Ajamu Nangwaya

Ajamu Nangwaya, Ph.D., is an educator. He is an organizer with the Campaign to End the Occupation of Haiti, and the Organization of Afrikan Struggles and International Solidarity.

Op-Ed

Toronto’s Bathhouse Raids: Racialized, Queer Solidarity and Police Violence

In 1981, Toronto Police raided four gay bathhouses and subjected about 300 gay men to homophobic verbal and physical violence.

By: Ajamu Nangwaya ,; teleSUR

June 27, 2016

Op-Ed

Pan-Africanism, Feminism and Finding Missing Pan-Africanist Women

When most of us think of Pan-Africanism and its major icons, women will not instinctively come to mind.

By: Ajamu Nangwaya ,; teleSUR

June 1, 2016

Op-Ed

Toronto’s 1992 Yonge Street Uprising: Afrikan Resistance to State/Police Violence

"By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?"

By: Ajamu Nangwaya ,; SpeakOut

May 6, 2015

News

Fact Sheet on Police Violence in the Jane-Finch Community of Toronto

In 2002, a survey of youth's sense of safety in the Jane-Finch, Malvern, Regent Park and Parkdale communities identified police violence and drug trade activities as their principal fears.