Kofi kindly clarify this statement: "Libya unlike Egypt has a history of supporting the DECOLONIZATION of the continent." As far as I know Egypt, at least the one led by Gamal Abdel Nasser supported decolonization. In this regard you may wish to unpack this statement from the host of the then OAU Liberation Committee, Julius Nyerere; "Nasser was a great leader and a great African leader, I got on extremely well with him", in relation to this image: http://www.soko-tanzania.com/tanganyika_zanzibar_union.html. By the way, Col. Gaddafi supported Idi Amin in 'his war' with Tanzania.
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From: kenneth harrow <harrow@msu.edu>
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wed, February 23, 2011 11:04:20 PM
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - What says the African Union about Colonel al-Gaddafi and current events in Libya?
khaddifi supported some of the worse dictators on the continent, and imposed an ideological regime on his population worthy of soyinka's more bitter satires. i wonder why people could fall for his liberation rhetoric and ignore his repressive actions. reminds me of the rhetoric of idi amin, turned to the same purposes. and if not always as brutal, equally hypocritical in the case of ahidjo. or mobutu.
this is the time for the spirit of sony labou tansi to awaken, along with so many others. dennis brutus, tchicaya u tamsi, we need your voices again. "not a sell out"--no, he was actually worse. a tyrant. so what if his billions enabled him to stiff the europeans. what did that have to do with being a dictator, a brutal ruler.
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On 2/23/11 1:35 PM, Dompere, Kofi Kissi wrote:
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> Thank you, Cornelius Hamelberg, for this question.
> LIBYA is a member of the African Union. Libya unlike Egypt has a history of supporting the DECOLONIZATION of the continent. She is the most important contributor to OAU Libration Fund. Colonel al-Gaddafi, unlike other North African heads of states, has also invested heavily in Africa. He also was not a sell out. To be fair to our brothers and sisters in Libya, the history does not justify the bloodsheds going on. The events taking place in North Africa, the information technology that has democratized the information space and the activities of the Wiki Leak are leading to a major global restructuring in terms of power, control and governance, the ending structure and form is unknown to us. What we do know is that global institutional transformation is taking place and is a continual process. What do you think?
> PEACE
> KOFI KISSI DOMPERE.
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> From: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com [mailto:usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Cornelius Hamelberg
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> Subject: USA Africa Dialogue Series - What says the African Union about Colonel al-Gaddafi and current events in Libya?
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> The Arab League has taken their stance and it is not as if the African nations care less about the fate of Libya and Libyans.
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> An important question for us in this forum, and indeed for the rest of Africa and diaspora, is why the gaping silence from the Africa Union, about the lastest antics of the man who has played such a pivotal role in African Union matters, not least of all in his largesse in providing funding for a few projects in Africa and also not least of all his well known ambition to become the first president of the United States of Africa?
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> http://www.thelocal.se/blogs/corneliushamelberg/2011/02/23/revolutionary-gaddafi-promises-a-bloodbath-shows-his-true-face-to-the-world-and-to-his-own-people/
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