" So, let us stop deluding ourselves about the necessity for a continental 

African union government as the means to our legitimate and historically 

based aspirations 

Instead, let us follow Marcus Garvey the Great, and focus on what we really 

need to build: a black African superpower that will be a great power in the 

rank of China and the G-8 countries. As Garvey taught us some 80 years ago: 

*The Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of 

building up for themselves a great nation in Africa . . . 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.*"

This is exactly the crux of the matter. Unless we do the above, we will never be respected and our continent will most certainly be taken from us. All the attention Africa is getting suddenly is not because of concern for the welfare of Africans.

Yes indeed, Ghadaffi already started his campaign at the last AU summit complete with campaign T-shirts. Amazing.
Jabou Joh



 

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From: Fye samateh <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 5:38 am
Subject: USAfrica : A Mortal Danger for Black Africans









   *USAfrica: A Mortal Danger for Black Africans* 

*A Black Power Pan-Africanist Viewpoint* 

*By CHINWEIZU* 

*Part I: Black African aspirations vs. continental Unification* 

Is there any black African, whether in the homeland or the Diaspora, who 

doesn't want, by yesterday, a Black Africa that is prosperous, secure from 

exploiters and invaders, and is respected by the whole world, like China or 

Japan is? That, I believe, is the basic aspiration driving the desire for 

Continental African Unity, as attempted through the OAU/AU, and now through 

this proposed USAfrica. 
 


Let me give three reasons why the continental union government approach to 

our aspirations hasn't worked, won't work, and is very dangerous for Black 

Africans. 
 

1. The USAfrica doesn't have a camel's chance in the ocean of delivering on 

the hopes and aspirations which its promoters are encouraging naïve black 

Africans to invest in it. Simply put, 53 neo-colonial Arab and Black African 

worms stuffed into a bottle will not yield a black African lion. If you add 

up 53 zeros, you'll still have zero! 
 

2. The USAfrica will be, for black Africans, a disaster much worse than even 

our terrible disunity. If this USAfrica is enacted at the AU Summit in Accra 

in July, Black Africans would have jumped from the frying pan of disunity 

into the fire of unity under Arab colonialism. And all Black Africans would 

quickly find themselves reduced to the terrible condition of the Black 

Africans under Arab minority rule in Darfur, South Sudan and Mauritania. 
 


In our naïve approach to this matter, we are behaving like nigger monkey who 

insisted that he and python were brothers because they both lived on the 

same island. Nigger monkey rushed to embrace python and quickly ended up 

united with python all right, but in python's stomach. 
 

3. Just like the OAU/AU did for the last 50 years, this USAfrica will divert 

us, for another century, from what we should have done in the last 50 years 

to achieve our hopes and aspirations as Black Africans. 
 

 

But what should we have done since "independence" and why did we neglect to 

do it? 

Since Black Africans gained "independence" during the last 50 years, we have 

lived by the slogan *"Seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else 

shall be added unto you". * 

Unfortunately, little has been added unto us except poverty, more poverty, 

beggardom, social disorder, neo-colonialism under UN Imperialism, the debt 

burden, AIDSbombing by the USA and the World Health Organization (WHO), and 

Arab territorial expansion at our expense. Why? The basic reason is that we 

did not -- as our history demanded, and still demands we do –take as our 

cardinal guide the slogan: 
 

     *Build ye first the kingdom of collective security, and you can, 

within its ramparts, achieve all your other desires!* 
 

We have failed to build our system for Black African collective security. 

That is what we must focus on now and build in the next 50 years if we don't 

want to be exterminated by our White Power enemies, who have declared, after 

exploiting us for centuries, that they now want our land and resources 

without us. 
 


All our historical disasters in the last 1000 years resulted from the basic 

fact that we were too weak to defend our land, our population, and our 

cultures from Arab and European invaders. Until we equip ourselves to defend 

ourselves, our disasters will continue and will multiply until we are 

exterminated, most probably within this century. 
 


For building the Black Power to protect ourselves, a continental union 

government is simply irrelevant. None of the great powers of today or before 

has been a continental state. Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, USA, 

China, and India -- none occupies a whole continent. Belgium, whose GDP is 

said to be greater than that of all of the countries of Africa put together, 

is not a continent. Nor is any of the Asian Tigers. On the other hand, 

Australia occupies an entire continent. But where is Australia in the league 

table of great powers? Is it in the G-8? Antarctica likewise is a continent. 
 


So, let us stop deluding ourselves about the necessity for a continental 

African union government as the means to our legitimate and historically 

based aspirations 

Instead, let us follow Marcus Garvey the Great, and focus on what we really 

need to build: a black African superpower that will be a great power in the 

rank of China and the G-8 countries. As Garvey taught us some 80 years ago: 

     *The Negro peoples of the world should concentrate upon the object of 

building up for themselves a great nation in Africa . . . 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.* 
 


A political program, to be valid and useful, must have a correctly defined 

constituency and a solution to the cardinal problems of that group. 

Garveyism does that for Black Africans. Continentalism fails on both counts, 

which is one key reason why, in its 50 years reign, it has not achieved what 

we have aspired to as Black Africans. 
 


Whereas Garveyism correctly focuses on our developing the Black Power we 

need to 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* *African* unity. Its focus is on unification of the entire 

continent, which translates into Arab-Black African unification. But since 

the Arabs have, for 1500 years been white invaders, expropriators and 

enslavers of Black Africans, Arab-Black African unification is like a 

unification of nigger monkey with python. The Arabs would naturally love, 

and eagerly promote, such unification. But isn't it suicidal for Black 

Africans to agree to it, let alone campaign eagerly for it—as continentalist 

Pan Africanists have done for the last 50 years? 
 


For those who do not know about it, below is the Arab Agenda for this 

USAfrica. 
 

------------------------------ 

*Part II: 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 colonialists who invaded, conquered, expropriated and have settled 

on 1/3 of Africa beginning in 640 AD. 

2] Gadhafi's hurry to implement his USAfrica is suspect. 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, 

Mali, Niger 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 

Hqtrs 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 racism, colonialism and expansionism are evident in 

Mauritania and Sudan, and should be studied and heeded. 
 


For basic information on that, please go to 

*http://www.nigeriavillagesquare .com/articles/chinweizu 

/usafrica-arab-colonialism -part-1-arab-quest-for-leben-2 .html 

*<http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/usafrica-arab-colonialism-part-1-arab-quest-for-leben-2.html+> 
 

 


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] Here is Gadhafi's Lebensraum [Living space] 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 
 


It 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. 
 

Where will Gadhafi settle his new 100million Arabs from outside Africa? How 

will he get land to give them? Here is an example of Arab land grab 

intentions. Back in 1962, as he flagged off his troops to the war front 

against the Black Africans in South Sudan, the Arab Sudanese General Hassan 

Beshir Nasr declared: 
 

"We don't want these black slaves . . . what we want is their land." 
 


That is what the wars in South Sudan and Darfur have been about: seizing 

land from black Africans. *Darfur is an ongoing example of how Arabs seized 

1/3 of our continent*, 

and of how Gadhafi will grab the land to settle his 100million Arabs from 

outside Africa. 
 


8] There is a vital need to think through the Black African interest, and 

negotiate in detail to secure its requirements, before agreeing, if at all, 

to this USAfrica proposal. After it is signed, the Arabs will, predictably, 

treat as treason any second thoughts and objections to details from Black 

Africans. 
 


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 stated over the centuries, most 

famously by Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden, as in the following 

quotes: 
 

  *Ibn Khaldun, the greatest Arab historian (1332-1406), sees the blacks 

  as "characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism" and 

  [says] that "they are everywhere described as stupid" . . . He adds that 

  blacks are "humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings." 

  . . .  * 
 

 

  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" . 

  . .* * 
 


  Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina [Avicenna] (980-1037), the most 

  famous and influential of the philosopher-scientists of Islam, 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. 
 

When next you meet an Arab, you should ask what is the Arabic word for a 

black person; then ask what is the Arabic word for slave; you'll discover 

that the words are the same "abeed". Which is why, when an Arab looks at a 

black African, what he sees is a slave. 

*Now, that is how their language teaches these Arab 'brothers' we are eager 

to unite with to think of us—as slaves!* 

And as one traveler in the Sudan observed in 1930: 
 

  "In the eyes of the Arab rulers of Sudan the black slaves were simply 

  animals given by Allah to make the life of the Arab comfortable" 
 


  *A word is enough for the wise!* 
 

http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/usafrica-a-mortal-danger-for-black-afr.html 
 

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