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Note to Editors
Please feel free to publish this piece, unedited and in its entirety, provided you do not change, cut or add any word or otherwise mutilate the piece, i.e. publish as is or don’t at all. ----------USofAfrica, NO!!! USofBLACK-Africa, YES!!!
By Chinweizu In Accra on Sat, 12 May, 2007 the PANAFRICAN GLOBAL ROUNDTABLE ON DURBAN PLUS 5 IN ADDIS ABABA(19-22 APRIL,2007) ACCRA, (10-11 MAY 2007) submitted its report, including 5 recommendations, to the Forum of NGOs of the 41st session of ACHPR for onward submission by the Forum to the African Commission for Human and Peoples Rights (ACHPR), then to the AU Council of Ministers and the AU Summit; for onward Submission of the Report to the OHCHRC Prep Comms. for Review of the UN World Conference Against Racism (WCAR) and Programme of Action on or before 2009.
One of these recommendations was that The black slavery in Arab lands must end before we embark on the "United States of Africa" project.
The background to this recommendation follows:
USAfrica & Arab Colonialism Series: Introduction, the Arab Agenda, Action Program, Contents
Do black Africans really want to integrate into a USAfrica with Arab states that practice racial apartheid and still enslave blacks? That are committed to Islamising and Arabising Black Africa?
Learn about
· Apartheid & black slavery in Mauritania TODAY · Colorism and Arab enslavement of blacks in Sudan TODAY · Ethnic cleansing of Nubians in Egypt and Sudan TODAY · The centuries-old Arab quest for Lebensraum [living space] in Africa · And many other shockers your schools and media didn’t tell you about all these 50 years!
Get the facts from this series on USAfrica & Arab colonialism!
READ ON . . .
Wise parents do not let their daughter marry a stranger without thoroughly investigating the character of the suitor and of his lineage. Wise parents will look into the promises with which the suitor has been wooing their daughter and find out if they are credible. If the suitor is already married, it is the business of the girl’s parents to look into how he has been treating his other wives.
All of black Africa is being wooed today by the promoters of the so-called USAfrica that aims to unite the entire continent, Blacks and Arabs together, under one federal state.
So, before this wedding takes place, we of this generation, need to do our parental duty towards all the future generations of Black Africans before we give them into marriage with the Arabs. Here are some fundamental questions we must answer correctly:
Who are these Arabs? What do we know about their pedigree, their character and their ambitions in making this marriage with us? Why should Black African states integrate with the Arab states into this USAfrica? What would this USAfrica accomplish for Black Africa that the OAU could not and the AU cannot? Have we studied the Arabs like we should, particularly through our dealings with them in the last 50 year? Are there any black Africans already living with Arabs under one state? What has been the experience of such blacks? Something we should all gladly wish to experience? What are the promoters of this USAfrica promising it will do for Black Africa? And should they be believed? Who are these promoters? And who exactly is sponsoring them? Who is the godfather of this their USAfrica? And what is his motive?
Now, we need to examine our long history of living with Arabs on our continent, since they invaded Egypt in 640 AD. From that initial incursion, they have conquered and expropriated and settled on some 1/3 of the African continent. How have they treated the blacks they overran? Have they not enslaved and Arabized the countless millions who came under their power? What is the attitude of Arabs to Blacks in general and to black Africans in particular? Is it true that Arabs are given to colorism [color discrimination] against blacks and hold blacks in automatic contempt and view blacks as subhuman? Is it true that Arabs for many centuries raided and enslaved black Africans? Is it true that Blacks are still being enslaved in Arab ruled countries like Mauritania and Sudan? Why would black Africans want to integrate with states that still enslave blacks? Is it true that Arab leaders have vowed to Islamize and Arabize Black Africa? What would Arabization do to Black Africans? Are there examples to learn from? How would non-Muslim blacks, Christians and polytheists, fare in this USAfrica? Is it true that Arabs are ethnic cleansing and grabbing land from Black Africans wherever both populations live together under one state, as in Sudan, Mauritania and Egypt? If you are a black African, would your being Muslim protect you from Arab enslavers and ethnic cleansers? -- i.e. protect you from the treatment inflicted on your Christian and polytheist fellows?
If any of the above is true, would the same treatment not, predictably, be meted out to all of Back Africa by Arabs under this USAfrica? If not, why not?
The essays and stories in this special series on Arab colonialism present evidence to help us answer these and other vital questions.
As for the alleged economic benefits to come from this USAfrica, we shall examine them. The promoters of this USAfrica are voluble on these benefits, and would like us to focus only on them in deciding about this USAfrica. In doing so, let us not be like the stupid child who was lured with sweets into a kidnapper’s bag and hauled off into slavery.
Please read on . . . and find, in the rest of this series, material to help you answer these vital questions.
The survival and security of future generations of Black Africans depend on you and your answers.
------------------------- There follows a series of articles and essays on Arab colonialism, supplying information that the schools and media have failed to supply in the last 50 years. See contents page, below. We have started publishing the series at NVS.
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-55042.0.html
Slavery In Sudan: The New Holocaust: http://mirrormax.i8.com/custom3.html Rape of Sudanese Boys: http://mirrormax.i8.com/custom2.html
For more information send to sundoor777@hyperia.com-----
USAfrica- The Arab agenda
1] We must never forget that, despite Gadhafi’s rhetoric against colonialism, he and his Arab fellows are colonialists in Africa--white settler colonialist who invaded, conquered, expropriated and have settled on 1/3 of Africa beginning in 640.
2] Gadhafi’s hurry to implement his USAfrica is suspect. After he has spent 40 years trying to force Libya’s unification with Sudan, to forcibly annex the Auzou strip from Chad, and sponsoring destabilization in Liberia, Uganda etc. should we trust his intentions? We should be highly suspicious of a project by which he would diplomatically swallow in one gulp all of Black Africa where he has, hitherto, failed to militarily grab bits and pieces.
3] In Gadhafi’s speeches in 2005, where he pushed for the fledgling AU to appoint a Defense Minister, and a Trade Minister etc as matters of priority; and called for a continental army, he also urged the AU countries to compete to host the institutions of the AU/USAfrica. This hurry is all highly suspicious. Clearly, the Arab countries, awash with oil money and with unlimited back-up from the rest of the oil-rich Arab League, will outbid the poor Black countries, leading to Arab domination of the USAfrica; just as the UN is dominated by the gang of imperialist countries where its key institutions are located—the USA with the World Bank and IMF in Washington and the UN Hqtr in New York, and Europe with Unesco in Paris, the Maritime agencies in London, and other key agencies in Geneva.
If the Gadhafi formula for locating its key institutions is allowed, this USAfrica will become an instrument of Arab colonialism in Africa; and will entrench Arab power over Black Africa.
4] Defense is the last thing a sensible sovereign country surrenders. Note that after 50 years of their merger process, the EU states have yet to do that and appoint a defense minister. Yet Gadhafi wants the AU to start with that! Highly suspicious.
5] The dangers of Arab colonialism are evident in Mauritania and Sudan, and should be studied and heeded.
6] Gadhafi’s arguments about the potential economic benefits of USAfrica are invalid. Continental size is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for becoming an economic power. If it was, Britain, Japan, Germany, France, let alone Switzerland and most of the European countries would be economic midgets, and the Asian tigers too; On the other hand, Antarctica and Australia, as continents, would be economic giants. Gadhafi must believe that he is addressing an audience of economic blockheads!
7] Gadhafi’s Lebensraum statement at the Arab League meeting in Jordan in 2001:
“The third of the Arab community living outside Africa should move in with the two-thirds on the continent and join the African Union ‘which is the only space we have’” --Col. Mouammar Gadhafi of Libya, at the Arab League, 2001
should be taken seriously as a clue to his intentions and what he and his Arabs will set about doing to Black Africa once they have us in their USAfrica trap.
8] There is a vital need to think through the Black African interest, and negotiate in detail to secure its requirements, before agreeing to this proposal. After it is signed, the Arabs will, predictably, treat any second thoughts and objections to details as treason. Black Africans must never again repeat the folly of their leaders in 1973, when the OAU lined up behind the Arabs on the oil embargo, in hopes of getting concessions on oil, without any pre-agreed quid pro quo, and got nothing after the Arabs had exploited African support.
9] Because we are convinced that this USAfrica is a cover for Arab colonialism and Arab expansionism in Black Africa, we urge every Black African president in the AU to vote against it at Accra in July. At the very least, they should vote to postpone any decision on it for five years so that a vigorous debate can be carried out by the people, so they can knowledgeably and democratically mandate their presidents on what to do about it. We could take a lesson from the EU process where key stages of the unification have been preceded by plebiscites in each member country.
10] If this USAfrica is agreed this July at Accra, Gadhafi and all Arabs will be laughing at the dumb blacks whom they have easily duped yet again. Don’t forget their view of Blacks, as enunciated over the centuries, most famously by Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden. See the following quotes: Ibn Khaldun sees the blacks as “characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism” and [says] that “they are everywhere described as stupid” . . . al‑Dimashqi had the following to say: “The Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal. Their brains almost boil from the sun's heat.”
Ibn al‑Faqih al‑Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him . . . the zanj [black Africans]. . .are “overdone until they are burned so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking, and crinkly‑haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions” . . .”
Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406CE) added that blacks are “only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.” . . .
Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina considered blacks to be “people who are by their very nature slaves.”
“All African women are prostitutes, and the whole race of African men are abeed [slave] stock. Your people are like rats plaguing the earth” –Osama Bin Laden to the Sudanese-American novelist Kola Boof in Morocco in 1996. --------- A word is enough for the wise! USofAfrica, NO!!! USofBlack-Africa YEEEES!!!--------------------- USAfrica & Arab Colonialism: program of action
Dear Afrocentrist black African,
Here is a 5-point program of action suggested by the CAACBA
1] Fwd this series and program of action to as many Black Africans as you can. 2] Put it on as many websites as possible; 3] Get editors to publish it in your local Black Community Newspapers; 4] Hold community study and discussion meetings on USAfrica and Arab Colonialism, using the series as basic discussion materials; 5] Write to your local newspapers, call your radio stations, contact your church leadership, hold public meetings, organize marches and demonstrations, send petitions to the president and foreign minister of your country-- as well as of other Black African countries —and demand a five-year moratorium on any decision on the USAfrica to enable the black communities discuss and debate it and give the AU presidents a democratic mandate on what to do about it. ----- The CAACBA is an informal network of black African scholars and activists, in Black Africa and the Diaspora, who, over the years, have kept an Afrocentric sentinel's eye on Afro-Arab relations. US Africa &Arab Colonialism: A Special Feature for Public Enlightenment
The items in this list can be found at the following links:
http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-55042.0.html and
Contents:
If Black Africans are to competently deliberate, debate and decide on the USAfrica project they need vital information on Arab colonialism in Africa. This special feature series aims to supply some of that information. Part I: Gadhafi’s USAfrica?(1) USAfrica?: AU LEADERS GEAR UP FOR A UNITED STATES OF AFRICA AT JULY ACCRA SUMMIT --By Basil Okafor <4pp> (2) USAfrica?: BLACK AFRICANS MUST TRED CAREFULLY OVER THE USAFRICA PROJECT --By Basil Okafor <4pp>(3) USAfrica? No!; USofBLACK-AFRICA? Yes!,-- by Chinweizu <6pp>
Part II: Arab Colonialism in Black Africa since 640AD Arab enslavement of Black Africans: Present and Past (4) Enslavement in Sudan: Victoria Ajang’s true story (2000) <2pp> (5) Colorism and Arab enslavement of blacks in Sudan, by Kola Boof (2002) <7pp> (6) Mauritania-They Live in Slavery, by Dr Garba Diallo, a Black Mauritanian scholar—(1996) <5pp> (7) The Johannesburg Declaration on Arab-led Slavery of Africans (2003) <5pp> (8) Bornu to Egypt, diplomatic correspondence (14th c. AD) < 2pp>
Arab Colonialism in Mauritania9. Mauritania-The other Apartheid, by Dr Garba Diallo, a black Mauritanian scholar – (1993)—excerpt <7pp>
Arab expansionism in Africa*10. The Arab quest for Lebensraum in Africa and the challenge to Pan Afrikanism, by Chinweizu—(2006) <14pp>
Part III: Arab expansionism under OAU/AU*11. Pan Africanism vs. Pan Arabism, by Prof. Opoku Agyeman, a Ghanaian scholar—(1994) <38pp>
Arab Expansionism in Sudan & Egypt*12. De-Nubianization in Egypt and Sudan: an Ancient People on the Brink of Extinction, by Dr. M.J. Haashim, a Sudanese Nubian scholar—(2006) <16pp>
Arab Colonialism & Expansionism in 21st century *13. USAfrica: Looming disaster for Black Africa, by Chinweizu-- (2007) <?pp>
Part IV: Mobilizing for USofBLACK-Africa and Black Liberation from Arab Colonialism14) Garveyism not Continentalism, by Chinweizu –(2007) <2pp> 15) Black Power Pan Africanism: Our rampart against Arab Colonialism & Expansionism, by Chinweizu—(2007) <2pp> 16) Black World League, not OAU/AU, by Chinweizu—(1994) <4pp> 17) Long-term Program of action, by CAACBA—(2007) <?pp> ----------------------------- Note to Editors: 1. The series, you will agree, needs to be pegged onto a news story about the AU conference and its agenda, and a news analysis piece on the USAfrica. That’s why Part I above should be followed strictly, before Parts II, III, which carry the scholarly information on Arab colonialism and Arab enslavement of Blacks in Africa. 2. The * items are longish and would require serialization, depending on how much space is devoted to each insertion of this Special Feature: ¼, ½, or full page. 3. I suggest that subs shouldn’t mess about with these essays. They are by scholars who have academic careers and reputations to protect, and who are, understandably, touchy about the integrity of their writings being maintained by publishers. Even a slight, seemingly innocuous change/correction by some unqualified subeditor could misrepresent and adversely affect the scholar. 4. This series is, in effect, providing remedial education to make up for what our schools and media failed to supply in the last 50 years. It would therefore, be useful for an editor to number the series so that anybody who comes upon it midway would know how many went before, so as to try and get them; and know that more is to follow, and hopefully look out for the rest. It would not do, therefore, to run them as random, unconnected pieces. Would you kindly present it to your readers as the Special series on Arab Colonialism, and number the insertions consecutively? Thank you.
Chinweizu, April 2007 ------------------- Editors who want non-pdf copies of the series to print from should write to sundoor777@hyperia.com and request the MSWord version of the series.
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