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> July 19, 2007
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> Summit in Jamaica Named Dr. Dudley Thompson
> Chief Elder & President of Diaspora Region
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> Contact: Rev. P.D. Menelik@ 404-527-7756/
> http://www.rhawpam.org/
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>             "Not only are they wicked for enslaving our ancestors but
worse, they have stubbornly and consistently refused to confess their crime
against humanity… They must pay for their debts because we expect them to
respect our full dignity" stressed His Excellency Dudley Thompson at both
Marcus Garvey's Liberty Hall and at the Mona Campus, University of the West
Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. With great anticipation by the participants of
the Pan African Movement Summit mainly from the U.S., the Caribbean
(Jamaica), Canada, Europe, Central America and Africa, the Honorable Dudley
Thomson was elected as the first Chief Elder and President of the African
Diaspora region of Africa during a challenging but unforgettable gathering
of Africans. According to His Excellency, "The result of the Summit is
historic and a great leap forward for the full integration of the Africans
of the Diaspora as a powerful family partner for the rebuilding of our
Motherland, Africa." The esteemed elder is one of few Pan Africanists still
alive from the 5th Pan African Congress of 1945 and the anti-colonial
freedom struggles. For decades, he has worked with major leaders such as
President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, President Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya, Prime
Minister Michael Manley of Jamaica and President Moshood Abiola of Nigeria.
>
>             The theme of Summit in Jamaica from July 16-18, 2007 was
Political Determination - for Cultural and Economic Rebirth. The PAM Summit
resolution called for Honorable Dudley Thompson to hold the office of Chief
Elder and President of the Interim Secretariat of the African World
(Diaspora) Union (ISAWU) for the year 2007-2008 and to immediately organize
a Council of Leaders for the Africans in the Diaspora. The Summit resolution
also called  for the: Interim Secretariat of the African World (Diaspora)
Union (ISAWU) leaders to be chosen mainly from among nominations submitted
at the Summit; development of a Pan African Plan for the reconstruction of
African communities; organizing cultural programs and campaigns for the
re-education of African people; convening annual summits across the Diaspora
leading to the first Pan African Convention of Diaspora leaders in 2010;
expansion the African Union troops in Somalia and the Sudan and the
withdrawal of foreign bases from Africa; and for African leaders to
prioritize their work for a central government in Africa. Other resolutions
called for Africans to support the rights Africans in Columbia,
repatriation, reparations and the Ethiopian/African Millennium Celebration
in September.
>
>             The priority of the Jamaica Summit was to begin forming a
structure for the building a strong Diaspora Region that will influence the
creation of an All African government in Africa as a mandate of Pan
Africanism and in light of the recent African Union failure to unify Africa
under one central government during the 2007 AU Summit's "Grand Debate" in
Ghana. During the AU Summit, the leaders of Senegal, Libya, Ethiopia,
Liberia, Chad and Zimbabwe championed the cause for an immediate united
states of Africa but were strongly opposed by leaders of Uganda, Nigeria and
South Africa. Elombe Brath, Co-convener of the Summit lamented that "some
African leaders have not appreciated their particular role in history at a
time when foreign powers are competing for domination over a balkanized
Africa." The failure of the AU Summit in Ghana has indeed already led
volatile states such as Liberia to submit to U.S. Africom (military command
center) to be based in Liberia. Minister P.D. Menelik Harris, the RHAWPAM
Summit Organizer pointed that the failure in Ghana highlights "a peculiar
(colonial) disdain and disregard by too many African leaders for African
people, our interests and vision, to the point of cursing oneself." The
minister was a student organizer during the anti-apartheid movement to
liberate South Africa and other frontline states and has helped to spearhead
both the Nigerian Democracy Movement and the recent fair trade for Africa
bill with the African Diplomatic Corp.
>
>             Some key other participants and supporters of the 2007 Summit
in Jamaica were: Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Vice President of the Association for
the Study of Classical African Civilizations (ASCAC); Nana Norma Yaa Farika,
former official Diaspora delegate to the OAU 6th Pan African Congress (PAC)
& 7th PAC organizer; Minister Akbar Muhammad, Nation of Islam (NOI)
Representative to Africa; Elombe Brath of Patrice Lumumba Coalition
(PLC)/December 12th Movement; Mutabaruka, Artist and Activist; Dr. Roselea
Hamilton, Office of the Prime Minister; Ms. Maxine Stowe, Jamaican Creative
Artist Network; Michael Henry, Representative of the Jamaica Parliament; The
Dr. Karen Carpenter, Jamaican Language Unit, UWI; Dr. Ashe Hamilton-Taylor,
Science and Technology, UWI, Queen Mother Moses, Rastafari; Zaki Baruti,
Universal African Peoples Organization (USA); Sister Vivine Abena, All
African Peoples Revolutionary Party (England); Osei Bandele, USA; Jumoke D.
Abrahams, Traditionalist; and Elder Ma Shanti, Rastafari. .
>
>             The Summit was only the second of a series of annual summits
to unify the African Diaspora with Africa. The first Summit was held at
Clarke Atlanta University (CAU) in Atlanta, Georgia. Some key leaders and
participants of the 2006 Summit were Dr. Shelby Lewis, Africa Advisor &
Consultant; Dr. Asa Hilliard, Vice President of the ASCAC; Charles Barron,
NY City Council/former Black Panther Party; Joe Beasley, RainbowPush
Coalition/Africa Ascension; Traditional High Priest Wande Abimbola of
Nigeria; Cardinal Mbuyi Chui, Shrine of the Black Madonna/Pan African
Orthodox Christian Church (PAOCC); Njeri Algahnee, National Coalition Of
Blacks for Reparations in America (NCOBRA)/Rastafari Movement, Dr. Jewel
Crawford, Global African Congress; Joe Kumasi, WHADN/PAOC; Sobukwe Shakura,
the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party (AAPRP); Prince Rahm, African
Hebrew Israelites; and Atty. Mzee Tate, Concern Black Clergy of Atlanta;
Nana Prempe, UNIA. Additionally, representatives of the Malcolm X Grassroots
Movement, Republic of New Africa, NAACP, Progressive National Baptist
Convention, the Presbyterian Church, USA, African Methodist Episcopal Zion
Church, the African Methodist Episcopal Church, etc. have participated and
supported the PAM Summit.
>
>             The Summit in Jamaica was also the celebration of the 107th
anniversary of the first Pan Africanism at the Conference and Congress in
July 1900 in England. The 1900 Conference was the first bold attempt by Pan
Africanists to build a blueprint for a global coordinated movement for the
liberation and reunification of Africans. The 1900 Conference was also a
response to the 1885 Berlin Conference, when European imperialist powers
formed an alliance for the complete control of African people and Africa's
resources. Finally, the Summit in Jamaica was a continuation of the recent
work of Dr. John Henrik Clarke whose prophetic warning calls for Africans to
unite around the vision of "Pan Africanism or Perish
>
>             ." Nana Farika Birhane, former delegate of both the 6th and
7th Pan African Congresses and Co-convener of the 2007 Summit stated African
Diaspora leaders are ready to forge Africans forward because "Pan Africanism
and the conditions of Africans demand action now." Reverend Dr. Ndugu
T'Ofori-Atta, Founder of the RHAWPAM Summit calls the summit result "a
fulfillment of the prophetic promises of our ancestors to rebuild Africa's
broken walls, to free the African captives in everyplace and to lead in
ushering in the beloved African community." Dr. Atta is a veteran African
activist and former Instructor of African Sacred Heritage and a Member of
the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows.
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