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John Africa (born Vincent Leaphart) was the founder of MOVE, a radical communal activist organization based in West Philadelphia that came to nationwide prominence after a botched Philadelphia Police Department raid on the organization's Osage Avenue headquarters on May 13, 1985, in which Africa himself was killed. He also played a peripheral role in the legal proceedings involving the conviction of Mumia Abu-Jamal in the 1981 killing of PPD officer Daniel Faulkner, in which he briefly served as his legal counsel. Members of Africa's "extended family" within the MOVE organization continue to play prominent roles in the Abu-Jamal advocacy movement to this day.
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- Craig R. McCoy, "Who was John Africa?", Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine Jan 12, 1986
