11 works

Speech

Explore Speech works from across the pan-African world

Independence Day Speech
1960
Patrice Lumumba

Fiery speech delivered at Congo's independence ceremony denouncing Belgian colonial brutality and asserting African dignity, shocking King Baudouin.

Central AfricaPost-colonial
I Have a Dream
1963
Martin Luther King Jr.

Speech delivered during March on Washington calling for civil and economic rights and end to racism.

DiasporaContemporary
Malcolm X Speaks
1965
Malcolm X

Collection of speeches from Malcolm's last year including 'The Ballot or the Bullet' and 'Message to the Grassroots'.

DiasporaContemporary
The Ballot or the Bullet
1964
Malcolm X

Speech advocating Black nationalism and self-defense, delivered after leaving Nation of Islam.

DiasporaContemporary
Message to the Grassroots
1963
Malcolm X

Speech distinguishing 'Negro revolution' from true revolution, critiquing civil rights leadership.

DiasporaContemporary
By Any Means Necessary
1970
Malcolm X

Collection of speeches and interviews from Malcolm's final period after pilgrimage to Mecca.

DiasporaContemporary
Thomas Sankara Speaks: The Burkina Faso Revolution 1983-87
1988
Thomas Sankara

Collection of Sankara's revolutionary speeches on anti-imperialism, women's liberation, and African unity.

West AfricaContemporary
Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle
1990
Thomas Sankara

Sankara's speeches on women's emancipation as essential to revolutionary transformation.

West AfricaContemporary
No Easy Walk to Freedom
1965
Nelson Mandela

Collection of Mandela's speeches and writings from his trial and early activism.

Southern AfricaPost-colonial
Return to the Source: Selected Speeches of Amilcar Cabral
1973
Amilcar Cabral

Cabral's speeches on national liberation, culture, and revolutionary theory.

West AfricaPost-colonial
Thomas Sankara Speaks
1988
Thomas Sankara

Collected speeches of Thomas Sankara, who renamed Upper Volta as Burkina Faso and led an extraordinary revolutionary government from 1983-1987. On women's liberation, imperialism, debt, and African dignity.

West AfricaContemporary