Èzili Dantò's Note: Haiti will officially become a full member of the African Union in June. Is this progress? I say that depends. For now, it's a question mark. Here's why:
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Is it progress to become a member of the African Union when Haiti is under occupation and the African Union has member states who are part of the occupation?Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda are part of the UN forces in Haiti.
Is it progress when most of the African states sat by and watched the US-Euros take DOWN Libya without sending troops to defend it? When the only independent African leader still standing is basically Robert Mugabe, and maybe Ghana and Eritrea's leadership who also have outlawed the NGOs? When the rest are a bunch of House Negroes, fools and patsies, put in by the West like Martelly-Duvalier were in Haiti? The benefit is symbolic and could be of substance if African leaders get out from under AFRICOM, stop pursuing Western interests over their own people's welfare. If Haiti became independent from MINUSTAH and was free to work with a free Africa towards their collective interests. And the collective interests of the Black nations in terms of reciprocal trade, cultural exchanges, economic partnerships, one currency exchange... But as long as the African Union accepts without organizational denunciation the Paul Kagames of Rwanda, Yoweri Musevenis of Uganda or Alassane Ouattaras and Michel Martellys are put into office by the West to pursue Western interests over Black human rights and resource development interests - it's a question mark.
Is it progress when most of the African states sat by and watched the US-Euros take DOWN Libya without sending troops to defend it? When the only independent African leader still standing is basically Robert Mugabe, and maybe Ghana and Eritrea's leadership who also have outlawed the NGOs? When the rest are a bunch of House Negroes, fools and patsies, put in by the West like Martelly-Duvalier were in Haiti? The benefit is symbolic and could be of substance if African leaders get out from under AFRICOM, stop pursuing Western interests over their own people's welfare. If Haiti became independent from MINUSTAH and was free to work with a free Africa towards their collective interests. And the collective interests of the Black nations in terms of reciprocal trade, cultural exchanges, economic partnerships, one currency exchange... But as long as the African Union accepts without organizational denunciation the Paul Kagames of Rwanda, Yoweri Musevenis of Uganda or Alassane Ouattaras and Michel Martellys are put into office by the West to pursue Western interests over Black human rights and resource development interests - it's a question mark.
If the African Union would withdraw its soldiers from the UN occupation of Haiti. Demand justice for the cholera victims and perhaps help relocate and help find asylum for the stateless Dominican Haitians at the border in Haiti or at least denounce the DR's apartheid, maybe I'd agree it's a forward step. But if African Union member states are there as part of the occupation, it's a question mark in substance, a vote for Black solidarity in symbol that could evolve if we were free. -- Èzili Dantò of HLLN, May 4, 2016 (See below - Muammar Gaddafi's Last Speech On TV: A Must Read)
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Haiti will officially become a full member of the African Union in June
http://africanleadership.co.uk/blog/?p=8537
http://africanleadership.co.uk/blog/?p=8537
Haiti will officially become a member of the African Union at the next summit of the regional organization in June. According to this famous journalist from Benin, it was high time that African states make a strong gesture towards the first black republic.
The news is almost unnoticed. Until then simple “observer”, Haiti, the first black republic in history, became, in early February in Addis Ababa, “full member partner” of the African Union.
This decision, the first of its kind for a diaspora country, will be formalized at the next AU summit in June-July in Lilongwe, capital of Malawi. Probably in the presence of former President of Haiti Michel Martelly, which was announced this year, the first African trip.
But immediately, the heads of state meeting in Addis Ababa were warmly welcomed, and understandably, the return of Haiti in the great African family,recalling the diplomatic efforts made since 1945 by Haiti to the advent of free African States, Its criticism of the invasion of Ethiopia by Mussolini’s Italy, Its progressive stance against the war in Algeria, support for the independence of Libya and assistance to African Democratic Rally, this large formation
Pan-African policy which accompanied many countries of the continent to international sovereignty.
Haiti is interested in Africa?
It is in the order of things. All those who, like me, have lived in this beautiful country are not surprised. For over two centuries, after all, the most “African” of the States of South America and the Caribbean is Haiti. Like many African countries, Haiti is recurrently plagued by instability and violence, while Its population languished in nameless misery.
It is in the order of things. All those who, like me, have lived in this beautiful country are not surprised. For over two centuries, after all, the most “African” of the States of South America and the Caribbean is Haiti. Like many African countries, Haiti is recurrently plagued by instability and violence, while Its population languished in nameless misery.
Independent on January 1, 1804, shortly after the United States (1776), but before the British (1810), Argentina (1816), Brazil (1822) and Canada (1867), Haiti is lagging behind everything except literature, poetry, painting, music, in other words, what makes the soul of a people.
Africans would do well to pay more attention to this Caribbean piece of their history, a land where is played, perhaps, their own destiny. Haiti is both a great future projection and size laboratory where nature can emerge better or worse. In this, Haiti, “where negritude stood up for the first time” (the formula is Aimé Césaire [1913-2008]), is both our past and our future. http://africanleadership.co.uk/blog/?p=8537
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Muammar Gaddafi's Last Speech On TV: A Must Read
In the name of Allah, the ...beneficent, the merciful...
For 40 years, or was it longer, I can't remember, I did all I could to give people houses, hospitals, schools, and when they were hungry, I gave them food. I even made Benghazi into farmland from the desert, I stood up to attacks from that cowboy Ronald Reagan, when he killed my adopted orphaned daughter, he was trying to kill me, instead he killed that poor innocent child. Then I helped my brothers and sisters from Africa with money for the African Union.
I did all I could to help people Understand the concept of real democracy, where people's committees ran our country. But that was never enough, as some told me, even people who had 10 room homes, new suits and furniture, were never satisfied, as selfish as they were they wanted more. They told Americans and other visitors, that they needed "democracy" and "freedom" never realizing it was a cut throat system, where the biggest dog eats the rest, but they were enchanted with those words, never realizing that in America, there was no free medicine, no free hospitals, no free housing, no free education and no free food, except when people had to beg or go to long lines to get soup.
No, no matter what I did, it was never enough for some, but for others, they knew I was the son of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the only true Arab and Muslim leader we've had since Salah-al-Deen, when he claimed the Suez Canal for his people, as I claimed Libya, for my people, it was his footsteps I tried to follow, to keep my people free from colonial domination - from thieves who would steal from us.
Now, I am under attack by the biggest force in military history, my little African son, Obama wants to kill me, to take away the freedom of our country, to take away our free housing, our free medicine, our free education, our free food, and replace it with American style thievery, called "capitalism" ,but all of us in the Third World know what that means, it means corporations run the countries, run the world, and the people suffer.
So, there is no alternative for me, I must make my stand, and if Allah wishes, I shall die by following His path, the path that has made our country rich with farmland, with food and health, and even allowed us to help our African and Arab brothers and sisters.
I do not wish to die, but if it comes to that, to save this land, my people, all the thousands who are all my children, then so be it.
Let this testament be my voice to the world, that I stood up to crusader attacks of NATO, stood up to cruelty, stoop up to betrayal, stood up to the West and its colonialist ambitions, and that I stood with my African brothers, my true Arab and Muslim brothers, as a beacon of light.
When others were building castles, I lived in a modest house, and in a tent. I never forgot my youth in Sirte, I did not spend our national treasury foolishly, and like Salah-al-Deen, our great Muslim leader, who rescued Jerusalem for Islam, I took little for myself...
In the West, some have called me "mad", "crazy", but they know the truth yet continue to lie, they know that our land is independent and free, not in the colonial grip, that my vision, my path, is, and has been clear and for my people and that I will fight to my last breath to keep us free, may Allah almighty help us to remain faithful and free.
-Mu'ummar Qaddafi.
https://theblacklist.net/
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