About Africa

Mike Africa, Jr. was born in prison in September 1978. He is a lifelong freedom fighter on behalf of the MOVE 9 and other political prisoners. He is a member of MOVE and director of the Seed of Wisdom Foundation.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and former Black Panther Party member whose books include We Want Freedom: A Life in the Black Panther Party, Live From Death Row, Death Blossoms: Reflections from a Prisoner of Conscience, All Things Censored, and Faith of our Fathers: An Examination of the Spiritual Life of African and African-American People. America's best-known political prisoner, he has been living in Pennsylvania prisons since 1982, the majority of those on death row.

Debbie Africa and Mike Africa are formerly incarcerated political prisoners. Two members of the MOVE 9, they were sentenced to thirty to one hundred years for the death of a policeman during a 1978 siege of a MOVE house in Philadelphia's Powelton Village.