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wNo African has ever deemed the West as an enemy.”
Hip Hop music did not exist when Dr. Kwame Nkrumah made his Pan African pitch, though black culture endured long before that. Why would the Federal Bureau of Investigations mind Dr. Nkrumah? Consider that it was Benito Mussolini who committed the crimes against humanity? Wasn’t it Italy who waged a blood-spattered invasion in Ethiopia? Was it not the international community that was benevolent to that crime? Is that not what cause the likes of Muammar Gaddafi or Kwame Nkrumah to demand the evacuation of all colonial presence in Africa?
For Africans, it became imperative for the continent to reject colonial dictate due to the long-suffering of Africans at the hands of those powers. No African has ever deemed the West as an enemy. It is the West that contravened the integrity of Africa, which is why Pan-Africans call for justice in the wake of this violation. Nelson Mandela ultimately resisted against the colonial occupiers of South Africa. Dr. W. E. D. Du Bois co-found the NAACP. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. launched the Civil Rights Movement, and Marcus Garvey called for Black Nationalism. The question is why?
Kwame Nkrumah
That is what Pan African-ism is all about, a non-malicious vision of an independent prominence in Africa. Moreover, we know that we cannot easily achieve this right. Yet the Pan African remains strong. Kwame Nkrumah is not just another African protagonist. Leading his people out of colonialism substantiates his exceptionally legacy. That is why he advocated for the Pan African Union. Like John Adams of the United States, who envision a united continent? Although in Nanawireko’s “5 Things You Can Learn From Dr. Kwame Nkrumah,” the author pointed, “things won’t always go as planned.”
Murderous criminals like Al Capone and Jesse James are Hollywood icons while Nelson Mandela barely escaped a humiliating death in prison. Things do not always go as planned. Instead of achieving a united Africa, due to bribes and sabotage Africa ended up with genocides, the spread of deadly epidemics and poverty. But we haven’t lost hope. Nanawireko’s other advice is “passion is paramount.” The author stated that “Dr. Nkrumah believed in justice, equality, philanthropy and non-violent protest. He was a scholar and a revolutionary.” That means, regardless of negative stereotypes, death threats, name calling, sabotage or media bastardization the activist must strive on in his or her just cause. The dream lives on regardless of subversion or bastardization.
Defamation of Character
The alphabet people even sent pictures to Dr. Martin Luther King’s wife showing him in an extramarital affair with another woman. Everyone knows that this was not because the agents cared for his wife. So ask yourself, why would anyone put a physically harmless man under surveillance? His cause was one of the noblest. It shows that saboteurs will always depict themselves as the “good guys.” Another one of the “5 Things You Could Learn from Dr. Nkrumah” is “You Have to Be Ready to Stand by Your Standards.” All Blacks must strive to learn who we are and appreciate our history and culture. We must learn from the bad and continue in the good.
Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was blacklisted during most of his years.”
We should know that the mainstream media will never hail our cause. We know certain agencies planned the assassination of our prominent leaders, armed, and sponsored rebels to disrupt our economy or even spark the outbreak of deadly diseases, crime or other epidemics in our societies. These are not new to the black or African community. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah was blacklisted during most of his years. People who enslaved and colonized others then blamed them for wanting to be set free. Calling for an end to Western misappropriations in Africa, a united continent with its economy, military and market is a dream that Africans must strive towards even if it takes centuries to achieve.
Pan-African Consciousness
Why are the stripes in the Ghanaian flag red, yellow and green? For Africans to establish as an independent community, we must rally together with African Americans and the Caribbean people. We’ve come a long way since slavery and Jim Crow. We even overcame colonialism. The next step is to have our independent structure. That is what Pan African-ism teaches, the will to become self-reliant. That is what Dr. Nkrumah envisioned, an Africa that other races no longer dominate.
Western government support, provide arms and finance rebels of civil wars
and coup d’etat in other countries.”
George Washington’s mistake was to own slaves. The mistake some Pan African pioneers did was [1] they held on to political power for too long. The Queen of England has ruled for more than sixty years without being directly involved in politics. African leaders do not follow the example of employing the governor general and prime minister. [2] Some of the pioneers of Pan-Africanism became dictators and committed too many crimes against humanity. Western governments also support rebels in civil wars and coup d’état against other countries. Other governments change political administration frequently while African rulers stay in power until the bitter end.
The United States of Africa
Leaders who became political dictators directly imprisoned their opposition. They tortured and put them to death in public executions. That was totally ridiculous. [3] African leaders banked their money and assets in Western banks where they could be frozen. Regardless of the massive wealth of oil, diamond, gold and other precious natural and mineral resources in Africa no Western government has ever saved their money or assets in African banks. That is why the United Africa plan didn’t materialize – over-reliance on the West and disorganization among the people of Africa. *
nice work.
almost nothing in history turns into precise! merely they will still be preparing the actual glitches that they 4 in the past!