On March 1, 1896, an African people in modern-day Ethiopia successfully mounted a spirited defence of their sovereignty, freedom, and self-determination against the marauding Italian colonial empire. This put a spanner in the works in relation to the Italian ambition to join other European powers, such as Britain, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, in subjugating Africa on terms set out at their Berlin Conference in 1885. It embarrassed the Berlin plan and caused questions to be asked-even at that point already-about the imperialist designs on Africa. This, like the defeat of the British at the Battle of Isandlwana seventeen years earlier, also did much to spread awareness among Africans regarding self-determination and the nefarious ends of the colonial empires' claims that they were spreading modern civilisation. The memory of the successful Haiti Revolution of 1799 refreshes our resolve to be free. As we commemorate these key moments in history, we are inspired to reaffirm our commitment to the equality of human beings and the end of all forms of colonialismincluding the British and US colonial occupation of the Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. This is a determination to free ourselves, by any means necessary, in order to realise the renaissance, the renewal of our dreams to prosper and be free. African renaissance is being given new impetus by the memory of these and other examples of belligerence. We have long known that ours is a battle against forgetting. It is a battle to not have our history of inspirational efforts, battles, and exploits erased from the books and from our memories. To remember, in this case, is to re-member; it is to reconnect with the memories that are meaningful for our strategic intent to be free, prosperous, and united into the future. This edition is dedicated to this intellectual Adwa, Isandlwana, Haiti, and so forth. It is dedicated to the memory of efforts that inspire work towards freeing Africa and its diaspora today from all remaining vestiges of coloniality, including the invasion of the mental universes by Eurocentrism.