About two years before the formation of the Organization of African Unity in 1963 and with the nascent Independence movement in Africa, the pro United African Front, called the Casablanca Group, was made up of Ghana, Algeria, Egypt, Guinea, Mali, Libya and Morocco for a short while. The Casablanca grouped urged for greater integration of Africa's political, economic, social and cultural structures. This group was in touch with African American civil rights leaders and other advocates - Dubois, Malcolm X, etc. The cooperation must have frightened the heck out of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. A United Africa still sends chills down the spine of those who benefit from a weakened Africa.
The Monrovia Group cautioned gradualism through economic corporation; not political federation. Senghor of Senegal, the great Zik of Africa - Nigeria, Ethiopia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Togo, Sudan Congo Kinshasa, Sudan,Tanzania and most of the former Francophone colonies belonged to this group.
Well, France was not to be uprooted. Accordingly, France engineered the Brazzaville Group made up of some of its former colonies for its imperial toehold in Africa: Cameroon, Congo Brazzaville, Central African Republic, Chad, Ivory Coast, Madagascar, and Senegal belonged to this group as TOTAL HOUSE NEGROES who believed that Pan Africanist agenda would cut them of from their European colonizers and deprived them of European coattails.
The Monrovia and Brazzaville Groups outnumbered the Casablanca group, which led to the weak Organization of Africa Unity. It was crippled at birth - the sort of design necessary for client-states; not one that could galvanize Africa nations towards functional Independence.
Today, Africa is caught up in a new world order, unprepared and tossed around. If the Casablanca Group had prevailed, Africa would have been richer and feared - if not respected. You just do not bomb China or Russia. Does Saudi Arabia practice democracy in any form? Have you asked yourself why Yemen and Bahrain cannot be bombed by Nato even if they chase protesters with machetes in any barbaric fashion? Because the fall of the dynastic rule in Bahrain and Yemen's leadership would help Iran. US has its naval base in Bahrain. So long for democracy.
Some of you watch TV, prance around, and regurgitate nonsense.
Mister Man, just be kissing the grounds and add more sardines to your bread. You are not my audience.
Goodbye
MsJoe
Where is Cameroon in all of this?It's a shame to observe how you love Nigeria and talk Nigeria more than your yeye Cameroon country. Iguade
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People:The compromised UN Secretary General is drafting a motion for a three month UN Libyan mission. This backdoor ploy is to impose, assist and legitimize the Western imposed rebels, making it less costly - diplomatically, morally and financially - for the leading Western nations as some approach their own tougher than expected elections and crippling economies with woe on the stocks tumbling. How clever to misuse the UN.NATO has spent 6 months bombing Libya to a stone age status in many cities, killing civilians, destroying schools, poisoning drinking water, etc. Why the concern now?Let the rebels prove their popularity on their own and gain power if the majority of Libyans think so. That is fair. Mind you, fighting is still going on. Interestingly, they are bombing resistance fighters in places that the rebels do not control. Is this not strange irony? Did they not consider resistance to be a democratic quest as it was good for the Benghazi rebels? Should we not be congratulating those who resist anything they consider oppressive? There you have it: HYPOCRISY ON A GOLDEN PLATTER.China should veto the move and cite the lessons of Resolution 1973.Nigeria is hopeless until Jonathan leaves power in about three and the half years.Call Ghana, South Africa, Algeria - call China!Read your African History. This is not about Gaddafi; the saliency is versed in principled ideology - nothing more, nothing less: Should Western Nations cherry pick whom to depose in Africa? Is it their duty to impose any leader in Africa to begin with? IT IS UNFAIR. It makes the world more dangerous. More than 100,000 Libyans have been killed, Africans are being tortured and beheaded because of a concocted lie of impending massacre like the weapon of mass destruction that was never found in Iraq.It is true that colonial powers engineered the killings and demise of African liberation fighters during the pre-independence period and immediately after. Why? What the colonialists had in mind was some sort of fuzzy transitions from formal colonialism to client-states; a nominal independence charade; not real independence, which will enable African countries to independently move forward. France wanted to even make Algeria part of France.Today, the idea of a more unified Africa is a frightful prospect to those who want to control Africa's resources and manipulate the media. A unified Africa is the way to emerge as a formidable geological power. Nobody is crazy enough to bomb those with what its takes such as : You bomb me, I can defend myself - a mutually assured destruction that has proved to be a deterrent to needless aggressions and the creation of a more peaceful world. That is a Reagan doctrine he used with Russia.MsJoe==========================================================================Here are the African countries supporting NATO's imposed rebels:Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo.=============================================================================
People, Valencia, the writer, lives in DC. She is a former member of the DC Board of Education. I will contact her next week - if she is in Tripoli.
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U.S. Congressman Witnessed European Special Forces Beheading Libyans
Posted: 2011/09/09 
by Valencia Mohammed
Former U.S. Congressman Walter Fauntroy, who recently returned from a self-sanctioned peace mission to Libya, said he went into hiding for about a month in Libya after witnessing horrifying events in Libya's bloody civil war -- a war that Fauntroy claims is backed by European forces.
Fauntroy's sudden disappearance prompted rumors and news reports that he had been killed.
In an interview inside his Northwest D.C. home last week, the noted civil rights leader, told the Afro that he watched French and Danish troops storm small villages late at night beheading, maiming and killing rebels and loyalists to show them who was in control.
"'What the hell' I'm thinking to myself. I'm getting out of here. So I went in hiding," Fauntroy said.
The rebels told Fauntroy they had been told by the European forces to stay inside. According to Fauntroy, the European forces would tell the rebels, "'Look at what you did.' In other words, the French and Danish were ordering the bombings and killings, and giving credit to the rebels.
"The truth about all this will come out later," Fauntroy said.
While in Libya, The former congressman also said he sat down with Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi for a one-on-one conversation. Gaddafi has ruled Libya since 1969, when he seized power in a military coup.
Fauntroy said he spoke with Gaddafi in person and that Gaddafi assured him that if he survived these attacks, the mission to unite African countries would continue.
"Contrary to what is being reported in the press, from what I heard and observed, more than 90 percent of the Libyan people love Gaddafi," Fauntroy said. "We believe the true mission of the attacks on Gaddafi is to prevent all efforts by African leaders to stop the recolonization of Africa."
Several months ago, Gaddafi's leadership faced its biggest challenge. In February, a radical protest movement called the Arab Spring spread across Libya. When Gaddafi responded by dispatching military and plainclothes paramilitary to the streets to attack demonstrators, it turned into a civil war with the assistance of NATO and the United Nations.
Fauntroy's account could not be immediately verified by the Afro and the U.S. State Department has not substantiated Fauntroy's version of events. Fauntroy was not acting as an official representative of the U.S. in Libya. He returned to Washington, D.C. on Aug. 31.
When rumors spread about Fauntroy being killed he went underground, he told the Afro in an interview. Fauntroy said for more than a month he decided not to contact his family but to continue the mission to speak with African spiritual leaders about a movement to unify Africa despite the Arab uprisings.
"I'm still here," Fauntroy said, pointing to several parts of his body. "I've got all my fingers and toes. I'm extremely lucky to be here."
After blogs and rumors reported Fauntroy had been killed, the congressional office of Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) announced on Aug. 24, that she had been in touch with authorities who confirmed Fauntroy was safely in the care of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Inside his home, Fauntroy pulled out several memoirs and notebooks to explain why he traveled to Libya at a time when it was going through civil unrest.
"This recent trip to Libya was part of a continuous mission that started under Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he gave me orders to join four African countries on the continent with four in the African Diaspora to restore the continent to its pre-colonial status," Fauntroy said.
"We want Africa to be the breadbasket of the world," he said. "Currently, all the major roads in every country throughout Africa lead to ports that take its natural resources and wealth outside the continent to be sold to the European markets."
Meanwhile reports from Tripoli are coming in.
It seems in the last two weeks, rebel fighters have fired more bullets into the air to express their excitement than were shot during the assault on Tripoli earlier in August. But away from "jubilant" crowds we meet those who are not so pleased.
Abdulrakham lives in Tripoli's Abu Slim district, which has historically been pro-Gaddafi. When the rebels arrived, his sister was badly injured. She is still in hospital in Tunisia.
Abdulrakham does not want to show his face on camera and insists on a hidden location for the interview. He says the revolution has brought much fear in its wake.
"There is no peace. There is no safety in the city. We do not let our children outside when it's dark. We are afraid. We always wait for something bad," he tells RT. "When Gaddafi was here, at least we didn't have to sleep awake, like we do now."
Abdulrakham says he also wanted change and a brighter future for his country, but not this way.
"People are dying on both sides," he continues. "The city's been destroyed – and no one cares! Do they seriously think they changed it for the better? Don't lie to yourself – just look around! Is this what you wanted?"
And what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos. The badly damaged buildings matched by the rising stench of garbage and decomposing bodies. Armed youngsters roam the streets, barely old enough to understand that what they carry are weapons, not toys.
Many shops, schools, and hospitals are closed, while the city's cemeteries are growing bigger.
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