The World African Diaspora Union (WADU) will hold its 5^th Pan African Congress (PAC) anniversary conference in the Netherlands this October 28-29, 2011 with key leaders of Africa and the African Diaspora after successfully leading meetings with the African Union in New York. The October meeting in the Netherlands comes at a critical time in the 111^th anniversary year of the formal launching of the Pan African Movement. Since the beginning of 2011, the former colonial states of Europe have taken major steps in attempting to re-colonize and enslave Africa under the guise of United Nations humanitarian assistance to Africa. This renewed European attack on Africa has been consistently resisted by WADU and now we are urging our family in Europe to mobilize with us against all attacks on Africa and African people.

The meeting organized by the WADU Council of Europe is to continue strengthening African Diaspora leaders and communities as a unified African family to promote and protect African people, worldwide. According to Amanda Uzor, a member of the WADU Council of Europe, the conference is “centered on politics, economic and culture, and to formulate a strategy for a social cohesion that can help Africa realize a united states of Africa. From all indications, Africans haven't learnt their lessons from slavery to colonialism and that is a problem.” Indeed, the Netherlands (Dutch) played a horrifying role in imperialism and the enslavement of African people and the world.

The October meeting in Europe also comes immediately after several successful high level meetings between African Union and African Diaspora leaders in September and October at the United Nations and in Harlem, NY (New Amsterdam). During these high level meetings, the leaders of Africa and the African Diaspora made greater commitment to engage politically sensitive issues relating to African Diaspora citizenship, to forge an economic agenda with the African Diaspora and to support cultural programs with Black universities in the African Diaspora. During the African Union Task Team (AUDITT) meeting on October 6, 2011, His Excellency Macharia Kamau (Chair of the African Group Kenya's ambassador to the United Nations) made a powerful call for unity and trade declaring that when "the energy of our full African genius kicks in" the world will be fundamentally different.

Some key WADU leaders participating in the AU sponsored meetings were Dr. Dudley Thompson (Jamaica), Dr. Leonard Jeffries (ASCAC), Dr. Molefi Asante (Afrocentric International), Dr. Julius Garvey (UNIA/ACL), Nana Farika Hamilton (Maroons/ Rastafari), Councilman Charles Barron (The Freedom Party), Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis (NCOBRA/GAC), John Watusi Branch (APT/Kawaida Institute), Dr. Georgina Falu (Falu (Latina) Foundation), Omowale Clay (D-12 Movement) and Baba Lumumba D. Freeman (United Black Community).

WADU was initiated in 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia by Professor James Small, Chair of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU) and was formalized with the election of Ambassador Dudley Thompson as its President in 2007 in Kingston, Jamaica. Since then WADU has successfully established leadership councils across the African Diaspora to promote the economic, political and cultural re-integration of the African Diaspora with Africa. WADU success is mainly based on its ability to attract those who are Pan Africanists, principled and with a purity of purpose such as Elombe Brath, co-founder of WADU and former chair of the Patrice Lumumba Coalition (PLC).

WADU is encouraging all to support this Pan African mission to Europe by attending or sending financial assistance to strengthen the unity and resolve of African people in Europe, during this terrible economic crisis caused by those of European descent. For more information to join with African Diaspora leaders from across Europe in Amsterdam, to establish a WADU council in your state and or to support other WADU Pan African initiatives, please contact our Chief Secretariat Baba John Watusi Branch at (718) 523-3312 in NYC or visit WADUPAM.ORG.    

World African Diaspora Union (WADU)

                                                          Date: 10/13/2011

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