African Unification Front
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AN OPINION ON AFRICANISM
PAN-AFRICANISM: THE MOST POWERFUL FORCE
Pan-Africanism remains the most organized political force on the African continent, and in the African communities in diaspora. Because of its organizing principles Pan-Africanism (in all its manifestations) is one of the most powerful movements on Earth, certainly the most important positive political force for the overall benefit of the political future of Africa and the world.
The modern struggle for African Unification began with the fight to end slavery, evolved into the struggle for independence, and the struggle to end apartheid and segragation in African communities. Unification is the culmination of all our political struggles, the final phase that will guarantee the gains made by struggling Africans. Pan Africanism is the vehicle for unification, and ultimately for coexistence of Africans with the rest of humanity on equal terms and with mutual respect.
Pan-Africanism has a well-developed and coherent set of motives that have become part of the moral fibre of communities in Africa and abroad, and has achieved already, in its massive contribution and organising principles, the freedom of Africans from slavery, overt colonial domination, Segregation and Apartheid. Pan-Africanist ideas and groups remain the most important vehicles for the struggle to end neocolonialism around the world.
The core message of the movement is old and has influenced greatly and trained millions of fighters, resisters, and organisers, of all nationalities and ideologies, many of whom continue to play important roles in leadership and the strengthening of their communities. Pan Africanism has been important in the growth of social and humanrights movements all over the world, thanks largely to the struggles to end slavery, colonialism, segregation, and the non-aligned movement.
The leaders of African slave revolts in the America's and Asia (who had no choice but be Pan-Africanist and Unificationist), as well as their spiritual descendants such as Eugene Chen (Revolutionary Diplomacy), Mahatma Ghandi (Passive Resistence), Martin Luther (Civil Rights) have contributed to establishing powerful African political influences all over the world. Ho Chi Mihn (Vietnam) did credit Marcus Garvey as instrumental in the political understanding that he passed on in the struggle against French and American dominance in IndoChina.
Eugene Chen was key in the struggle to free the Chinese from European domination and the attenuated Manchu dynasty under Pu Yi, and in the formation of the Chinese Republic. Mahatma Ghandi honed his political resistence skills on African streets. Many of Latin America's past revolutionaries are inheritors of Africa's forceful socio-political cogency.
Even with the challenges we face, the problematic nature of the African states, and of offshore African republics (Caribbean), and in African communities in diaspora, and even within nationalist and social movements, our responses are informed by Pan-Africanist concerns, realities and organizing principles.
While no one seriously disagrees with the aims of African unity...the residual divisions among Africans arise from the desire for limited short-term advantages in local contexts. The limited coordination of global time-tables is a serious hinderance to the unification or rather, re-unification of Africa.
The residue operations of colonial interests play a key role in distorting the coherence of Africans towards the natural unity of our ONE people, once mighty and great. But this confusion will pass in due course, as we modify and anticipate discruptions. We are preparing new ways to augment the mobilizing of our communities to prepare for African integration.
Much of the political weakness in Africa has violent consequences, and is always coupled with problems arising from the management of migration and refugee asylum. The solution is going to require coordination on a continental scale, and not the half-measures and small-scale interventions by neocolonial states that lack political coherence, or that lack those resources necessary to address the problems.
It is critical that in the future there is a systematic and consistent, timely and firm unified handling of crises of community violence, in order to avoid situations that result in pogroms and that cost the lives of thousands. The leadership in Africa must demonstrate consistency by taking publicly, a united stand in support of political integration as imperative. All community leaders must accept collective accountabilty, for Africa's future, in the spirit of Unification.
African Unification Front
Ex Unitate Vires
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