Hello, the Clan! I was asked to forward. I did because I agree with the spirit of the organizers.
Prof. Horace Campbell spoke at an event I organized within 4 day's notice. Emira Woods is a force to contend with. Both are proven and seasoned in African Affairs. I agree with the planners, the US-Africa Summit heralds much of the same with unbridled profiteers on one hand and bleeding hearts, apron-string philanthropists on the other hand. Then you have the jokers scrambling for a piece. If you have to withdraw and simply watch the scenes come and go, it is not a bad idea.
Resource-rich Africa is exploited and hapless Africa is rescued. In my early coffee break, I thought about it. My phone rank, it was my Dad. "So Mamie (how he calls me), how is it going with the Summit and I learnt Republicans voted to sue Obama." My response: Daddy, nothing is going to happen. Obama may be trying but his hands may be tied. He has to play ball with his base - those who influence him, corporate types and the military -industrial complex whom he must listen to in order not to appear as a black, weak president. Even Al Sharpton, no word from him. I thought he should have opened the Summit with the People's Prayer Breakfast for Africa.
" Then I started laughing: "black actors are very mad or very confused in this Summit." The conversation changed to pleasantries as my Dad was obviously amused, judging from his listening, not in a hurry to say, "I love you, say hi to your sister, bye."
Back to it. In each society, the center is preserved through healthy balance. In the case, the main subject, the African people, are relegated to peripheral watchers with no support whatsoever from their governments who are wasting African resources to arrive in Washington DC, with assorted entourage, as feted guests with no agenda. The money these folks are misusing is more than the budget of a village near them.
Using the different voices in the polyphonic jamboree, any serious mind can identify and and analyze the importance of the agendas: the purposes and outcomes that commonly escape change. I am a stickler for order, the type that believes in giving back, paraphrasing JFK, we should not look forward to what we can get out of Africa but how we can help her grow for the collateral benefit of all. If I may say so, the disregard, insensitivity, arrogance and ignorance of our own officials and governments can overwhelm the best of patriots.
In Things Fall Apart, we analyze the contextual meaning in a given situation:
Turning and Turning in the Widening Gyre
The Falcon Cannot Hear the Falconer
Mere Anarchy is loosed upon the World
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MsJoe
On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 12:36 AM, <maceda@aol.com> wrote:
Dear Brothers and Sisters,The Africa and Diaspora Ministry invite you participate in what is being called The People's Summit, happening during the Africa Heads of State Summit next week. It is an opportunity to attend break out sessions to come up with solutions to problems in Africa. Click on the link to register, and make sure you look for Emira and I there on Monday morning.PeaceLydia-----Original Message-----
From: Emira Woods <emira@ips-dc.org>
To: Lydia <maceda@aol.com>
Sent: Tue, Jul 29, 2014 1:48 pm
Subject: Fwd: [Extractive Industries] Fwd: Counter Africa Summit
Howard Univ event on Monday......
Empowered Africa Dialogue
When: August 4th 9:00 AM-5:30 PMWhere: Howard University
Why: On August 5th and 6th, President Obama will host a United States-Africa Leaders' Summit in Washington D.C. for about 50 African heads of state. The summit will likely see an emphasis on the familiar—and deeply flawed—frameworks of charity as a response to misery, military force as a response to crisis, and market-led economic growth as the solution to poverty.
The US-Africa Network is working with Howard University's Department of African Studies and other partners to host a peoples' forum on August 4th, the day before the summit. With the Empowered Africa Dialogue, we aim to create an alternative space to explore and promote a more progressive vision of US-Africa relations.
Come join grassroots citizen-activists, scholars, progressive NGOs and community organizers from Africa and the United States for moderated discussions on:
- Climate Justice on Our Common Planet- Militarism and Human Security- Food Security and Food Sovereignty- Trade Unions and Democracy- Rising Inequality and Illicit Financial Flows and- The way forward togetherSpeakers will include:- Mithika Mwenda, Pan African Climate Justice Alliance- Brenda Mofya, Oxfam International- Horace Campbell, Syracuse University- M. Jahi Chappelle Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
- Scholastica Haule, Action Aid Tanzania- Able Ngigie, United Workers Union of Liberia- Oretha Tarnue, United Workers Union of Liberia- Alvin Mosioma, Tax Justice Network Africa- and more!
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