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DV,
I am on a private site that most people would not be able to link to. I found this dynamite and would like to share it. The article summarizes your points over the last 2 weeks in regards to what we need to do, therefore please excuse the long post and enjoy.
Garveyism not Continentalism is what Black Africa Needs
By Chinweizu
1] The essence of Garveyism consisted of two projects:
A] Black Governments:
Here is Garvey’s conclusion, a century ago, after traveling in the Americas and Europe and informing himself on the situation, world wide, of Blacks [Negroes]:
I asked: “Where is the black man’s Government?” “Where is his King and his kingdom?” “Where is his President, his country, and his ambassador, his army, his navy, his men of big affairs?” I could not find them, and then I declared, “I will help to make them.” [P&O,II:126] and he formed the UNIA to help do that.
B] A Black Superpower in Africa:
In the 1920s, Garvey diagnosed the global prospect of the Blacks and prescribed the remedy when he said: The Negro is dying out . . . There is only one thing to save the Negro, and that is an immediate realization of his own responsibilities. Unfortunately we are the most careless and indifferent people in the world! We are shiftless and irresponsible . . . It is strange to hear a Negro leader speak in this strain, as the usual course is flattery, but I would not flatter you to save my own life and that of my own family. There is no value in flattery. . . . Must I flatter you when I find all other peoples preparing themselves for the struggle to survive, and you still smiling, eating, dancing, drinking and sleeping away your time, as if
yesterday were the beginning of the age of pleasure? I would rather be dead than be a member of your race without thought of the morrow, for it portends evil to him that thinketh not. Because I cannot flatter
you I am here to tell, emphatically, that if we do not seriously reorganize ourselves as a people and face the world with a program of African [Negro] nationalism our days in civilization are numbered, and it will be only a question of time when the Negro will be as completely and complacently dead as the North American Indian, or the Australian Bushman. [P&O,II:101-102] . . .
This is the danger point. What will become of the Negro in another five hundred years if he does not organize now to develop and to protect himself? The answer is that he will be exterminated for the purpose of making room for the other races . . . [P&O, I:66]
[T]he Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of building
up for themselves a great nation in Africa. . . .[ P&O,I:68]
We [in the UNIA] are determined to solve our own problem, by redeeming our Motherland Africa from the hands of alien exploiters and . . .[by] the creating for ourselves [there] of a political superstate . . . a government, a nation of our own, strong enough to lend protection to the members of our race scattered all over the world, and to compel the respect of the nations and races of the earth. . . . [P&O, I:52; II:16; I:52]
Go ahead, Negroes, and organize yourselves! You are serving your race and guaranteeing to posterity of our own an existence which otherwise will be denied them. Ignore the traps of persuasion, advice and alien leadership. No one can be as true to you as you can be to yourself. To suggest that there is no need for Negro racial organization in a well-planned and arranged civilization like that of the twentieth century is but to, by the game of deception, lay the trap for the destruction of a people whose
knowledge of life is incomplete, owing to their misunderstanding of man’s purpose in creation.[P&O, II:16]
cont-
2] Continentalism
Continentalism is the doctrine and project of uniting the entire continent of Africa, uniting all the races that now live on it, black and white, Negro and Arab, preferably under one government that will rule the entire continent. This project has been going on since the 1958 Conference of Independent African
States that was held in Accra, Ghana. It produced the Afro-Arab OAU, then the present Afro-Arab AU [Africa Unmanned/Arabist Underwear], which is on the brink of transforming into an Afro-Arab USofAfrica.
By the end of the 20th century, with the rise of black-ruled countries in Africa and the diaspora, Garvey’s first project was realized, but only partly so, since these black comprador governments remain
fronts and agents for white supremacy and White power and none has become a Government of black people, by black people, and for black people.
Moreover, none of these black-mask governments of White Supremacy has dared to embark on the second and vitally urgent Garvey project of creating a Black superpower that would be in the same power rank as China and the G-8.
The dangers which Garvey pointed out in the 1920s are still with the black race. If anything, they have been intensified and augmented by such disasters as the AIDSbombing of Black Africa by the USA and the WHO; Arab expansionism and colonialism in the Afro-Arab conflict zone that stretches from Mauritania to Somalia, including the Afro-Arab war theatres in Chad, Darfur and South Sudan;
UN Imperialism which, through the IMF, World Bank and WTO, has inflicted Debt Trap Peonage, economic maldevelopment, and deepening poverty on the Black countries of the world. Black powerlessness continues without letup. And the black extinction that Garvey alerted us to is already
underway. Whereas Garveyism correctly focuses on our developing the Black Power we need to defeat these
dangers and protect ourselves from all dangers; Continentalism says nothing at all about Power, let alone about Black Power. It doesn’t even offer to create Black Unity. Its focus is on unification of the entire continent, which translates into Afro-Arab unification. Since the Arabs have, for nearly two thousand years, been White invaders, exploiters and enslavers of Black Africa, Afro-Arab unification is like a unification of black lambs with white lions that eat lambs—a unification whereby the lambs end up in the stomach of the lions! The Arabs would naturally love, welcome and eagerly promote such unification. But isn’t it suicidal for the Black Africans to agree to it, let alone campaign
eagerly for it—as some have done for the last 50 years?
For that basic reason, Continentalism, with all its projects –OAU/AU, USofAfrica, is the mortal enemy of Black Africans.
Those Blacks who are deluded into thinking that Afro-Arab unification would be good for Black Africans would do well to find out just how rosy life has been for those blacks who have lived under Arab colonialism since the 1950s, and especially in Darfur and South Sudan, where the blacks have taken up armed struggle to escape Arab colonialism and racism.
3] The Garveyite Black Survival Project
We do not need to politically integrate or federate all the 53 Arab and Black African neo-colonial states on the African continent to produce a Black African superstate that can protect all Black Africans wherever they are on earth.
To implement the Garvey idea, what we need, above all, is just one Black African country, big and industrialized enough, and therefore powerful enough to be of G-8 rank, a country that could serve as the core state--protector and leader—of Global Black Africa.
We also need a Black African League that shall be the collective security organization of Global Black Africa, our equivalent of NATO and the defunct Warsaw Pact. These are the two things we need in this 21st century to implement the Garvey requirement for Black African survival.
Final-
For building a Black African superpower, as urged by Garvey, an ECOWAS or SADC Federation, or some equivalent in East or Central Africa is more than enough. Just one of them, if integrated and industrialized by 2060, would meet the need.
ECOWAS or SADC is big enough in territorial size, population and resource endowment to become an industrialized world power provided its neo-colonial character is eliminated.
Let us look at the numbers:
Country AREA in sq. km Population in 1993
ECOWAS 6.5m 185m
SADC 7m 130m
Brazil 8.5m 156m
USA 9.5m 256m
Russia 17.1m 148m
India 3.3m 900m
China 9.6m 1.2b
EU 2.4m 350m
ECOWAS, with 16 states, 6.5m sq. km and nearly 200m population; or SADC, with 11states, 7m sq km and some 130m population--would be a country of sub-continental size, and in the megastate league, in territory and population and resources, to which belong the USA—with 9m sq. km and some 260m people; Brazil—with 8.5m sq. km. and 156m people; and Russia, India etc. ECOWAS or SADC,
if properly integrated, industrialized, and thoroughly decolonized, would be a megastate of the type Black Africa needs. So why don’t we get on with the task of building each into a power of G-8 rank? Why set off on the false, diversionary and dangerous mission of Arab-Black African state integration of the impotent neo-colonialist OAU/AU/USAfrica type?
Of course, ending their neo-colonial character is anathema to the Black colonialists who now misrule the Black African countries. These compradors would rather set off on the quest for an unjustified USofAfrica that would still have the neo-colonial character that suits the comprador interest and temperament.
The second component of the Garvey project is to replace the OAU/AU with a proper collective security organization for Global Black Africa, an organization to which the Black African Diaspora countries and communities will rightfully belong. It is one of the blemishes of Continentalist
Pan-Africanism that it is embodied, at the interstate level, in an OAU/AU from which the Diaspora originators of Pan Africanism have long been excluded whereas the Arab enemies of Black Africa are, not only members, but the dominant bloc. The Black African Diaspora are only now being
brought into the OAU/AU structures as an afterthought and as no more than second-class members. That is not how it should be.
The history of Black Africans demands that we replace the Arab-castrated OAU/AU with a blacks-only collective security organization, and not with yet another Arab-castrated outfit called the USofAfrica.
Unless the members of a group are keen for their group to survive, the group will most probably not survive; for its members will fail to do what must be done for their group to survive. And any such group does not deserve to survive.
If Black Africans wish to survive, they must profoundly change their priorities: Not
slothful consumerism here on earth, not paradise for their souls in the hereafter, but collective security here on earth must become their ruling passion.
Those Black Africans who are keen for the Black African people to survive in the 21st century and beyond will have to ensure that the Garvey Black survival project is accomplished in the shortest possible time, starting yesterday. They have two paramount tasks to accomplish simultaneously: (1) They must, by all means necessary, politically integrate, and complete the abandoned decolonization of, ECOWAS and SADC, and effect their exit from maldevelopment by industrializing them into powers of
G-8 rank. (2) They must build a Black African League that will organize the collective security of the Black African World.
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New bills, huh?
Guess they gonna use the old ones to pay for the next war. I ain't forgot Bush's timing in the last makeover.
"The folks who print America's money have designed a high-tech makeover of the $100 bill. It's part of an effort to stay ahead of counterfeiters as technology becomes more sophisticated and more dollars flow overseas, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says.
The makeover, unveiled Wednesday, may leave people wondering if there is magic involved.
Benjamin Franklin is still on the $100 bill, also known as C-note, but he has been joined by a disappearing Liberty Bell in an inkwell and a bright blue security ribbon composed of thousands of tiny lenses that magnify objects in mysterious ways. Move the bill and the objects move in a different direction.
"The government hopes the new bills will make it harder for high-tech counterfeiters to replicate.
The new currency will not go into circulation until Feb. 10 of next year, giving the government time to educate the public in the United States and around the world about all the changes."
"Aiming to stay a step ahead of counterfeiters"
'What?
The federal reserve is the biggest counterfeiter in the history of the world. Millions of americans, were foolish enough to store their wealth in federal reserve notes.
They'd been planning retirment for 50 years. Imagine how shocked they were to discover federal reserve notes have lost almost 50% of their value since the 70's.
Its called inflation or taxation without representation.
Overseen by Bernanke, the biggest counterfeiter in world history.
Since the federal reserve took over in 1913 our dollars value has dropped by 96%. Meaning it's only worth 4% of it's original value. That the federal reserve not working for you!
Wax
Chinweizu is nothing new for anyone in Black Studies circles. Some of the things he says are suspect, like the SADC stats y'quote. The population of those 11 countries was nowhere near that figure in '93. South Africa only joined in '94 and it was also before Congo, Mauritius and The Seychelles joined.
Chinweizu's had a whole lot to say about Nasser, Kwame Nkrumah and the OAU and his analysis of the early OAU lacks contextual understanding of Africa at that time and doesn't seem to get the concept of being an African Arab like in Sudan or Libya. I'd really like to see him talk that anti-Arab talk to Qadaffi's face.
Personally, I'd rather read Molefi Kete Asante or Ali Mazrui - and yea I know your point is about Garvey, but Chinweizu doesn't seem to relate his ideas of a Africa as a Superpower to the politics today - as in what's actually happening with SADC today or the AU parliament.
KW,
Thanks for the update on the African Politics. I wondered about the whites in the south and the Arabs in the north, however his call to arms that black will go the way of the American Indians was eye opening to me. after AIDS, bill gates, UN, China, etc., etc., it seems that the blacks in Africa are doomed to this path of Continentalism and extinction. Please prove me wrong, let me know that some of the Garvey's principles might rub off. Anyone who can't see that the Black Africans are marked for deletion is a liar and a fraud.
I feel so helpless for them.
Thanks again. Any other info on this subject would be helpful to me.
Make it Rain!.
Wax,
Nope. Anyone who declare that Black Africans are marked for deletion and it is inevitable, is a liar and a fraud.
I feel helpless for them.
With AIDS, wars and poverty, natural disasters, Africa is one billion strong. We will survive as we always have, through Maafa, colonialism and everything else thrown at us.
That Africans need to get their act together, quit begging the West for aid and quit begging the Chinese for investment is without question.
That Africans need to work out their tribal differences and makedo with arbitrarily drawn borders of nations is without question.
Forget the Arabs, Forget the Whites, this aint an us/them game.
Forget Continentalism = Extinction, that's a false equation premised on a false understanding of wa'gwan in the Big A.
Does Chinweizu propose to draw some arbitrary border through the Sahara to seperate Black Africans from Arab Africans?
What about Africans who call themselves Arab like in Sudan or Somalia or those who say they're Persians, but look Black in Zanzibar, Tanzania?
What about Madagascans? Mauritians? Are they part of 'Black' or 'Arab' Africa'?
Its divisive politicking, Africa to Africans exists as a whole not in chunks.
And also the reality is that we have to work with the structures our forefathers, Haile Selassie I, Nkrumah et. al. put in place: transforming the African Union from into an effective body, to make a Pan-African Africa possible.
...peace
I hear you KW!
Believe it or not...Your statement made my day.
I hoped that in my hard to interpret emotions from yesterday, you got that I am just hurt and pissed that it seems that the outside forces have been successful in trying to exterminate the "black" african from the planet. Every time I look up from the "constant gardner " episodes, to currently what china has been doing, it seems that there is always a line of outsiders constantly wiping them out. Never anything positive from western news (but send money) about the homeland.
Good to hear a billion strong.
I can see why Bill gates and all the others are there trying to reduce population.:)
I got really interested in the "con" after watching "lord of war" and "Hotel Rwanda". It gave me the idea that the Africans were going to destroy the a
Africans.
As you can tell, we are not well informed about the true african news and plight here.
And that is truly sad.
Lol, that's cool Wax.
I hear ya too, we face alot of difficulties and sometimes those who come to help also come to steal.
Its in the West's interests to make Africans look like they're in a state of need and 'give them' 'aid' with strings attached, high-interest loans with strings attached...thus, creating conditions of dependency and perpetual debt.
Its also in their interests to install the leaders they want - hence the Congo situation: Lumumba killed, Mobuto installed and taken out and Kabila Snr killed by the same forces in Washington.
The US can turn a blind eye to Meles Zenawi's atrocities in Ethiopia because Zenawi stupidly agrees to US requests and military support to send troops to invade Somalia.
I'd really suggest you watch, CNN International or Al Jazeera or read African news sites like Pambazuka if you want to get the low down on wa'gwan.
Hotel Rwanda was a good movie - not hating on my girl Lebo Mashile, but Sometimes in April (directed by Raoul Peck), man o man! I cried so much, even the next day.
...peace
All that effort to make counterfeit proof 100's, when every place that ever takes them uses that same damn black marker to swipe across them anyway. I've seen times (and i've worked in retail plenty, so i've seen this firsthand) where people completely disregard all the safeguards the government puts in, and the transaction absolutely CANNOT go forward until they find their black marker and swab it across that bill. "What, color-shifting ink, disappearing liberty bells, imbedded computer chips, fug all dat. Where's my marker?!!"
"That Africans need to work out their tribal differences and make do with arbitrarily drawn borders of nations is without question"
That's a tall order, that won't be worked out by any summit meeting.
One thing I don't think you mentioned (or I missed it) was the governmental corruption and graft that runs rampant, and is probably worsened by the West with giving aid. I think this is a product left over from colonialism, and those arbitrarily drawn country lines (that sometimes transect traditional tribal boundries..splitting or bringing into close proximity traditional aliances and enemies).
Put simply, "Western" democracy and concept of nation-state was foisted upon groups of people that may not fit with those concepts. The biggest mistake is to see Africa as some homogenous group of people based on skin color, rather than language, culture, traditions, etc. It's like saying Swedish and Spanish culture are exactly alike.
Actually there are several things that I left out including corruption, like reforming the political landscape and sincerely working towards lasting peace initiatives.
All of those things are important elements of Africa getting its act together. Sometimes these issues are tied to the fiscal relationship African states have with the West, as with Meles Zenawi, the international beggar or trying to insitute respect for the rule of law and human rights as part of some patronizing carrot on the stick exercise like the EU tried with Zimbabwe.
Obviously working out any issue is not an easy process no AU summit can solve any single or interconnected set of problems - geeeez the AU is like an overgrown baby still sorting out its teething problems that making states submit to its rulings is still a difficult task. Rather, my mention was in recognition of what is faced and knowing what we've got to do.
I don't think seeing Africa as a whole equates to seeing Africa as homogenous - but the vision of a united Africa has always been about uniting across linguistic, racial, political, cultural and geographic differences while simultaneously recognising these differences.
Trying to mark where Arab Africa ends and Black Africa begins on a map is a futile exercise. Not only is it divisive and defeatist, but we're too bound up in each other's lives to propose seperation. RBG Scholars like Chinweizu love to cite Julius Nyerere's last message to Black Africa, but I'd like to see one of them attempt to break up Zanzibar. And also Nyerere himself abolished the role of chiefs in government.
Ironically, the concept of the Chief who rules for a lifetime is how most African states are ruled, Nyerere's Tanzania included. This makes more obvious that African nation-state were never meant to be modelled along Western concepts nor was democracy as governance meant for Africa - each country needs to work out its own homegrown model of governance without external influences, but that in itself is a complex process.
"Sometimes these issues are tied to the fiscal relationship African states have with the West, as with Meles Zenawi......... "
This is not to say that African govts don't abuse their own people or misappropriate funds or mineral & land resources. Instead of funds going to the people, resources now become the source of income for the ruling elite and the national reserve bank becomes the personal bank account of the Head of State.
That's why the culture of aid and dependency also needs to come to a prompt end.
KW,
These are vastly different cultures on that continent. Probably with as many differences as Europeans have with each other if not more. Why would we ask them to do what the West and others have never been able to do? I don't think African Unity per se is the answer. It would be nice..
"This makes more obvious that African nation-state were never meant to be modelled along Western concepts nor was democracy as governance meant for Africa - each country needs to work out its own homegrown model of governance without external influences, but that in itself is a complex process."
I've thought this for a long time. Glad we agree on this point (except I'd change "country" to "peoples"...country boundaries were laid arbitrarily)
DMG
Co-sign on peoples, the concept of a nation-state is a contentious one for me anyway.
But there is a huge difference between European and African unity. The EU is essentially a political and economic enterprise –the basis of its founding was as an economic move to protect the interests of the Coal and Steel countries and transform Europe into a SuperPower, post-WW2.
At present UK populus wants out, but despite the regulatory nature of the EU, the UK govt sees the economic advantage of remaining a member – don’t buy Cameron’s talk about an EU referendum.
Entry is by application and there is a criteria, it is not an automatic process. Turkey has been applied to become a member of the EU for over 20 years now and its going to take some years before it becomes a full member – if it happens.
The AU is founded on African ideals of unity, solidarity and humanity, something that goes beyond the political aspirations of the different figures of Pan-Africanism and the current structural vision of the AU.
Without the AU there’s still a sense of unity and Africanness among people – regardless of where one comes from. Regardless of differences and tensions, all cultures in some way or another, share an African identity and believe in African unity as essential to African survival. It’s engrained in the people.
The European sense of Europeanness is very different – that same feeling of a shared future through unity is not there in the people.
For vastly different reasons both the AU & EU have been of mixed success, but that doesn’t mean a United Africa is Mission Impossible.
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KW, keep speaking truth to power sister.
Brother Fisher and I had a great debate/discussion on this Chinweizu article two or three years ago on his blog.
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