Delbert Africa

Delbert Africa. Self: 40 Years a Prisoner. Delbert Africa was a member of the organization MOVE, a black liberation group founded in 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was one of nine members that were imprisoned on third-degree murder charges following an August 1978 armed standoff with Philadelphia police that left an officer dead and more than a dozen others injured. Africa maintained that he did not fire a gun that...