In commemoration of African Liberation Day, Trinidad and Eastern Caribbean representative of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam and Chairman of NALIS, Dr. David Muhammad, said true liberation requires confrontation of societal challenges.

He was speaking at the official book launch of researcher and author Rudolph Eastman’s Mas Is a Jumbie at the Central Bank Museum on Monday.

“I think that both the idea of emancipation, but, in particular, liberation should be the kinds of foundational ideologies that we must grow up our children with, because it’s just not liberation based on the historical event, but it’s also having the responsibility to liberate ourselves from so many of the social ills that grip us as a community, we have to be able to liberate ourselves from ignorance, illiteracy, but also from poverty, from crime and violence.”