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The Watcher
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Posted: Monday July 25th, 2005 09:20 |
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I recommend this book highly... just finished it myself.
He goes over much of the territory covered by many other books (egypt, colonistion, slavery, arab/christian influence etc etc but rather than simply describing as has been done before what these things did and go through the minutae of the profound effects on Africans, he talks more about how to overcome these issues in later chapters and describes the things which must be done. Also very importantly the things which must be done away with.
He gives examples of our continued slave minds in regards to things like the IOC and the Nobel prize commitess and how these things are used against us... That is a very interesting chapter yet it serves only as an example for how our minds are colonised. As I said, he does provide alternatives... It's up to us to follow him.
He is particularly upset about the Arabs in Africa and how we pander to them. The OAU (now AU) should not include Arab nations for Chinweizu. After finishing his angry chapter on the Arabisation of Africa and the dangers this poses to the survival of black people he summarises...
The pan africanist dream in the form expounded by W.E.B Du Bois, Marcus Garvey, Ras Makonnen and others, was a dream of black unification and black power to wipe out the humilliations of the past five centuries. It proved highly energising for the movement of political independance.
However, Nkrumah, for tactical reasons connected with the anti-colonial movement, sponsored a variant of Pan-Africanism which drained it of it's inspirational energies. In his continentalist version, African unity meant the political unification of the continent, as distinct from the African peoples. This meant uniting the Africans together with that fraction of the white Arab world which had invaded and expropriated the northern end of the black homeland, and had actively enslaved Africans until the European conquest restrained them. One result of this b**tardisation of Pan-Africanism was that the unification of the black world - blacks both of the homeland and of the diaspora - was lost to view.
Though energetically sponsored by no less a charismatic leader than Nkrumah, this b**tard brand of pan-Africanism has failed to stir the emotions and fire the imaginations of Africans.
The prospect of unifying with the Arab invaders of the African homeland has been as unedifying to the African psyche as would be a unification with white south africans were it proposed. Which is one reason why the OAU, that vehicle for a b**tard idea, flounders and has not caught on.
Interesting view on Nkrumah, I know... he expands on this later on
On joke has it that Nasser slyly gave Nkrumah an Arab wife and Nkrumah couldn't see straight after that. Up until Manchester [pan African congress 1945] the pan-African world for Nkrumah meant the black world; after Fathia (his wife) it became the African land mass with it's African and Arab dwellers. And with Nkrumah championing it, that has been the reigning vision of Pan-Africanism ever since.
Chinweizu like other Pan-Africanists calls for the establishment of an all black league of nations and invokes many compelling reasons why it is necessary and also the dangers of not doing so.
One of the good chapters is where he discusses the responsiblity of scholars and the literacy and nation building. The description of how this is essential to us as a people is excellent.
I rate this book highly, I like his angry tone. His seems to be scolding the reader like a parent dissapointed in his son. But the good part is the way he shows how to avoid the pitfalls.
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Posted: Monday July 25th, 2005 23:37 |
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Finally....i feel like i have been vindicated for being called an extremist for saying what Chinweizu has written......we must acknowledge that even our so called heroes made grave mistakes in how they dealt with the whites as well as Arabs.....i am so sick and tired of ignorant Africans thinking that Arabs are our friends......they are slymy racist hypocrites who should be watched more closely even than whites!
AU is a joke.....we need to start from scratch, and only Sub Saharan black countries ONLY.....Somalia, Mauritania and Sudan either clean up or out! We have no time to waste on imbeciles who should know better, there is no place for mixed loyalty or shared goals with the enemies...in or out.....*we are Arabs*...yeah right, they probably laugh at you to make them sleep.....KMT
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Posted: Tuesday July 26th, 2005 01:40 |
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Mezmerized wrote: Finally....i feel like i have been vindicated for being called an extremist for saying what Chinweizu has written......we must acknowledge that even our so called heroes made grave mistakes in how they dealt with the whites as well as Arabs.....i am so sick and tired of ignorant Africans thinking that Arabs are our friends......they are slymy racist hypocrites who should be watched more closely even than whites!
AU is a joke.....we need to start from scratch, and only Sub Saharan black countries ONLY.....Somalia, Mauritania and Sudan either clean up or out! We have no time to waste on imbeciles who should know better, there is no place for mixed loyalty or shared goals with the enemies...in or out.....*we are Arabs*...yeah right, they probably laugh at you to make them sleep.....KMT
 Thank you, sister! Those racist Arabs are selling black people in Yemen, Saudi Arabia, and Oman. They treat us like trash in their foul-smelling stores (which I don't go to) and talk about us like dogs in Arabic in the mosques if they think we can't understand. The Prophet Mohammed was not a racist, but he was an enigma in many ways. The Arabs went back to their own cruel, racist, sexist culture after Mohammed died and never looked back.
And we will never succeed with non-black countries in the AU. This is another puppet organization like the UN. Look how the AU stands by while the Arabs in the Sudan gang-rape our little 6 year old sisters. And shame on all of Afrika for this. If the Rwandans can slice up over 200K of their own people over nothing, why can't they get in there and slice up the Ganjaweed over what they are doing? But nooooo, we are too busy murdering each other to help. And it all starts with letting outsiders into our Afrikan business. Letting the Arabs in, letting the white man in, letting the Indians in. Right away they start stirring up trouble between us, then they give us all the weapons we want so we can kill one another...thanks for pointing this out!
Last edited on Tuesday July 26th, 2005 01:41 by HatHaruhotep
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