a Marxist (which has always been the Party line) but despite that I used to engage in Marxist spaces (regrettably) which led me to making edits for a Socialist alternative to wikipedia for a little bit a while back. While there I added to the pages on Libya, Kwame Ture, Pan-Africanism, ect; but due to my lack of time because of work and party affairs, as well as the anti-blackness from there (which stemmed from the general lack of criticism towards Marx and Lenin), I stopped editing there and started searching for an Afrikan alternative that suits Afrikan cultural/geopolitical/historical interests. For World Afropedia I hope to contribute to the following pages:

Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya & Libyan Arab Republic
Republic of Sudan
First Republic of Ghana
People’s Revolutionary Republic of Guinea
Union of African States
Consciencism
Nkrumah-Toureism
Cabralism
Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
Student National Coordinating Committee
Black Panther Party
Huey P. Newton
Revolutionary Intercommunalism
Provisional Government of the Republic of New Afrika
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement

Of course I'd also be doing minor edits on other topics (like CLR James and Zimbabwe) but these are my primary focuses for what I intend to flesh out for this project.