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Kashagama's Response to Edwin Ngang & Mulluh Mbuh:
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:22:45 -0800 (PST)
Dear Ngang, Mbuh,
Perhaps the people who keep on putting down the efforts of unity are not looking at the systemic nature of neocolonialism, but instead are concerned with the symptomatic expressions of the system and focusing on particular individuals and groups on which they then vent their anger.
The African Union is NOT Salim Salim's "dream"...it is a the product of hundreds of years of African struggle. It is not an experiement...perhaps you have a better solution other than expressing only anger and frustration and asking us to wait another 40 years until you finally realise that colonial states are too messed up for each one to single handedly liberate itself from domination by neocolonial powers...
What is so elusive about the logic of unity that we must keep on pointing out that there is strength in having more accountability at an All-African level?
As for the people of Southern Sudan...you have presented no solution but are merely complaining about how the Union has no teeth to solve the problem...it is only a few days old!!!!
But in fact the Union is the best hope for a long term solution to conflict in Africa (including Sudan). The Union offers Africa a method of regulating war that the states do not now have.
As for Africans oppressing Africans, I have explained twice before on this forum that there is a systemic neocolonial component essential for the oppression to take place, yet you continue to ignore that logic. Presenting to me more and more examples of social failure in Africa does not change the fact that neocolonialism is a disruptive force. Presenting new dimensions of the same old tired facts is equally pointless.
First you opposed the union by presenting it as a matter of Islam against Christianity, then it was Anglophones vs Francophones, now you tell me it is lightskinned Africans vs darkskinned...perhaps next you will tell me men vs women, adults vs children, black vs white, capitalist vs socialist, human vs machine, and so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
WHAT YOU FAIL to address is the single most important element... that the Union is in place in order to resolve these problems, not to exercerbate them. What you fail to understand is that these problems will not go away simply by continuing in the disunited way, and finally that other than the union...we do not have another viable alternative in terms of solutions that have not been tried. Unless you guys have discovered some other serious anti-colonial dialectic that no other human has considered yet...unless...do you Mr. Ngang and Mr. Mbuh operate in a new political dimension that has eluded other Africans for 500 years? Perhaps Neocolonial domination is not your concern, in which case I am wasting my time trying to make the case...
Unless you have a new method of resolving Africa's problem, ... I am dying of curiosity. Please explain to me how you propose to free Southern Sudan by attacking Pan Africanism....You Edwin and Mbuh insist on conflating and juxtaposing issues ...you ignore a simple and tried method of historic experience, that unification is a source of political and economic power. It is not an experiment...it is simple iron logic.
Moreover, even if the Union was a basket case...it's articles are not written in stone. It can and will be modified. Right now the pan Africanists have the inside edge and the momentum on its crafting. This may not always be so...as the case was when 40 years ago the states rejected unity in favour of gradualism and created the OAU instead of giving up their private little power bases. That was the experiment...and it failed. We are now exactly where we started in 1959...faced with the prospect of choosing between the demented sovereignty of selfish neocolonial states run by leaders in a hurry to "develop" the people in the image of the some European state, and unity... we chose the wrong thing then...we have another chance now to do the right thing...and that is lucky...things could have turned out so badly that we may never have had the AU at this time.
The pan-African movement will continue to grow stronger, and the Union will become more cogent and some of its weaker clauses will be discarded. What do we want...ideally the Union will become a place where Africans can be Africans without having to apologise for it everytime they turn on the TV, or regret it every time we arrive at the airport in some European state. We want a nation that can stand up for the rights of Africans everywhere, and HAVE THE CAPACITY TO BACK UP OUR DEMANDS effectively (diplomatically, economically, of militarily if necessary).
We do not want anymore Africans to die because Italy is dumping toxic waste in Somalia, or because Shell is pollution the Niger, or because American industry is dumping toxic waste in the Zambezi, or because France is landing troops to install a head of state anytime they like, or because each half-wit commander of a neocolonial state is spending hard earned money on buying weapons to shoot his "enemy" across some colonial border because those brothers and sisters over there do not want to speak some European language.
We need unity. How many more must die before you finally under-stand that without unity we will become nothing...
Best regards,
Kashagama
>From: Edwin Ngang
>Reply-To: AMBASOS@yahoogroups.com
>To: AMBASOS@yahoogroups.com, Thomas Ntabwoba
>CC: AMBASOS@yahoogroups.com, SCNCFORUM@EGROUPS.COM
>Subject: Re: [AMBASOS] Re: rwandanet: Is Edwin Ngang Colonized?
>Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:22:45 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hello Dan Kashagama:
>
>Below you will find an independent position of this
>microcosm of pan-africanism in practice today. I am
>talking about La Republique du Cameroun and how it
>operates today (this moment) inside Ambazonia. It is
>the article from HERALD--a news journal.
>
>We would like to see the SALIM SALIM's version of "an
>AFRICA without wars" happen. But why experiment again
>when the reality is 'africans oppressing africans',
>and this damn continent has an over abundance of it
>right now!
>
>Why should the 'Blacker-skinned' Africans of Southern
>Sudan believe in SALIMS SALIM's rosy scenario of a
>prosperous feel-good-happy AFRICA, when "you",
>KASHAGAMA are yet to defend his rights, and can NEVER
>guarantee that his conditions will be any better in a
>LARGER AFRICAN STATE! Suddenly these problems/rights
>will all disappear in that "homogeneous entity of
>African UNITED STATES.
>
>Let us please GET REAL and leave experiments for the
>AIDS laboratories which should have benefited from
>more funding had not these leaders gone to party at
>these summits. How much money was spent in the summit
>per head of state compared to how much money is being
>spent on AIDS education in AFRICA? any relationship?
>
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