This week i have the pleasure to post a piece guest written by three close friends and associates all of whom have been playing a role in re-enegesing both the political landscape and Panafrican thinking in Namibia.
This in my view is a timely piece in that Namibia needs to do much soul searching in her attempt to define herself in the broad context of the "One Africa" project.
‘I beg to direct your attention to Africa: I know that in a few years I shall be cut off in that country, which is now open: Do not let it be shut again! I go back to Africa to try to make an open path for commerce and Christianity; do you carry out the work which I begun. I leave the work which I begun. I leave it with you’
David Livingstone, European Missionary-Explorer
“The missionary says that we are the children of God like our White brothers….but just look at us. Dogs, slaves, worse than baboons on the rocks…..that is how you treat us”
A Herero to a German Settler
“The Hottentots have no aeroplanes, and because of that the Boers and the British can bomb them out of their holes and huts and ultimately subdue them. But around these American cities and this Western World we have many Negroes who can fly in aeroplanes. Why not build some, and when the Hottentots need aeroplanes to combat aeroplanes, why not give them of our technical ability and help them to put over the big job that all of us want done”
Marcus Garvey
In using these quotes, it is not our intention to reopen the wounds of the past, but in our view, these wounds have not yet healed completely because the bandage continues to be cut by the realities of the relationship between the ‘Master Race vs. the Slave Race’. We are aware of the sensitivity of this characterization but judging the behaviour of our modern Africa both as individual States and people, there is increasing evidence to substantiate the dominance of the ‘Master Race’ and its subjugation of the ‘Slave Race’. The negrophobic attacks in South Africa as well as Kenya are examples that whilst we slaughter ourselves over crumbs from the capitalist table, the European neo-colonisers remain in control of our means of production, our economies and prices of African strategic raw materials. In this opinion piece, we argue that the only practical and realistic way for us as a people and continent to truly free ourselves from the mental shackles of colonialism and regain our true self determination and economic independence is through Pan-Afrikanism.
Clearly, since the advent of Europeans in Africa, our continent and people have not known real peace, stability and tranquility. Instead in the place of peace came war, in the place of stability came the drawing of arbitrary colonial borders (in 1884-5) and in the place of tranquility came slavery, racism and colonialism.
The African people were exported and sold as commodities in Europe, North America, South America and the Caribbean. The Constitution of the United States of America even declared an African as being 3/5 of a human being. Indeed, this African Holocaust began with the ‘European Renaissance’ in Italy in 1400 and since then slavery, colonialism and racism had ravaged the African continent and its people for centuries. It was the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism which destroyed Africa and underdeveloped it. In his book “How Europe underdeveloped Africa”, Dr Walter Rodney gives a vivid picture of this African tragedy. Slavery and colonialism were made possible by the so-called European Renaissance. The authors of this renaissance used the compass and gunpowder. These Chinese inventions for peaceful purposes were used by Europeans to steal the land and wealth of Africans.
It was as a result of this that visionary leaders of African descent advocated that all Africans - wherever they might be - should unite to end slavery, colonialism and racism. As a result of these events African people world wide began to realize that they faced common problems (slavery, colonization, and racism), and that it would be to their benefit to work together in an effort to solve these problems. Out of this realization came the Pan African Conferences of 1900 (London), 1919 (Paris), 1921 (London, Brussels, Paris), 1923 (London), 1927 (New York), and the last official one was in 1940s.
As Motsoko Pheko points out in his article in The Sowetan (1999), Pan Afrikanism is a movement began in 1776, however, the fifth Pan-African Congress held in Manchester, England, in 1945 advanced Pan-Afrikanism and applied it to the decolonisation of the African continent politically. Some African leaders involved in this noble cause were giants such as Kwame Nkrumah, William du Bois, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Sobukwe and Patrice Lumumba. In other words, “Pan-Afrikanism includes the intellectual, political and economic cooperation that should lead to the political unity of Africa. The Pan-African alternative provides a framework for African unity.” It also fosters radical change in the colonial structures of the economy, and the implementation of an inward-looking strategy of production and development. It calls for the unification of financial markets, economic integration, a new strategy for initial capital accumulation and the design of a new political map for Africa. Contemporary Africa is beset with difficulties rooted in its inability to unite territorially. The consequences have been national economies incapable of developing because of geographical, economic and political reasons.
We must accept this truth, and take it as our prime duty, if the restoration of Africa is to become a reality. Today we have currencies and passports which allegedly identify us from one another. Yet our currencies lose their values at the borders where we willingly surrender to the power of the Euro and American Dollar. Our national passports are used to restrict the movements of Africans but not of Europeans and Anglo-Saxons from America and elsewhere.
It is imperative to quote Pheko further when he states that “The artificial borders that separate the national territories in the region are divisive of people united by history and divisive of regions united by geography to the extent that they are the subject of disputes and conflicts between African states. SADC must strive for a community that transcends the economic level and strive for the territorial and political unification of Africa. This is the only way for the continent to become a great modern power. This is the only protection against neo-liberalism and globalisation.”
Pan-Afrikanism demands that the riches of Africa be used for the benefit, upliftment, development and enjoyment of the African people. Pan-Afrikanism is a system of equitably sharing food, clothing, homes, education, healthcare, wealth, land, work, security of life and happiness. Pan-Afrikanism is the privilege of the African people to love themselves and to give themselves and their way of life respect and preference. In other words there should be no need to sell white dolls in predominantly black neighborhoods or countries because such dolls are not made in the image of Africans but of Europeans. The only window out of this self-imposed slavery is Pan-Afrikanism. The current problems of Africa therefore are ‘neo-slavery, neo-racism, neo-colonialism, globalisation and neo-apartheid’. So why Pan-Afrikanism, because it was developed by outstanding African scholars, political scientists, historians and philosophers living in Africa and the Diaspora. It was conceived in the womb of Africa. It is a product made in Africa by Africans. Pan-Afrikanism is the oldest vision in Africa. No other ideology has successfully challenged Pan-Afrikanism intellectually. In other words, we do not need ‘coconut academics’ today who look black outside but white inside, NO, we need genuine African scholars, political scientists, historians and philosophers living in and the Diaspora to provide a salvation of the Afro-centric ideals espoused by great African visionaries of yesteryears.
PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA YESTERDAY
The national resistance wars of 1904-05 certainly had a lasting effect on the indigenous people’s lifestyle and views regarding Whites in Namibia in terms of Unity and Solidarity. Since the popular uprising by Hereros and Namas was crushed brutally by Lothar Von Trotha’s commando, many of the indigenous leaders were forced to sign protection treaties and surrendered to German Imperial Forces.
From July 1915, the South African regime took over the control of the Namibian territory from Germany, ending 30 years of German colonial rule. Although there has been a change in regime from one master to the other, the oppressive policies remain largely unchanged. Between 1920 and 1925 resistance against colonial rule assumed a variety of forms unparallel in Namibian history (Tony Emmet).
This period also witness the emergence of new forms of political organizations and ideological strands that transcended pre-colonial divisions and began laying a basis for national unity. Among various organizations that were established were the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU), the African People’s Organisation (APO) and the South West Africa National Congress (SWANC). Tony Emmet notes that “UNIA with its Pan-Africanist platform proved remarkably successful, spreading from the industrial center of Luderitz to other urban, centers, and then to the countryside”.
Both Tony Emmet and Gregory Pirio acknowledge that the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League were launched in Luderitz in 1921. The nucleus for the formation of the UNIA branch was constituted by a small group of West Africans and West Indians who had settled in the coastal towns of the territory. The majority of this group was said to be originating from Liberia, the Cameroon’s, Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast and had been brought into Namibia by the Germans before and during World War 1. In 1910…fifty men and a number of women and children were deported from German colony of Kamerun to Luderitz, following mutiny among the Black Schutztruppe in the West Africa colony (Tony Emmet). Some of the West Africans had been brought to Namibia by Woermann Shipping Company.
Towards the end of 1921 the Luderitz branch of UNIA had a membership of 331 and had collected more or less 41 pounds in subscription fees, a huge amount at that time considering the Black population of 2155 in Luderitz. Upon registration each recruit received a ‘Black, Red and Green Rossette’ which worn on the lapel (Gregory Pirio).
The Luderitz UNIA Branch was active in mobilizing the Blacks under one umbrella body. The continued exploitation of Blacks in all its manifestations-politically, socially and economically gave rise to the unity and resistance zeal to these ordinary people. Fritz Headly, its President was always persistent and resilient in providing the Parent Body with material documenting the real situation and used to write letters to the Negro World and was thus instrumental in acquainting Black people throughout the world with the oppressiveness of the South African mandate regime in South West Africa.
In one such letter, he stated (Gregorio Pirio);
‘We are segregated, discriminated, disenfranchised, jim-crowed in cattle trucks, coal boxes, and last but not least, butchered by the other fellow with rifle and machine gun bullets. But what we are dealing with mostly is segregation wholly in its aspects in the former regime of our oppressors the Germans’
GARVEYISM SPREAD TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
The Luderitz division of the UNIA branch was established in Windhoek in October 1921 under the guidance of its President Headly. From the onset what makes the Windhoek Branch of UNIA unique was that the executive of the branch was firmly under the control of local Black leaders.
The local leaders who were prominent in the Windhoek branch were Hosea Kutako, Aaron John Mungunda, Traugott Maharero, and Nikanor Hoveka. Other leaders on the executive committee were Alpheus Harasemab and Franz Hoisemab.
The Windhoek Branch sent out in October 1922 two emissaries-Theodor Hambue and John Mungunda to establish branches of the association in Usakos, Karibib and Okahandja (Gregory Pirio). Headly was also instrumental in the founding of the UNIA Branch in Swakopmund.
Not only were the ideals of Garveyism spreading in Namibia but the Parent Body also got wind of the activities of the UNIA Namibia. The first formal connection between Namibia and Garveyist organization is said to occur in 1922 when a UNIA delegation was sent to Geneva to petition the League of Nations to turn the former German Colonies over to black leadership (Tony Emmet).
Garvey himself was not disappointed or discouraged by the continued ignorance and silence by the League of Nations and continued steadfastly, in a true combative form to support the cause of South West African Blacks. One such example is in reaction to the aerial attacks against the Bondelswarts (in 1922),
Marcus Garvey had declared on the front page of the Negro World;
‘The Hottentots have no aeroplanes, and because of that the Boers and the British can bomb them out of their holes and huts and ultimately subdue them. But around these American cities and this Western World we have many Negroes who can fly in aeroplanes. Why not build some, and when the Hottentots need aeroplanes to combat aeroplanes, why not give them of our technical ability and help them to put over the big job that all of us want done’
Gregory Pirio
It is befitting to mention here that the hallmark of the early phase of the African liberation was the need to unite in the face of common intruders. The unity of purpose, which was so openly provided by Pan-Afrikanism in the form of UNIA’s ideological nexus, in action for change, heralded the birth of the Modern Namibian Nationalism, giving rise to the emergence of nationalist organizations in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA TODAY
Namibia gained its independence on the 21st of March 1990, ushering in a new wave of democracy and nation-building process. Indeed, the last colony on the African continent had become part of the international community. The challenge for the SWAPO leadership was now to transform the economy which was beset by a myriad of contradictions and inequalities into a modern economy, which is able to respond to the challenges faced by the people. The SWAPO Party government not only concentrated on transforming the education system but also provided the much needed political space, where young people, the majority of them who have not witness war could innovate with new ideas and ideologies.
It was during such time that the Pan-African Students Society (PASS) was formed in 1994 at the University of Namibia by the political science students to enhance the process of dialectics. According to Joshua Kaumbi, the Chairperson of PASS from 1998/9 the aim of the student society was to ‘promote African values and morals; acknowledge and honour the contribution of African men and women towards the advancement of the Pan-African ideas; to organize public lectures and to undertake research on issues affecting Africans at home and in the Diaspora’ (The African Origin of Civilization and the Destiny of Africa: 2000).
PASS was amongst the most vibrant and vocal societies on the campus. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
Panafricanism en Namibie : Henny Seibeb, Elijah T Ngurare, Clinton Swartbooi
Automatically translated into French thanks to WorldLingo
Cette semaine j'ai le plaisir de signaler un invité de morceau écrit par trois amis et associés étroits tous de qui avaient joué un rôle dans re-enegesing le paysage politique et Panafrican pensant en Namibie.
Ce dans ma vue est un morceau opportun du fait la Namibie doit faire beaucoup d'âme recherchant dans sa tentative de se définir dans le large contexte du projet de la « une Afrique ».
Le `I prient de diriger votre attention vers l'Afrique : Je sais qu'en quelques années je serai coupé dans ce pays, qui est maintenant ouvert : Ne le laissez pas être fermé encore ! Je vais de nouveau à l'Afrique essayer de faire un chemin ouvert pour le commerce et le christianisme ; vous menez à bien les travaux qui I commencé. Je laisse le travail qui I commencé. Je le laisse avec toi'
David Livingstone, Missionnaire-Explorateur européen
« Le missionnaire dit que nous sommes les enfants de Dieu comme nos frères blancs….mais regard juste à nous. Les chiens, esclaves, plus mauvais que des babouins sur les roches ..... qui est comment vous nous traitez »
un Herero à un colon allemand
« les hottentots n'ont aucun avion, et en raison de celui les Boers et les Anglais peuvent les bombarder hors de leurs trous et huttes et finalement les soumettre. Mais autour de ces villes américaines et de ce monde occidental nous avons beaucoup de nègres qui peuvent voler dans des avions. Pourquoi pas la construction certains, et quand les hottentots a besoin d'avions pour combattre des avions, pourquoi ne pas les donner de notre capacité technique et ne pas les aider à mettre au-dessus du grand travail que tous les nous veulent » Marcus
fait Garvey
en employant ces citations, il ne sont pas notre intention de rouvrir les blessures du passé, mais dans notre vue, ces blessures n'ont pas encore guéri complètement parce que le bandage continue à être coupé par les réalités du rapport entre la course de maître de `contre la course slave'. Nous nous rendons compte de la sensibilité de cette caractérisation mais jugeant le comportement de la notre Afrique moderne à mesure que différents états et personnes, là augmente l'évidence pour justifier la dominance de la course de maître de `' et de son assujettissement de la course slave de `'. Les attaques negrophobic en Afrique du Sud aussi bien que le Kenya sont des exemples qui tandis que nous abattons nous-mêmes excédent panent de la table de capitaliste, le néo--colonisers européen restent dans la commande de nos moyens de production, de nos économies et de prix des matières premières stratégiques d'Africain. Dans ce morceau d'opinion, nous arguons du fait que la seule manière pratique et réaliste pour nous comme peuple et continent vraiment de se libérer des dispositifs d'accrochage mentaux du colonialisme et de regagner notre autodétermination vraie et indépendance économique est par la Casserole-Afrikanism.
Clairement, depuis l'arrivée d'Européens en Afrique, notre continent et personnes n'ont pas su la vraies paix, stabilité et tranquilité. Au lieu de cela au lieu de la paix est venue la guerre, au lieu de la stabilité est venue le schéma des frontières coloniales arbitraires (en 1884-5) et au lieu de la tranquilité est venue esclavage, racisme et colonialisme.
Les africains ont été exportés et ont vendu sous le nom de produits en Europe, l'Amérique du Nord, l'Amérique du Sud et Caraïbes. La constitution des Etats-Unis d'Amérique a même déclaré un Africain en tant qu'étant 3/5 d'un être humain. En effet, cet holocauste africain a commencé par la Renaissance européenne de `' en Italie en 1400 et depuis lors l'esclavage, le colonialisme et le racisme avaient ravagé le continent africain et ses personnes pendant des siècles. C'était le commerce et le colonialisme slaves transatlantiques qui ont détruit l'Afrique et sous-développé il. En son livre « comment l'Europe Afrique sous-développée », DR Walter Rodney donne une image vive de cette tragédie africaine. L'esclavage et le colonialisme ont été rendus possible par la prétendue Renaissance européenne. Les auteurs de cette Renaissance ont employé la boussole et la poudre. Ces inventions chinoises pour des buts pacifiques ont été employées par Européen pour voler la terre et la richesse des Africains.
Il était en raison de ceci que les chefs visionnaires de la descente africaine ont préconisé que tous les Africains - là où ils pourraient être - devraient unir à l'esclavage, au colonialisme et au racisme de fin. En raison de ces événements les personnes africaines dans le monde entier ont commencé à se rendre compte qu'elles ont fait face à des problèmes communs (esclavage, colonisation, et racisme), et qu'il serait à leur avantage à travailler ensemble dans un effort de résoudre ces problèmes. Cette réalisation ont sorti les conférences africaines de casserole de 1900 (Londres), 1919 (Paris), 1921 (Londres, Bruxelles, Paris), 1923 (Londres), 1927 (New York), et le dernier fonctionnaire un était dans les années 40.
Pendant que Motsoko Pheko précise en son article dans Sowetan (1999), filtrez Afrikanism est un mouvement a commencé en 1776, cependant, le cinquième congrès Casserole-Africain tenu à Manchester, Angleterre, dans la Casserole-Afrikanism avancée par 1945 et appliqué lui au decolonisation du continent africain politiquement. Quelques chefs africains impliqués dans cette cause noble étaient les géants tels que Kwame Nkrumah, le William du Bois, le Jomo Kenyatta, le Robert Sobukwe et le Patrice Lumumba. En d'autres termes, la « Casserole-Afrikanism inclut la coopération intellectuelle, politique et économique qui devrait mener à l'unité politique de l'Afrique. L'alternative Casserole-Africaine fournit un cadre pour l'unité africaine. » Elle stimule également le changement radical des structures coloniales de l'économie, et l'exécution d'une stratégie introspective de production et de développement. Il réclame l'unification des marchés financiers, de l'intégration économique, d'une nouvelle stratégie pour l'accumulation capitale initiale et de la conception d'une nouvelle carte politique pour l'Afrique. L'Afrique contemporaine est assaillie avec des difficultés enracinées dans son incapacité d'unir territorialement. Les conséquences ont été des économies nationales incapables de se développer en raison des raisons géographiques, économiques et politiques.
Nous devons accepter cette vérité, et la prenons en tant que notre devoir principal, si la restauration de l'Afrique est de devenir une réalité. Aujourd'hui nous avons des devises et des passeports qui nous identifient prétendument les uns des autres. Pourtant nos devises perdent leurs valeurs aux frontières où nous nous rendons volontairement à la puissance de l'euro et du dollar américain. Nos passeports nationaux sont employés pour limiter les mouvements des Africains mais pas d'Européens et des Anglo-Saxon d'Amérique et ailleurs.
Il est impératif de citer Pheko autre quand il déclare que « les frontières artificielles qui séparent les territoires nationaux dans la région sont séparatives des personnes unies par l'histoire et séparatives des régions unies par géographie dans la mesure où elles sont le sujet des conflits et sont en conflit entre les Etats africains. SADC doit essayer d'obtenir une communauté qui dépasse le niveau économique et essaye d'obtenir l'unification territoriale et politique de l'Afrique. C'est la seule manière pour que le continent devienne une grande puissance moderne. C'est la seule protection contre le néo--libéralisme et la mondialisation. La »
Casserole-Afrikanism exige que la richesse de l'Afrique soit employée pour l'avantage, l'upliftment, le développement et le plaisir des africains. La Casserole-Afrikanism est un système de partager équitablement la nourriture, l'habillement, les maisons, l'éducation, les soins de santé, la richesse, la terre, le travail, la sécurité de la vie et le bonheur. La Casserole-Afrikanism est le privilège des africains de s'aimer et de se donner et leur respect et préférence de mode de vie. En d'autres termes il ne devrait y avoir aucun besoin de vendre les poupées blanches dans les voisinages principalement noirs ou des pays parce que de telles poupées ne sont pas faites dans l'image des Africains mais d'Européens. La seule fenêtre hors de cet esclavage dont on a pris soi-même la responsabilité est Casserole-Afrikanism. Les problèmes courants de l'Afrique sont donc néo--esclavage, néo--racisme, néo--colonialisme, mondialisation et néo--ségrégation de `'. Ainsi pourquoi Casserole-Afrikanism, parce qu'elle a été développée par les disciples africains exceptionnels, les scientifiques politiques, les historiens et les philosophes vivant en Afrique et la Diaspora. Il a été conçu dans l'utérus de l'Afrique. C'est un produit fabriqué en Afrique par Africans. La Casserole-Afrikanism est la vision la plus ancienne en Afrique. Aucune autre idéologie n'a intellectuellement avec succès défié la Casserole-Afrikanism. En d'autres termes, nous n'avons pas besoin des universitaires de noix de coco de `aujourd'hui qui l'extérieur noir de sembler mais blanc à l'intérieur, NON, nous a besoin de disciples africains véritables, les scientifiques politiques, des historiens et des philosophes vivant dedans et la Diaspora pour fournir un salut des idéaux Afro-centraux embrassés par de grands visionnaires africains des yesteryears.
PAN-AFRIKANISM EN NAMIBIE HIER
les guerres nationales de résistance de 1904-05 a certainement eu un effet durable sur le style de vie et les vues du peuple autochtone concernant des blancs en Namibie en termes d'unité et solidarité. Depuis le soulèvement populaire par Hereros et Namas a été écrasé brutalement par le commando de Lothar Von Trotha's, plusieurs des chefs indigènes ont été forcés de signer des traités de protection et rendus aux forces impériales allemandes.
À partir de juillet 1915, le régime sud-africain a assuré la commande du territoire namibien d'Allemagne, finissant 30 ans de règle coloniale allemande. Bien qu'il y ait eu un changement de régime d'un maître à l'autre, les politiques accablantes demeurent en grande partie inchangées. Entre la résistance 1920 et 1925 contre la règle coloniale a assumé une variété d'unparallel de formes dans l'histoire namibienne (Emmet élégant).
Cette période sont témoin également de l'apparition de nouvelles formes d'organismes politiques et de rives idéologiques qui ont dépassé des divisions pré-coloniales et ont commencé à étendre une base pour l'unité nationale. Parmi les divers organismes qui ont été établis étaient l'association universelle d'amélioration de nègre (UNIA), le syndicat industriel et commercial (ICU), l'organisation de africains (APO) et le congrès national du Sud-Ouest africain (SWANC). Emmet élégant note que « UNIA avec sa plateforme de Casserole-Africanist a été remarquablement couronné de succès, écartant du centre industriel de Luderitz à autre urbain, des centres, et puis à la campagne ».
Emmet élégant et Gregory Pirio reconnaissent que l'association universelle d'amélioration de nègre et la ligue africaine des Communautés ont été lancées dans Luderitz en 1921. Le noyau pour la formation de la branche d'UNIA a été constitué par un petit groupe d'Africains occidentaux et d'Indiens occidentaux qui avaient arrangé dans les villes côtières du territoire. On a dit que provient du Libéria, du Cameroun, de la Sierra Leone et de la côte d'or et avait été introduit la majorité de ce groupe dans la Namibie par les Allemands avant et pendant la guerre mondiale 1. En 1910… cinquante hommes et un certain nombre des femmes et des enfants ont été expulsés de la colonie allemande de Kamerun à Luderitz, après révolte parmi le Schutztruppe noir dans la colonie occidentale de l'Afrique (Emmet élégant). Certains des Africains occidentaux avaient été apportés en Namibie par Woermann Shipping Company.
Vers la fin de 1921 la branche de Luderitz d'UNIA a eu une adhésion de 331 et avait rassemblé plus ou moins 41 livres dans des honoraires d'abonnement, une quantité énorme à ce moment-là considérant la population noire de 2155 dans Luderitz. Lors de l'enregistrement chaque recrue a reçu un Rossette de noir de `, rouge et vert' qui porté sur le revers (Gregory Pirio).
La branche de Luderitz UNIA était en activité en mobilisant les noirs au-dessous de un corps de parapluie. L'exploitation continue des noirs dans toutes ses manifestations-politique, socialement et économiquement a provoqué l'unité et l'ardeur de résistance à ces gens du commun. Fritz Headly, son président était toujours persistant et résilient en fournissant au corps de parent la matière documentant la vraie situation et employée pour écrire des lettres au monde de nègre et était ainsi instrumental en mettant au courant les personnes noires dans le monde entier du caractère accablant du régime sud-africain de mandat au Sud-Ouest africain.
Dans une telle lettre, il a énoncé (Gregorio Pirio) ;
`Nous sommes isolés, distingué, privé des droits civiques, jim-rappelé dans des wagons à bestiaux, boîtes de charbon, et enfin et surtout, envoyées à la boucherie par l'autre camarade avec fusillez et des balles de mitrailleuse. Mais ce que nous traitons la plupart du temps est la ségrégation complètement dans ses aspects dans l'ancien régime de nos oppresseurs DIFFUSION de GARVEYISM
des Allemands' À LA CAMPAGNE que
la division de Luderitz de la branche d'UNIA a été établie dans Windhoek en octobre 1921 sous les conseils de son Président Headly. Du début ce qui fait la branche de Windhoek d'UNIA unique était que le directeur de la branche était fermement sous la commande des chefs noirs locaux.
Les chefs locaux qui étaient en avant dans la branche de Windhoek étaient Hosea Kutako, Aaron John Mungunda, Traugott Maharero, et Nikanor Hoveka. D'autres chefs sur le comité de direction étaient Alpheus Harasemab et Franz Hoisemab.
La branche de Windhoek envoie en octobre 1922 deux émissaires-Theodor Hambue et John Mungunda pour établir des branches de l'association dans Usakos, Karibib et Okahandja (Gregory Pirio). Headly était également instrumental dans la fondation de la branche d'UNIA dans Swakopmund.
Étaient non seulement les idéaux de Garveyism s'étendant en Namibie mais le corps de parent vent également obtenu des activités de l'UNIA Namibie. On dit que le premier raccordement formel entre l'organisation de la Namibie et du Garveyist se produit en 1922 où une délégation d'UNIA a été envoyée à Genève à la pétition la ligue des nations pour faire tourner les anciennes colonies allemandes à la conduite noire (Emmet élégant).
Garvey lui-même n'a pas été déçu ou a été découragé par l'ignorance et le silence continus par la ligue des nations et pas continué immuablement, sous une véritable forme combative pour soutenir la cause des noirs africains occidentaux du sud. Un tel exemple est dans la réaction aux attaques aériennes contre le Bondelswarts (en 1922),
Marcus que Garvey avait déclaré sur la page plan du monde de nègre ;
Le `les hottentots n'ont aucun avion, et en raison de celui les Boers et les Anglais peuvent les bombarder hors de leurs trous et huttes et finalement les soumettre. Mais autour de ces villes américaines et de ce monde occidental nous avons beaucoup de nègres qui peuvent voler dans des avions. Pourquoi pas construction certains, et quand les hottentots ont besoin d'avions pour combattre des avions, pourquoi ne pas les donner de notre capacité technique et ne pas les aider à mettre au-dessus du grand travail que tous les nous veulent' Gregory
fait Pirio
il conviennent pour mentionner ici que le cachet de la phase tôt de la libération africaine était la nécessité d'unir face aux intrus communs. L'unité du but, qui a été tellement ouvrir fourni par Casserole-Afrikanism sous forme de connexion idéologique d'UNIA, dans l'action pour le changement, a annoncé la naissance du nationalisme namibien moderne, provoquant l'apparition des organismes nationalistes vers la fin des années 50 et du début des années soixante.
PAN-AFRIKANISM EN NAMIBIE AUJOURD'HUI
Namibie a gagné son indépendance sur la 21ème du mars 1990, déclenchant une nouvelle vague de démocratie et de processus de nation-bâtiment. En effet, la dernière colonie sur le continent africain a eu la partie devenue de la communauté internationale. Le défi pour la conduite de SWAPO était maintenant de transformer l'économie qui a été assaillie par une myriade de contradictions et les inégalités dans une économie moderne, qui peut relever les défis ont faites face par le peuple. Le gouvernement de partie de SWAPO non seulement concentré sur transformer le système d'éducation mais également fourni l'espace politique si nécessaire, où les jeunes, la plupart d'entre eux qui n'ont pas la guerre de témoin pourraient innover avec de nouvelles idées et idéologies.
Il avait lieu pendant une telle heure que la société Casserole-Africaine d'étudiants (PASSAGE) a été formée en 1994 à l'université de la Namibie par les étudiants politiques de la science pour augmenter le processus de la dialectique. Selon Joshua Kaumbi, le président du PASSAGE de 1998/9 du but de la société d'étudiant était au `favorisent des valeurs et des morales africaines ; reconnaissez et honorez la contribution des hommes et des femmes africains vers l'avancement des idées Casserole-Africaines ; pour organiser des conférences publiques et pour entreprendre la recherche sur des questions affectant des Africains à la maison et dans la Diaspora' (l'origine africaine de la civilisation et le destin de l'Afrique : 2000).
Le PASSAGE était parmi les sociétés les plus vibrantes et les plus vocales sur le campus. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
Panafricanism en Namibia: Henny Seibeb, Elijah T Ngurare, Clinton Swartbooi
Automatically translated into Spanish thanks to WorldLingo
Esta semana tengo el placer de fijar a una huésped del pedazo escrita por tres amigos y asociados cercanos todos de quién han estado desempeñando un papel en re-enegesing el paisaje político y Panafrican que pensaba en Namibia.
Esto en mi opinión es un pedazo oportuno en que Namibia necesita hacer mucha alma que busca en su tentativa de definirse en el amplio contexto del proyecto de “una África”.
El `I pide para dirigir su atención a África: Sé que en algunos años me cortarán en ese país, que está abierto ahora: ¡No lo deje ser cerrado otra vez! Voy de nuevo a África a intentar hacer una trayectoria abierta para el comercio y el cristianismo; usted realiza el trabajo que I comenzado. Dejo el trabajo que I comenzado. Lo dejo con usted'
David Livingstone, Misionario-Explorador europeo
“El misionario dice que somos los niños del dios como nuestros hermanos blancos….pero mirada justa en nosotros. Los perros, esclavos, peores que babuinos en las rocas ..... que es cómo usted nos trata”
un Herero a un colono alemán
“los Hottentots no tienen ningún avión, y debido a ése los Boers y los Británicos pueden bombardearlo fuera de sus agujeros y chozas y someterlas en última instancia. Pero alrededor de estas ciudades americanas y de este mundo occidental tenemos muchos negros que puedan volar en aviones. Porqué no la estructura algunos, y cuando los Hottentots necesita los aviones combatir los aviones, porqué no darlos de nuestra capacidad técnica y no ayudarles a poner sobre el trabajo grande que todos nosotros desean a” Marcus
hecho Garvey
al usar estas cotizaciones, él no es nuestra intención de abrir de nuevo las heridas del pasado, sino en nuestra opinión, estas heridas todavía no han curado totalmente porque el vendaje continúa siendo cortado por las realidades de la relación entre la raza del amo del `contra la raza auxiliar'. Estamos enterados de la sensibilidad de esta caracterización pero juzgando el comportamiento de nuestra África moderna como estados y gente individuales, está aumentando evidencia para verificar la dominación de la raza del amo del `' y de su subjugation de la raza del esclavo del `'. Sigue habiendo los ataques negrophobic en Suráfrica así como Kenia son los ejemplos que mientras que matamos ourselves excedente desmenuzan de la tabla del capitalista, el neo-colonisers europeo en el control de nuestros medios de la producción, de nuestras economías y de los precios de las materias primas estratégicas del africano. En este pedazo de la opinión, discutimos que la única manera práctica y realista para nosotros como una gente y continente de liberarse de los grillos mentales del colonialismo y de recuperar verdad nuestra autodeterminación verdadera e independencia económica esté a través de Cacerola-Afrikanism.
Claramente, desde el advenimiento de europeos en África, nuestro continente y gente no han sabido paz, estabilidad y tranquilidad verdaderas. En lugar en el lugar de paz vino la guerra, en el lugar de estabilidad vino el dibujo de fronteras coloniales arbitrarias (en 1884-5) y en el lugar de tranquilidad vino esclavitud, racismo y colonialismo.
Exportaron y vendió a la gente africana como materias en Europa, Norteamérica, Suramérica y el Caribe. La constitución de los Estados Unidos de América incluso declaró a africano como siendo 3/5 de un humano. De hecho, este Holocaust africano comenzó con el renacimiento europeo del `' en Italia en 1400 y desde entonces la esclavitud, el colonialismo y el racismo tenían ravaged al continente africano y a su gente por siglos. Era el comercio y el colonialismo transatlánticos del esclavo que destruyeron África y subdesarrollado él. En su libro “cómo Europa África subdesarrollada”, dr Walter Rodney da un cuadro vivo de esta tragedia africana. La esclavitud y el colonialismo fueron hechos posible por el renacimiento europeo supuesto. Los autores de este renacimiento utilizaron el compás y la pólvora. Estas invenciones chinas para los propósitos pacíficos fueron utilizadas por europeo para robar la tierra y la abundancia de africanos.
Estaba como resultado de el que los líderes visionarios de la pendiente africana abogaron que todos los africanos - puede ser que estén dondequiera que - deben unir a la esclavitud, al colonialismo y al racismo del final. Como resultado de estos acontecimientos la gente africana por todo el mundo comenzó a realizar que ella hizo frente a los problemas comunes (esclavitud, colonización, y racismo), y que estaría a su ventaja a trabajar junto en un esfuerzo de solucionar estos problemas. De esta realización vinieron las conferencias africanas de la cacerola de 1900 (Londres), 1919 (París), 1921 (Londres, Bruselas, París), 1923 (Londres), 1927 (Nueva York), y el funcionario pasado uno estaba en los años 40.
Mientras que Motsoko Pheko precisa en su artículo en el Sowetan (1999), filtre Afrikanism es un movimiento comenzó en a 1776, sin embargo, a quinto congreso Cacerola-Africano llevado a cabo en Manchester, Inglaterra, en Cacerola-Afrikanism avanzada 1945 y aplicado le al decolonisation del continente africano político. Algunos líderes africanos implicados en esta causa noble eran gigantes tales como Kwame Nkrumah, Guillermo du Bois, Jomo Kenyatta, Roberto Sobukwe y Patrice Lumumba. Es decir la “Cacerola-Afrikanism incluye la cooperación intelectual, política y económica que debe conducir a la unidad política de África. El alternativa Cacerola-Africano proporciona un marco para la unidad africana.” También fomenta el cambio radical en las estructuras coloniales de la economía, y la puesta en práctica de una estrategia introspectiva de la producción y del desarrollo. Llama para la unificación de mercados financieros, de la integración económica, de una nueva estrategia para la acumulación de capital inicial y del diseño de un mapa político nuevo para África. África contemporánea se sitia con las dificultades arraigadas en su inhabilidad de unir territorial. Las consecuencias han sido economías nacionales incapaces de convertirse debido a razones geográficas, económicas y políticas.
Debemos aceptar esta verdad, y la tomamos como nuestro deber primero, si la restauración de África es convertirse en una realidad. Tenemos hoy las modernidades y pasaportes que alegado nos identifican a partir del uno otro. Con todo nuestras modernidades pierden sus valores en las fronteras donde nos entregamos dispuesto a la energía del euro y del dólar americano. Nuestros pasaportes nacionales se utilizan para restringir los movimientos de africanos pero no de europeos y de los anglosajones de América y a otra parte.
Es imprescindible cotizar Pheko más futuro cuando él indica que “las fronteras artificiales que separan los territorios nacionales en la región son divisivas de la gente unida por la historia y divisiva de las regiones unidas por la geografía hasta el punto de sean el tema de conflictos y están en conflicto entre los Estados africanos. SADC debe esforzarse para una comunidad que supere el nivel económico y se esfuerza para la unificación territorial y política de África. Ésta es la única manera para que el continente se convierta en una gran energía moderna. Ésta es la única protección contra neo-liberalismo y el globalisation. La”
Cacerola-Afrikanism exige que las riquezas de África estén utilizadas para la ventaja, el upliftment, el desarrollo y el disfrute de la gente africana. La Cacerola-Afrikanism es un sistema equitativo de compartir el alimento, la ropa, hogares, la educación, el healthcare, la abundancia, la tierra, el trabajo, la seguridad de la vida y la felicidad. La Cacerola-Afrikanism es el privilegio de la gente africana de amarse y de darse y su manera del respecto y de la preferencia de la vida. Es decir no debe haber necesidad de vender las muñecas blancas en vecindades predominante negras o países porque tales muñecas no se hacen en la imagen de africanos sino de europeos. La única ventana fuera de esta esclavitud self-imposed es Cacerola-Afrikanism. Los problemas actuales de África por lo tanto son neo-esclavitud, neo-racismo, neo-colonialismo, globalisation y neo-apartheid del `'. Tan porqué Cacerola-Afrikanism, porque fue desarrollada por los eruditos africanos excepcionales, los científicos políticos, los historiadores y los filósofos viviendo en África y el Diaspora. Fue concebido en la matriz de África. Es un producto hecho en África por africans. La Cacerola-Afrikanism es la más vieja visión de África. Ninguna otra ideología ha desafiado con éxito la Cacerola-Afrikanism intelectual. Es decir no necesitamos académico del coco del `hoy quién el exterior negro de la mirada solamente blanco adentro, NO, nosotros necesita a eruditos africanos genuinos, los científicos políticos, los historiadores y los filósofos que viven adentro y el Diaspora para proporcionar una salvación de los ideales Afro-céntricos espoused por los grandes visionarios africanos de yesteryears.
PAN-AFRIKANISM EN NAMIBIA
las guerras nacionales de la resistencia de 1904-05 tenía AYER ciertamente un efecto duradero en la forma de vida y las opiniones de la gente indígena con respecto a blancos en Namibia en términos de unidad y solidaridad. Desde la sublevación popular por Hereros y Namas fue machacado brutal por el comando de Lothar Von Trotha, forzaron firmar tratados de la protección y fueron entregados muchos de los líderes indígenas a las fuerzas imperiales alemanas.
A partir del julio de 1915, el régimen del africano del sur asumió el control el control del territorio de Namibian de Alemania, terminando 30 años de la regla colonial alemana. Aunque ha habido un cambio en régimen a partir de un amo al otro, las políticas opresivas siguen siendo en gran parte sin cambios. Entre la resistencia 1920 y 1925 contra regla colonial asumió una variedad de unparallel de las formas en la historia de Namibian (Emmet Tony).
Este período también atestigua la aparición de las nuevas formas de organizaciones políticas y de filamentos ideológicos que superaron las divisiones pre-coloniales y comenzaron a poner una base para la unidad nacional. Entre las varias organizaciones que fueron establecidas estaban la asociación universal de la mejora del negro (UNIA), la unión de trabajadores industrial y comercial (ICU), la organización de la gente africana (APO) y el congreso nacional del oeste del sur de África (SWANC). Emmet Tony observa que “UNIA con su plataforma de la Cacerola-Africanist probó notable acertado, separándose del centro industrial de Luderitz al otro urbano, los centros, y entonces al campo”.
Emmet Tony y Gregory Pirio reconocen que lanzaron la asociación universal de la mejora del negro y a la liga africana de las comunidades en Luderitz en 1921. El núcleo para la formación del rama de UNIA fue constituido por un grupo pequeño de los africanos del oeste y de los indios del oeste que habían colocado en las ciudades costeras del territorio. Dijeron para originar de Liberia, del Camerún, de Sierra Leona y de la costa del oro y había sido traída la mayoría de este grupo en Namibia por los alemanes antes y durante de la guerra mundial 1. En 1910… cincuenta hombres y un número de mujeres y de niños estuvo deportado de la colonia alemana de Kamerun a Luderitz, después del motín entre el Schutztruppe negro en la colonia del oeste de África (Emmet Tony). Woermann Shipping Company habían traído algunos de los africanos del oeste a Namibia.
Hacia el final de 1921 el rama de Luderitz de UNIA tenía una calidad de miembro de 331 y había recogido más o menos 41 libras en honorarios de la suscripción, una cantidad enorme en aquel momento que consideraba la población negra de 2155 en Luderitz. Sobre el registro cada recluta recibió un Rossette del negro del `, rojo y verde' que usado en la solapa (Gregory Pirio).
El rama de Luderitz UNIA era activo en la movilización de los negros bajo un cuerpo del paraguas. La explotación continuada de negros en todas sus manifestaciones-político, dio lugar social y económicamente a la unidad y al celo de la resistencia a estas gentes normales. Fritz Headly, su presidente era siempre persistente y resistente en proveer del cuerpo del padre el material que documentaba la situación verdadera y usado para escribir letras al mundo del negro y era así instrumental en conocer a gente negra a través del mundo de la opresión del régimen del mandato del africano del sur en África del oeste del sur.
En una tal letra, él indicó (Gregorio Pirio);
`Al otro compañero con las balas de la ametralladora del rifle nos segregamos, discriminado, disenfranchised, jim-cantado en carros de ganados, cajas del carbón, y pasado pero no lo más menos posible, matado y. Pero qué estamos tratando sobre todo está la segregación enteramente en sus aspectos en el régimen anterior de nuestros opresores EXTENSIÓN de GARVEYISM
de los alemanes' AL CAMPO que
la división de Luderitz del rama de UNIA fue establecida en Windhoek en octubre de 1921 bajo dirección de su presidente Headly. Del inicio qué hace el rama de Windhoek de UNIA único era que el ejecutivo del rama estaba firmemente bajo control de líderes negros locales.
Los líderes locales que eran prominentes en el rama de Windhoek eran Hosea Kutako, Aaron Juan Mungunda, Traugott Maharero, y Nikanor Hoveka. Otros líderes en el comité ejecutivo eran Alpheus Harasemab y Franz Hoisemab.
El rama de Windhoek envió en octubre de 1922 a dos emissaries-Theodor Hambue y Juan Mungunda para establecer los ramas de la asociación en Usakos, Karibib y Okahandja (Gregory Pirio). Headly era también instrumental en la fundación del rama de UNIA en Swakopmund.
No sólo eran los ideales de Garveyism que se separaban en Namibia pero el cuerpo del padre viento también conseguido de las actividades del UNIA Namibia. La primera conexión formal entre la organización de Namibia y de Garveyist se dice para ocurrir en 1922 en que enviaron una delegación de UNIA a Ginebra a la petición la liga de las naciones para dar la vuelta a las colonias alemanas anteriores a la dirección negra (Emmet Tony).
Garvey mismo no fue decepcionado ni fue desalentado por la ignorancia y el silencio continuados por la liga de naciones y no continuado firmemente, en una forma combative verdadera para apoyar la causa de negros africanos del oeste del sur. Un tal ejemplo está en la reacción a los ataques aéreos contra el Bondelswarts (en 1922),
Marcus que Garvey había declarado en la página delantera del mundo del negro;
El `los Hottentots no tiene ningún avión, y debido a ése los Boers y los Británicos pueden bombardearlo fuera de sus agujeros y chozas y someterlas en última instancia. Pero alrededor de estas ciudades americanas y de este mundo occidental tenemos muchos negros que puedan volar en aviones. Porqué no estructura algunos, y cuando los Hottentots necesitan los aviones combatir los aviones, porqué no darlos de nuestra capacidad técnica y no ayudarles a poner sobre el trabajo grande que todos nosotros desean a' Gregory
hecho Pirio
él befitting para mencionar aquí que el sello de la fase temprana de la liberación africana era la necesidad de unir frente a intrusos comunes. La unidad del propósito, que fue proporcionado tan abiertamente por Cacerola-Afrikanism bajo la forma de nexo ideológico de UNIA, en la acción para el cambio, anunció el nacimiento del nacionalismo moderno de Namibian, dando lugar a la aparición de organizaciones nacionalistas en los últimos años 50 y los años 60 tempranos.
PAN-AFRIKANISM EN NAMIBIA Namibia
ganó HOY su independencia en la 21ra del marzo de 1990, llevando en una onda nueva de la democracia y del proceso del nación-edificio. De hecho, la colonia pasada en el continente africano tenía parte convertida de la comunidad internacional. El desafío para la dirección de SWAPO ahora era transformar la economía que fue sitiada por una miríada de contradicciones y las desigualdades en una economía moderna, que puede responder a los desafíos hicieron frente por la gente. El gobierno del partido de SWAPO no sólo se concentró en transformar el sistema educativo pero también proporcionó el espacio político muy necesario, donde la gente joven, la mayoría de ellos que no tienen guerra del testigo podría innovar con nuevas ideas e ideologías.
Era durante tal hora que a los estudiantes políticos de la ciencia formó a la sociedad Cacerola-Africana de los estudiantes (PASO) en 1994 en la universidad de Namibia para realzar el proceso de la dialéctica. Según Joshua Kaumbi, el presidente del PASO a partir de la 1998/9 de la puntería de la sociedad del estudiante estaba al `promueve valores y moralejas africanos; reconozca y honre la contribución de hombres y de mujeres africanos hacia el adelanto de las ideas Cacerola-Africanas; para organizar conferencias públicas y emprender la investigación sobre las ediciones que afectan a africanos en el país y en el Diaspora' (el origen africano de la civilización y el destino de África: 2000).
El PASO estaba entre las sociedades más vibrantes y más vocales en el campus. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
Panafricanism nel Namibia: Henny Seibeb, Elijah T Ngurare, Clinton Swartbooi
Automatically translated into Italian thanks to WorldLingo
Questa settimana ho il piacere inviare un ospite della parte scritto da tre amici e soci vicini tutti di chi stanno svolgendo un ruolo in re-enegesing sia il paesaggio politico che Panafrican che pensa nel Namibia.
Ciò nel mio punto di vista è una parte attuale in quanto il Namibia deve fare molta anima che cerca nel suo tentativo di definirsi nel vasto contesto “del progetto dell'un'Africa„.
Il `I elemosina per dirigere la vostra attenzione in Africa: So che durante alcuni anni sarò escluso in quel paese, che ora è aperto: Nonlo lasci essere chiuso ancora! Vado di nuovo all'Africa provare a fare un percorso aperto per il commercio ed il Christianity; effettuate il lavoro che I cominciata. Lascio il lavoro che I cominciata. Lo lascio con voi'
David Livingstone, Missionario-Esploratore europeo
“Il missionario dice che siamo i bambini del dio come i nostri fratelli bianchi….ma sguardo giusto noi. I cani, schiavi, più difettosi dei babbuini sulle roccie ..... che è come li curate„
un Herero ad un Settler tedesco
“i Hottentots non hanno aeroplani ed a causa di quello i Boers ed i Britannici possono bombardarli dai loro fori e capanne ed infine sottometterli. Ma intorno a queste città americane ed a questo mondo occidentale abbiamo molti Negroes che possono volare in aeroplani. Perchè non la configurazione alcuni e quando i Hottentots ha bisogno degli aeroplani di combattere gli aeroplani, perchè non darli della nostra abilità tecnica e non aiutarli a mettere sopra il lavoro grande che tutti noi desiderano„ Marcus
fatto Garvey
nel usando queste citazioni, esso non sono la nostra intenzione riaprire le ferite del passato, ma nel nostro punto di vista, queste ferite ancora non hanno guarito completamente perché la fasciatura continua ad essere tagliata dalle realtà del rapporto fra la corsa del padrone del `contro la corsa Slave'. Siamo informati della sensibilità di questa descrizione ma di giudicare il comportamento della nostra Africa moderna sia poichè l'individuo dichiara che la gente, là stiamo aumentando la prova per convalidare la dominanza della corsa del padrone del `' e del relativo subjugation della corsa dello schiavo del `'. Gli attacchi negrophobic in Sudafrica così come il Kenia sono esempi che mentre macelliamo noi stessi eccedenza sbriciolano dalla tabella del capitalista, il neo-colonisers europeo rimangono nel controllo dei nostri mezzi di produzione, delle nostre economie e dei prezzi delle materie prime strategiche dell'Africano. In questa parte di opinione, sosteniamo che l'unico senso pratico e realistico per noi come una gente e continente allineare liberarsi dagli anelli di trazione mentali del colonialismo e riguadagnare la nostre vera determinazione ed indipendenza economica di auto è tramite la Vaschetta-Afrikanism.
Chiaramente, dall'avvenimento di Europei in Africa, il nostri continente e gente non hanno conosciuto la pace, la stabilità ed il tranquility reali. Invece nel posto di pace è venuto la guerra, nel posto di stabilità è venuto l'illustrazione dei bordi coloniali arbitrari (in 1884-5) e nel posto di tranquility è venuto slavery, il razzismo ed il colonialismo.
La gente africana è stata esportata e venduto sotto il nome di prodotti Europa, in America del Nord, in Sudamerica e Caraibi. La costituzione degli Stati Uniti d'America persino ha dichiarato un Africano come essendo 3/5 di un umano. Effettivamente, questo Holocaust africano ha cominciato con la rinascita europea del `' in Italia in 1400 e da allora lo slavery, il colonialismo ed il razzismo avevano devastato il continente africano e la relativa gente per i secoli. Era il commercio ed il colonialismo transatlantici dello schiavo che hanno distrutto l'Africa e sottosviluppato esso. In suo libro “come Europa Africa sottosviluppata„, Dott Walter Rodney dà un'immagine chiara di questa tragedia africana. Lo Slavery ed il colonialismo sono stati permessi dalla cosiddetta rinascita europea. Gli autori di questa rinascita hanno usato la bussola e la polvere nera. Queste invenzioni cinesi per gli scopi pacifici sono state usate da Europeo per rubare la terra e la ricchezza degli Africani.
Era come conseguenza di questo che i capi visionary della discesa africana hanno sostenuto che tutti gli Africani - laddove potrebbero essere - dovrebbero unire a slavery, al colonialismo ed al razzismo di conclusione. Come conseguenza di questi eventi la gente africana universalmente ha cominciato a rendersi conto che hanno affrontato i problemi comuni (slavery, colonizzazione e razzismo) e che sarebbe al loro beneficio da funzionare insieme in uno sforzo risolvere questi problemi. Questa realizzazione hanno uscito da i congressi africani della vaschetta di 1900 (Londra), 1919 (Parigi), 1921 (Londra, Bruxelles, Parigi), 1923 (Londra), 1927 (New York) e l'ultimo funzionario uno era nei 1940s.
Mentre Motsoko Pheko precisa in suo articolo nel Sowetan (1999), filtri Afrikanism è un movimento ha cominciato in 1776, tuttavia, nel quinto congresso Vaschetta-Africano tenuto a Manchester, Inghilterra, in Vaschetta-Afrikanism avanzata 1945 ed applicato esso al decolonisation del continente africano politicamente. Alcuni capi africani coinvolgere in questa causa nobile erano giganti quale Kwame Nkrumah, William du Bois, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Sobukwe e Patrice Lumumba. Cioè “la Vaschetta-Afrikanism include la cooperazione intellettuale, politica ed economica che dovrebbe condurre all'unità politica dell'Africa. L'alternativa Vaschetta-Africana fornisce una struttura per unità africana.„ Inoltre promuove il cambiamento radicale nelle strutture coloniali dell'economia e l'esecuzione di una strategia introspettiva di produzione e di sviluppo. Richiede l'unificazione dei mercati finanziari, dell'integrazione economica, di nuova strategia per accumulazione capitale iniziale e del disegno di nuovo programma politico per l'Africa. L'Africa contemporanea è assalita con le difficoltà sradicate nella relativa incapacità di unire territoriale. Le conseguenze sono state economie nazionali incapaci di sviluppo a causa dei motivi geografici, economici e politici.
Dobbiamo accettare questa verità e la prendiamo come nostro dovere principale, se il ripristino dell'Africa è di trasformarsi in in una realtà. Oggi abbiamo le valute e passaporti che presunto li identificano l'uno dall'altro. Tuttavia le nostre valute perdono i loro valori ai bordi in cui cediamo disposto all'alimentazione dell'euro e del dollaro americano. I nostri passaporti nazionali sono usati per limitare i movimenti degli Africani ma non di Europei e dei Anglo-Saxons dall'America ed altrove.
È di importanza fondamentale da citare Pheko ulteriore quando dichiara che “i bordi artificiali che separano i territori nazionali nella regione sono che divide della gente unita da storia e che divide delle regioni unite da geografia fino al punto in cui sono l'argomento di dispute e conflitti fra l'Africano dichiara. SADC deve tentare d'ottenere una Comunità che oltrepassa il livello economico e tenta d'ottenere l'unificazione territoriale e politica dell'Africa. Ciò è l'unico senso affinchè il continente si trasformi in in un'alimentazione moderna grande. Ciò è l'unica protezione contro neo-liberalism e il globalisation. „
La Vaschetta-Afrikanism richiede che i riches dell'Africa sono usati per il beneficio, il upliftment, lo sviluppo ed il godimento della gente africana. La Vaschetta-Afrikanism è un sistema equamente di compartecipazione l'alimento, i vestiti, le case, la formazione, il healthcare, la ricchezza, la terra, il lavoro, la sicurezza di vita e della felicità. La Vaschetta-Afrikanism è il privilegio della gente africana di amarsi e di darsi ed il loro modo di vivere rispetto e la preferenza. In altre parole non ci dovrebbero essere necessità di vendere le bambole bianche in vicinanze principalmente nere o paesi perché tali bambole non sono fatte nell'immagine degli Africani ma di Europei. L'unica finestra da questo slavery assunto volontariamente è Vaschetta-Afrikanism. I problemi attuali dell'Africa quindi sono neo-slavery, il neo-razzismo, il neo-colonialismo, globalisation e neo-segregazione del `'. Così perchè Vaschetta-Afrikanism, perché è stata sviluppata dagli eruditi africani eccezionali, dagli scienziati politici, dagli storici e dai filosofi viventi in Africa ed il Diaspora. È stato concepito nel womb dell'Africa. È un prodotto fatto in Africa da Africans. La Vaschetta-Afrikanism è la più vecchia visione in Africa. Nessun'altra ideologia ha sfidato con successo intellettuale la Vaschetta-Afrikanism. Cioè non abbiamo bisogno oggi del academics della noce di cocco del `' chi la parte esterna nera di sembr ma il bianco all'interno, NO, noi ha bisogno degli eruditi africani genuini, scienziati politici, storici e filosofi che vivono dentro ed il Diaspora per fornire una salvezza degli ideali Afro-centric espoused dai visionari africani grandi dei yesteryears.
PAN-AFRIKANISM NEL NAMIBIA IERI
le guerre nazionali di resistenza di 1904-05 certamente ha avuto un effetto durevole sul lifestyle e sui punti di vista della gente indigena per quanto riguarda i bianchi nel Namibia in termini di unità e solidarietà. Dalla rivolta popolare da Hereros e da Namas è stato schiacciato brutalmente dal commando del Lothar Von Trotha, molti dei capi indigeni sono stati costretti a firmare i trattati di protezione e sono stati ceduti alle forze imperiali tedesche.
Dal luglio 1915, il regime dell'Africano del sud ha assunto la direzione del controllo del territorio di Namibian dalla Germania, concludentesi 30 anni della regola coloniale tedesca. Anche se ci è stato un cambiamento nel regime da un padrone all'altro, le politiche oppressive rimangono in gran parte immutate. Fra resistenza 1920 e 1925 contro la regola coloniale ha ammesso una varietà di unparallel delle forme nella storia di Namibian (Emmet Tony).
Questo periodo inoltre testimonia l'emersione di nuove forme delle organizzazioni politiche e dei fili ideologici che hanno oltrepassato le divisioni pre-coloniali ed hanno cominciato a porre una base per unità nazionale. Fra le varie organizzazioni che sono state stabilite erano l'associazione universale di miglioramento del Negro (UNIA), l'unione di operai industriale e commerciale (ICU), l'organizzazione della gente africana (APO) ed il congresso nazionale di Africa del Sudovest (SWANC). Emmet Tony nota che “UNIA con la relativa piattaforma della Vaschetta-Africanist ha dimostrato notevolmente riuscito, spargendosi dal centro industriale di Luderitz ad altro urbano, centri ed allora alla campagna„.
Sia Emmet Tony che Gregory Pirio riconoscono che l'associazione universale di miglioramento del Negro e la lega africana delle Comunità sono state lanciate in Luderitz in 1921. Il nucleo per la formazione del ramo di UNIA è stato costituito da un piccolo gruppo degli Africani ad ovest e degli indiani ad ovest che si erano depositati nelle città litoranee del territorio. La maggior parte di questo gruppo si è detta provenire dalla Liberia, dal Cameroon, dalla Sierra Leone e dal litorale dell'oro ed era stata introdotta nel Namibia dai tedeschi prima e durante la guerra mondiale 1. In 1910… cinquanta uomini ed un certo numero di donne e di bambini deported dalla colonia tedesca di Kamerun a Luderitz, dopo il mutiny fra lo Schutztruppe nero nella colonia ad ovest dell'Africa (Emmet Tony). Alcuni degli Africani ad ovest erano stati portati nel Namibia da Woermann Shipping Company.
Verso la conclusione di 1921 il ramo di Luderitz di UNIA ha avuto un insieme dei membri di 331 ed aveva raccolto più o meno 41 libbra nelle tasse di abbonamento, una quantità enorme a quel tempo che considera la popolazione di colore di 2155 in Luderitz. Sul registro ogni recluta ha ricevuto un Rossette rosso e verde di nero del `,' che portato sul risvolto (Gregory Pirio).
Il ramo di Luderitz UNIA era attivo nella mobilitazione dei neri sotto un corpo dell'ombrello. Lo sfruttamento continuato dei neri in tutte le relative manifestazioni-politico, ha provocato socialmente ed economicamente l'unità e lo zelo di resistenza a questa gente ordinaria. Fritz Headly, il relativo presidente era sempre persistente e resiliente nel fornire al corpo del genitore il materiale che documenta la situazione reale ed usato per scrivere le lettere al mondo del Negro ed era così strumentale nell'informare la gente nera nel mondo intero del oppressiveness del regime del mandato dell'Africano del sud nell'Africa del Sudovest.
In una tale lettera, ha dichiarato (Gregorio Pirio);
`Siamo segregati, discriminato, disenfranchised, jim-cantato in camion di bestiami, contenitori di carbone e infine, macellati dall'altro collega con le pallottole della pistola di macchina e del fucile. Ma che cosa dealing with principalmente è interamente la segregazione nelle relative funzioni nel regime precedente dei nostri oppressors DIFFUSIONE di GARVEYISM
dei tedeschi' ALLA CAMPAGNA che
la divisione di Luderitz del ramo di UNIA è stata stabilita in Windhoek nell'ottobre 1921 sotto il consiglio del relativo presidente Headly. Dall'inizio che cosa fa il ramo di Windhoek di UNIA unico era che l'esecutivo del ramo era saldamente sotto il controllo dei capi neri locali.
I capi locali che erano prominenti nel ramo di Windhoek erano Hosea Kutako, Aaron John Mungunda, Traugott Maharero e Nikanor Hoveka. Altri capi sul comitato esecutivo erano Alpheus Harasemab e Franz Hoisemab.
Il ramo di Windhoek spedisce nell'ottobre 1922 due emissaries-Theodor Hambue e John Mungunda per stabilire i rami dell'associazione in Usakos, in Karibib e in Okahandja (Gregory Pirio). Headly era inoltre strumentale nel fondare del ramo di UNIA in Swakopmund.
Non solo erano gli ideali di Garveyism che si spargono nel Namibia ma il corpo del genitore vento anche ottenuto delle attività del UNIA Namibia. Il primo collegamento convenzionale fra l'organizzazione di Garveyist e del Namibia si dice per accadere in 1922 in cui una delegazione di UNIA è stata trasmessa a Ginevra alla petizione la lega delle nazioni per fare girare le ex colonie tedesche in direzione nera (Emmet Tony).
Garvey egli stesso non è stato deluso steadfastly o scoraggiato stato dall'ignoranza e dal silenzio continuati dalla lega delle nazioni e non è stato continuato, in una vera forma combative per sostenere la causa dei neri africani ad ovest del sud. Un tale esempio è nella reazione agli attacchi aerei contro il Bondelswarts (in 1922),
Marcus che Garvey aveva dichiarato alla pagina anteriore del mondo del Negro;
Il `i Hottentots non ha aeroplani ed a causa di quello i Boers ed i Britannici possono bombardarli dai loro fori e capanne ed infine sottometterli. Ma intorno a queste città americane ed a questo mondo occidentale abbiamo molti Negroes che possono volare in aeroplani. Perchè non configurazione alcuni e quando i Hottentots hanno bisogno degli aeroplani di combattere gli aeroplani, perchè non darli della nostra abilità tecnica e non aiutarli a mettere sopra il lavoro grande che tutti noi desiderano' Gregory
fatto Pirio
esso befitting per accennare qui che l'marchio di garanzia della fase in anticipo della liberazione africana era la necessità di unire di fronte agli intrusi comuni. L'unità di scopo, che è stato fornito così apertamente da Vaschetta-Afrikanism sotto forma d'il nesso ideologico del UNIA, nell'azione per cambiamento, ha annunziato la nascita del nazionalismo moderno di Namibian, provocante l'emersione delle organizzazioni nazionaliste verso la fine degli anni 50 e dell'inizio degli anni 60.
PAN-AFRIKANISM NEL NAMIBIA OGGI
Namibia ha guadagnato la relativa indipendenza sul ventunesima del marzo 1990, introducendo una nuova onda della democrazia e del processo della nazione-costruzione. Effettivamente, l'ultima colonia sul continente africano ha avuta parte diventata della Comunità internazionale. La sfida per la direzione di SWAPO ora era di trasformare l'economia che è stata assalita da una miriade delle contraddizioni e le diseguaglianze in un'economia moderna, che può rispondere alle sfide hanno affrontato dalla gente. Il governo del partito di SWAPO non solo concentrato sulla trasformazione del sistema educativo ma anche fornito lo spazio politico tanto necessario, dove i giovani, la maggioranza di loro che non hanno guerra del testimone potrebbero innovate con le nuove idee ed ideologie.
Aveva luogo durante il tale tempo che la società Vaschetta-Africana degli allievi (PASSAGGIO) è stata formata in 1994 all'università de Namibia dagli allievi politici di scienza per aumentare il processo della dialettica. Secondo Joshua Kaumbi, il presidente del PASSAGGIO da 1998/9 di scopo della società dell'allievo era a `promuove i valori e le morali africani; riconosca e honour il contributo degli uomini e delle donne africani verso l'avanzamento delle idee Vaschetta-Africane; per organizzare le conferenze pubbliche ed intraprendere ricerca sulle edizioni che interessano gli Africani nel paese e nel Diaspora' (l'origine africana di civilizzazione ed il destino dell'Africa: 2000).
Il PASSAGGIO era fra le società più vibrant e più vocali sulla città universitaria. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
Panafricanism in Namibia: Henny Seibeb, Elijah T Ngurare, Clinton Swartbooi
Automatically translated into German thanks to WorldLingo
Diese Woche habe ich das Vergnügen, einen Stückgast bekanntzugeben, der von drei nahen Freunden und von Teilnehmern alle von geschrieben wird, haben wem eine Rolle in Re-enegesing die politische Landschaft und Panafrican, das in Namibia denkt gespielt.
Dieses in meiner Ansicht ist ein fristgerechtes Stück dadurch, daß Namibia viel Seele tun muß, die in ihrem Versuch, sich im ausgedehnten Kontext des „ein Afrika“ Projektes zu definieren sucht.
`I bitten, um Ihre Aufmerksamkeit nach Afrika zu verweisen: Ich weiß, daß in einigen Jahren ich in diesem Land abgeschnitten werde, das jetzt geöffnet ist: Lassen Sie es nicht wieder geschlossen werden! Ich gehe zurück zu Afrika zu versuchen, einen geöffneten Weg für Handel und Christentum zu bilden; führen Sie die Arbeit durch, die I angefangen. Ich lasse die Arbeit, die I angefangen. Ich lasse es mit Ihnen'
David Livingstone, europäischer Missionar-Forscher
„Der Missionar sagt, daß wir sind die Kinder des Gottes wie unsere weißen Brüder….aber gerechter Blick auf uns. Hunde, die Sklaven, die auf den Felsen ..... schlechter als Paviane sind, der ist, wie Sie uns“ ein
Herero zu einem deutschen Siedler „
die Hottentots behandeln, haben keine Flugzeuge und wegen dessen die Boer und die Briten können sie aus ihren Bohrungen und Hütten heraus bombardieren und sie schließlich überwinden. Aber um diese amerikanischen Städte und diese westliche Welt haben wir viele Schwarzen, die in Flugzeuge fliegen können. Warum nicht Bau einige und wenn die Hottentots Flugzeuge benötigt, Flugzeuge zu bekämpfen, warum man sie nicht unserer technischen Fähigkeit gibt und ihnen hilft, sich über den grossen Job, dem alle wir getanen“ Marcus Garvey,
wenn sie wünschen
diese Anführungsstriche, verwenden es zu setzen ist nicht unsere Absicht, die Wunden der Vergangenheit, aber in unserer Ansicht wieder zu öffnen, sind diese Wunden nicht noch vollständig geheilt, weil der Verband fortfährt, durch die Wirklichkeiten des Verhältnisses zwischen dem `Hauptrennen gegen geschnitten zu werden das Sklavenrennen'. Wir berücksichtigen die Empfindlichkeit dieser Kennzeichnung, aber, das Verhalten von unserem modernen Afrika als einzelne Zustände und Leute beurteilend, erhöht Beweis, um die Herrschaft des `Hauptrennens' und seines subjugation des `Sklave Rennens' zu bestätigen. Die negrophobic Angriffe in Südafrika sowie Kenia sind Beispiele, die, während wir selbst schlachten überschuß von der Kapitalisttabelle zerkrümelt, das europäische Neo-colonisers bleiben in der Steuerung unserer Produktionsmittel, unserer Wirtschaftssysteme und der Preise der strategischen Rohstoffe des Afrikaners. In diesem Meinung Stück argumentieren wir, daß die einzige praktische und realistische Weise für uns als Leute und Kontinent, von den Geistesfesseln von Kolonialismus wirklich sich freizugeben und unsere zutreffende Selbstermittlung und ökonomische -unabhängigkeit wiederzugewinnen durch Wanne-Afrikanism ist.
Offenbar seit dem Aufkommen von Europäern in Afrika, haben unser Kontinent und Leute nicht realen Frieden, Stabilität und Tranquility gekannt. Stattdessen anstatt des Friedens kam Krieg, anstatt der Stabilität kam die Zeichnung der willkürlichen Kolonialränder (1884-5) und anstatt des Tranquility kam Sklaverei, Rassismus und Kolonialismus.
Die afrikanischen Leute wurden exportiert und verkauften als Gebrauchsgüter in Europa, in Nordamerika, in Südamerika und in den Karibischen Meeren. Die Beschaffenheit der Staaten von Amerika erklärte sogar einen Afrikaner als seiend 3/5 eines menschlichen Wesens. In der Tat fing dieses afrikanische Holocaust mit der `europäischen Renaissance' in Italien 1400 an und seit damals hatten Sklaverei, Kolonialismus und Rassismus ravaged den afrikanischen Kontinent und seine Leute für Jahrhunderte. Es war der trans-Atlantic Sklave Handel und der Kolonialismus, die Afrika und unterentwickelt es zerstörten. In seinem Buch „, wie Europa unterentwickeltes Afrika“, Dr Walter Rodney eine klare Abbildung dieser afrikanischen Tragödie gibt. Sklaverei und Kolonialismus wurden durch die sogenannte europäische Renaissance ermöglicht. Die Autoren dieser Renaissance benutzten den Kompaß und das Schießpulver. Diese chinesischen Erfindungen zu den ruhigen Zwecken wurden von Europäer verwendet, um das Land und die Fülle der Afrikaner zu stehlen.
Es war resultierend aus diesem, dem visionäre Führer des afrikanischen Abfalls befürworteten, daß alle Afrikaner - gleichgültig wo konnten sie sein - zur Ende Sklaverei, dem Kolonialismus und dem Rassismus vereinigen sollten. Resultierend aus diesen Fällen afrikanische fingen Leute weltweit an, festzustellen, daß sie allgemeine Probleme (Sklaverei, Besiedlung und Rassismus) gegenüberstellten und daß es zu ihrem Nutzen sein würde, zum in einer Bemühung zusammen zu arbeiten, diese Probleme zu lösen. Aus dieser Realisierung heraus kamen die Wanne afrikanischen Konferenzen von 1900 (London), 1919 (Paris), 1921 (London, Brüssel, Paris), 1923 (London), 1927 (New York), und der letzte Beamte man war in den vierziger Jahren.
Während Motsoko Pheko in seinem Artikel in Sowetan (1999) unterstreicht, verschieben Sie Afrikanism ist eine Bewegung anfing 1776, jedoch, den fünften Wanne-Afrikanischen Kongreß, der in Manchester, England, in 1945 vorgerückter Wanne-Afrikanism gehalten wird und politisch ihm am decolonisation des afrikanischen Kontinentes angewendet ist. Einige afrikanische Führer, die mit dieser vortrefflichen Ursache gewesen wurden, waren Riesen wie Kwame Nkrumah, William du Bois, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Sobukwe und Patrice Lumumba. Das heißt, „Wanne-Afrikanism schließt die intellektuelle, politische und ökonomische Mitarbeit ein, die zu die politische Einheit von Afrika führen sollte. Die Wanne-Afrikanische Alternative stellt einen Rahmen für afrikanische Einheit.“ zur Verfügung Sie fördert auch radikale änderung in den Kolonialstrukturen der Wirtschaft und die Implementierung einer in sich gekehrten Strategie der Produktion und der Entwicklung. Es verlangt die Vereinheitlichung der Geldmärkte, des wirtschaftlichen Zusammenschlusses, der neuen Strategie für Gründungskapitalansammlung und des Designs eines neuen politischen Diagramms für Afrika. Zeitgenössisches Afrika wird mit den Schwierigkeiten belagert, die in seiner Unfähigkeit, territorial zu vereinigen verwurzelt werden. Die Konsequenzen sind die Volkswirtschaften gewesen, die von sich Entwickeln wegen der geographischen, ökonomischen und politischen Gründe unfähig sind.
Wir müssen diese Wahrheit annehmen und nehmen sie als unsere Hauptaufgabe, wenn die Wiederherstellung von Afrika, eine Wirklichkeit zu werden ist. Heute haben wir Währungen und Pässe, die uns angeblich von einem anderer kennzeichnen. Dennoch verlieren unsere Währungen ihre Werte an den Rändern, in denen wir bereitwillig der Energie des Euro und des amerikanischen Dollars übergeben. Unsere nationalen Pässe werden benutzt, um die Bewegungen der Afrikaner aber nicht der Europäer und der Angelsachsen von Amerika einzuschränken und anderwohin.
Es ist zwingend, weiteres Pheko zu veranschlagen, wenn er angibt, daß „die künstlichen Ränder, die die Staatsgebiete in der Region trennen, von den Leuten teilend sind, die durch Geschichte vereinigt werden und von den Regionen teilend, die durch Geographie vereinigt werden, soweit daß sie das Thema von Debatten sind und zwischen afrikanischen Zuständen widersprechen. SADC muß um eine Gemeinschaft sich bemühen, die das ökonomische Niveau überschreitet und bemüht sich um die territoriale und politische Vereinheitlichung von Afrika. Dieses ist die einzige Weise, damit der Kontinent eine große moderne Energie wird. Dieses ist der einzige Schutz gegen Neo-liberalismus und globalisation. “
Wanne-Afrikanism verlangt, daß die riches von Afrika für den Nutzen, das upliftment, die Entwicklung und den Genuß der afrikanischen Leute benutzt werden. Wanne-Afrikanism ist ein System von Nahrung, Kleidung, Häuser, Ausbildung, healthcare, Fülle, Land, Arbeit, Sicherheit des Lebens und Glück gerecht teilen. Wanne-Afrikanism ist das Privileg der afrikanischen Leute, sich zu lieben und sich und ihre Lebensart Respekt und Präferenz zu geben. Mit anderen Worten sollte es keine Notwendigkeit, weiße Puppen in den überwiegend schwarzen Nachbarschaften zu verkaufen oder Länder geben, weil solche Puppen nicht im Bild der Afrikaner aber der Europäer gebildet werden. Das einzige Fenster aus dieser self-imposed Sklaverei heraus ist Wanne-Afrikanism. Die gegenwärtigen Probleme Afrika sind folglich `Neo-sklaverei, Neo-rassismus, Neo-kolonialismus, globalisation und Neo-apartheid'. So warum Wanne-Afrikanism, weil sie von den hervorragenden afrikanischen Gelehrten, von politischen Wissenschaftlern, von Historikern und von Philosophen entwickelt wurde, die in Afrika und in der Diaspora leben. Es wurde in der Geb5rmutter von Afrika begriffen. Es ist ein Produkt, das in Afrika von Africans hergestellt wird. Wanne-Afrikanism ist der älteste Anblick in Afrika. Keine andere Ideologie hat erfolgreich Wanne-Afrikanism intellektuell herausgefordert. Das heißt, benötigen wir nicht `Kokosnuß-Akademiker' heute, wem schwarze Außenseite des Blickes aber Weiß nach innen, NR., wir echte afrikanische Gelehrte, politische Wissenschaftler, Historiker und die Philosophen benötigt, die innen leben und die Diaspora, zum einer Rettung der Afro-centric Ideale bereitzustellen unterstützt von den großen afrikanischen Visionären von yesteryears.
PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA GESTERN
die nationalen Widerstand Kriege von 1904-05 hatte zweifellos einen dauerhaften Effekt auf der eingeborenen dem Lebensstil und den Ansichten Völker betreffend sind Weiß in Namibia in Einheit und solidarität ausgedrückt. Seit dem populären Aufstieg durch Hereros und Namas wurde brutal Lothar Von Trothas vom Kommando zerquetscht, wurden viele der eingeborenen Führer gezwungen, Schutzverträge zu unterzeichnen und übergeben deutschen imperialen Kräften.
Ab Juli 1915 übernahm das Südafrikanerregime die Steuerung der Namibian Gegend aus Deutschland und beendete 30 Jahre der deutschen Kolonialrichtlinie. Obgleich es eine änderung im Regime von einem Meister am anderen gegeben hat, bleibt die bedrückende Politik groß unverändert. Zwischen Widerstand 1920 und 1925 gegen Kolonialrichtlinie nahm eine Vielzahl von Formen unparallel in der Namibian Geschichte an (Tony Emmet).
Diese Periode zeugen auch das Hervortreten der neuen Formen der politischen Organisationen und der ideologischen Fasern, die vor-Kolonialabteilungen überschritten und anfingen, eine Grundlage für nationale Einheit zu legen. Unter verschiedenen Organisationen, die hergestellt wurden, waren die Universalschwarze-Verbesserung Verbindung (UNIA), der industrielle und kommerzielle Arbeiter-Anschluß (ICU), die afrikanischen Organisation der Leute (APO) und der Südwestafrika Nationalkongreß (SWANC). Tony Emmet merkt, daß „UNIA mit seiner Wanne-Africanist Plattform bemerkenswert erfolgreiches prüfte und vom Industriegebiet von Luderitz nach anderes städtisches, Mitten und dann zur Landschaft verbreitete“.
bestätigen Tony Emmet und Gregory Pirio, daß die Universalschwarze-Verbesserung Verbindung und afrikanische die Gemeinschaftsliga in Luderitz 1921 ausgestoßen wurden. Der Kern für die Anordnung der UNIA Niederlassung wurde von einer kleinen Gruppe Westafrikanern und Westindern festgesetzt, die in den Küstenstädten der Gegend vereinbart hatten. Die Majorität dieser Gruppe wurde gesagt, von Liberia, vom Cameroons, von Sierra Leone und von der Goldküste zu entstehen und war in Namibia von den Deutschen vor und während Weltkrieg 1 geholt worden. wurden 1910… fünfzig Männer und eine Anzahl von Frauen und Kindern von der deutschen Kolonie von Kamerun zu Luderitz, nach Auflehnung unter dem schwarzen Schutztruppe in der Westafrika Kolonie verbannt (Tony Emmet). Einige der Westafrikaner waren nach Namibia durch Woermann Shipping Company geholt worden.
In Richtung zum Ende von 1921 hatte die Luderitz Niederlassung von UNIA eine Mitgliedschaft von 331 und hatte mehr oder weniger gesammelt 41 in den Subskription Gebühren, eine sehr große Menge zerstößt zu dieser Zeit, welche die schwarze Bevölkerung von 2155 in Luderitz betrachtet. Nach Ausrichtung empfing jeder Rekrut ein `Schwarzes, Rotes und Grünes Rossette', das getragen auf dem Revers (Gregory Pirio).
Die Luderitz UNIA Niederlassung war aktiv, wenn sie die Schwarzen unter einem Regenschirmkörper mobilisierte. Die anhaltende Ausnutzung von Schwarzen in allen seinen äusserungen-politisch, sozial und verursachte ökonomisch die Einheit und den Widerstand Eifer zu diesen normalen Leuten. Fritz Headly, sein Präsident war immer hartnäckig und elastisch, wenn er den Elternteil-Körper mit dem Material die reale Situation dokumentierend und benutzt, um Briefe zur Schwarze-Welt zu schreiben versah und war folglich instrumentell, wenn er weltweit schwarze Leute mit dem Oppressiveness des Südafrikaner-Vollmacht Regimes in Südwestafrika mitteilte.
In einem solchen Buchstaben gab er an (Gregorio Pirio);
`Werden wir getrennt, abgesondert, entrechtet, nicht wenig jim-gekräht in den Viehwagen, in den Kohlekästen und in letztem aber, geschlachtet vom anderen Gefährten mit Gewehr- und Maschinengewehrgewehrkugeln. Aber was wir beschäftigen, meistens ist Abtrennung insgesamt in seinen Aspekten im ehemaligen Regime unserer Unterdrücker die Deutschen'
GARVEYISM VERBREITUNG ZUR LANDSCHAFT, welche
die Luderitz Abteilung der UNIA Niederlassung in Windhoek im Oktober 1921 unter der Anleitung seines Präsidenten Headly hergestellt wurde. Vom Angriff was bildet, war die Windhoek Niederlassung von einzigartigem UNIA, daß der Hauptleiter der Niederlassung fest unter der Steuerung der lokalen schwarzen Führer war.
Die lokalen Führer, die in der Windhoek Niederlassung vorstehend waren, waren Hosea Kutako, Aaron John Mungunda, Traugott Maharero und Nikanor Hoveka. Andere Führer auf dem Vollzugsausschuß waren Alpheus Harasemab und Franz Hoisemab.
Die Windhoek Niederlassung sendet im Oktober 1922 zwei Abgesandte-Theodor Hambue und John Mungunda aus, um Niederlassungen der Verbindung in Usakos, in Karibib und in Okahandja (Gregory Pirio) herzustellen. Headly war auch in der Gründung der UNIA Niederlassung in Swakopmund instrumentell.
Waren nicht nur die Ideale von Garveyism verbreitend in Namibia aber im Elternteil-Körper auch erhaltener Wind der Tätigkeiten des UNIA Namibia. Der erste formale Anschluß zwischen Namibia und Garveyist Organisation wird gesagt, um 1922 aufzutreten, als eine UNIA Delegation nach Genf zur Petition die Liga der Nationen geschickt wurde, zum der ehemaligen deutschen Kolonien zur schwarzen Führung (Tony Emmet) umzuwenden.
Garvey selbst wurde unerschütterlich, in einer zutreffenden combative Form, um die Ursache der Südafrikanischen Westschwarzer zu stützen enttäuscht oder entmutigt nicht durch die anhaltende Unwissenheit und die Ruhe durch die Liga von Nationen und fortgesetzt. Ein solches Beispiel ist in der Reaktion zu den Luftangriffen gegen das Bondelswarts (1922),
Marcus, den Garvey auf der Vorderseite der Schwarze-Welt erklärt hatte;
`Die Hottentots haben keine Flugzeuge, und wegen deren können die Boer und die Briten sie aus ihren Bohrungen und Hütten heraus bombardieren und sie schließlich überwinden. Aber um diese amerikanischen Städte und diese westliche Welt haben wir viele Schwarzen, die in Flugzeuge fliegen können. Warum nicht Bau einige und wenn die Hottentots Flugzeuge benötigen, Flugzeuge zu bekämpfen, warum man sie nicht unserer technischen Fähigkeit gibt und ihnen hilft, sich über den grossen Job zu setzen, dem alle wir getanen' Gregory
Pirio es
wünschen, paßt, um hier zu erwähnen, daß der Stempel der frühen Phase der afrikanischen Befreiung die Notwendigkeit war, angesichts der gemeinen Eindringlinge zu vereinigen. Die Einheit des Zweckes, der so öffentlich von Wanne-Afrikanism in Form von ideologischer Verbindung UNIAS, in der Tätigkeit für änderung zur Verfügung gestellt wurde, kündigte die Geburt des modernen Namibian Nationalismus an und verursachte das Hervortreten der nationalistischen Organisationen Ende der fünfziger Jahre und der frühen sechziger Jahre.
PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA HEUTE
Namibia gewann seine Unabhängigkeit auf der 21. von März 1990 und führte in einer neuen Welle der Demokratie und des Nationgebäude Prozesses hinein. In der Tat hatte die letzte Kolonie auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent gewordenes Teil der internationalen Gemeinschaft. Die Herausforderung für die SWAPO Führung war jetzt, die Wirtschaft umzuwandeln, die durch eine Myriade von Widersprüchen belagert wurde und Verschiedenheiten in eine moderne Wirtschaft, die ist, auf die Herausforderungen zu reagieren, durch die Leute gegenüberstellten. Die SWAPO Parteiregierung nicht nur konzentriert auf das Umwandeln des Schulwesens aber auch bereitgestellt dem dringend benötigten politischen Raum, wo junge Leute, die Mehrheit ihnen, die nicht Zeugekrieg haben, mit neuen Ideen und Ideologien erneuern konnten.
Es war während eines Zeitpunktes, dem die Wanne-Afrikanische Kursteilnehmer-Gesellschaft (DURCHLAUF) 1994 an der Universität von Namibia von den politischen Wissenschaft Kursteilnehmern gebildet wurde, um den Prozeß der Dialektik zu erhöhen. Entsprechend Joshua Kaumbi, war der Vorsitzende des DURCHLAUFS von 1998/9 das Ziel der Kursteilnehmergesellschaft zum `fördern afrikanische Werte und Moral; bestätigen Sie und ehren Sie den Beitrag der afrikanischen Männer und der Frauen in Richtung zur Zuführung der Wanne-Afrikanischen Ideen; allgemeine Vorträge organisieren und sich Forschung auf den Ausgaben, die zu Hause Afrikaner beeinflussen und in der Diaspora aufnehmen' (der afrikanische Ursprung der Zivilisation und das Schicksal von Afrika: 2000).
DURCHLAUF war unter den vibrant und vocal Gesellschaften auf dem Campus. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
Panafricanism em Namíbia: Henny Seibeb, Elijah T Ngurare, Clinton Swartbooi
Automatically translated into Portuguese thanks to WorldLingo
Esta semana eu tenho o prazer afixar um convidado da parte escrito por três amigos e associados próximos todos de quem têm jogado um papel em re-enegesing a paisagem política e Panafrican que pensa em Namíbia.
Esta em minha vista é uma parte oportuna que Namíbia necessita fazer muita alma que procurara em sua tentativa de se definir herself no contexto largo de “do projeto uma África”.
O `I implora para dirigir sua atenção a África: Eu sei que em alguns anos eu estarei eliminado nesse país, que está agora aberto: Não o deixe ser fechado outra vez! Eu vou para trás a África tentar fazer um trajeto aberto para o comércio e o Christianity; você realiza o trabalho que I começado. Eu deixo o trabalho que I começado. Eu deixo-o com você'
David Livingstone, Missionário-Explorador europeu
“O missionário diz que nós somos as crianças do deus como nossos irmãos brancos….mas olhar justo em nós. Os cães, escravos, mais maus do que babuínos nas rochas ..... que é como você nos trata”
um Herero a um Settler alemão
“os Hottentots não têm nenhum avião, e por causa daquele os Boers e os Ingleses podem bombardeá-lo fora de seus furos e huts e finalmente subdue os. Mas em torno destas cidades americanas e deste mundo ocidental nós temos muitos Negroes que podem voar nos aviões. Porque não a configuração alguns, e quando os Hottentots necessita aviões combater aviões, porque não os dar de nossa abilidade técnica e não lhes ajudar pôr sobre o trabalho grande que todos nós querem” Marcus
feito Garvey
em usar estas citações, ele não são nossa intenção reabrir as feridas do passado, mas em nossa vista, estas feridas não healed ainda completamente porque o bandage continua a ser cortado pelas realidades do relacionamento entre a raça do mestre do `contra a raça Slave'. Nós estamos cientes da sensibilidade desta caracterização mas julgando o comportamento de nossa África moderna como estados e povos individuais, está aumentando a evidência para substanciar o dominance da raça do mestre do `' e de seu subjugation da raça do escravo do `'. Os ataques negrophobic em África do Sul as well as Kenya são os exemplos que whilst nós slaughter ourselves excesso esmigalham da tabela do capitalista, o neo-colonisers europeu remanescem no controle de nossos meios de produção, de nossas economias e de preços de materiais crus estratégicos do africano. Nesta parte da opinião, nós discutimos que a única maneira prática e realística para nós como uns povos e um continente se livrar dos shackles mentais do colonialism e regain verdadeiramente nossas determinação verdadeira e independência econômica do self é através da Bandeja-Afrikanism.
Claramente, desde o advent de Europeus em África, nossos continente e povos não souberam a paz, a estabilidade e o tranquility reais. Instead no lugar da paz veio a guerra, no lugar da estabilidade veio o desenho de beiras coloniais arbitrárias (em 1884-5) e no lugar do tranquility veio slavery, racism e colonialism.
Os povos africanos foram exportados e venderam como productos em Europa, em America do Norte, em Ámérica do Sul e nas Caraíbas. O Constitution dos Estados Unidos da América declarou mesmo um africano como sendo 3/5 ser humano. Certamente, este Holocaust africano começou com o renascimento europeu do `' em Italy em 1400 e desde então o slavery, o colonialism e o racism tiveram ravaged o continente africano e seus povos por séculos. Era o comércio e o colonialism trans-Atlantic do escravo que destruíram África e underdeveloped ele. Em seu livro “como Europa África underdeveloped”, Dr. Walter Rodney dá um retrato vívido desta tragédia africana. O Slavery e o colonialism foram feitos possível pelo renascimento europeu so-called. Os autores deste renascimento usaram o compasso e o gunpowder. Estas invenções chinesas para finalidades calmas foram usadas por Europeu roubar a terra e a riqueza dos africanos.
Era em conseqüência deste que os líderes visionary da descida africana advogaram que todos os africanos - wherever puderam ser - devem se unir ao slavery, ao colonialism e ao racism do fim. Em conseqüência destes eventos os povos africanos worldwide começaram a realizar que enfrentaram problemas comuns (slavery, colonização, e racism), e que seria a seu benefício a trabalhar junto em um esforço resolver estes problemas. Fora deste realization vieram as conferências africanas da bandeja de 1900 (Londres), 1919 (Paris), 1921 (Londres, Bruxelas, Paris), 1923 (Londres), 1927 (New York), e o último oficial um estava nos 1940s.
Enquanto Motsoko Pheko indica em seu artigo no Sowetan (1999), garimpe Afrikanism é um movimento começou em 1776, entretanto, no quinto Congress Bandeja-Africano prendido em Manchester, Inglaterra, na Bandeja-Afrikanism avançada 1945 e aplicado lhe ao decolonisation do continente africano polìtica. Alguns líderes africanos envolvidos nesta causa nobre eram gigantes tais como Kwame Nkrumah, William du Bois, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Sobukwe e Patrice Lumumba. Ou seja a “Bandeja-Afrikanism inclui a cooperação intelectual, política e econômica que deve conduzir à unidade política de África. A alternativa Bandeja-Africana fornece uma estrutura para a unidade africana.” Promove também a mudança radical nas estruturas coloniais da economia, e a execução de uma estratégia inward-looking da produção e do desenvolvimento. Chama-se para o unification de mercados financeiros, da integração econômica, de uma estratégia nova para a acumulação importanta inicial e do projeto de um mapa político novo para África. África Contemporary beset com as dificuldades enraizadas em sua inabilidade unir-se territorial. As conseqüências foram economias nacionais incapable de tornar-se por causa das razões geográficas, econômicas e políticas.
Nós devemos aceitar esta verdade, e fazemos exame d como nosso dever principal, se a restauração de África for se transformar uma realidade. Hoje nós temos as moedas correntes e os passports que nos identificam alegada de um outro. Contudo nossas moedas correntes perdem seus valores nas beiras onde nós nos rendemos disposta ao poder do dólar Euro e americano. Nossos passports nacionais são usados restringir os movimentos dos africanos mas não de Europeus e de Anglo-Saxons de América e em outra parte.
É imperativo citar Pheko mais adicional quando indica que “as beiras artificiais que separam os territórios nacionais na região são divisive dos povos unidos pela história e divisive das regiões unidas pela geografia até ao ponto em que são o assunto das disputas e opõem entre estados africanos. SADC deve strive para uma comunidade que transcends o nível econômico e strive para o unification territorial e político de África. Esta é a única maneira para que o continente transforme-se um poder moderno grande. Esta é a única proteção de encontro ao neo-liberalism e ao globalisation. A”
Bandeja-Afrikanism exige que os riches de África estejam usados para o benefício, o upliftment, o desenvolvimento e a apreciação dos povos africanos. A Bandeja-Afrikanism é um sistema equitably de compartilhar do alimento, da roupa, dos repousos, da instrução, do healthcare, da riqueza, da terra, do trabalho, da segurança da vida e da felicidade. A Bandeja-Afrikanism é o privilégio dos povos africanos amar-se e dar-se e sua maneira do respeito e da preferência da vida. Em outras palavras não deve haver nenhuma necessidade vender as bonecas brancas em vizinhanças predominantly pretas ou países porque tais bonecas não são feitas na imagem dos africanos mas de Europeus. A única janela fora deste slavery self-imposed é Bandeja-Afrikanism. Os problemas atuais de África são conseqüentemente neo-slavery, neo-racism, neo-colonialism, globalisation e neo-apartheid do `'. Assim porque Bandeja-Afrikanism, porque foi desenvolvida pelos scholars africanos proeminentes, pelos cientistas políticos, pelos historians e pelos filósofos vivendo em África e no Diaspora. Conceived no womb de África. É um produto feito em África por Africano. A Bandeja-Afrikanism é a visão a mais velha em África. Nenhum outro ideology desafiou com sucesso a Bandeja-Afrikanism intelectual. Ou seja nós não necessitamos o academics do coco do `' hoje quem a parte externa preta do olhar mas branco para dentro, NO., nós necessita scholars africanos genuínos, cientistas políticos, historians e os filósofos que vivem dentro e o Diaspora para fornecer um salvation dos ideals Afro-centric espoused por visionaries africanos grandes dos yesteryears.
PAN-AFRIKANISM EM NAMÍBIA ONTEM
as guerras nacionais da resistência de 1904-05 teve certamente um efeito durável no lifestyle e nas opiniões do pessoa indígeno a respeito dos brancos em Namíbia nos termos da unidade e do Solidarity. Desde o uprising popular por Hereros e por Namas foi esmagado brutal pelo commando de Lothar Von Trotha, muitos dos líderes indígenos foram forçados a assinar tratados da proteção e rendidos às forças imperiais alemãs.
De julho 1915, o regime do africano sul fêz exame sobre do controle do território de Namibian de Germany, terminando 30 anos da régua colonial alemão. Embora haja uma mudança no regime de um mestre ao outro, as políticas oppressive remanescem pela maior parte inalteradas. Entre a resistência 1920 e 1925 de encontro à régua colonial supos uma variedade do unparallel dos formulários na história de Namibian (Emmet Tony).
Este período testemunha também o emergence de formulários novos das organizações políticas e das costas ideological que transcended divisões pre-coloniais e começaram a colocar uma base para a unidade nacional. Entre as várias organizações que foram estabelecidas eram a associação universal da melhoria do Negro (UNIA), a união de trabalhadores industrial e comercial (ICU), a organização do pessoa africano (APO) e o Congress nacional ocidental sul de África (SWANC). Emmet Tony anota que “UNIA com sua plataforma da Bandeja-Africanist provou notàvelmente bem sucedido, espalhando do centro industrial de Luderitz ao outro urbano, centros, e então ao campo”.
Emmet Tony e Gregory Pirio reconhecem que a associação universal da melhoria do Negro e a liga africana das comunidades estiveram lançadas em Luderitz em 1921. O núcleo para a formação da filial de UNIA foi constituído por um grupo pequeno dos africanos ocidentais e dos Indians ocidentais que se tinham estabelecido nas cidades litorais do território. A maioria deste grupo foi dita originar de Liberia, da República dos Camarões, de Sierra Leão e da costa do ouro e tinha sido trazida em Namíbia pelos alemães antes e durante da guerra de mundo 1. Em 1910… cinqüênta homens e um número mulheres e de crianças deported da colônia alemão de Kamerun a Luderitz, depois do mutiny entre o Schutztruppe preto na colônia ocidental de África (Emmet Tony). Alguns dos africanos ocidentais tinham sido trazidos a Namíbia por Woermann Transporte Companhia.
Para o fim de 1921 a filial de Luderitz de UNIA teve uma sociedade de 331 e tinha coletado o mais ou menos 41 libras em taxas da subscrição, uma quantidade enorme naquele tempo que considera a população preta de 2155 em Luderitz. Em cima do registo cada recruta recebeu um Rossette do preto do `, o vermelho e o verde' que desgastado no lapel (Gregory Pirio).
A filial de Luderitz UNIA era ativa em mobilizing os pretos sob um corpo do guarda-chuva. A exploração continuada dos pretos em todos seus manifestations-político, causou social e economicamente a unidade e o zeal da resistência a estes povos ordinários. Fritz Headly, seu presidente era sempre persistente e resilient em fornecer o corpo do pai com o material que documenta a situação real e usado escrever letras ao mundo do Negro e era assim instrumental em familiarizar povos pretos durante todo o mundo com o oppressiveness do regime do mandato do africano sul em África ocidental sul.
Em uma tal letra, indicou (Gregorio Pirio);
`Nós somos segregados, discriminado, disenfranchised, jim-cantado em caminhões de gado, em caixas de carvão, e em último mas não o mais menos, massacrado pelo outro companheiro com as balas do injetor do rifle e de máquina. Mas os o que nós estamos tratando na maior parte está o segregation completamente em seus aspectos no regime anterior de nossos oppressors PROPAGAÇÃO de GARVEYISM
dos alemães' AO CAMPO que
a divisão de Luderitz da filial de UNIA foi estabelecida em Windhoek em outubro 1921 sob a orientação de seu presidente Headly. Do início o que faz a filial de Windhoek de UNIA original era que o executivo da filial estava firmemente sob o controle de líderes pretos locais.
Os líderes locais que eram proeminentes na filial de Windhoek eram Hosea Kutako, Aaron John Mungunda, Traugott Maharero, e Nikanor Hoveka. Outros líderes no comitê executivo eram Alpheus Harasemab e Franz Hoisemab.
A filial de Windhoek emitida para fora em outubro 1922 dois emissaries-Theodor Hambue e John Mungunda para estabelecer filiais da associação em Usakos, em Karibib e em Okahandja (Gregory Pirio). Headly era também instrumental em fundar da filial de UNIA em Swakopmund.
Eram não somente os ideals de Garveyism que espalham em Namíbia mas no corpo do pai vento também começado das atividades do UNIA Namíbia. A primeira conexão formal entre a organização de Namíbia e de Garveyist é dita ocorrer em 1922 em que um delegation de UNIA foi emitido a Genebra à petição a liga das nações para virar as colônias alemãs anteriores para a liderança preta (Emmet Tony).
Garvey ele mesmo não foi decepcionado nem foi desanimado pelo ignorance e pelo silêncio continuados pela liga das nações e não continuado steadfastly, em um formulário combative verdadeiro a suportar a causa de pretos africanos ocidentais sul. Um tal exemplo está na reação aos ataques aéreos de encontro ao Bondelswarts (em 1922),
Marcus que Garvey tinha declarado na página dianteira do mundo do Negro;
O `os Hottentots não tem nenhum avião, e por causa daquele os Boers e os Ingleses podem bombardeá-lo fora de seus furos e huts e finalmente subdue os. Mas em torno destas cidades americanas e deste mundo ocidental nós temos muitos Negroes que podem voar nos aviões. Porque não configuração alguns, e quando os Hottentots necessitarem aviões combater aviões, porque não os dar de nossa abilidade técnica e não lhes ajudar pôr sobre o trabalho grande que todos nós querem' Gregory
feito Pirio
ele befitting para mencionar aqui que o hallmark da fase adiantada do liberation africano era a necessidade se unir na cara de intruders comuns. A unidade da finalidade, que foi fornecida assim abertamente por Bandeja-Afrikanism no formulário do nexo ideological de UNIA, na ação para a mudança, heralded o nascimento do Nationalism moderno de Namibian, causando o emergence de organizações nacionalistas nos 1950s atrasados e nos 1960s adiantados.
PAN-AFRIKANISM EM NAMÍBIA HOJE
Namíbia ganhou sua independência no 21o março 1990, ushering em uma onda nova da democracia e do processo do nação-edifício. Certamente, a última colônia no continente africano teve a parte tornada da comunidade internacional. O desafio para a liderança de SWAPO era agora transformar a economia que beset por uma miríade dos contradictions e os desigualdades em uma economia moderna, que pudesse responder aos desafios enfrentaram pelos povos. O governo do partido de SWAPO concentrado não somente em transformar o sistema de instrução mas fornecido também o espaço político tão necessário, onde os povos novos, a maioria deles que não têm a guerra da testemunha poderiam innovate com idéias e ideologies novos.
Realizava-se durante tal hora que a sociedade Bandeja-Africana dos estudantes (PASSAGEM) foi dada forma em 1994 na universidade de Namíbia pelos estudantes políticos da ciência para realçar o processo da dialética. De acordo com Joshua Kaumbi, o presidente da PASSAGEM de 1998/9 do alvo da sociedade do estudante era ao `promove valores e morais africanos; reconheça e honre a contribuição de homens e de mulheres africanos para o avanço das idéias Bandeja-Africanas; para organizar lectures públicos e para empreender a pesquisa sobre as edições que afetam africanos no repouso e no Diaspora' (a origem africana da civilização e o Destiny de África: 2000).
A PASSAGEM era amongst as sociedades as mais vibrant e as mais vocais no campus. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
Panafricanism i Namibia: Henny Seibeb, Elijah T Ngurare, Clinton Swartbooi
Automatically translated into Swedish thanks to WorldLingo
Denna vecka har jag nöjet att posta en lappagäst som är skriftlig vid tre nära vän, och alla bundsförvanter av vem har lekt en roll i beträffande-enegesing både det politiskt, landskap och Panafrican som är tänkande i Namibia.
Detta i mitt beskådar är ett i rätt tid lappar Namibia behöver däri att göra mycket soul som söker i hennes försök att definiera hon själv i det breda sammanhanget av ”den en Afrika”, projekterar.
`I tigger för att rikta din uppmärksamhet till Afrika: Jag vet att i några år jag är det klippta av däri landet, som är nu öppet: Låt inte det stänga sig igen! Jag går tillbaka till Afrika till försök att göra en öppen bana för kommers och kristendomen; bär du ut arbetet som börjat I. Jag lämnar arbetet som börjat I. Jag lämnar det med dig',
David Livingstone, européMissionär-Utforskare
”De missions- något att säga att vi är barnen av gudnågot liknande våra vitbröder….,men rättvis look på oss. Hundkapplöpningen slavar, värre, än baboons på vaggar ..... som är hur du fest oss”
en Herero till en tysk nybyggare
”hottentotsna har inga flygplan, och på grund av det kan boersna och britten bombardera dem ut ur deras spela golfboll i hål och kojor och underkuvar ultimately dem. Men runt om dessa amerikanstäder och denna västra värld har vi många neger som kan flyga i flygplan. Varför inte byggande några och när hottentotsna behöver flygplan att bekämpa flygplan, varför att inte ge dem av vår tekniska kapacitet och att hjälpa dem att sätta över det stora jobbet, som allihop önskar gjorda”
Marcus Garvey,
i att använda dessa citationstecken, det inte är vår avsikt att öppna om igen, beskådar såren av förflutnan, men i vårt, har dessa sår inte läkt ännu fullständigt, därför att förbinda fortsätter för att klippas av verklighetarna av förhållandet mellan `- herrefolket vs. den slav- racen'. Vi är medvetna av känsligheten av denna karakterisering, men att bedöma uppförandet av vår moderna Afrika både, som individen påstår och folk, där är ökande bevisar för att bestyrka herravälden av `- herrefolket' och dess underkuvande av den slav- racen för `'. De negrophobic attackerna i Sydafrika såväl som Kenya är exempel, som stunden oss slaktar oss själva över smulor från kapitalisten bordlägger, den neo-colonisers europén återstår kontrollerar av vårt hjälpmedel av produktionen, våra ekonomier och prissätter in av afrikanska strategiska rå material. I denna åsikt lappa, argumenterar vi att det enda praktiskt och det realistiskt långt för oss som folk och kontinenten som ska frigöras oss själva från de mentala bojorna av kolonialism och som riktigt återvinnas vår riktiga ekonomiska självständighet för själv beslutsamhet och är Panorerar-Afrikanism igenom.
Klart efter adventen av européer i Afrika, har vårt kontinent och folk inte bekant verklig fred, stabilitet och tranquility. I stället i förlägga av fred kom kriger, i förlägga av stabilitet kom dra av den godtyckliga koloniinvånaren gränsar (i 1884-5), och i förlägga av tranquility kom slaveri, rasism och kolonialism.
Det afrikanska folket exporterades och sålde som artiklar i Europa, Nordamerika, södra Amerika och det karibiskt. Konstitutionen av Amerikas förenta stater förklarade även en afrikan som vara 3/5 av en människa. Sannerligen började denna afrikanska förintelse med `- europérenässansen' i Italien i 1400, och sedan dess hade slaveri, kolonialism och rasism härjat den afrikanska kontinenten och dess folk sedan århundraden tillbaka. Det var det trans-Atlantic slavar handel och kolonialism som förstörde Afrika och underutvecklat det. I his boka ”hur Europa underutvecklade Afrika”, Dr Walter Rodney ger ett livligt föreställer av denna afrikanska tragedi. Slaveri och kolonialism gjordes möjligheten av den so-called europérenässansen. Författarna av denna renässans använde kompasset och krutet. Dessa kinesiska uppfinningar för fridsamt ämnar användes av Europé att stjäla landet och rikedomen av afrikaner.
Det var som ett resultat av detta som visionära ledare av den afrikanska nedstigningen förespråkade att alla afrikaner - de kan wherever är - bör förena för att avsluta slaveri, kolonialism och rasism. Som ett resultat av dessa händelser afrikanska började folket över hela världen att realisera att de vände mot vanligt problem (slaveri, colonization, och rasism), och att den skulle, var till deras gynnar för att fungera tillsammans i ett försök att lösa dessa problem. Ut ur detta genomförande kom de afrikanska konferenserna för panorera av 1900 (London), 1919 (Paris), 1921 (London, Bryssel, Paris), 1923 (London), 1927 (New York), och den sist representanten en var i 40-tal.
Panorera Afrikanism är en rörelse började i 1776, som Motsoko Pheko pekar ut i hans artikel i Sowetanen (1999), emellertid Panorerar-Afrikanism den femte Panorera-Afrikanen kongressen som rymms i Manchester, England, i avancerad 1945, och applicerat det till decolonisationen av den afrikanska kontinenten politiskt. Några afrikanska ledare som är involverade i denna adelsman, orsakar var jättar liksom Kwame Nkrumah, William du Bois, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Sobukwe och Patrice Lumumba. Med andra ord ”Panorera-Afrikanism inkluderar det intellektuella, politiska och ekonomiska samarbetet som bör leda till den politiska enheten av Afrika. Panorera-Afrikanen alternativet ger en ram för afrikansk enhet.”, Det vårdar också radikal ändring i koloniinvånaren strukturerar av ekonomin och genomförandet av en inward-looking strategi av produktionen och utveckling. Det appeller för sammanslagningen av finansmarknader, ekonomisk integration, en ny strategi för initial huvudstadackumulation och designen av ett nytt politiskt kartlägger för Afrika. Samtidaa Afrika besättas med svårigheter som rotas i dess oförmåga att förena territoriellt. Följderna har varit medborgareekonomier som är inkompetenta av framkallning på grund av geografiskt, ekonomiskt, och politiskt resonerar.
Vi måste acceptera denna sanning och tar den som vår främsta arbetsuppgift, om återställandet av Afrika är att bli en verklighet. I dag har vi valutor och pass som identifierar allegedly oss från ett another. Yet våra valutor förlorar deras värderar på gränsar var vi kapitulerar gärna till driva av den Euro och amerikandollaren. Våra medborgarepass är van vid begränsar förehavanden av afrikaner men inte av européer och Anglo-Saxons från Amerika och någon annanstans.
Det är imperativet som citerar mer ytterligare Pheko, när han påstår att ”det konstgjort gränsar som avskiljer medborgare som, territorier i regionen är skiljs av folk som förenas av historia och som är skilja av regioner som förenas av geografi till graden att de är betvinga av tvister och konflikter mellan afrikanen påstår. SADC måste sträva för en gemenskap som överskrider det ekonomiskt jämnar och strävar för den territoriella och politiska sammanslagningen av Afrika. Detta är det enda långt för att kontinenten ska bli ett stort modernt driver. Detta är det enda skyddet mot neo-liberalism och globalisering. ”
Panorera-Afrikanism begärningar som rikedomen av Afrika används för gynna, upliftmenten, utvecklingen och njutningen av det afrikanska folket. Panorera-Afrikanism är ett system av equitably att dela mat, att bekläda, hem, utbildning, sjukvården, rikedom, landet, arbete, säkerhet av liv och lyckan. Panorera-Afrikanism är privilegiera av det afrikanska folket som älskar sig och som ger sig och deras livsföringrespekt och som rangordnar. Med andra ord bör det finnas inget behov att sälja vitdockor i huvudsakligen svart grannskapar eller länder, därför att sådan dockor inte göras i avbilda av afrikaner utan av européer. Det enda fönstret ut ur detta self-imposed slaveri är Panorerar-Afrikanism. Strömproblemen av Afrika är därför `- neo-slaveri, neo-rasism, neo-kolonialism, globalisering och neo-apartheid'. , varför så Panorera-Afrikanism, därför att det framkallades av utstående afrikanska forskare, politisk forskare, historiker och filosofer som bor i Afrika och diasporaen. Det tänktes ut i skötet av Afrika. Det är en produkt som göras i Afrika av Afrikan. Panorera-Afrikanism är den äldsta visionen i Afrika. Ingen annan ideologi har lyckat utmanat Panorerar-Afrikanism intellectually. Med andra ord, behöver vi inte `- kokosnötakademiker i dag vem den svart yttersidan för looken bara vitinsida, NR.EN, oss behöver äktaa afrikanska forskare, politisk forskare, historiker och filosofer som in bor och diasporaen som ger en räddning av decentrala idealen som ansluta sig till av stora afrikanska visionärer av yesteryears.
PAN-AFRIKANISM I NAMIBIA IGÅR
medborgare som motstånd kriger av 1904-05, bestämt hade vara verkställa på infödda folkets livsstil och beskådar angående viter i Namibia benämner in av enhet och solidaritet. Efter det populära uppror vid Hereros och Namas krossades brutally av det Lothar Von Trothas kommandot, tvingades kapitulerades många av de infödda ledarna för att underteckna skyddsfördrag och till tyska imperialistiska styrkor.
Från Juli 1915, tog det sydafrikanska styret över kontrollera av det namibiska territoriet från Tyskland och att avsluta 30 år av tysk koloniinvånare härskar. Även om det har finnas en ändring i styre från ett som är ledar- till annat, återstår den förtrycka politiken i hög grad oförändrad. Mellan motstånd 1920 och 1925 mot koloniinvånare härska antog att en variation av bildar unparallel i namibisk historia (Tony Emmet).
Denna period bevittnar också uppkomsten av nytt bildar av politiska organisationar, och ideologiskt strandar att överskred pre-koloniinvånaren uppdelningar och började att lägga en bas för medborgareenhet. Bland olika organisationar, som var etablerad, var den universella neger- förbättringsanslutningen (UNIA), den industriell och reklamfilmarbetarunionen (ICU), afrikanska folkets organisation (APO) och den södra västra Afrika medborgarekongressen (SWANC). Tony Emmet noterar att ”UNIA med dess Panorerar-Africanist plattformen bevisade remarkably lyckat och att fördela från det industriellt centrerar av Luderitz till annat stads-, centrerar, och därefter till bygden”.
Både Tony Emmet och Gregory Pirio bekräftar att den universella neger- förbättringsanslutningen och afrikangemenskapligan lanserades i Luderitz i 1921. Nucleusen för bildandet av UNIAEN förgrena sig utgj橬一j av en liten grupp av västra afrikaner och västra indier som hade satt i de kust- townsna av territoriet. Majoriteten av denna grupp sades för att påbörja från Liberia, Kamerun, seglar utmed kusten kommits med kriger hade Sierra Leone och det guld- och in i Namibia av germansna för och under världen 1. I deporterades 1910… femtio manar och ett nummer av kvinnor och barn från den tyska kolonin av Kamerun till Luderitz, efter myteri bland den svart Schutztruppen i den västra Afrika kolonin (Tony Emmet). Några av de västra afrikanerna hade kommits med till Namibia av Woermann SändningsFöretag.
In mot avsluta av 1921 som Luderitzen förgrena sig av UNIA, hade ett medlemskap av 331 och hade samlat mer eller minus 41 dunkar i abonnemangavgifter, ett enormt belopp då som betraktar den svart befolkningen av 2155 i Luderitz. På registrering mottog varje rekryt Rossette för svart en `röda och gröna,' som ha på sig på slaget (Gregory Pirio).
Luderitzen UNIA förgrena sig var aktivet, i att mobilisera svartarna under ett paraply, förkroppsligar. Den fortsatte exploateringen av svartar sammanlagt dess manifestations-politiskt, gav socialt och economically löneförhöjning till enhet- och motståndszealen till dessa det vanligafolk. Fritz Headly, dess president var alltid ihärdig, och elastiskt, i att ge föräldern, förkroppsliga med materiellt dokumentera det verkliga läget, och van vid skriv märker till den neger- världen och var thus instrumentalet, i att bekanta svarta människor alltigenom världen med oppressivenessen av det sydafrikanska mandatstyret i södra västra Afrika.
I sådan en märka, honom påstod (Gregorio Pirio);
`Är vi segregerade, diskriminerat, disenfranchised, jim-galit i boskapsvagnar, boxas kol, och sist men inte least, mördat urskillningslöstt av den annan kamraten med gevär- och maskingevärkulor. Men vad vi handlar med mestadels, är segregeringen helt i dess aspekter i det tidigare styret av våra förtryckarear GARVEYISM-SPRIDNING
för germansna' TILL BYGDEN som
den Luderitz uppdelningen av UNIAEN förgrena sig var etablerad i Windhoek i Oktober 1921 under vägledningen av dess president Headly. Från starten vad gör, Windhoeken var att förgrena sig av unik UNIA att det utöva av förgrena sig var fast under kontrollera av lokalsvartledare.
Lokalledarna, som var framstående i Windhoeken, förgrena sig var Hosea Kutako, Aaron John Mungunda, Traugott Maharero och Nikanor Hoveka. Andra ledare på exekutivkommittéen var Alpheus Harasemab och Franz Hoisemab.
Windhoeken förgrena sig överfört ut i Oktober 1922 två emissaries-Theodor Hambue, och John Mungunda som ska upprättas, förgrena sig av anslutningen i Usakos, Karibib och Okahandja (Gregory Pirio). Headly var instrumentalet i grunda av UNIAEN förgrena sig också i Swakopmund.
Inte endast var idealen av Garveyism som fördelar i Namibia, utan föräldern förkroppsligar också fånget lindar av aktiviteterna av UNIAEN Namibia. Den första formella anslutningen mellan den Namibia och Garveyist organisationen sägs för att uppstå i 1922, då en UNIA-delegation överfördes till Geneva till begäran ligan av nationer som vänder de tidigare tyska kolonierna över till svart ledarskap (Tony Emmet).
Själva Garvey sveks inte, eller avskräckt av den fortsatte okunnigheten och tystnaden av ligan av nationer och fortsatt steadfastly, i ett riktigt stridslystet bilda för att stötta orsaka av södra västra afrikanska svartar. Ett sådan exempel är i reaktion till de flyg- attackerna mot Bondelswartsen (i 1922),
Marcus som Garvey hade förklarat på förstasidan av den neger- världen;
`Hottentotsna har inga flygplan, och på grund av det kan boersna och britten bombardera dem ut ur deras spela golfboll i hål och kojor och underkuvar ultimately dem. Men runt om dessa amerikanstäder och denna västra värld har vi många neger som kan flyga i flygplan. Varför inte byggande några, och, när hottentotsna behöver flygplan att bekämpa flygplan, varför att inte ge dem av vår tekniska kapacitet och att hjälpa dem att sätta över det stora jobbet, som allihop önskar gjorda'
Gregory Pirio
det anstår till omnämnande här som kännemärken av tidig sort arrangerar gradvis av den afrikanska befrielsen, var behovet att förena i vända mot av allmänninginkräktare. Enheten av ämnar, som gs så öppet by Panorerar-Afrikanism i form av UNIAS ideologiska nexus, i handlingen för ändring, förebådade födelsen av den moderna namibiska nationalismen som ger löneförhöjning till uppkomsten av nationalistiska organisationar i den sena 50-tal och tidig sort60-tal.
PAN-AFRIKANISM I NAMIBIA Namibia
nådde I DAG dess självständighet på 21st mars 1990 och att visa i en new wave av processaa demokrati och nation-byggnad. Sannerligen hade den sist kolonin på den afrikanska kontinenten den blivna delen av internationellt samfund. Utmaningen för SWAPO-ledarskap var nu att omforma ekonomin som besattes av en myriad av motsättningar, och ojämlikheter in i en modern ekonomi, som är kompetent att reagera till utmaningarna, vände mot vid folket. SWAPO-partiregeringen som koncentreras inte endast på omformning av utbildningssystemet men ges också mycket - nödvändigt politiskt utrymme, var ungdomaren, majoriteten av dem, som har vittne att inte kriga kunde införa nyheter med nya idéer och ideologir.
Det ägde rum under sådan tid som Panorera-Afrikanen deltagaresamhället (PASSERA) bildades i 1994 på universitetar av Namibia av statskunskapdeltagarna för att förhöja det processaa av dialektikar. Enligt Joshua Kaumbi, PASSERAR ordföranden av från 1998/9 syftet av deltagaren som samhälle var till `främjar afrikan värderar och moral; bekräfta och hedra bidraget av afrikanska manar och kvinnor in mot befordran av Panorera-Afrikanen idéerna; för att organisera allmänhet föreläser, och att företa sig forskning utfärdar på rörs afrikaner hemma och i diasporaen' (den afrikanska beskärningen av civilisationen och öden av Afrika: 2000).
PASSERA var amongst de mest vibrerande och mest röst- samhällena på universitetsområdet. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
Panafricanism в Намибии: Henny Seibeb, Elijah t Ngurare, Клинтон Swartbooi
Automatically translated into Russian thanks to WorldLingo
Эта неделя я имею удовольствие вывесить гостя части написанного 3 близкими друзьями и сподвижницами всеми играли роль в re-enegesing и политический ландшафт и Panafrican думая в Намибии.
Это в моем взгляде будет своевременная часть в что Намибии нужно сделать много душу ища в ее попытке определить в обширном смысле «проекта одной Африки».
`Iий умоляет для того чтобы сразу ваше внимание к Африке: Я знаю что в немного лет я буду cut off в той стране, которая теперь открыта: Не препятствуйте ему быть закрынным снова! Я иду back to Африка попытаться сделать открытый курс для коммерции и христианства; вы уносите работу начатое I. Я оставляю работа начатое I. Я оставляю оно с вами'
Дэвид Livingstone, европейский Missionary-Исследователь
«Missionary говорит что мы будем дет бога как наши белые братья….но справедливый взгляд на нас. Собаки, невольники, более плохие чем павианы на утесах ..... которое как вы обрабатываете нас»
Herero к немецкому поселенцу
«Hottentots не имеют никакие aeroplanes, и из-за того буры и British могут бомбить их из их отверстий и хат и предельно подчинить их. Но вокруг этих американских городов и этого западного мира мы имеем много негров могут лететь в aeroplanes. Почему не строение некоторые, и когда aeroplanes потребности Hottentots сразить aeroplanes, почему не дать их нашей технически способности и не помочь их положить над большой работой которой all of us хотят сделанное»
Маркус Garvey
в использовании этих quotes, им не будут нашим намерием открыть заново раны прошлого, а в нашем взгляде, эти раны пока не излечивали вполне потому что повязка продолжается быть отрезанным реальностями отношения между гонкой оригинала `против невольничья гонка'. Мы осведомленны чувствительности этой характеризации но судящ поведение нашей самомоднейшей Африки как как отдельные штат, так и как люди, увеличивает доказательство для того чтобы фундировать засилье гонки оригинала `' и своего subjugation гонки невольника `'. Negrophobic нападениями в Южной Африке также, как Кения будут примеры whilst мы себя зарежем над мякишами от таблицы капиталиста, европейское neo-colonisers остают в управлении наших середин продукции, наших экономий и цен африканских стратегических сырых материалов. В этой части мнения, мы спорим что единственная практически и реалистическая дорога для нас как люди и материк поистине освободить от умственных сережек колониализма и возвратить наши поистине самоопределение и экономическая независимость через Лоток-Afrikanism.
Ясно, с пришествия европейцев в Африке, наши материк и люди имеют не известный реальный мир, стабилность и безмятежность. Вместо in the place of мир пришло война, in the place of стабилность пришло чертеж произвольных колониальных границ (в 1884-5) и in the place of безмятежность пришло невольничество, расизм и колониализм.
Африканские люди были ехпортированы и продали как товары в Europe, Северной Америке, Южной Америке и Caribbean. Конституция Соединенных Штатов Америки даже объявила африканца как был 3/5 из людского существования. Деиствительно, это африканское Holocaust начало с ренессансом `европейским' в Италии в 1400 и since then невольничество, колониализм и расизм имели ravaged африканский материк и свои люди на столетия. Было заатлантическими торговлей и колониализмом невольника разрушили Африку и underdeveloped оно. В его книге «как Europe underdeveloped Африка», Dr Вальтер Родни дает vivid изображение этого африканского трагизма. Невольничество и колониализм были сделаны по возможности so-called европейским ренессансом. Авторы этого ренессанса использовали компас и gunpowder. Эти китайские вымыслы для мирных целей были использованы европейцем для того чтобы украсть землю и богатство африканцев.
Оно было в результате этого руководители визионера африканского спуска защитили что все африканцы - wherever они могли быть - должны соединить к невольничеству, колониализму и расизму конца. В результате этих случаев африканские люди всемирно начали осуществлять что они смотрели на общие проблемы (невольничество, колонизацию, и расизм), и что он будет к их преимуществу, котор нужно работать совместно в усилии разрешить эти проблемы. Из этого осуществления пришли конференции лотка африканские 1900 (лондон), 1919 (Paris), 1921 (лондон, Brussels, Paris), 1923 (лондон), 1927 (нью-йорк), и последнее должностное лицо одно находилось в 1940s.
По мере того как Motsoko Pheko point out в его статье в Sowetan (1999), приготовьте Afrikanism будет движением начал в 1776, однако, пятом Лотк-Африканском съезде, котор держат в Manchester, Англии, в 1945 выдвинутом Лотке-Afrikanism и прикладываемые ему к decolonisation африканского материка политически. Некоторые африканские руководители, котор включили в эту благородную причину были гигантами such as Kwame Nkrumah, William du Bois, Jomo Kenyatta, Роберт Sobukwe и Patrice Lumumba. In other words, «Лоток-Afrikanism вклюает интеллектуальное, политическое и хозяйственное сотрудничество которое должно вести к политическому всеединству Африки. Лотк-Африканская алтернатива обеспечивает рамки для африканского всеединства.» Она также воспитывает радикальное изменение в колониальных структурах экономии, и вставку inward-looking стратегии продукции и развития. Оно вызывает для унификации финансовых рынков, экономической интеграции, новой стратегии для первоначально накопления основного капитала и конструкции новой политической карты для Африки. Современная Африка beset при затруднения укорененные в своей невозможности соединить территориально. Последствиями были национальные экономики неспособные превращаться из-за географических, хозяйственных и политических причин.
Мы должны признавать эту правду, и принимаем ее как наша основная обязанность, если восстановление Африки должно стать реальностью. Сегодня мы имеем валюты и пасспорты allegedly определяют нас от одного другое. Но наши валюты теряют их значения на границах где мы охотно готово передаем к силе Euro и американского доллара. Наши национальные пасспорты использованы для того чтобы ограничить движения африканцев но не европейцев и англосаксов от америки и в другом месте.
Повелительно закавычить Pheko более дальнейшее когда он заявляет что «искусственними границами отделяют национальные территории в зоне divisive людей соединенных историей и divisive зон соединенных землеведением to the extent that они будут предмет спора и противоречат между африканскими положениями. SADC должно стремиться для общины переступает пределы хозяйственный уровень и стремится для территориального и политического объединения Африки. Это будет единственная дорога для материка стать большой самомоднейшей силой. Это будет единственное предохранение против neo-либерализма и globalisation. »
Лоток-Afrikanism требует, чтобы богатые люди Африки были использованы для преимущества, upliftment, развития и наслаждения африканских людей. Лоток-Afrikanism будет системой equitably делить еду, одежду, дома, образование, healthcare, богатство, землю, работу, обеспеченность жизни и счастье. Лоток-Afrikanism будет привилегированностью африканских людей полюбить и дать и их дорогу уважения и предпочтения жизни. Иначе говоря должно быть никакая потребность продать белые куклы в большей частью черных районах или страны потому что такие куклы не сделаны в изображении африканцев а европейцев. Единственное окно из этого self-imposed невольничества будет Лотком-Afrikanism. В настоящее время проблемами Африки поэтому будут neo-невольничеством, neo-расизмом, neo-колониализмом, globalisation и neo-арартеидом `'. Так почему Лоток-Afrikanism, потому что он было начато выдающими африканскими эрудитами, политическими научными работниками, historians и philosophers живя в Африке и Diaspora. Оно было понято в утробе Африки. Это будет продуктом сделанным в Африке Африканцем. Лоток-Afrikanism будет самым старым зрением в Африке. Никакое другое мировоззрение успешно не бросало вызов Лоток-Afrikanism интеллектуально. In other words, нам не нужно academics кокоса `' сегодня снаружи но белизна взгляда черному внутрь, НЕТ, мы нужны неподдельные африканские эрудиты, политические научные работники, historians и philosophers живя внутри и Diaspora для того чтобы обеспечить спасение Афро--центральных ideals espoused большими африканскими визионерами yesteryears.
PAN-AFRIKANISM В НАМИБИИ ВЧЕРА
национальные войны сопротивления 1904-05 некоторо имело долгосрочное последствие на lifestyle коренныа народности и взгляды относительно белизн в Намибии in terms of всеединство и сплоченность. С народного восстания Hereros и Namas задавил зверски commando Lothar Von Trotha's, много из индигенных руководителей принудились подписать договоры предохранения и передались к немецким имперским усилиям.
Начиная с июля 1915, южный африканский режим take over управление территории Namibian от Германии, кончаясь 30 лет немецкого колониального правила. Хотя было изменение в режиме от одного оригинала к другому, утеснительные политики остают больш неизменными. Между сопротивлением 1920 и 1925 против колониального правила принял разнообразие unparallel форм в истории Namibian (Тони Emmet).
Этот период также witness эмерджентность новых форм политических организаций и мировоззренческих стренг переступили пределы pre-колониальные разделения и начали класть основу для национального единства. Среди различных организаций были установлены находились всеобщая ассоциация улучшения негра (UNIA), промышленный и коммерчески профсоюзов (ICU), организация африканских людей (APO) и народное собрание южной западной Африки (SWANC). Тони Emmet замечает что «UNIA с своей платформой Лотка-Africanist доказало замечательн успешно, распространяющ от индустриального центра Luderitz к другое урбанскому, центры, и после этого к countryside».
И Тони Emmet и Грегори Pirio подтверждает что всеобщая ассоциация улучшения негра и африканская лига общин были запущены в Luderitz в 1921. Ядро для образования ветви UNIA было образовано малой группой в составе западные африканцы и западные индейцы установили в прибрежных городках территории. Сказали, что возникло от Либерии, Камеруна, Сьерра-Леона и свободного полета золота и принесло большинство этой группы в Намибию немцами перед и во время Первой Мировой Войной. В 1910… 50 людях и нескольких женщинах и детях было deported от немецкой колонии Kamerun к Luderitz, после мятежа среди черного Schutztruppe в западной колонии Африки (Тони Emmet). Некоторые из западных африканцев были принесены к Намибии Woermann Shipping Компанией по транспортировке грузов.
К концу 1921 ветвь Luderitz UNIA имела членство 331 и собрала больше или без 41 фунта в гонорарах подписки, огромного количества на том времени рассматривая черную населенность 2155 в Luderitz. На зарегистрировании каждый рекрут получил Rossette черноты `, красных и зеленых' которое несено на отвороте (Грегори Pirio).
Ветвь Luderitz UNIA была активно в мобилизовать черноту под одним телом зонтика. Продолжаемое эксплуатирование черноты в всех своих выраженностях-политическ, социально и экономично give rise to усердие всеединства и сопротивления к этим обычным людям. Fritz Headly, свой президент был всегда упорнейш и resilient в обеспечивать возглавляющий орган при материал документируя реальное положение дел и используемый для писания пем к миру негра и был таким образом целесообразн в знакомить черные людей повсеместно в мир с oppressiveness южного африканского режима мандата в южной западной Африке.
В одном таком письме, он заявил (Gregorio Pirio);
`Мы сегрегированы, после того как мы различены, disenfranchised, после того как мыкукареканы в тележках скотин, коробках угля, и последнем но наиболее меньше, после того как мы палачествованы другим собратом с пулями автомата винтовки и. Но мы dealing with главным образом находится сегрегация вс в своих аспектах в бывшем режиме наших притеснителей РАСПРОСТРАНЕНИЕ GARVEYISM
немцев' К COUNTRYSIDE
разделение Luderitz, котор ветви UNIA было установлено в Windhoek в октябре 1921 под наведением своего президента Headly. От onset делает ветвь Windhoek UNIA уникально была что экзекьютив ветви находился твердо под управлением местных черных руководителей.
Местные руководители были видно в ветви Windhoek были Hosea Kutako, Аарон Джон Mungunda, Traugott Maharero, и Nikanor Hoveka. Другие руководители на руководящем совете были Alpheus Harasemab и Franz Hoisemab.
Ветвь Windhoek send out в октябре 1922 2 emissaries-Theodor Hambue и Джон Mungunda для того чтобы установить ветви ассоциации в Usakos, Karibib и Okahandja (Грегори Pirio). Headly было также целесообразно в основывать ветви UNIA в Swakopmund.
Not only был ideals Garveyism распространяя в Намибии но возглавляющем органе также полученный ветер RABOT UNIA Намибии. Сказаны, что происходит первое официально соединение между организацией Намибии и Garveyist в 1922 когда делегация UNIA была послана к Geneva к ходатайству Лига Наций для того чтобы повернуть бывшие немецкие колонии сверх к черному водительству (Тони Emmet).
Garvey себя не было разочаровано или обескуражито продолжаемыми незнанием и безмолвием Лигой Наций и не продолжено твердокаменно, в поистине combative форме для того чтобы поддержать причину южной западной африканской черноты. Один такой пример находится в реакции к воздушным нападениям против Bondelswarts (в 1922),
Маркус, котор Garvey объявило на титульном лист мира негра;
`Hottentots не имеет никакие aeroplanes, и из-за того буры и British могут бомбить их из их отверстий и хат и предельно подчинить их. Но вокруг этих американских городов и этого западного мира мы имеем много негров могут лететь в aeroplanes. Почему не строение некоторые, и когда aeroplanes потребности Hottentots сразить aeroplanes, почему не дать их нашей технически способности и не помочь их положить над большой работой которой all of us хотят сделанное'
Грегори Pirio
они следуют для того чтобы упомянуть здесь что hallmark предыдущего участка африканского высвобождения был потребностью соединить in the face of общие самолет-нарушители. Всеединство цели, которая настолько открыто была обеспечена Лотком-Afrikanism in the form of nexus UNIA мировоззренческий, в действии для изменения, heralded рожденио самомоднейшего национализма Namibian, give rise to эмерджентность nationalist организаций in the late 1950s и предыдущие 1960s.
PAN-AFRIKANISM В НАМИБИИ СЕГОДНЯ
Намибии приобрело свою независимость на 21st из марта 1990, ushering в новой волне народовластия и процесса наци-здания. Деиствительно, последняя колония на африканском материке имела, котор стали часть сообществ. Возможность для водительства SWAPO должна была теперь преобразовать экономию была beset мириад несоответствий и неравноправности в самомоднейшую экономию, которая может ответить к возможностям смотрели на людьми. Правительство партии SWAPO not only сконцентрировало на преобразовывать систему образования но также обеспечило много - необходимый политический космос, где молодые люди, большинство их которые не имеют войну заверителя смогли innovate с новыми идеями и мировоззрениями.
Оно было во время такого времени сформировало в 1994 на университете Намибии студентами политической науки для того чтобы увеличить Лотк-Африканское общество студентов (ПРОПУСК) процесс диалектики. Согласно Иешуа Kaumbi, председатель ПРОПУСКА от 1998/9 цели общества студента был к `повышает африканские значения и нравственности; подтвердите и удостоьте вклада африканских людей и женщин к выдвижению Лотк-Африканских идей; организовать общественные лекции и предпринять исследование на вопросах влияя на африканцев дома и в Diaspora' (африканское начало цивилизации и Destiny Африки: 2000).
ПРОПУСК был amongst vibrant и самые вокальные общества на campus. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
Panafricanism in Namibië: Henny Seibeb, Elijah T Ngurare, Clinton Swartbooi
Automatically translated into Dutch thanks to WorldLingo
Deze week heb ik het genoegen om een stukgast te posten die door drie dichte elk van vrienden en vennoten wordt geschreven wie een rol in re-enegesing zowel het politieke landschap als het Panafrican denken in Namibië hebben gespeeld.
Dit naar mijn mening is een geschikt stuk in dat Namibië moet veel ziel doen zoekend in haar poging om in de brede context van project het van „Één Afrika“ te bepalen.
`Die Ik heb gebedeld om uw aandacht aan Afrika te leiden: Ik weet dat in een paar jaar dat ik in dat land zal worden afgesneden, dat nu open is: Laat het niet opnieuw worden gesloten! Ik ga aan Afrika terug proberen om een open weg voor handel en Christendom te maken; voert u het werk uit dat begonnen met I. Ik verlaat het werk dat begonnen met I. Ik verlaat het met u'
David Livingstone, Europese missionary-Ontdekkingsreiziger
De „missionaris zegt dat wij de kinderen van God zoals onze Witte broers…. zijnmaar bekijk enkel ons. De honden, slaven, dan bavianen op de rotsen ..... u behandelen ons zo slechter een“
Herero aan een Duitse Kolonist
„Hottentots geen vliegtuigen heeft, en wegens dat kunnen Boers en de Britten hen bombarderen uit hun gaten en hutten en uiteindelijk hen onderwerpen. Maar rond deze Amerikaanse steden en deze Westerse Wereld hebben wij vele Zwarten die in vliegtuigen kunnen vliegen. Waarom wat niet bouwen, en wanneer de Hottentots behoeftevliegtuigen om vliegtuigen te bestrijden, waarom hen niet geven van onze technische capaciteit en hen helpen om over de grote baan te zetten dat wij allemaal gedaane“ Marcus
Garvey in
het gebruiken van deze citaten willen, het niet onze bedoeling is om de wonden van het verleden te heropenen, maar naar onze mening, deze wonden nog niet volledig hebben geheeld omdat het verband door de werkelijkheid van het verband tussen het HoofdRas `versus blijft worden gesneden het ras van de Slaaf'. Wij zijn ons bewust van de gevoeligheid van deze karakterisering maar beoordelend het gedrag van ons modern Afrika zowel als individuele Staten als mensen, is er stijgend bewijsmateriaal om de overheersing van het HoofdRas `' en zijn onderwerping van het Ras van de Slaaf te substantiëren `'. De negrophobic aanvallen in Zuid-Afrika evenals Kenia zijn voorbeelden dat terwijl wij ons over crumbs van de kapitalistische lijst slachten, Europese neo-colonisers in controle van onze productiemiddelen, onze economieën en prijzen van Afrikaanse strategische grondstoffen blijven. In dit adviesstuk, debatteren wij dat herwint de enige praktische en realistische manier voor ons als mensen en continent aan echt vrij zelf van de geestelijke sluitingen van kolonialisme en onze ware zelfbeschikking en de economische onafhankelijkheid is door pan-Afrikanism.
Duidelijk, sinds de komst van Europeanen in Afrika, gekend onze continent en mensen geen echte vrede, stabiliteit en kalmte. In plaats daarvan in de plaats van vrede kwam oorlog, in de plaats van stabiliteit kwam de tekening van willekeurige koloniale grenzen (in 1884-5) en in de plaats van kalmte kwam de slavernij, racisme en kolonialisme.
De Afrikaanse mensen werden uitgevoerd en werden verkocht als goederen in Europa, Noord-Amerika, Zuid-Amerika en de Caraïben. De grondwet van de Verenigde Staten van Amerika verklaarde zelfs een Afrikaan zoals zijnd 3/5 van een menselijk wezen. Deze Afrikaanse Holocaust begon namelijk met de Europese Renaissance `' in Italië in 1400 en sindsdien hadden de slavernij, het kolonialisme en het racisme het Afrikaanse continent en zijn mensen eeuwenlang verwoest. Het was de transatlantische slavenhandel en het kolonialisme die Afrika en onderontwikkeld het vernietigden. In zijn boek „hoe Europa onderontwikkeld Afrika“, Dr. Walter Rodney een levendig beeld van deze Afrikaanse tragedie geeft. De slavernij en het kolonialisme werden gemaakt mogelijk door de zogenaamde Europese Renaissance. De auteurs van deze renaissance gebruikten het kompas en het buskruit. Deze Chinese uitvindingen voor vreedzame doeleinden werden gebruikt door Europeanen om het land en de rijkdom van Afrikanen te stelen.
Het was als resultaat van dit dat de onrealistische leiders van Afrikaanse afdaling bepleitten dat alle Afrikanen - waar zij zouden kunnen zijn - zich zouden moeten verenigen om de slavernij, kolonialisme en racisme te beëindigen. Als resultaat van deze gebeurtenissen begonnen de Afrikaanse mensen wereldwijd te realiseren dat zij gemeenschappelijke problemen onder ogen zagen (de slavernij, kolonisatie, en racisme), en dat het aan hun voordeel zou zijn om in een inspanning samen te werken om deze problemen op te lossen. Uit dit kwam totstandbrenging de Pan Afrikaanse Conferenties van 1900 (Londen), 1919 (Parijs), 1921 (Londen, Brussel, Parijs), 1923 (Londen), 1927 (New York), en de laatste ambtenaar men in jaren '40 was.
Zoals Motsoko Pheko in zijn artikel in Sowetan (1999) wijst op, is PanAfrikanism een beweging begon in 1776, echter, het vijfde Pan-African Congres dat in Manchester, Engeland, in 1945 geavanceerde pan-Afrikanism wordt gehouden en toepaste het politiek op decolonisation van het Afrikaanse continent. Sommige Afrikaanse leiders betrokken bij deze edele oorzaak waren reuzen zoals Kwame Nkrumah, William du Bois, Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Sobukwe en Patrice Lumumba. Met andere woorden, „pan-Afrikanism omvat de intellectuele, politieke en economische samenwerking die tot de politieke eenheid van Afrika zou moeten leiden. Het Pan-African alternatief verstrekt een kader voor Afrikaanse eenheid.“ Het bevordert ook radicale verandering in de koloniale structuren van de economie, en de tenuitvoerlegging van een innerlijk strategie van productie en ontwikkeling. Het verzoekt de eenmaking van financiële markten, economische integratie, een nieuwe strategie voor beginkapitaalaccumulatie en het ontwerp van een nieuwe politieke kaart voor Afrika. Eigentijds Afrika wordt met moeilijkheden bezet die in zijn onvermogen wortel worden geschoten zich territorially te verenigen. De gevolgen zijn nationale economieën onbekwaam om wegens geografische, economische en politieke redenen zich te ontwikkelen geweest.
Wij moeten deze waarheid goedkeuren, en het nemen als onze eerste plicht, als de restauratie van Afrika een werkelijkheid moet worden. Vandaag hebben wij munten en paspoorten die ons naar verluidt van elkaar identificeren. Maar toch verliezen onze munten hun waarden bij de grenzen waar wij gewillig ons aan de macht van de Euro en Amerikaanse Dollar overgeven. Onze nationale paspoorten worden gebruikt om de bewegingen van Afrikanen maar niet van Europeanen en Angelsaksers van Amerika te beperken en elders.
Het is noodzakelijk om verdere Pheko te citeren wanneer hij dat de „Kunstmatige grenzen verklaart dat afzonderlijk de nationale gebieden in het gebied verdeeldheid zaaiend van mensen die door geschiedenis worden verenigd en verdeeldheid zaaiend van gebieden die door aardrijkskunde worden verenigd zodanig dat zij het onderwerp van geschillen zijn zijn en tussen Afrikaanse staten strijdig is. SADC moet voor een gemeenschap streven die het economische niveau overtreft en streeft voor de territoriale en politieke eenmaking van Afrika. Dit is de enige manier voor het continent een grote moderne macht te worden. Dit is de enige bescherming tegen neo-liberalism en globalisering. “
Pan-Afrikanism eist dat de rijkdom van Afrika voor het voordeel, upliftment, de ontwikkeling en het plezier van de Afrikaanse mensen wordt gebruikt. Pan-Afrikanism is een systeem om voedsel, kleding, huizen, onderwijs, gezondheidszorg, rijkdom, land, het werk, veiligheid van het leven en geluk billijk te delen. Pan-Afrikanism is het voorrecht van de Afrikaanse mensen om van te houden en en hun manier van het leven eerbied en voorkeur te geven. Met andere woorden zou er geen behoefte moeten zijn om witte poppen in hoofdzakelijk zwarte buurten of landen te verkopen omdat dergelijke poppen niet in het beeld van Afrikanen maar van Europeanen worden gemaakt. Het enige venster uit deze aan zichzelf opgelegde slavernij is pan-Afrikanism. De huidige problemen van Afrika daarom zijn de neo-slavernij `, neo-racisme, neo-kolonialisme, globalisering en neo-apartheid'. Waarom zo pan-Afrikanism, omdat het door eminente Afrikaanse geleerden, politieke wetenschappers werd ontwikkeld, historici en filosofen die in Afrika en Diaspora leven. Het werd opgevat in womb van Afrika. Het is een product dat in Afrika door Afrikanen wordt gemaakt. Pan-Afrikanism is de oudste visie in Afrika. Geen andere ideologie heeft met succes pan-Afrikanism intellectueel uitgedaagd. Met andere woorden, wensen wij `kokosnoten vandaag geen academics' wie zwarte buitenkant maar binnen wit kijken, nr, hebben wij echte Afrikaanse geleerden, politieke wetenschappers, historici en filosofen binnen en Diaspora die nodig een redding van afro-Centric ideals leven te verstrekken die door grote Afrikaanse zieners van yesteryears wordt aangenomen.
Pan-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIË hadden
de nationale weerstandsoorlogen van 1904-05 GISTEREN zeker een duurzaam effect op de levensstijl van de inheemse mensen en meningen betreffende Wit in Namibië in termen van Eenheid en Solidariteit. Aangezien de populaire opstand door Hereros en Namas brutaal door het commando van Lothar Von Trotha's werd verpletterd, werden veel van de inheemse leiders gedwongen om beschermingsverdragen te ondertekenen en werden overgegeven aan Duitse KeizerKrachten.
Vanaf Juli 1915, nam het Zuidafrikaanse regime de controle van het Namibian grondgebied van Duitsland over, dat 30 jaar van Duitse koloniale regel beëindigt. Hoewel er een verandering in regime van één meester aan andere is geweest, blijft het oppressive beleid grotendeels onveranderd. Tussen 1920 en 1925 veronderstelde de weerstand tegen koloniale regel een verscheidenheid van vormen unparallel in Namibian geschiedenis (Tony Emmet).
Deze periode getuigt ook de totstandkoming van nieuwe vormen van politieke organisaties en ideologische bundels die pre-koloniale afdelingen overtroffen en begonnen leggend een basis voor nationale eenheid. Onder diverse organisaties die werden opgericht waren de Universele Vereniging van de Verbetering van de Zwarte (UNIA), de Industriële en Commerciële Unie van Arbeiders (ICU), de Organisatie van de Afrikaanse Mensen (APO) en het Nationale Congres van Afrika van het Zuidwesten (SWANC). Tony Emmet merkt op dat „UNIA met zijn platform pan-Africanist opmerkelijk succesvol bleek, uitspreidend van het industriële centrum van Luderitz aan andere stedelijk, centra, en dan aan het platteland“.
Zowel erkent Tony Emmet als Gregory Pirio dat de Universele Vereniging van de Verbetering van de Zwarte en de Afrikaanse Liga van Gemeenschappen in Luderitz in 1921 werden gelanceerd. De kern voor de vorming van de tak UNIA werd gevormd door een kleine groep het Westen Afrikanen en het Westen Indiërs die in de kuststeden van het grondgebied had geregeld. De meerderheid van deze groep werd gezegd om uit Liberia, Kameroen, Sierra Leone en de Gouden Kust voort te komen en was gebracht in Namibië door de Duitsers vóór en tijdens Oorlog van de Wereld 1. In 1910… werden vijftig mannen en een aantal vrouwen en kinderen gedeporteerd van Duitse kolonie van Kamerun aan Luderitz, na mutiny onder Zwarte Schutztruppe in de kolonie van West-Afrika (Tony Emmet). Het enkele Westen Afrikanen was gebracht aan Namibië door Woermann Scheepvaartmaatschappij.
Tegen eind 1921 had de tak Luderitz van UNIA een lidmaatschap van 331 en had min of meer 41 ponden in abonnementsprijzen verzameld, een reusachtig bedrag op dat ogenblik overwegend de Zwarte bevolking van 2155 in Luderitz. Op registratie ontving elke rekruut een `Zwarte, Rode en Groene Rossette' die versleten op de revers (Gregory Pirio).
De tak van Luderitz UNIA was actief in het mobiliseren van de Zwarten onder één paraplulichaam. De voortdurende uitbuiting van Zwarten in alle zijn manifestatie-politiek, en leidde sociaal economisch tot de eenheid en weerstandsijver aan deze gewone mensen. Fritz Headly, zijn Voorzitter was altijd blijvend en veerkrachtig in het voorzien van het Lichaam van de Ouder van materiaal dat de echte situatie documenteert en gebruikt om brieven aan de Wereld van de Zwarte te schrijven en was zo instrumentaal in over de hele wereld het op de hoogte brengen van Zwarte mensen van oppressiveness van het Zuidafrikaanse mandaatregime in Afrika van het Zuidwesten.
In één dergelijke brief, verklaarde hij (Gregorio Pirio);
`Wij zijn afgezonderd, onderscheiden, disenfranchised, Jim-gekraaid in veewagens, kolenkitten, en last but not least, die door de andere kameraad met geweer en machinegeweerkogels worden afgeslacht. Maar wat wij meestal behandelen is scheiding geheel in zijn aspecten in het vorige regime van onze onderdrukkers de Duitsers'
GARVEYISM AAN het PLATTELAND UITSPREIDDEN
de afdeling Luderitz van de tak UNIA in Windhoek in Oktober 1921 onder de begeleiding van zijn President Headly werd gevestigd. Van het begin wat maakt was de Windhoek unieke Tak van UNIA dat de stafmedewerker van de tak stevig onder de controle van lokale Zwarte leiders was.
De lokale leiders die in de Windhoek tak prominent waren waren Hosea Kutako, Aaron John Mungunda, Traugott Maharero, en Nikanor Hoveka. Andere leiders op de uitvoerende commissie waren Alpheus Harasemab en Franz Hoisemab.
De Windhoek Tak die in Oktober 1922 twee emissaries-Theodor Hambue en John Mungunda wordt gestuurd om takken van de vereniging in Usakos, Karibib en Okahandja (Gregory Pirio) te vestigen. Headly was ook instrumentaal in het oprichten van de Tak UNIA in Swakopmund.
Niet alleen spreidden ideals uit van Garveyism in Namibië maar het Lichaam van de Ouder werd ook wind van de activiteiten van UNIA Namibië. De eerste formele verbinding tussen organisatie Namibië wordt en Garveyist gezegd om in 1922 voor te komen toen een delegatie UNIA naar Genève werd gestuurd om de Liga van Naties te petitioneren om de vroegere Duitse Kolonies aan zwarte leiding (Tony Emmet) over te draaien.
Garvey zelf was teleurgesteld of afgeraden vast en en geen gebleven door de voortdurende onwetendheid de stilte door de Liga van Naties, in een ware strijdlustige vorm de oorzaak van de Afrikaanse Zwarten van het Zuidwesten steunen. Één dergelijk voorbeeld is in reactie op de luchtaanvallen tegen Bondelswarts (in 1922),
had Marcus Garvey op de voorpagina van de Wereld van de Zwarte verklaard;
`Hottentots heeft geen vliegtuigen, en wegens dat kunnen Boers en de Britten hen bombarderen uit hun gaten en hutten en uiteindelijk hen onderwerpen. Maar rond deze Amerikaanse steden en deze Westerse Wereld hebben wij vele Zwarten die in vliegtuigen kunnen vliegen. Waarom wat niet bouwen, en wanneer de Hottentots behoeftevliegtuigen om vliegtuigen te bestrijden, waarom hen niet geven van onze technische capaciteit en hen helpen om over de grote baan te zetten die wij allemaal gedaan' willen
Gregory Pirio
It passend is om hier te vermelden dat de stempel van de vroege fase van de Afrikaanse bevrijding de behoefte om zich in aanwezigheid van gemeenschappelijke indringers was te verenigen. De eenheid van doel, die zo openlijk door Pan-Afrikanism in de vorm van de ideologische samenhang van UNIA, in actie voor verandering werd verstrekt, kondigde de geboorte van het Moderne Namibian Nationalisme aan, dat tot de totstandkoming van nationalistische organisaties in de recente jaren '50 en de vroege jaren '60 leidt.
Pan-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIË bereikte
Namibië VANDAAG zijn onafhankelijkheid op 21 van Maart 1990, inluidend een nieuwe golf van democratie en natie-bouwend proces. De laatste kolonie op het Afrikaanse continent was een deel van de internationale gemeenschap geworden namelijk. De uitdaging voor de leiding SWAPO was nu de economie om te zetten die door een horde tegenspraak en ongelijkheden in een moderne economie werd bezet, die aan de uitdagingen kan antwoorden die door de mensen onder ogen worden gezien. De overheid van de Partij SWAPO niet alleen concentreerde zich bij het omzetten van het onderwijssysteem maar ook verstrekte de veelgevraagde politieke ruimte, waar de jonge mensen, de meerderheid van hen die getuigen geen oorlog hebben met nieuwe ideeën en ideologieën konden vernieuwen.
Het was tijdens dergelijke tijd dat de Pan-African Maatschappij van Studenten (PAS) in 1994 bij de Universiteit van Namibië door de politieke wetenschapsstudenten werd gevormd om het proces van dialectiek te verbeteren. Volgens Joshua Kaumbi, was de Voorzitter van PAS vanaf 1998/9 het doel van de studentenmaatschappij aan `bevordert Afrikaanse waarden en moraal; erken en eer de bijdrage van Afrikaanse mannen en vrouwen naar de vordering van de Pan-African ideeën; om openbare lezingen te organiseren en onderzoek naar kwesties die Afrikanen beïnvloeden thuis en naar Diaspora' te ondernemen (de Afrikaanse Oorsprong van Beschaving en het Lot van Afrika: 2000).
De PAS was onder de trillendste en vocale maatschappijen op de campus. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”
[بنفريكنيسم] في نميبيا: [هنّي] [سيبب], [إليجه] [ت] [نغرر], [كلينتون] [سورتبووي]
Automatically translated into Arabic thanks to WorldLingo
هذا أسبوع يتلقّى أنا المتعة أن يعيّن قطعة ضيفة يكتب بثلاثة قريبة صديقات وشريكات كلّ من من يتلقّى يكون يلعب دور في [ر-نجسنغ] على حدّ سواء المنظر طبيعيّ سياسيّة و [بنفريكن] يفكّر في نميبيا.
هذا في منظرتي قطعة في الوقت المناسب داخل أنّ يحتاج نميبيا أن يتمّ كثير روح يبحث في محاولته أن يعيّنبنفسي في السياق واسعة من ال "واحدة إفريقيا" مشروع.
يتسوّل `[إي] أن يوجّه إنتباهك إلى إفريقيا: أنا أعرف أنّ في [ا فو] سنون سيتوقّف أنا سوفت كنت في أنّ بلد, أيّ يكون الآن مفتوحة: لا يترك هو كنت أغلقت ثانية! أنا أذهب [بك تو] إفريقيا أن يحاول أن يجعل ممر مفتوحة لتجارة ومسيحية; أنت توفي العمل أيّ أنا يبدأ. أنا أترك العمل أيّ أنا يبدأ. أنا أترك هو مع أنت'
دايفيد [ليفينغستون], [ميسّيونر-إكسبلورر] أوروبيّة
"يقول المبشرة أنّ نحن الأطفال الإلهة مثل إخواننا بيضاء….غير أنّ نظرة صحيحة في نا. يتلقّى كلاب, عبيدات, مريضة من ربابيح على الصخورة ..... أنّ يكون كيف أنت تعاملنا"
[هررو] إلى مستوطنة
ألمانيّة "ال [هوتّنتوتس] ما من طائرات, وبسبب أنّ ال [بورس] والالبريطانيوّن يستطيع قصفتهم من هم فتحة بئر وأكوان وأخيرا قهرتهم. غير أنّ حول هذا مدائن أمريكيّة وهذا عالم غربيّة يتلقّى نحن كثير زنجيات الذي يستطيع طرت في طائرات. لما لا بني بعض, وعندما ال [هوتّنتوتس] يحتاج طائرات أن يقاتل طائرات, لما لا أعطيتهم من قدرتنا فنّيّة وساعدتهم أن يضع على الشغل كبيرة أنّ كلّ من نا يريد يتمّ"
[مركس] [غرفي]
في يستعمل هذا إقتباسات, هو ليس نيتنا أن يستأنف الأجراح من الماض, غير أنّ في منظرتنا, يشفي هذا أجراح يتلقّى لم بعد تماما لأنّ الضمادة يستمرّ أن يكون قطعت بالحقائق من العلاقة بين ال `سيد جنس [فس.] الجنس مستعبد'. نحن مدركة من الحساسية من هذا تميز غير أنّ يقضي التصرف من إفريقيا نا حديثة على حدّ سواء كفرديّة دول والناس, يزيد هناك بيّنة أن يثبت السيطرة من ال `سيد جنس' و [سوبجوغأيشن] ه من ال `عبدة جنس'. الهجوم [نغروفوبيك] في جنوب افريقيا [أس ولّ س] كينيا مثل أنّ [وهيلست] نحن نذبح بنفسي على يفتّت من الرأسمالية طاولة, الأوروبيّة [نيو-كلونيسرس] يبقى في تحكم من [منس] نا الإنتاج, اقتصاداتنا وسعرات من إفريقية [رو متريلس] استراتيجيّة. في هذا رأي قطعة, يجادل نحن أنّ الوحيد عمليّة وطريق واقعيّة ل نا كالناس وقارّ أن حقّا حرّرتبنفسي من القيود عقليّة استعمار واستعدت نا يصحّ [سلف دترمينأيشن] واستقلال اقتصاديّة من خلال [بن-فريكنيسم].
بوضوح, منذ القدوم [إيوروبن] في إفريقيا, نا لم يعرف قارّ والناس يتلقّى حقيقيّة سلام, استقرار وهدوء. بدلا من ذلك [إين ث بلس وف] سلام أتى حرب, [إين ث بلس وف] استقرار أتى الرسم من حافات اعتباطيّة مستعمرة (في 1884-5) و [إين ث بلس وف] هدوء أتى عبودية, عنصرية واستعمار.
صددت الالناس [أفريكن] كان وباع كبضائع في أوروبا, [نورث مريك], [سوث مريك] [كريبّن]. أفاد الدستور من [أونيتد ستتس وف مريك] حتّى إفريقية بما أنّ يكون 3/5 من كائن إنسانيّة. حقّا, بدأ هذا [هولوكوست] [أفريكن] مع ال `نهضة أوروبيّة' في إيطاليا في 1400 و [سنس ثن] عبودية, استعمار وعنصرية خرب القارّ [أفريكن] والناسه لقرون. هو كان ال [ترنس-تلنتيك] عبدة تجارة واستعمار أيّ دمّر إفريقيا ومتخلّفة هو. في كتابه "كيف أوروبا إفريقيا متخلّفة", دكتورة والتر [رودني] يعطي صورة مشرقة من هذا مأساة [أفريكن]. جعلت عبودية واستعمار كان يمكن بالنهضة ما يسمّى أوروبيّة. استعمل المؤلفات من هذا نهضة البوصلة ومسحوق بارود. استعملت هذا إختراعات صينيّة لهدف سلميّ كان ب [إيوروبن] أن يسرق الأرض وثروة الإفريقيات.
هو كان نتيجة هذا أنّ زعيمات ذو رؤية مستقبليّة من هبوط [أفريكن] دافعوا أنّ كلّ إفريقيات - أينما هم أمكن كنت - سوفت وحّدت إلى نهاية عبودية, استعمار وعنصرية. نتيجة هذا حادثات [أفريكن] بدأ الناس عالميّا أن يحقّق أنّ هم واجهوا مشاكل عاديّة (عبودية, استعمار, وعنصرية), وأنّ هو كان إلى فائدتهم أن يعمل معا في جهد أن يحلّ هذا مشاكل. من هذا تحقيق أتى الحوض طبيعيّ مؤتمرات [أفريكن] من 1900 (لندن), 1919 (باريس), 1921 (لندن, بركسيل, باريس), 1923 (لندن), 1927 (نيويورك), والمسؤولة متأخّرة واحدة كان في أربعينات.
صوّلت بما أنّ [موتسكو] [فكو] يشير في مادته في [سوتن] (1999), [أفريكنيسم] حركة بدأ في 1776, مهما, الإجتماع خامسة [بن-فريكن] يمسك في مانشستر, إنكلترا, في 1945 يتقدّم [بن-فريكنيسم] ويطبّق هو إلى ال [دكلونيسأيشن] من القارّ [أفريكن] سياسيّا. كان بعض زعيمات [أفريكن] يتضمّن في هذا سبب نبيلة عمالقة مثل [كوم] [نكرومه], وليام [دو] [بويس], [جومو] [كنتّا], روبرت [سبوكو] و [بتريس] [لومومبا]. [إين وثر ووردس,] "يتضمّن [بن-فريكنيسم] العقليّة, سياسيّة وتعاون اقتصاديّة أنّ سوفت قدت إلى الوحدة سياسيّة إفريقيا. يزوّد الخيار [بن-فريكن] هيكل لوحدة [أفريكن]." هو أيضا يعزّز تغير متطرّفة في البنى مستعمرة من الاقتصاد, والتزويد من إستراتيجية [إينورد-لووكينغ] من إنتاج وتطوير. هو يدعو للتوحيد من سوق ماليّة, [إكنوميك ينتغرأيشن], إستراتيجية جديدة ل [إينيتيل كبيتل كّومولأيشن] والتصميم من خريطة جديدة سياسيّة لإفريقيا. حاصرت إفريقيا معاصرة مع صعوبات يرسّخ في عجزه أن يوحّد بشكل إقليميّ. قد كان النتيجات [نأيشنل كنومي] يعجز من يطوّر بسبب جغرافيّة, اقتصاديّة وأسباب سياسيّة.
نحن ينبغي قبلت هذا حقيقة, ويأخذ هو كواجب رسمنا أوّليّة, إن التجديد إفريقيا يكون أن يصبح حقيقة. اليوم يتلقّى نحن [كرّنسس] وجواز سفر أيّ زعما يعيّننا من واحدة آخر. مع ذلك يخسر [كرّنسس] نا قيمهم في الحافات حيث نحن طوعيّا نستسلم إلى القوة من الأوروبيّة ودولار أمريكيّة. استعملت جواز سفرنا وطنيّة أن يقيّد الحركات من إفريقيات غير أنّ لا من [إيوروبن] و [أنغلو-سإكسونس] من أمريكا وفي مكان آخر.
هو يتحتّم أن يقتبس [فكو] بعيد عندما يفيد هو أنّ "الحافات اصطناعيّة أنّ يفصل ال [نأيشنل ترّيتوري] في المنطقة فاصلة من الناس يوحّد بتاريخ وفاصلة من مناطق يوحّد بجغرافيا [تو ث إكستنت ثت] هم يكونون الموضوع المجادلات ويتعارض بين [أفريكن ستت]. [سدك] ينبغي كافحت لجماعة أنّ يتجاوز المستوى اقتصاديّة ويكافح للإقليميّة وتوحيد سياسيّة إفريقيا. هذا الطريق وحيد لالقارّ أن يصبح قوة عظيمة حديثة. هذا الحماية وحيدة ضدّ [نيو-ليبرليسم] وعولمة. "
يطلب [بن-فريكنيسم] أنّ الأغنياء إفريقيا يستعملوا للفائدة, [أوبليفتمنت], تطوير واستمتاع من الالناس [أفريكن]. [بن-فريكنيسم] نظامة من بإنصاف يشارك طعام, لباس, منازل, تربية, [هلثكر], ثروة, أرض, عمل, أمن الحياة وسعادة. [بن-فريكنيسم] الامتياز من الالناس [أفريكن] أن يحبّبنفسي وأن يعطي بنفسي و [وي وف ليف] هم إحترام وأفضليّة. [إين وثر ووردس] هناك سوفت كنت ما من حاجة أن يبيع دمى بيضاء في جوارات سوداء غالبا أو بلاد لأنّ هذا دمى يكون لا يجعلون في الصورة من إفريقيات غير أنّ من [إيوروبن]. النافذة وحيد من هذا عبودية فرضه على نفسه [بن-فريكنيسم]. المشاكل حاليّة إفريقيا لذلك `[نيو-سلفري], [نيو-رسسم], [نيو-كلونيليسم], عولمة و [نيو-برثيد]'. هكذا لما [بن-فريكنيسم], لأنّ هو كان طوّرت بطالبات بارزة [أفريكن], عالمات سياسيّة, مؤرخات وفيلسوفات يعيش في إفريقيا والشتات. هو كان تصوّرت في الرحم إفريقيا. هو منتوج يجعل في إفريقيا بإفريقية. [بن-فريكنيسم] الرؤية قديمة في إفريقيا. ما من أخرى يتحدّى مذهب يتلقّى بنجاح [بن-فريكنيسم] فكريّا. [إين وثر ووردس,] لا يحتاج نحن `جوز هند [أكدميكس]' اليوم الذي نظرة خارج سوداء غير أنّ أبيض داخلا, رفض, نحن يحتاج طالبات أصليّة [أفريكن], عالمات سياسيّة, مؤرخات وفيلسوفات يعيش داخل والشتات أن يزوّد إنقاذ من المثل أعلى [أفرو-سنتريك] يتزوّج ب [فيسونريس] عظيمة [أفريكن] [يستررس].
تلقّى [بن-فريكنيسم] في نميبيا بالأمس
الوطنيّة مقاومة حروب من 1904-05 بالتّأكيد تأثير دائمة على المحلّية الناس أسلوب حياة ومنظرات بخصوص أبيض في نميبيا بخصوص وحدة وتضامن. سحقت منذ الثورة شعبيّة ب [هرروس] و [نمس] كان بوحشيّة ب [لوثر] [فون] [تروثا] فدائية, كثير من الزعيمات محلّية كان أجبرت أن يقع حماية معاهدات واستسلمت إلى قوات ألمانيّة إمبراطوريّة.
من يوليو-تمّوز 1915, استلم النظامة افريقي جنوبي التحكم من [نميبين] أرض من ألمانيا, ينهي 30 سنون من قاعدة ألمانيّة مستعمرة. رغم أنّ هناك قد كان تغير في نظامة من واحدة سيد إلى الأخرى, يبقى السياسات ظالمة كثيرا على حاله. افترض بين 1920 و1925 مقاومة ضدّ قاعدة مستعمرة تشكيل من أشكال [أونبرلّل] في [نميبين] تاريخ ([إمّت] [توني]).
يشهد هذا فترة أيضا الظهور من أشكال جديدة من تنظيمات سياسيّة وطيقان إيديولوجيّة أنّ تجاوز تقسيمات [بر-كلونيل] وبدأ يضع أساس لوحدة وطنيّة. بين تنظيمات مختلفة أنّ كان أسّست كان العالميّة زنجية تحسين جمعية ([أونيا]), الصناعيّة و [ووركر ونيون] تجاريّة ([إيك]), ال [أفريكن] الناس منظمة ([أبو]) [وست فريك] [نأيشنل كنغرسّ] ([سونك]). يلاحظ [إمّت] [توني] أنّ "[أونيا] مع ه [بن-فريكنيست] منصة برهن بشكل ملحوظ ناجحة, [سبردينغ] من ال [إيندوستريل سنتر] [لودريتز] إلى أخرى مدنيّة, مراكز, وبعد ذلك إلى الريف".
على حدّ سواء يعترف [إمّت] [توني] وغريغوري [بيريو] أنّ العالميّة زنجية تحسين جمعية و [أفريكن] جماعات جامعة كان أطلقت في [لودريتز] في 1921. مثّلت النواة للتشكيل من ال [أونيا] فرع كان بمجموعة صغيرة من إفريقيات غربيّة وهنديات غربيّة الذي كان قد قرّر في المدائن ساحليّة من الأرض. قلت الأغلبية من هذا مجموعة كان أن يكون تكوّنت من ليبيريا, كامرون, [سرّا ليون] والنوع ذهب ساحل وتلقّى يكون أحضرت داخل نميبيا بالألمانيات قبل وأثناء حرب عالميّة 1. في رحّلت 1910… خمسون رجال و [ا نومبر وف] نساء وأطفال كان من مستعمرة ألمانيّة [كمرون] إلى [لودريتز], بعد تمرد بين [سكهوتزتروبّ] سوداء في الغربيّة إفريقيا مستعمرة ([إمّت] [توني]). أحضرت بعض من الإفريقيات غربيّة تلقّى يكون إلى نميبيا ب [وورمنّ] [شيبّينغ كمبني].
نحو النهاية من 1921 [لودريتز] تلقّى فرع ال [أونيا] عضوية من 331 وجمع كثير أو إلّا 41 باوندات في اشتراك رسوم, مبلغة ضخمة [أت ثت تيم] يعتبر الالسّكان سوداء من 2155 في [لودريتز]. على تسجيل استلم كلّ مجندة `أسود, حمراء و [روسّتّ] خضراء' أيّ يرتدي على الثني سترة (غريغوري [بيريو]).
[لودريتز] [أونيا] كان فرع نشطة في يجنّد الأسود تحت واحدة مظلة جسم. أوجد ال يستمرّ إستثمار الأسود في كلّه [منيفستأيشنس-بوليتيكلّي], [سسلّي] واقتصاديّا الوحدة ومقاومة حماسة إلى هذا [أردينري بيوبل]. كان فريتز [هدلي], رئيسه دائما مستمرّة ورجوعيّة في يزوّد الوالدة جسم مع مادة يوثّق الحالة حقيقيّة ويستعمل أن يكتب حرف إلى الزنجية عالم وكان لذلك مفيدة في على تعرّف الناس سوداء طوال العالم مع ال [أبّرسّيفنسّ] من الافريقي جنوبي إنتداب نظامة في [وست فريك].
في واحدة هذا حرف, أفاد هو ([غرغريو] [بيريو]);
`عزلت نحن, يميّز, [ديسنفرنشس], [جيم-كروود] في [كتّل تروك], نوع فحم صناديق, ومتأخّرة غير أنّ لا على الأقلّ, يذبح بالأخرى رفيقة مع بندقية ومدفع رشّاش رصاصات. غير أنّ ماذا نحن يكون نعالج مع في الأغلب عزل كلّيّة في مظاهره في النظامة سابقة من [أبّرسّور] نا الألمانيات'
[غرفيسم] انتشار إلى الريف
[لودريتز] تقسيم من ال [أونيا] فرع كان أسّست في [ويندهوك] في أكتوبر - تشرين الأوّل 1921 تحت الإرشاد من رئيسه [هدلي]. من البداية ماذا يجعل [ويندهوك] كان فرع ال [أونيا] فريد أنّ المديرة من الفرع كان بشدّة تحت التحكم من زعيمات محلّية سوداء.
كان الزعيمات محلّية الذي كان بارزة في [ويندهوك] فرع [هوسا] [كوتكو], [أرون] جون [مونغندا], [تروغتّ] [مهررو], و [نيكنور] [هوفكا]. أخرى كان زعيمات على ال [إإكسكتيف كمّيتّ] [ألفيوس] [هرسمب] وفرانز [هويسمب].
[ويندهوك] فرع يبعث في أكتوبر - تشرين الأوّل 1922 اثنان [إميسّريس-ثيودور] [همبو] وجون [مونغندا] أن يؤسّس فروع من الجمعية في [أوسكوس], [كريبيب] و [أكهندجا] (غريغوري [بيريو]). [هدلي] كان أيضا مفيدة في ال يؤسّس من ال [أونيا] فرع في [سوكوبموند].
ليس فحسب كانوا المثل أعلى [غرفيسم] [سبردينغ] في نميبيا غير أنّ الوالدة جسم أيضا يحصل ريح من الأنشطة من ال [أونيا] نميبيا. قلت التوصيل أولى رسميّة بين نميبيا و [غرفيست] تنظيم أن يقع في 1922 عندما [أونيا] وفد كان أرسلت إلى جنيف إلى عريضة الجامعة الأمم أن يلتفت المستعمرات سابقة ألمانيّة على إلى قيادة سوداء ([إمّت] [توني]).
لم يخيّب [غرفي] بنفسي كان أو ثبّطت ب ال يستمرّ حالة جهل وحالة سكون بالجامعة الأمم واستمرّت على نحو صارم, في يصحّ شكل [كمبتيف] أن يساند السبب من أسود جنوبيّة غربيّة [أفريكن]. واحدة هذا مثال في ردّ فعل إلى ال [أريل تّك] ضدّ [بوندلسورتس] (في 1922),
[مركس] [غرفي] كان قد أفاد على الصفحة أماميّة من الزنجية عالم;
يتلقّى `ال [هوتّنتوتس] ما من طائرات, وبسبب أنّ ال [بورس] والالبريطانيوّن يستطيع قصفتهم من هم فتحة بئر وكول وأخيرا قهرتهم. غير أنّ حول هذا مدائن أمريكيّة وهذا عالم غربيّة يتلقّى نحن كثير زنجيات الذي يستطيع طرت في طائرات. لما لا بني بعض, وعندما ال [هوتّنتوتس] يحتاجون طائرات أن يقاتل طائرات, لما لا أعطيتهم من قدرتنا فنّيّة وساعدتهم أن يضع على الشغل كبيرة أنّ كلّ من نا يريد يتمّ'
غريغوري [بيريو]
هو يكون يليق أن يذكر هنا أنّ كان السمة من الطور مبكّرة من التحرير [أفريكن] الحاجة أن يوحّد بوجه طفيليّات عاديّة. أعلن الوحدة الغرض, أيّ كان هكذا علانيّة زوّدت ب [بن-فريكنيسم] [إين ث فورم وف] [أونيا] [نإكسوس] إيديولوجيّة, في عمل لتغير, الولادة من الحديثة [نميبين] قومية, يوجد الظهور من تنظيمات قوميّة [إين ث لت] خمسينات و [إرلي 1960س].
كسب [بن-فريكنيسم] في نميبيا اليوم
نميبيا استقلاله على ال [21ست] من مارس - آذار 1990, يواكب في موجة جديدة من ديموقراطيّة و [نأيشن-بويلدينغ] عملية. حقّا, تلقّى المستعمرة متأخّرة على القارّ [أفريكن] يصبح جزء من الالمجتمع الدولي. كان التحدي ل ال [سوبو] قيادة الآن أن يغيّر الاقتصاد أيّ كان حاصرت بربوة التناقضات وتباينات داخل اقتصاد حديثة, أيّ يكون يمكن أن يستجيب إلى التحديات واجهوا بالالناس. ال [سوبو] حزب حكومة ليس فحسب يركّز على يغيّر ال [إدوكأيشن سستم] غير أنّ أيضا يزوّد الفراغ ضروريّة سياسيّة, حيث الناس شابّة, الأغلبية من هم الذي يتلقّى لا شاهدة حرب استطاع ابتكرت مع جديدة أفكار ومذاهب.
هو كان أثناء هذا وقت أنّ ال [بن-فريكن] طالبات مجتمعة (ممر) كان شكّلت في 1994 في الجامعة نميبيا بالسياسيّة علم طالبات أن يحسن العملية ال [ديلكتيك]. وفقا ل [جوشوا] [كومبي], كان الرئيس الممر من 1998/9 الهدف من الطالبة مجتمعة إلى `يروّج [أفريكن] قيم و [مورلس]; اعترفت وأنفذت المساهمة من [أفريكن] رجال ونساء نحو التقدم من الأفكار [بن-فريكن]; أن ينظّم محاضرات عامّة وأن ب قام بحث على إصدارات يأثر إفريقيات [أت هوم] وفي الشتات' (الأصل [أفريكن] حضارة والمصير إفريقيا: 2000).
ممر كان [أمونغست] ال أكثر مهتزّة ومجتمعات صوتيّة على الحرم جامعيّ. It held numerous public lectures and seminars on topics such as Global Politics, International Terrorism, Privatisation of Higher Education etc. It also hoisted the AU flag on the Unam campus. It brought in High Commissioners, Leading African intellectuals and Pan-Afrikan Activists. One memorable event is the co-hosting of the ‘Land Question’ seminar workshop with The Caucus Political Science Club of the University of Namibia in 2000. It was fully attended by high level student segments and High Commissioners from both Britain and Zimbabwe, and agricultural unions.
It was amidst this euphoria that student leaders such as Joshua Kaumbi, Ben Uugwanga and John Pangech decided to organize a first-ever Pan-Afrikan Conference in an independent Namibia together with the resourceful Pan-Afrikanist like the current Prime Minister Cde. Nahas Angula, Cde. Bankie F. Bankie, a devoted Nkrumahist, and Cde. Utoni Nujoma.
‘The African Origin of Civilisation and the Destiny of Africa’ conference was held at the Safari Hotel conference complex, in Windhoek, 24 May 1999 on the eve of the OAU day. This conference attracted a high level political segment, students, and African academics such Prof KK Prah, Dani Nabudere of the Du Bois/Diop Center in Uganda, and Malegapuru Makgoba, amongst others.
After this watershed conference, which was aired live both on NBC TV and Radio, the resolution was then taken to establish a Pan-Afrikan Center in Namibia, which shall mobilize, propagate and disseminate the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism. It was in this collective spirit that the Pan-Afrikan Center of Namibia was established with its first Chairperson being Uazuva Kaumbi. During his tenure PACON has tried rudimentary to attract academics from Diaspora such as Prof. Horace Campbell, Runoko Rashidi. To date the only and probably the biggest project of PACON has been the movie ‘Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation’.
In the year 2005, PASS has also organized a historic first of its kind 17th All Afrika Students Conference (AASC) at the University of Namibia, in smart partnership with Unam, NANSO and National Youth Council. Previously, All Afrika Students Conferences used to take place only at the Caribbean Universities, Canada and the United States of America. Therefore, PASS’s Conference was the real attempt at bringing the students from the Diaspora and Continent to engage on matters of mutual consent. It also tried to harbour notable Pan-Afrikanist such as Omali Yashitela, Chairperson of the Global Afrikan Congress Cikiah Thomas, and Kalenjin.
DID PACON KILL PAN-AFRIKANISM IN NAMIBIA?
This is a question that has been posed because there are serious concerns particularly amongst those who used to frequent the center during its formative years that the Center and more importantly the ideology of Pan-Afrikanism is under threat. In raising this question, we are keenly conscious of the dedication and hard work of those entrusted with the responsibility of PACON although on part-time basis. It is not to be understood that our take is against an individual person because Pan-Afrikanism is beyond that.
In our view, PACON in its entirety was supposed to be a Center for Pan-Afrikan education, teaching, studying, research and preservation of Afrikan history, culture and religion throughout the 13 Regions and beyond.
PACON’s rallying point and purpose was to teach the rich and diverse history and heritage of Afrikan people and their immense contribution to humanity. It should also touch on subjects as diverse as contemporary Afrikan economics and politics, religion, astronomy and science.
PACON as an Afrikan centered institution in Namibia was and is able to organize seminars and presentations to bring much needed educational material to the attention of local people as well as Afrikan people from the Diaspora who on a visit to Namibia should make it their mission to go to PACON, to learn more about their Afrikan culture and heritage. PACON is also important in the sense that it is the only institution of its type in Namibia since 1999/2000 to occupy a Pan-Afrikan agenda and is strategic to offer counter ideology academically, via research to the new anti-establishment organizations and other non-progressive counter revolutionaries. It must also be added that the success of PACON ought only not to be the preserve of Government but indeed it is the Center that our corporate citizens should be availing all the necessary resources to including financial and material support.
The role which PACON has played in the production of Namibia’s first ever internationally acclaimed film based on the life of our National Hero, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma, an icon of the Namibian Liberation Struggle, is commendable. However, above all and unfortunately, beyond the film, the activities of PACON have remained largely dormant in the last five years or so. For example, in the year 2006, there was only one Public Lecture that was initiated by our colleague Cde. Henny Seibeb, namely the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, which was eventually launched by the Founding Father, H.E. Cde. Sam Nujoma.
It is also notable that during the launch of the Annual Sam Nujoma Public Lecture, the Afro-Voice magazine was announced and even launched by the Founding Father with the promised that it shall be an ongoing magazine but up to date nothing came of it and Namibians are still waiting for the publication of the second edition. It is a sordid state of affairs that if we are not vigilant it will be possible that PACON may soon be infiltrated by neo-colonial agents who are hell-bent on decapacitating the institution from inside with the sole aim of surrendering it to the counter-revolutionaries and hogwash voodoo academics.
Today PACON is not able to command the space for which it was created for. It appears also that PACON, or perhaps some individuals, have made the organization to take a complete U-Turn against the ideals of Pan-Afrikanism and attacks its democratic kith and kin, and it seems at present to feed the neo-liberals and other moonlighting political projects, with vital information on our strategy and tactics, which cannot even offer a viable alternative to our people.
It is our wish and hope that the line Ministry and the Pan-Afrikan Students Society (PASS) through the Patron of PACON and other stakeholders would leave no stone unturned in realizing the patriotic ideals of Pan-Afrikanism within the context of Namibia. We call upon the students of the University of Namibia to register in their thousands and rally behind PASS in order to realize this vision.
A worldwide look throughout history will reveal the crucial involvement of students in sparking positive changes. Their success is due to the unique position that they hold in society. Students, with their exposure to wide-ranging information and access to educational tools and resources are better able to develop an understanding of the world lacking among the masses. Students, too, are in a unique position because they, for the most part, have not yet committed themselves to their career jobs. Kwame Ture stated in an address entitled, “Education as a Tool for Liberation”, that the purpose of education is “to lead one out of problems”. Once armed with the educational tools and an understanding of the problem as well as the solution, the student is prepared to use his or her youthful energy to unite with others and struggle for the betterment of all.
The students must engage in the new Pan-Afrikanism of the twenty-second century by taking a progressive stand on environmental issues and state of the world’s ecology and climate change. They must address the utilization of the natural resources of the world; our reliance on petro-chemicals and carbon-based technologies which foul the air and pollute our water; and storage of toxic wastes which shorten our lives of our children.
The Pan-Afrikan Students Society must, in a nutshell, remember that Pan-Afrikanism remains as an essential democratic vision, to deconstruct and uproot the inequalities of racism; to challenge the unpopular capitalist “New World Order” represented by the IMF, the Economic Hit Men and World Bank. Let the former student activists of PASS call a re-union to revitalize this once glorious society and craft its niche.
It is within this context that we are issuing a clarion call to all notable Pan-Afrikanist to mobilize in order to hasten the Pan-Afrikan agenda, amidst the negrophobic attacks that we are witnessing today in South Africa, the ethnic conflicts in Kenya, the derailment of peoples plan to implement emancipatory projects by the Western implanted agents in our eco-systems (economic) and voodoo economic planning by Western consultants to set us back. We must never capitulate and shall resist any attempt to negate us from the revolutionary journey of Pan-Afrikanism.
THE WAY FORWARD: PAN AFRICANISM
In our view, all African countries and peoples must institutionalize Pan-Afrikanism in all facets of their lives. It should also include the deliberate gestures by African leaders (Presidents, former Presidents, Ministers, former Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, CEOs, MDs, Traditional Leaders, Musicians, Artists, etc) to become disciples of this Pan-Afrikanism gospel and for ordinary African peasants to be afforded the opportunity to travel Africa by attending AU or SADC summits etc.
In individual countries it also means that efforts by various African governments should include allowing the people from the north, south, west and east in each country to be on cultural exchanges within the country in the form of Pan African Bus or Cultural Libraries and so forth.
In conclusion, we find it instructive to once more borrow from Motsoko Pheko’s analysis of Pan-Afrikanism in which he draws attention to the lecture of a prominent Nigerian political scientist who reminded participants at the fifth Pan-African Colloquium in Ghana of the historical context of the 'European Renaissance', from which the so-called 'African renaissance' is trying to borrow and transpose its rationale. He pointed out that the 'European Renaissance' was the foundation of slavery, colonialism and racism. Africa has nothing to gain from this decadence, which was responsible for the worst holocaust of the African people in memory.
The inheritors of this inhuman 'renaissance' are still working hard to perpetuate the holocaust of the African people and the underdevelopment of Africa, which they inflicted through slavery, colonialism, apartheid and racism. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically, and working for a borderless Europe.
On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This is because African leaders are dragging their feet on the implementation of Pan-Afrikanism and have made Africa a perpetual beggar of foreign 'aid'. Some of these leaders have become agents of neo-liberalism and neo-colonialism, whose instrument is 'globalisation'. Globalisation is just a new form of recolonising the African continent. There will continue to be an ideological and intellectual crisis in the African world until Africans understand Pan-Afrikanism, its value and benefits, and apply it to their many problems.
These include 'foreign debts', reparations, repatriation of African intellectual property from the museums of Europe, lack of continental railroads and air routes, intra-trade, communication and technological development among the African people and states.
The triumph of Pan-Afrikanism is the only way Africans can survive the foreign onslaught and live as a truly liberated people, will come out of the sweat and blood of the African people themselves.
As Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put it:
“Only a united Africa can redeem its past glory, renew and reinforce its strength for the realisation of its destiny. We are today the richest and yet the poorest of continents, but in unity our continent could smile in a new era of prosperity and power.”