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Africa FIRESTONE'S EXPLOITATION AND CRUELTY
PAN-AFRICAN THOUGHT
ANDPRACTICE by Dr Pakiso Tondi andMr
B.F.Bankie
'It was under the
auspices of Pan-African thought and practice, which engulfed Africaand its people in the Diaspora early in the 1900s, that
the situation of the socio-cultural, political and economic
subjugation and domination of Africa byEuropeand
Arabiawas vehemently intellectually and politically challenged.
<more>
We, the Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM) or
Free Papua Movement (FPM),1 feel it is necessary to
explain clearly to the regional and international community why we see
that the independence of West Papua today is inevitable. We have come to
conclude that there is confusion in the regional and international
community about whether West Papua will get independence or not and this
uncertainty may have led many of you to believe you are wasting your time
on the issue and so you just ignore us <more>
Freedom is the way I be - being free. Freedom is my being - a
human-BEING-being-free. I do not want freedom. I am me being
free, experiencing that there are barriers to my experience of freedom
- and that I am the barriers - I have a choice to die free or
to live wanting to be free and I choose what no one can give me -
Wanting Freedom.
Most of us who want freedom want it for ourselves – result: a Sisyphus
quest - jousting with windmills. Some of us, like Mandela, declared
being free. N0 jail could hold him. Sam Sharpe and Nat Turner
declared that they would rather die that live not BEING Free - for
Freedom is not about our actions, freedom is the being that give rise to
our actions and our experience of being free. Freedom is a
conversation - speak it, be it.
I am free - right now. What now? There are barriers to me
experiencing being free - barriers to my expression of freedom. Will
I be restrained by them? Will I be free no matter what? Or will I
just want to be free? Will freedom be my self-expression? Will
freedom be my way of living? Will I be obsessed by being free? Will
I be a Miles Davis of freedom? Driven Mozart-ly mad by freedom? Be
Mohammed Ali? - I am Free! Or will I be stopped and wanting someone
to cross me the hurdles.
I am free and there are barriers to my experience of being free and I
am the barriers. Now I am free no matter what.
Freedom is an
expression of who I am - me being free.
Freedom: Declare
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USofAfrica? Trojan Horse of Arab Colonialism
in Black Africa
Compiled and edited by Chinweizu
1. USAfrica?: Red alert on Arab
Colonialism in Black Africa!
Fellow warriors for Black African liberation,
Greetings!
We are sure you are very busy, each and every one, coping
in the belly of the beast, and battling, as best you can, the local
manifestations of the Race War.
But an
emergency crisis has arisen. Hence this red alert and call to action
stations.
While we have been campaigning for Afrocentrism,
reparations, repatriation, Darfur, South Sudan, Mauritania etc, our Arab
enemies have stolen a march on us and are poised to trap all of Black
Africa in the net of Gadhafi’s USofAfrica, and from there drag all Black
Africans under Arab colonialism and, from there, carry us off into
captivity, slavery, Arabisation and worse. Sudan since
1955 has been a prototype of Arab colonialism masquerading as Afro-Arab
unity. Blacks there, under the Arab minority colonial government, have
been subjected to oppression, exploitation, war, mass rape, sex slavery,
mass murder, Arabization and enslavement. A united Afro-Arab
Sudan is a terrible example of what Black Africans can expect under a
continental Afro-Arab Union government like Gadhafi’s USofAfrica.
In our opinion, this new development is very dangerous;
and addressing it should become our top priority, starting yesterday. If
we lose this battle, and this Arab colonialist USofAfrica is
inaugurated, all the local crises we have been dealing with so far, will
together be like child’s play compared to what the Arab colonialists
will inflict on all of Black Africa. And all our other struggles will
have failed. For instance, why would any sane black want to repatriate
into an Africa that has fallen under Arab colonialism and slavery? And
even if you got $1bn each in reparations money, can you enjoy it as a
slave of the Arabs?
Once this Arabist USofAfrica is enacted by the AU, in
Accra this July-- and is, predictably, quickly implemented-- it would be
treason to advocate or struggle against the new Federal state. Arabs
will, of course, control it as they have controlled the OAU/AU. Then the
stage will be set for the Islamization and Arabisation of all of Black
Africa. And we'll all be in the same stew where—without much
understanding or help from the rest of Black Africa-- the blacks in
Mauritania and Sudan have long been.
And
then it will be too late for regrets and protests.
If we don’t mobilize and get the AU presidents to kill Gadafi’s
USofAfrica in July, then, just as 1955 was the accursed year when the
Black Sudanese were handed over to Arab colonialism by the British, the
year 2007 will be the accursed year when
Black
Africa stupidly handed itself over to Arab colonialism!!
So you
can understand the urgency of the matter, <more>
RAPE OF A CONTINENT by Dr. Chika Onyeani - Afrstime@aol.com Publisher and
Editor-in-Chief African Sun Times
Mortally Afraid of their Arab
Masters, Black African leaders fear bringing up the issue of slavery
in the Sudan; and with only 5 in number, Arab Africa dictates course of
events in the Continent.
The Reconciliation Conference on
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Africans and Europeans
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2019 CHALLENGES BLACK AMERICA To REACH EDUCATIONAL
PARITY With White America By The Year 2019 ( The
400th Anniversary Of The Beginning Of Slavery In America
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Darfur
People: Too Black for the Arab-Islamic Project of
Sudan
by Abdullahi Osman El-Tom,
Ph.D
"...The eminent Sudanese scholar Francis
Deng once said; “what divides us is what we don’t talk about” What we
don’t talk about is in effect a taboo that has stifled debate and
prevented true discussion among past and current Sudanese scholars.
This situation has made it impossible to debate certain issues whose
examination is crucial to solving the most obstinate of Sudan’s persistent
problems.
Well, in some way, that taboo has long been broken. A
milestone in its destruction was the courageous publication of the Black
Book of Sudan. With 80,000 dead, 2m displaced in Darfur (November 04), and
the numbers are expected to rise, the Darfuris are left with no time for
niceties, and certainly not for taboos. As Martin Luther King
expressed, an abscess can only be cured if its ugly pus is fully exposed
to the air. Let that be the mission of this article.
Before we proceed any further, let me define where I stand with
regard to the current crisis in Darfur. From the reader’s
perspective, discerning the author’s label is crucial to buying into the
goods. As a matter of principle and like many others the world over,
I take the view that war is neither an ideal nor an effective way of
conflict resolution, particularly if the conflict is primarily political
in nature, such as the current problem in Darfur. As a matter of fact,
most of us, from and in Darfur have never been party to the decision to
raise arms against the government of Khartoum. Despite, many
Dafuris, including government supporters concur with the grievances and
the objectives of Darfur rebels but do not share raising arms to pursue
these objectives..." <continue>
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