Dear Prof Gloria,
I totally agree with your submissions that:"One of the useful organizational and inspirational tools in the battle against apartheid was pan-Africanism. I suggest that the editors of the planned text "Xenophobia, Nativism ....." should solicit a chapter on Pan-Africanism and the struggle against apartheid. That chapter may focus on the southern African frontline states and their sacrifices, and their contributions in military and other means."
You also suggested that "West and Northern African roles in the pan-Africanist endeavor should also be reflected on."
My dear sister, while the West African (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Nigeria etc) role was positive, that of North Africa (probably except Gamal Abdel-Nasser's Egypt) was unremarkable. NAfrica was seized from the original black owners who were largely exterminated and the rest enslaved by invaders and slave traders from the Arabian peninsula. So it's not a surprise that the Arab racists who see themselves as whites only paid lip-service to the anti-apartheid struggle. How did the Afrikaner-run apartheid enclave get oil supplies? There were (and, it's believed, still are) secret black slave/trafficking markets in NAfrica (Mauritania, Libya etc).
Nasser, the high priest of Pan-Arabism, helped the anti-apartheid struggle to undermine the then Israeli-SAfrican romance and get the black continent's political support on the global stage for his Mideast (especially Palestinian) and world politics. Gaddafi, also a pan-Arabist, was an expansionist who eyed the continent for Arab domination, hoodwinking its leaders to believe that he was one of them. Like Nasser, he saw himself as the authentic leader/voice of the Arab world, leading the charge against Israel over Palestine and, of course, SAfrica over the apartheid regime's closeness to the Jewish state.
However, Gaddafi supported the murderous Arab minority Khartoum authorities in their plunder, rape and genocide against the majority black Sudanese population.
Therefore, the editors of the planned text should take note of this.
On Monday, May 25, 2020, 02:52:26 PM GMT+1, Moses Ebe Ochonu <meochonu@gmail.com> wrote:
I agree with Gloria. I have a forthcoming piece in which one of my arguments is that the struggle against apartheid required black South Africans to become more "African," to embrace a divergent menu of pan-African solidarity. In other words, as the denizens of apartheid were trying to de-Africanize and "tribalize" them, black South African activists responded defiantly by moving in the opposite direction. Today, one could argue that some or many of them feel that, with apartheid defeated, they have reached a juncture when they no longer need the organizational, programmatic, and epistemological crutch of pan-Africanism, hence their support, tacit or declared, for Afrophobia.
On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:42 AM Gloria Emeagwali <gloria.emeagwali@gmail.com> wrote:
One of the useful organizational and inspirational tools in the battle against apartheid was pan-Africanism. I suggest that the editors of the planned text "Xenophobia, Nativism ....." should solicit a chapter on Pan-Africanism and the struggle against apartheid. That chapter may focus on the southern African frontline states and their sacrifices, and their contributions in military and other means. West and Northern African roles in the pan- Africanist endeavor should also be reflected on.
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On May 24, 2020, at 6:37 PM, 'O O' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:
My most hated word in Afrikaans. Indeed, an original "sin" against an original continent.
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On May 24, 2020, at 12:58 PM, Toyin Falola <toyinfalola@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:
In 1985, the South African government banned Stevie Wonder's song "It's Wrong (Apartheid)" because it explicitly condemned the
government: "the wretchedness of Satan's wrath / will come to seize you at last / because even he frowns upon the deeds you are doing / and you know deep in your heart / you've no covenant with God / because he would never countenance people abusing."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbG3zIs4Q4E
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