Africa, AFRIKAANS:
On Jul 27, 5:29 am, Pius Adesanmi <piusadesa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "For those Africans like Nwalimu Abdul Bangura..."
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> Moses, Moses, Moses:
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> You must tender an apology to monsieur Bangura for the great injury you have done to his spelling bee pan-Africanism. Please note that monsieur Bangura and his buddy, Gaddafi, are Afrikans, not Africans.
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> Pius
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> From: Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoch...@gmail.com>
> To: USAAfricaDialogue <USAAfricaDialogue@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 18:35
> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Chinweizu on Libya and Pan-Africanism
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> I am not sure that this post (below) by Abdul Salau made it onto the list, so I am reposting it. I don't always agree with
> Chinweizu's insular, puritanical racial Afrocentrism but I agree with his characterization of the current pan-African obsession with Ghaddafi as an African icon deserving of African support and sympathy in his face-off with NATO. It's vintage Chinweizu and is a little harsh. However, those who insist on venerating and projecting Ghadaffi as a symbol of Afro-Arab solidarity and pan-Africanism in spite of all the evidence of his racist Arab condescension and the indifference of his regime to the perennial violence against African immigrants (not to mention his indifference to other theaters of racist subjugation of black Africans) deserve Chinweizu's harsh critique. I understand the position of those who offer Ghadaffi sympathy only on account of their opposition to imperialism in ALL circumstances. I don't agree with it, but I respect it because such a position leaves room to acknowledge the racial hypocrisy of Ghadaffi and Arabs and the inherited/learned
> racism and sense of superiority that mark their attitude to those of us from the other side of the Sahara.
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> For those Africans like Nwalimu Abdul Bangura who still see Ghadaffi's as a deracinated Afro-Arab statesman, use this erroneous claim to argue that he deserves the sympathy of Africans, or/and want proof of his offensive racism towards Africans, see this revealing Newsweek interview with
> his Ukranian nurse: http://www.newsweek.com/2011/04/10/my-years-as-gaddafi-s-nurse.html.
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> See the following excerpts:
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> "The job of the nurses was to see that our employer stayed in great shape—in fact, he had the heart rate and blood pressure of a much younger man. We insisted that he wear gloves on visits to Chad and Mali to protect him against tropical diseases."
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> "When we drove around poor African countries he would fling money and candy out the widow of his armored limousine to children who ran after our motorcade; he didn't want them close for fear of catching diseases from them. He never slept in a tent, though! That's just a myth."
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> Chinwezu on el-Qaddafi: Letter to Jerry Johnson and David Comissiong by Chinweizu
> Hello Jerry,
> Wonders will never cease! As the Ancient Romans said: "Out of Africa always something new!" Here are some very confused Africans and Afro-descendants who talk as if they are Arab-descendants and have a duty to defend the Arab lands. They have issued a call for people to join them on what they call a "Freedom Ride to Africa (Libya)!" They intend to go to Libya to defend their Arab patron, Gadafi, from attack by Europeans! They want to bring freedom to the Libyan Arab colonialists who are white settlers on land conquered from Africans. Yet we have never heard these 'Pan-Africanists' talk of going to Darfur orMauritania to bring freedom to their fellow Africans--freedom from vicious Arab colonialists, land-grabbers and enslavers.
> These A-APRP 'revolutionaries' are echoing Stokely Carmichael, their founder who, just before he died in 1998, declared: "Hell Yes, We are going to Libya!". They are reviving his death-bed mission. I hope they do actually go and get wiped out by NATO cruise missiles or Arab racists, [Gadafi's troops will gladly use them as human shields, and the anti-Gadafi rebels will call them mercenaries and happily lynch them]. These confused Niggers can't keep themselves emotionally out of a war between Arabs and Europeans-- the two white racist and colonialist oppressors of the black race. It is said that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Even great powers like Russia and China have wisely chosen to be spectators watching this unfolding phase of the 14-centuries-old war between Arab Jihadists and Western European Crusaders. Yet these utterly impotent niggers want to go and bodily intervene.
> I wish the entire membership of the A-APRP a jolly "Freedom Ride" to Libya. And I urge them to take along with them all those Blacks who believe in Afro-Arab Continentalist Pan-Africanism, including every pro-Arab Nigger Tom, every pro-Arab Traitor-at-the-top, and every black facilitator of Arab colonialist expansionism in Africa, and including especially Thabo Mbeki, Olusegun Obasanjo, Abdou Diouf, Abdoulaye Wade, Oumar Konare, Jean Ping and his gang of AU Commissioners, Dudley Thompson as well as Maulana Karenga, David Comissiong, Cynthia McKinney and the official "AU Intellectuals." Good and speedy riddance to that whole lot; to all those who condone Arab racism and colonialism, or aid and abet the anti-African interests of the Arabs. Let these wannabe-Arabs depart with one-way tickets to Tripoli and Benghazi where they can happily resettle among their beloved Arabs; and may the Black race be forever freed of their accursed
> misleadership.
> In the service of the African/Black race,
> Chinweizu
> Dear David Comissiong
> You have posed several important questions.
> 1] "Am I to understand that one is not entitled to denounce a criminal, terroristic assault on Libya because the phenomenon of Arab racism towards Blacks exists?"
> 2] "What really is the game that is being played here?"
> 3] "What is the real purpose behind this dishonest and diversionary debate?"
> 4] "Whose interests is it serving?"
> I will gladly answer them even though you have arrogantly refused to answer my questions.
> My reply:
> 1] One is entitled to denounce whatever one feels like denouncing. You have exercised your right. But likewise, others are entitled to take issue with and denounce your double standard in not denouncing the terroristic assaults by Arabs on Black Africans in Sudan and Mauritania, assaults that have been going on for the last 50 years.
> 2] This is not a game. It is a serious and long overdue exposure of the anti-Black African consequences of Afro-Arab Continentalist Pan-Africanism.
> 3] Is this a diversionary debate? Diversionary from what? This is not a diversionary debate. It is a debate about one of the monumental failings of Pan-Africanism since 1958: the refusal to include among the concerns of Pan-Africanism the victims of Arab enslavement and colonialism.
> Is the debate dishonest? I don't think so. What is dishonest is a dogged and willful refusal to address the issues of 50 years of Arabophilia and its damaging consequences for millions of black Africans.
> 4] You seem not to know whose interest is being served by this debate. Well, let me give you a clue. There are two interests being served by this debate. First of all, it is serving the interests of the millions of Black African victims of Arab racism and enslavement in Sub-Sahara Africa and the eastern diaspora. It is drawing attention to their harrowing plight and drawing attention to the responsibility of Pan-Africanists everywhere to include them among the beneficiaries of their campaigns against racism, colonialism and enslavement.
> The second interest is that of democracy within the Pan-African Movement itself. As Pan-Africanists, we have a duty to criticize and judge the organizations that purport to be Pan-Africanist. As followers, we can't abdicate our duty to supervise the organizations that speak and act allegedly on our behalf. Followers are entitled to express concern when their leaders leave undone those things which they ought to have done, and do those things which they ought not to have done. Accordingly, this debate serves the interest of popular democracy and responsible leadership within the Pan-African Movement.
> 5] You conclude by saying: "The clear duty of Pan- Africanists is to come to the defense of Africa." The pertinent questions that I am raising are, firstly: which Africa is Pan-Africanism about? The Africa of the African race or the Africa of the Arab enemies of the African race? Secondly, the defense of Africa from what? Exclusively from attacks from the Western imperialists, or from attacks from any quarter whatsoever? These are the fundamental issues being aired in this debate. So let's address them.
> May I draw your attention to the agenda of Pan-Africanism as set forth by its founders back in 1897, the year Pan-Africanism formally began. In June of that year, a London-based Trinidadian lawyer, Henry Sylvester-Williams, organized the first ever Pan-African Association. Its constitutional mandate was to enable Africans and their global descendants, to achieve
> "their true civil and political rights, to ameliorate the condition of our oppressed brethren in the continents of Africa, America, and other parts of the world, [emphasis added] by promoting efforts to secure effective legislation, to encourage our people in educational, industrial and commercial enterprises, to foster friendly relations between the Caucasian and African races, to organize a bureau, a depository, for collections of authorized writings and statistics relating to our people everywhere, and to raise a fund to be used solely for forwarding these purposes."
> --quoted in Prah, The African Nation, Cape Town: CASAS, 2006, p.10
> Please note that the commitment is to people of the African race, wherever found, whether in Africa, America or other parts of the world. It was a racial movement not a landmass movement. Why not a continental landmass movement? Obviously, it was not the continental landmass that was captured and transported for enslavement across the Atlantic ...
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