IANA Blog- August 2025
Blog Happy August and Happy Black August, For those that remember in 2023, I talked about Black August on my August blog. As mentioned, Black August is when we commemorate the Black political prisoners, freedom fighters and revolutionaries who were assassinated, martyred and had their lives sacrificed in order to fight for liberation, along with the many Black freedom struggles in the U.S., initiated by the Black Guerilla Family after the assassination of revolutionary George Jackson and his brother, Jonathan. In honor of Black August and similar to the February 2022 blog on Black History Month, the March 2023 blog on Women’s History Month and the June 2024 blog on Pride month, I wanted to focus this month’s blog on some of the political prisoners and freedom fighters to come out of Nigeria and who just like the many Black political prisoners and freedom fighters who fought for liberation in the US, the Caribbean, Africa and everywhere, these political prisoners and freedom fight...