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Posted: Friday December 8th, 2006 12:31 |
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7 December 2006
Greetings Family,
Sister Zawadi has just brought to my attention the
passing of African historian Joseph Ki-Zerbo. Until
February 2005 I had only a passing familiarity with
Dr. Ki-Zerbo through the multi-volume UNESCO General
History of Africa. However, in February 2005 at an
African conference held in Burkina Faso, West Africa
which I spoke at Dr. Ki-Zerbo attended and gave a
short talk. It was an interesting talk and the one
statement that he made that resonated with me was
"History is not finished." Later that evening Dr.
Molefi Asante and I, along with several others, were
invited to Dr. Ki-Zerbo's home to meet with him. Both
he and his wife and family were very gracious to us
and made us feel right at home.
Dr. Asante referred to Dr. Ki-Zerbo at the time as
"Africa's greatest living historian." It was only
later while in France that I learned that he was a
staunch opponent of Burkina Faso head of state Thomas
Sankara.
The info below is from Wikpedia.com
In love of Africa,
Runoko Rashidi.
Joseph Ki-Zerbo (June 21, 1922 - December 4, 2006) was
a Burkinabè historian and politician.
Born in Toma, he studied at the Sorbonne and Institut
d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) and then
became professor for history in Orléans and Paris. In
1957, Ki-Zerbo returned to Burkina Faso and became
politically active. From 1972 to 1978 he was professor
for African history at the University of Ouagadougou.
In 1983, he was forced into exile - only being able to
return in 1992. In 1994, Joseph Ki-Zerbo founded the
Party for Democracy and Progress / Socialist Party,
which he was chairman of until 2005 and represented in
parliament until 2006. In 1997, he received the Right
Livelihood Award, the so-called Alternative Nobel
Prize, for his work as a historian and his analysis of
Africa's problems.
Ki-Zerbo was the best-known opponent of the
revolutionary government of Thomas Sankara. He was a
Socialist and an exponant of an independent
development of Africa and of unity of the continent.
Bibliography
1964 : Le Monde africain noir (Paris, Hatier)
1972 : Histoire de l'Afrique noire (Paris, Hatier)
1991 : Histoire générale de l'Afrique
2003 : A quand l'Afrique, collaboration with René
Holenstein (Editions de l'Aube, prix RFI Témoin du
monde 2004)
2005 : Afrique Noire, with Didier Ruef (Paris, Infolio
éditions)
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Posted: Friday December 8th, 2006 23:48 |
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Oh dear....all my good manners are telling me to say sorry that he is dead, but looking at history i don't see why i should....
I don't understand what his problem with Sankara was....Zerbo called himself a so called socialist, yet he hated everything Sankara was doing even though everything Sankara did was African Socialist at its core....
Perhaps Sankara was just way too ahead of his time.....i mean the man even told African men to do dishes and stop acting like brutes in their new European patriarchal nonesense.....perhaps this upset Zerbo too much? 
Oh well...
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Posted: Saturday December 9th, 2006 10:12 |
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Perhaps Sankara was just way too ahead of his time.....i mean the man even told African men to do dishes and stop acting like brutes in their new European patriarchal nonesense.....
Sounds like he was... ahead of his time that is. Sounds like Sankra was/is clued up!
I don't know who Zerbo was to be honest I just got the email and thought to post it.
Why don't you talk more about people/things like this? I still think you C.Africans are too quiet on this board and too westernized on Ligali.
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Posted: Monday December 11th, 2006 11:11 |
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Of course Mr Sankra isn't, ''ahead'' of his time its that we're behind after they killed off our elders and corrupted our culture we're all running around headless didn't mean to sound offencive if I did its just that if anyone knows about whats going on and how things should be its those who haven't been corrupted by western ideals.
Might make a topic about the diffrence between Matriarcal and Patriarchal cultures. The europeans have always attacked a peoples and twisted their female orienated culture to male ones... in the bible (a 'translation' of Eastern and African parables) you have a man giving birth to a woman  Completely unnatural and anything unnatural is not of God. Women working in high positions having to loose their feminity and motherly nature to suceed. It all goes into (european) mans envy of woman and where science is heading, mankind is perverting mother nature creating artificial 'paradises' etc etc and ultimately wants the ability to create life unnaturally, as in without woman.
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