Mbading,
Thanks again.Though I agree with some the things said,not all, such most be 
the spirit of the debate
The Ghana grand debate is over  !!! Our Leaders returned back home not to 
discuss what they have been bubbling about in  Accra with their people but 
to continue the oppression of hard working people.
It reminds me of a discussion I had with a British friend some years 
back,whiles I am of the opinion that  the opposition to a United Europe by 
the fascist far right did contribute to the blind support of  many of the 
European Left of the EU. His point of departure was the fact that Marx was 
for a united Europe on genuine grounds but little did he do to put Marx 
stand point under a historical perspective, what was Europe then and  
compare to now is of extreme differences.
Precisely, a United State Of America is the very monster that should help us 
to think deeply  what the desire of the African Leaders entail. True ,the 
USA was united with blood, tears and the gun.I think it will be 
opportunistic to discuss the unification of America without bearing in mind 
the historical conditions that made that unification possible.Give guns and 
bullets to Africans to unite the continent, they will turn those guns and 
bullets against their oppressive leaders. One more thing is the fact that 
the unification of the USA never led to any social justice for minority 
blacks especialy.It created a  political power  base that has as its primary 
objective to seek the interest of  cooperate finance. This is why you can 
have a leader like George Bush  with unprecedented power to cause the death 
of  half a million men, women and Children in Iraq alone . Whiles Mumia 
still linger behind bars and the Malcom X and the Black Panthers etc 
silenced with the bullet for speaking against the racism which  Hurricane 
Katrina spell out in only few words.
It is only when one is not confident  in the ability of the African masses 
themselves to unite their continent, through their struggle against 
oppression, that this populist idealism of  a so called Grand Debate of 
United Africa  by fascist leaders who are far distant from their own people 
both physically and  mentally becomes the logical conclusion in the idea and 
stamped with the absolute.
What grand debate ? How can  Leaders who cannot even engage their own people 
  in discussing issue of national interest, without the use of force , 
suddenly emerged as protagonist of grand ideas ,or  what ? another 
Bureaucratic Brussels, where African intellectuals can meet  and demonstrate 
their  rational abilities (sic)and all in the name of African People. 
Northing is more disheartening than this arrogance of the African 
Intellectuals who at the  slightest opportunity will want to demonstrate how 
much they  know the   problems of the African people and how to solve them 
and as if all that matters is  for the people to listen to them.There is 
northing more fascist than 52 (?) head of states, known for their brutality  
and  northing else should decide the faith of a whole continent in 
conference hall.
One early morning in Accra, at about 5am, a good friend collected me to 
travel with him to a distance village to witness a demonstration by local 
salt miners. Their Land was expropriated and given to a  Salt Mining 
Company. We arrived at about 8 am and there was the riot police in full 
gears ready to unleash their terror on innocent people. This journalist 
Friend  was invited by the locals themselves to the village, there was a 
consultation meeting in the village, none of those affected were invited in 
the meeting and thus the reason for the demonstration. Whiles interviewing 
these villagers who swear to put their lives on the line in defending their 
Land and trade,one sense how much they despise a central authority that 
believe that they know what is better for  them,we left, after the 
demonstration knowing that is a battle lost to the dictates of finance 
capitalism.
If you know what has transpired in Kuffors’s Ghana since he came to power,if 
only you did not knock over the usual IMF/ World Bank  progress report ( I 
am saying this because some few days ago I had them saying that the  Afghan 
Government deserved debt relief because the government is doing good with 
the economy),you will know that he is not even capable of speaking for the 
ordinary Ghanaian  who are ever more drowning in absolute poverty, let alone 
  speaking for  millions of us.
Recently I told a friend if Gaddafi came to Accra with such a seriousness in 
his voice, lets just forget that whiles he is busy dishing out his national 
wealth to Americans and Europeans to make friends, whiles  the populist 
Chavez is nationalizing, I mean the right of Black Libyans is yet an issue  
he should solve with his country men. Take Morroco, they were at the summit, 
the  colonization  of Western Sahara or take Sudan, the genocide in Darfur( 
remember that Darfur was  one time an independent state )  or Southern 
Sudan, having an Independence on their Agenda are issues that the Accra 
summit would have been credited for resolving. Is it not a simple logic that 
a nation free and Independent will feel  more proud in being part of  a 
United continent than been forced to be  part of a continental union without 
the chance of solving their national issues.
It is northing but a lie and a pure lie to mean anything else if this whole 
process is not to make Africa more accessible to international finance 
capital. For the brutal exploitation of the continent and the ever 
marginalization of  her people.
The project now is not what Mbeki ,Gdaffi, Kuffor etc said or did not say, 
they are not leaders who are bleeding to make a difference to the lives of 
Africans, the GRAND DEBATE  is their project, true, let them continue to 
debate, ours must be northing less than the liberation of the Continent from 
these fascist and dictators. Any one deviating from this project is only 
advancing the interest of the oppressors. Northing can  gain us the respect 
we deserved  other than a firm stand against our dictators. A genuine United 
States of  Africa will be born out of the struggle of our people not in 
conferences or in any grand Debate.

For Freedom
Saiks




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>Subject: [>-<] USAfrica : A Mortal Danger for Black Africans
>Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:38:57 +0200
>
>   *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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