All tracks do not lead to K.
Some tracks lead back to the tail, like a ring swallowing itself.
To jail or to the tail.... always in jail...says Umar Bin Hassan......
Spell it KKK and we know what you mean;CCC just won't do, not even
when translated into the mighty jumbo of Mwalimu Bangura's
hieroglyphics as he presently understands it.
In the age of Gary Snyder and Stephen Gaskin, the late counter-culture
sixties and early seventies (and I speak from experience and a deep
literary and musical acquaintance with that period) some extreme
dissenters and anti-Vietnam protagonists of protest such as the
activist poet Tuli Kupferberg, spelled America with a K when they
intended ( G-d forbid) to indicate a fascist America, which in my
opinion does not exist, has never existed will not exist, should not
exist. The Founding Fathers & the ideological foundations of United
States holding these truths to be true ( "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by
their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these
rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed" etc) - so the spelling of
America will simply have to continue with C – even if you are a
German or Swedish language speaker like me, following Swedish
orthography which spells A-free-ca, thus : Afri-k-a.
No need to get sidetracked down the primrose path of phonemic
differences leading to nowhere, just a lot of big air posed by English
speaking Mwalimu Bangura's orthography which in turn is based on a
less than universal continental language. (By the way, more than
twenty years ago Wole Soyinka suggested that a singular continental
language for all Africa could be Swahili, should we ever be intent on
getting to that stage of using a more indigenous language that links
the North to the South: I suppose his choice of Swahili over his
native Yoruba must be based on a consideration that Swahili contains
so many Arabic loanwords (which perhaps could facilitate docile Arabs'
easy mastery of that language?
Brother Ochonu,
" To err is human, to forgive is unthinkable" (Yiddish Proverb)
True: As Chinweizu says,
".... Yet we have never heard these 'Pan-Africanists' talk of going
to
Darfur or Mauritania to bring freedom to their fellow Africans--
freedom from
vicious Arab colonialists, land-grabbers and enslavers."
Could Chinweizu be a re-incarnation of Marcus Garvey? Same kind of
spirit.
http://www.africawithin.com/garvey/garvey_poetry.htm
Chinweizu ratchets up many race/ racial issues in the last sixteen
paragraphs of his epistle to Dear David Comissiong, beginning with the
paragraph "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" and concluding with his last sentence " In service to
the African/black race."
http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/spring2011/letter/jerry.html
You have partly stated your reaction to Chinweizu who in my opinion
is treading a dangerous path that adumbrates a supposed irreconcilable
racial divide on the landmass of Africa - between a predominately
Islamized Berber-Arab North Africa and the thousands of tribes Africa
South of the Sahara – a divide that is contrary to the spirit of
African Unity, the AU and even the idea of mankind being one family.
"Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face,
tho' they come from the ends of the earth! "
Chinweizu would have us believe that North is North and South is
South
The Arabs are the Arabs and the Africans are the Africans
and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat....
I have interacted with Arabs the last twenty-five years and never had
any problems racial or otherwise with any Arab, during that period;
on the contrary – up till this day, only friendship, not fiend-ship.
My optimism is based on the Prophet of Islam's last sermon in which he
said ( in broad daylight – and on another occasion when he raised
Ali's hand his followers could see the whiteness of his armpits)...
From the last Khutbah:
"All mankind is from Adam and Eve. An Arab has no superiority over a
non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab; white
has no superiority over black, nor does a black have any superiority
over white; [none have superiority over another] except by piety and
good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and
that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be
legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was
given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to
yourselves.
Remember, one day you will appear before God and answer for your
deeds."
http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/523/
It is an ideal towards which achievement the Ummah is in rapid
transition, even as the Arab Spring progresses.
Secondly, most of the spoken and printed words of Edward Wilmot
Blyden would tend to disagree with Chinweizu's harsh, potently
racial (some would say racist) polemic in that letter to his dear
David Comissiong.
We've come a long way since the Berlin Conference of 1884-85.
Looking back, in connection with the genesis of Pan-Africanism, this
interesting slice of history from Hollis R. Lynch's " Edward Wilmot
Blyden - Pan Negro Patriot":
Pages 6 – 7 :
" In order to view his life and work in perspective, it is pertinent
briefly to take note of his pan-Negro predecessors, and the ideas
which influenced them. For, even before Blyden, other New World Negro
leaders had devised or supposed plans which they hoped would bring
dignity and respect to their race. Because the lot of the Negro in the
U.S.A. had been the worst, it was from among them and West Indian
Negroes who had experienced American discrimination that pan- Negro
nationalism emanated.. IN the first three decades of the nineteenth
century four outstanding leaders - Paul Cuffee, Daniel Coker, Lott
Cary and Jamaican-born John B. Russwurm - advocated the emigration
of free American Negroes to Africa., held visions of progressive
nations rising on that continent , and all but Cuffee played prominent
roles in the early history of Liberia.
The vision of a regenerated Africa originated in the late eighteenth
century with the influential British evangelical and humanitarian
movement which directed its energies against slavery and the slave
trade and towards the " civilisation" of Africa through Christianity
and commerce. The founding of Sierra Leone in 1787 was the practical
manifestation in Africa of this influence. Its founders
optimistically regarded Sierra Leone as a centre from which
Christianity and commerce would radiate in Africa primarily through
the agency of westernised Negroes. To the first colonists among whom
were 377 Negroes from Britain, were added 1,131 Negro emigrants from
Nova Scotia
in 1792. and 500 Maroons from Jamaica in 1800. In 1804, the Church
Missionary Society began work in the colony. In 1807 the British
government outlawed the slave trade and on 1 January 1808 , assumed
from the Sierra Leone company the direct control of the colony for
use as the centre for the suppression of the slave trade in West
Africa, as well as for settling the civilising liberated Africans. By
this time Sierra Leone had a population of nearly 2,000 westernised
Negroes and had become a logical focus for further New World
emigration."
And by the way, I think that we could be paying more attention to
some of Professor Toyin Falola's works which cover some of the topics
that we have been discussing in this Forum:
http://www.allbookstores.com/Toyin-Falola/author
Quoting him - relevantly, should not be regarded as acts of
sycophancy....
On Jul 27, 2:19 pm, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meoch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, Cornelius, we are AfriKans, not Afrikaners. And we do not speak
> Afrikaans. One day we will rediscover and speak the ancient universal
> language of mother AfriKa, worship Osiri and build more pyramids and great
> Zimbabwes. And Africa, sorry, Afrika, shall be redeemed. And once we get the
> spelling right, all of our problems as Africans will evaporate. This is the
> supreme task before all pan-Africanists (or pan-AfriKanists); spell the name
> correctly with a "K". Seek ye first semantic purity and all other things
> shall be added unto you.
>
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:32 AM, Cornelius Hamelberg <
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> corneliushamelb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Afrikans, not to be confused with what the Boers speak in Southern
> > Africa, AFRIKAANS:
>
> >http://www.google.com/search?q=Afrikaans&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&clien...
>
> > On Jul 27, 5:29 am, Pius Adesanmi <piusadesa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > "For those Africans like Nwalimu Abdul Bangura..."
>
> > > Moses, Moses, Moses:
>
> > > 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.
>
> > > Pius
>
> > > ________________________________
> > > 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
>
> > > 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.
>
> > > 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.
>
> > > See the following excerpts:
>
> > > "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."
>
> > > "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."
>
> > > 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
>
> ...
>
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