An Africana Studies and Research Program has been established at Rutgers University-Camden. Directed by Dr. Katrina Hazzard-Donald, the new program expands the previous African American Studies Program to focus on the African presence in the world. Dr. Hazzard-Donald is also inviting the community to join Rutgers in celebrating Black History Month by attending their first annual Black History Series.
Dr. Hazzard-Donald is available for interviews. Your coverage of this important announcment is encouraged and appreciated.
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Dr. Hazzard-Donald is available for interviews. Your coverage of this important announcment is encouraged and appreciated.
Marilyn Kai Jewett
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African Proverb: When you are playing with a dog, do not ever forget to keep a stick within reach.
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If I were to ask you how many African Studies Departments have been established in USA alone since the African Studies Department started mushrooming early 1970s, few years after the assacinations of some of the most important black public leaders of our time. Your answer will be I do not know. You will not know, neither do I. But almost in most major universities, there are African Studies Department. What has been the impact of these accademic centers in our African communities arouond the world? Zero will be the answr. So why are we trying to expand one in Rutgers. Your answer is just as good as mine. The asnwer may be that our scholars are not awake and Rutgers may wake them up. They are still comatose and dazzled by the white universities in the America. University should try to link with the communities in which they sit and teach. The African Studies Department will better serve us if and only if they can really practicalize our history. Despite the enormous amounts of problems the Euro Arabs have creaed for Africans, we only blame the whites and not our inertia. To really understand our history we must concentrate our studies with the present Black Africans south of the Sahara. Anything else will not end well for the future which the universities are trying to shape through our youth. Our roots started from Black Africa. Our problems originated from Black Africa. Our resources are in Black Africa, so why just sit in the USA and cry foul against the Euro Arabs when they have been chased out by Kwame Nkrumah and we need our experienced Africans in Ameica who hav lived over 500 years with the Europeans and have learnt almost everything the Europeans know. While currently the Africans south of the Sahara are just beginning to understand balance sheet of this world.
Gaddafi calls for United States of Africa, one army
Dec 15, 2010 7:04 AM | By Sapa-AFPLibyan leader Moamer Gaddafi pushed again his dream for a sole African government and was backed by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade as he urged the creation of a single African army.
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Dressed in flowing gold robes, Libya's maverick leader told a ceremony at a festival in Senegal celebrating black identity and culture that Africa was "experiencing a new submissiveness".
He described the continent as "prey that all the world's wolves want to devour" by monopolising its mineral resources or fisheries.
"Down with imperialism! Africa must unite, so that we do not again become serfs or slaves," he said.
"It is necessary to establish a unity government for the African continent and that Africa has one army ... which could consist of a million soldiers," he said.
"Even the South African army is worthless to NATO or the United States of America. Even Libya is not even able to protect its territorial waters alone."
Africa's longest-standing Arab leader having been in power for 41 years, Gaddafi appeared to improvise his speech, which was made in Arabic and translated simultaneously into French.
He said African leaders who "do not want to put in place a single African army" were "agents of imperialism, myopic, or traitors who do not think about the future of Africa."
"It is not enough to dwell on the past of the continent, we were treated like animals, we were hunted in the forest, they enslaved us ... they appropriated Africa. But why fight for liberation, if we remain satellites of our colonial powers?"
Gaddafi, 68, first proposed a United States of Africa in September 1999 as a way of ending the continent's conflicts.
The initiative has failed to bear fruit, receiving support from some and a lukewarm response from others, while many countries remain wary.
Gaddafi has warned he will turn his back on Africa and move his investments to Arab and Mediterranean states if his unity project is blocked.
Wade, 84, who has been in power since 2000 and is running for a controversial third term in 2012, introduced Gaddafi as his companion in the struggle for "the edification of the United States of Africa."
The Senegalese leader said: "We ask, here and now, for the establishment of the United States of Africa, the only solution to free our peoples and ... make Africa a major cultural, economic, political and social whole which will be respected."
The presidents spoke in front of several hundred young people gathered on stairs leading to a massive bronze African Renaissance statue built by North Korea and inaugurated in April for the 50th anniversary of Senegal's independence.
Also present were Guinea-Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanha, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Cape Verde President Pedro Pires.
The World Festival of Black Arts continues in Dakar until December 31.