Zolani Prince Shapiro Tyalimpi better known as  was born in Johannesburg and grew up in Askeaton in the Transkei region of Azania. He is a poet, writer, photographer, actor, percussionist and human rights activist. He is a member of “Sounds of Edutainment” a movement which offers a platform for young up and coming artists to showcase their talent free from censorship, a movement that is always in partnership with All-African People’s Revolutionary Party for African Liberation Day observation in Azania.

Prince Shapiro thought provoking poetry performance for social justice is featured in a Norwegian Church Aid documentary film “Debt of the Dictators”. It also appears in the following publications:

• “Timbila 2005” a journal of onion skin poetry
• “The Social Conditions of the Working Class in Evaton West” an educational booklet
• “Botsotso 15” a combination of poetry, book revues, workshops and symposia compiled as a
  product of Jozi Spoken Word festival 2007
•  “Jubilee South Africa’s News Letters”
• “Portsmouth City Council Meeting 16th December 2019” in New Hampshire, USA where he presented and handed the poem “Augmentation” to the mayor as a token of appreciation for Portsmouth African Burying Ground Memorial.

Prince Shapiro is an executive producer of “Road2Remedy” a 2011 documentary movie on mining activities versus community development in Africa by IANRA (International Alliance on Natural Resources in Africa).

In 2012, he published two booklets “Am I Not Black Enough” challenging xenophobic/afrophobic mentality in
South Africa. Later he published “Hundred Years In Existence” an observation of hundred years of Alexandra Township.

For almost 11 years [2008 – 2019] Prince Shapiro presented poetry at “89.1 FM” Alexandra Community Radio Station.

Raised with a theatre and performing arts background, WhoIsDeydzi learned at an early age to express himself through art, both visual and performative. His experience at Ghanata Senior High school and through the help of Ehalakasa, he recognized that his coping mechanism of scribbling his thoughts could be performed as spoken word.

He started performing spoken word as an extension of his self Therapy. The creation of WhoIsDeydzi is a collage of who he was becoming as a result of giving life to the voices in his head. He studied theatre arts and English language at University of Ghana, embraced his hip-hop influence, connecting to his roots and expressing his truths through his words and the pictures they create.

Introducing Union of Guinean Women (UDEMU), Secretary-General, Comrade Engineer Bilony Nhama Nantamba Nhassé. Born 15 July 1961 in Bambadinca, Region of Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, she is the Secretary-General of the UDEMU, the women’s wing of the PAIGC, that was founded in Conakry, the Revolutionary Republic of Guinea on 18 June 1961. She is a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Party and sits in on Permanent Commission Meetings.

Due to her positive performance at a PAIGC School in a Liberated Zone, Bilony Nhama was selected a one of the best students. Accordingly, she was sent to the PAIGC Pilot School, established in Conakry, near by the PAIGC Main Headquarters. This PAIGC School was a result of the PAIGC Congress Resolutions of 1964
“Congresso de Cassaca” that sought to train future political and technical cadre, based upon a revolutionary curriculum that taught emancipation of women in theory and practice, to create the “new woman and man”.

Bilony Nhama was a Pioneer in the PAIGC Pioneers, where she was selected to study in Cuba. There she continued her political education while being trained as a motorized agricultural engineer.

After graduation, she returned to Guinea-Bissau to work in the Agricultural Ministry, to contribute toward increased production for the Revolution. She remained active in the PAIGC and UDEMU in various positions. As a result of her faithfulness, the women of the PAIGC chose her as the Secretary-General of UDEMU at its fourth Congress in 2016.

Bilony Nhama participates in activities of the Pan-African Women’s Organization, (of which UDEMU serves as one of its founders in 1962). She attended the 50th Anniversary of the Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare, organized by the A-APRP in Ghana, 2018.

Revolutionary Greetings! My name is Oneysonwu. I am an organizer for the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party, your humble servants and sponsors for this year’s ALD. I am also a member of the All-African Women’s Revolutionary Union (A-AWRU), the women’s wing of the A-APRP.

Welcome to African Liberation Day 2020! We give thanks to our ancestors for being here and their strength to continue our struggle for the liberation of Africa and African People all over the World.

We thank you for attending our first time celebrating ALD through Virtual Technology. We are celebrating world-wide at the same time via overlapping time zones.

The instructions for accessing our Program and the schedule for our Program is provided on our website aaprp-intl.org or africanliberationday.org

Abena Disroe is a Spoken Word Artist, Playwright, Radio Broadcaster, Conflict Revolutionist, Leadership Development Trainer, Children’s Storyteller, Asset Mapping Specialist, Restorative Justice Worker, Community Activist, Gardener, Healer of People and Communities, and much more….

Abena is the founder of The Poets Den, an Open Mic venue that focuses on educating, and tapping into the creative spirit of artists and those who want to strengthen their art form. Abena hosted the 2nd Annual Spoken Word Expo where poets from across the United States came to together to perform in St. Louis, Missouri. Abena opened all four (4) shows on the east coast with Jazz Legend Angela Bofil, and was featured on  cable show to open up for the Jazz Legend Patti Austin.

Affectionately named by the Washington, DC community as The High Priestess of Poetry, many have seen Abena perform at the Nuyorican Poets Café in New York, National Theater and Source Theater in Washington, DC, Port Au Prince, and Haiti International Radio Station.

Abena Disroe was just appointed through the Global Prosperity and Peace Initiative (GPPI) as Peace Ambassador for Washington, DC. Abena has been a substitute teacher at the elementary, Jr. High and High School levels for Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia for more than ten (10) years. She served as Storyteller for Everybody Wins, INC. in Washington, DC where she visited over 17 schools every year to increase the interest and thirst in reading in the youth.

Founder of Voices with Vision, which earned an nomination for the Mayors Arts Award for new and outstanding emerging artist, and, also, selected as one of America’s Most Outstanding Women with all of her community projects, and spirit of empowerment of not only her community but communities throughout Washington, DC and the world. 

One of her many projects, while employed at The Johns Hopkins School of Advance and International Studies (SAIS), was the research of self-help organizations where Johns Hopkins published her book “Making it Happen,” which she wrote and edited.

Making a choice to go back to school to keep learning, Abena graduated from George Washington University School of Business and Public Management as a Certified Events Management Planner (C.E.M.P.) August 1999. Prior to that she did her undergraduate work at Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi with a degree in Mass Communications (Radio and Television), where she spent a lot of time with the civil rights activist Mr. James Meredith the well-known civil rights activist, and spent time with his mother in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Washington, DC had the privilege of enjoying a television show produced and hosted by Abena called “The Soulful Expressive Empowerment Diversity Spoken-Word (S.E.E.D.S.), where her vision matched with her passion to connect the voices of all generational age groups from 5 to 95, known and unknown.

Abena has also conducted poetry workshops with senior citizen wellness centers, and cancer patients at Howard University Hospital using poetry as therapy through a guided process that allows mental and emotional healing to take place. 

There is so much to tell about Abena Disroe, but lastly I must communicate her work with incarcerated youth through Balanced and Restorative Justice Community Circle Training last summer, and her book “Fire in the Spirit” which she just completed and now looking to publish.

Jesus ‘Chucho’ Garcia is with the Fundacion Afroamerica Y Diaspora Africana. Jesus is an intellectual, diplomat, writer and activist for the rights of people of African descent. He is a founder of the “Miguel Acosta Saigne” Center for African American Studies (1987) and has conducted several studies on the African Diaspora, work that led him to travel to North, Central and South America and the Caribbean as well as Africa, to conduct ethnological research focused on African descent.

As a diplomat, Garcia has served in Venezuela embassies in Angola, Zambia, Sao Tome and Principe (2008-2013); and later in Mali and Burkina Faso, from November 2013 to September 2014, as well as General Consul of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in New Orleans. Meanwhile, his activism has involved him in many struggles of Africans around the world.