FW: SHN Discussion Paper:

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Subject: RE: SHN Discussion Paper:



Greetings Joomaay,



Your response is appreciated and being read with keen interest,
particularly your draft Concept. More time will be taken to study this
document. There is a great deal of work needed to be done among us in haste.



The Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Aid) and our Associates are willing to
anchor and spearhead a Global Working Forum – A Commission, to compile all
available draft documents -mandates/governing instruments/constitutions
already constructed and published, which aimed to bring about a Forum for
Afrikan Unity.



Given current evidence, the old ideas for Afrika and Afrikan Unity don’t
seem to be working effectively, which seems to have shunted many of our
Pan-Afrikan Leadership and followers into storms of frustrations and
cyclical rhetoric, in face of the present and credible threats to our
people globally, including a new scramble for Afrika.



This is likely to cause further balkanising of Afrika and Afrikans. Our
apparent ineffectiveness in communicating our collective message to our
Afrikan masses, is showing us to be, by default, repudiating our first duty
to ourselves and families. We do not have a Collective Programme of general
‘self-defence’.



This Forum – Commission - will be transparent, professional in nature and
practice, ‘party political neutral’, gender, age and culturally sensitive,
devoid entirely of theological bias, elitism, and full of tolerance. It
would compose of members, based on their experiences, wisdom and acquired
knowledge, and from our Global Afrikan Community, taken from the base to
the capstone.



It will be pedagogically orientated, for substance and objectivity, and
made up of the willing . its sole role is to 1.Accept Appointment and
ready to go; 2. Research; 3.Collate; 4.Publish; 5.Discuss; 6.Adopt; and 7
Make recommendations. A minimum of three years should be put aside to
complete the cycle from 1to7. Membership – a minimum 3; and maximum 9, by
appointment and co-option. Term of office tree years.



The Forum/Commission will have editing authority to remove document text
to reduce duplications, enforce structural and coherence integrity, without
subtracting from the original intentions. Less academic and idealistic and
more practical and achievable.



The outcome of which will be one document containing the consensus of
ideas for a Platform as a practical mechanism, in order to demonstrate
practical and workable unity in diversity, and contain, at its core,
unassailable utilitarian and egalitarian values, capable of being applied
and sustained, among the willing.



This type of collective and productive working relationships reaffirm who
we are. It also defined us by what we brought to the table, as opposed to
our personalities. There will have been a sound and productive
demonstration of belief in self and our ability and willingness to
construct our bespoke Vehicle for Change, and, at the same time, learn in
the process.



No written and well-constructed ideas will have been ruled out, and no
traditional ideas will have been automatically ruled in. Whatever, the age
of the idea, it must stand on its own meritorious legs, as it were, having
potential to applying real solutions to Afrikan contemporary challenges,
likely to last for a long time in the future.



The Forum/Commission would also identify and recommend a sound but
flexible structure, which is likely to attract the support of the highest
cross-section of Global Afrika and Time-tested Fiends. One which will have
curtailed current negative, unproductive and dissipating chatter among us,
and replaced by focused, progressive and productive actions. This
approach, properly applied, should start bearing fruits within a decade of
its operations.



We no longer ‘need’ our work validated by members of other communities.
Self-Help is our key. WE recognise in the 21st century that we have become
intellectually of age.



As stated previously, “The first example of our unity must be among
ourselves at a micro level, long before we get to macro level. If we cannot
unite at a micro level, it is unlikely that we will affect unity at a macro
level.” It is not about personalities. It is about best practice.



Those who are interested to take this journey with us, let’s talk.



Dr Vince Hines

Chairman

Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Aid)



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Subject: Re: SHN Discussion Paper:



Greetings Dr. Hines,

I command you for the brief but thorough reminder of the history of our
struggle and the no less well done description of Today State of Affairs in
the African World. I particularly like your clear crystal analysis of the
21rst Century Scramble for Africa that Many of us seem to not be paying a
lot of attention to. Many Africans political activists and academics
describe China as the Friend of Africans. The Chinese who are very ASTUTE
in the way they are Expanding their EMPIRE have even Build the New Offices
of the African Union as a sort of token of Support for African Unity. What
many who have applauded this so called Gift from China fail to realize is
what Charles de Gaulle once said; "France has no Friends only Interests to
protect by whichever mean it sees fit". The Chinese and the West under the
leadership of the USA are locked in a battle for the Control of Africa's
Destiny in the 21rst Century. Having been late comers in the "Africa
Control Game" the Chinese more are being more SUDDLE (False Generosity and
Shred Flexibility) in the way the way they make their Inroad into the
AFRICAN MINDS. Steve Biko once Said; "The most potent weapon the oppressor
can lay his hand is the mind of the oppressed". The USA (leading the WEST)
is using the Pride Africans like myself Feel for seeing one of their Sons in
the White House as a mean to Counter the Chinese Shred Strategic Plan for
the Control of Africa.

For all these Reasons African NEED TO GET TOGETHER and Plan for their
Future.

Continuing to LAMENT on What have been done to US in the past is WORTHLESS.

Doubting on our CAPACITY to be the Masters of our Destiny is Dangerous.

As you said there are many Plans for the Political Unification of Africa.
But We Need to Find a way of MERGING these IDEA and have a MASTER PLAN for
the Political Unification of the AFRICAN STATES (By African States we mean
ALL the States WORLDWIDE where Africans make up the majority of the
Citizenry).

This is the MAIN RATIONAL behind Calling for the First Pan African
Federalist Congress.

I am Attaching to this Email, the "The CONCEPT of the First Pan African
Federalist Congress". Please feel free to Suggest Amendments to this
Concept and if you are in Agreement with us please do not hesitate to START
spreading the word around you. I do not only mean Dr. Hines but all of you
who are in the Mailing List.

Joomaay (Ndongo) Faye

http://www.africanpublius.com





On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Afrika and Diaspora Institute
<a...@ubol.com <mailto:a...@ubol.com> > wrote:

Greetings Joomaay,



Thank you, for your welcome comment, as we move on to listen to the others
to come. I recognise the drive of your argument, which has been consistent.



Our 'SOLUTION FOCUS' aspirations must continue, and our common historical
and contemporary experiences, racial heritage and mirror-like visual
impact are clear evidence to the claim that 'WE are family'.



That family has been, and still being, threatened with impunity, by our
ignorance, apathy, deceptions, racism and our current lack of serious
independent resources for Afrikan development. Crucially, given current
progressive introduction of robotics in our everyday lives, a significant
section of traditional labour market is likely to be deleted.



This is likely to be areas in which the bulk of Afrikans globally are made
to engage during the past, from chattel slavery, colonisation, imperialism,
to our current boom and bust capitalist economies, in our developed
'liberal' democracies.



This is led primarily by unacceptable capitalists' bottlenecked means of
productions and distributions. We harbour a significant and, arguably,
disproportionate amount of unskilled labour, and this makes Global Afrika
vulnerable in a scientific and technological led global order.



This is partly the reason that we are not commanding meaningful industrial
complex and are consumers of other peoples products. A push for Afrikan
Unity must accompany a strategy for a new culturally sensitive educational
and training programme - private and public, industrialisation, reduction
and containment of Afrikan brain drain to foreign lands and Afrikans being
disproportionate consumers of foreign products, as our local industries
destroyed by excessive foreign imports.



WE must reclaim our Afrikan Personality. We are who we are today because of
the imposed educational and theological values on us, when we had no real
choice. In these circumstances, we cannot be anything less than holding and
living Eurocentric and Arabcentric values, after spending years going
through Eurocentric/Arab centric education value systems. This include our
depending on foreign nations for intellectual, technical, professional and
theological validation. And we rarely modified such teachings when we
returned - if we returned, to our 'indigenous' lands.



Marcus Mosiah Garvey was who he was and what he was, because he modified
his Eurocentric education and training. He re-interpreted Western
philosophies, values and way of doing things for the benefit of the 'Black
Race.' He was like the spawning salmon, which swam against the tide to its
spawning ground, completed its purpose and die. Yet leaving behind a new
generation of salmons to complete the progressive cycle.



It is reported that some Chinese in Afrika insisted that Afrikans must
speak Chinese languages. How many Chinese visitors, who are doing long term
business in Afrika, are able or willing to speak indigenous Afrikan
languages? Europeans also insisted that Afrikans must speak their
languages, and most Afrikan states official languages are English and
French. The Arab league, as an important criteria for membership, at least
twenty percent of the applying state's population must speak the Arabic
language.



With high levels of unskilled Afrikan population, which fuelled the
capitalist prison complex in certain western countries for profit, and being
crept into some Afrikan states, one wonders whether our Afrikan skills base
is strong enough for us to mount a successful challenge for Afrikan and
Afrika unity. These are two distinct elements. One deals with human
conditions and the other structures and constitutions. Can we have Afrikan
unity without Afrika unity? Something to ponder.



Afrika is where it is today because of important factors between 1914-1994.
Most of those factors no longer exist.



* European World War 1 and 2 - both of these wars undermined the
decisions of the Berlin Conference of 25 November 1884-85. Germany lost her
Afrikan colonies and Marcus Mosiah Garvey's doctrine - 'Africa for the
Africans, those at home and those abroad', gained significant impact on
Afrikans in Afrika and the Diaspora.



* This grassroots movement for change, culminated into the 5th
Pan-Afrikan Conference in Manchester, England, from 15 to 21 October 1945,
followed by successful Afrikan Liberation struggles, resulted in nearly all
European imperialists' ownerships of African, Caribbean and South American
Afrikan dominated colonies, gained some sort of self-government by the
1990s, including Apartheid South Africa.



* The USA liberalism, before the advent of the so called 'neo cons',
had important impact on Afrikan confidence, optimism and statehood. Also
Influencing was the existence of the Soviet Union and the 'cold war' between
the West and the Soviets. Both the West and the Soviets used Afrika and her
Diaspora as global political foot balls. Afrikans benefited to some extent
from this, at a cost of rejecting some of our long, tried and tested
Afrikan Communalism, for untested European 'scientific socialism'.



* By 25 May 1963, largely influenced by Soviet Bolshevik politics,
our Great Ancestor Kwame Nkrumah, recipient of Lenin Peace Prize in 1963,
co-founded the Organisation for African Unity (OAU), along with Algeria,
Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo (Brazzaville),
Congo (Léopoldville). Dahomey, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory
Coast, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger,
Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, The Sudan, Tanganyika,
Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Upper Volta, Zanzibar



* OAU subsequently evolved into the African Union(AU), on 26 May
2001. The AU provided an umbrella for emerging Afrikan states. However. The
OAU was not the only forum providing an umbrella for African States. There
was the older forum with headquarters also in Afrika, that is, the Arab
League, formally, the League of Arab States formed in Cairo on 22 March
1945 with six members: Kingdom of Egypt, Kingdom of Iraq, Transjordan
(renamed Jordan in 1949), Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Syria. Yemen joined as a
member on 5 May 1945. Currently, the League has 22 members, most of which
are African states. Both the Arab League and the Afrikan Union are
potentially rival organisations. This does not bode well for the idea of
Afrika Unity.



* The German Empire is no more, the Soviet Union is no more. There
had been a massive growth of technological and scientific discoveries since
1945. We become space explorers and travellers. All this influenced peoples'
thinking across the world.



* With the advent of the Internet, mobile phones, e-mails, social
sites and air travels, are available to nearly all humanity at affordable
costs. The world has changed since Great Marcus Mosiah Garvey taught his
methods for uniting Global Afrika. His methods, for logical and practical
reason, cannot be wholly adopted and applied to contemporary Afrika and
Diaspora issues.



* But as we are encouraged by Self-Help News Collective, we should
learn from our past greats, because we can climb on our Ancestors shoulders
to reach the next rung of modern Afrikan development. But we must not be
slaves to their ideas. Our living and eye witness experiences are equally
authoritative and important.



* The same applies to the call of Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah. This is
not a personality contest. We must seek to identify, claim, synergise and
apply the best of our collective ideas. We cannot waste our intellectual
properties, but put them to use, wherever they are found in Global Afrika.
This would be one's strong recommendation.



* Afrikan spiritual, artistic, cultural and sporting influences
also impacted Afrikan liberation struggles during that era, led by the
Afrikans in the USA - Jazz, Blues, Soul, Hip-Hop and Gospel Music. From the
Caribbean and South America - Ska, Blue Beat, Reggae, Soca, Zouk, Salsa and
emerging from Afrika, 'African High Life', Afrobeat, Jazz, and the powerful
and inviting sounds of the Afrikan drum beats. And Sports, we were lifted by
- cricket, boxing, football, track and field games, basketball, baseball,
netball and dominoes.



* We cannot forget the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute, a
significant act of protest by the African-American athletes Tommie Smith
and John Carlos during their medal ceremony at the 1968 Summer Olympics in
the Olympic Stadium in Mexico City. The American Black Power, Civil Rights
and Student Non-Violence Movements contributed significantly to an Afrikan
Platform for Change. As already pointed out, Afrikan Arts, Cultures, and
Sports brought Afrikan a high level of Unity in diversity during the past
fifty years. This tide was truncated by members of other communities, as
promoters and distributors. Our best artists were put under contract, and
become bread basket for other communities. Today, our art and cultural
essence are still in their hands. We must step up and commence managing
more, and most, of our intellectual properties.



* Kung Fu Films: Hollywood Film Industry was still the mouthpiece of
a system which deprived justice and dignity to many individuals. Ironically,
unlikely to have been planned by the writers, actors and film makers the way
it turned out, Chinese martial arts, also referred to as kung fu or gung fu
and wushu was a source of inspirations to Afrikans, particularly urban
dwellers in Western nations. The late actor, Bruce Lee, and his Kung Fu
films, based in Hong Kong, a British Colony at the time, brought Chinese and
Afrikan youth together through their love for Chinese art form.



* This was a time of mass migration of Afrikans from the Caribbean
and South America to the USA, Canada and the UK, as economic migrants.
Later, a tide of Continental Afrikans arrived mostly stranded students and
refugees, as a result of increased activities by Afrikan liberation fighters
on the Continent.



* Black consciousness and afro-hair styles were top of many of our
Afrikan agenda. White youth, led by the 'Hippy Flower Power Movement', were
occupied imitating popular ‘Black culture’. The USA was losing its
projected moral high ground in South East Asia, to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
People Revolutionary Leader, at the time.



* The Rastafari Movement, an Abrahamic religion, founded by Leonard
P Howell in Jamaica in the 1930s, provided a very high level of Afrikan
awareness for Afrikan youth, during the period. Many of the major reggae
artists were Rasta. Many Rastafari do not belong to any sect. Rasta added,
and still adding, to the cultural richness of the Pan-Afrikan Movement.



* In addition, there was an explosion of Global scholarly
literatures, providing enlightenment to a 'dumb down' Afrikan people, and
repair mental scars of Global Afrika.



* In the front line of these Afrikan enlightening literatures, in
addition to Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Kwame Nkrumah, were the works of Cheikh
Anta Diop, Yosef Alfredo Antonio ben-Jochannan, Carter G. Woodson, John
Henrik Clarke, Walter Rodney, Chancellor Williams, Ivan van Sertima,
Anthony T Browder, Tony Martin, Alex Hayley, Frances Cress Welsing, Claude
McKay, Eric Williams, Franz Fanon, and so many others.



* The Libyan State, under the leadership of the late Muammar
Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi (Colonel Gaddafi) supplied major funds to
Afrikan Liberation struggles and Afrikan development projects. This source
of funding is no longer available.



* There was no 'Islamic up-rising or Radical Islam' during the
period. There was the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), under the
leadership of Chairman Yasser Arafat, campaigning against the State of
Israel for a free Palestine, but no major declaration of 'war on terror', as
is the case today.



The unique factors which caused the explosions of Afrikan solidarity in the
past do not seem to exist today.

If there are levels of oppressions on the Continent and the Diaspora today,
that would have been the work of Afrikans against Afrikans.



The minority Whites who used to exercise that type of Afrikan oppressions,
are still there, but they remain quiet, arguably because they still own
the bulk of Afrika and Diaspora lands and wealth. Nothing has materially
changed in respect of wealth and land distributions among indigenous
Afrikans, except an exception in sanction stricken Zimbabwe. Afrikan
liberation battles were fought and 'won', but the total prize is yet to be
claimed effectively.



Minority Whites on the Continent might have lost political power, but they
retained financial and land power - the most powerful of the powers. In an
increasingly aware and politicised young Afrikan population, this must be
worrying for the minority whites’ about their future. The wise among them
should insist on making the move now to distribute lands in their ownership,
even at offering long term lease at reasonable charges, to indigenous
Afrikans. If not, the whites are likely to lose all in the future, by
default.



The Arabs are still occupying North Afrika and there is no indication that
this will change in the near future, and arguably, their current focus is
Arabia not necessarily sacred Afrika.



There are new players in Afrika, described by the popular slogan - 'new
scramble for Afrika'. These new players, the chief of which is China, whose
captains of industries are making contractual investments with Afrikan
governments for Afrikan natural resources, up to three hundred years in some
instances. The Chinese, Brazilian, Indian, American and European thrusts
are having significant impacts on Afrika and Afrikans on the Continent.
There are other players as well, largely theological and foreign NGO based
operations. Military occupation has become of higher profile with the USA
Africa Command. The French had never left.



Given that China is the largest Afrikan investors, when will the Chinese
consider it expedient to have military base and advisors, like Europe and
America, in Afrika?



There is no visible signs that any of these industrial powers have serious
short, medium and long term plans to assist in providing the necessary
education and training for Afrikans at home, for structuring, rapid and
responsible industrialisation of Afrika.



For a united Afrika, to be given birth, health and longevity, current
investors must support that notion, and this would only happen if a united
Afrika serves investors' interests. Armed revolution was possible in the
past because the Soviet Union, Libya and Cuba were supplying military
training, arms and finance to Afrikan freedom fighters. Radical Islam is
currently occupying the Pan-Afrikan Liberation fighters’ historical place.
They may not be new money to give to Afrikan rebels to over throw their
apparent dysfunctional government.



There a are several wars going on in Afrika today in the Congo, Sudan,
Somalia, etc. Any suggestion of armed struggles must be carefully examined.
There are new conditions today.



Afrika’s modern enemy may be neo-colonialism, floating on cushions of
greed, imported and encouraged by foreign ‘advisors’, who only interest is
to get their ten-twenty percent cut of corruption state funds.



Armed challenge to Neo-colonialism suggests ‘potential civil wars’. This is
fundamentally different from fighting an imperialist enemy, as was the case
in the past. In this case, contemporary Marxists reference would be based on
a class struggle. Even this issue of class is alien to the Afrikan psychic,
in the twenty first century. But still, it has substance and merits, given a
situation where an Afrikan elite leadership failed to honour the sacred
trust of their people.



Todays, the call for Afrika Unity is complex, as Self-Help News reminded
us. Arguably, Garvey-Nkrumah had not faced this type of complexities in
their time. The world has changed and our strategy for Afrikan unity, if
this is truly desirable and we are to achieve it, that must be based on
needs and mutual benefits to all the players.



It is suggested that one of those needs is Afrikan security from imminent
threats. But let's say that a 'Big Brother' offers us security, and so
removed potential threats. As the State of Israel is offered by the USA.
Then, whoever is offered this type of security, needs not talk of Afrika
Unity, because the principal reason for wanting unity has been removed.



But there is the spiritual, artistic and cultural factors, which bring us
to Afrikan unity. It's unlikely that racism will disappear with a guarantee
of military or economic security by other for Afrika. And a nation’s
security is only assured when it takes care of business by itself.



WE need a new mind set to navigate our Afrikan way into the future. And
this has to be done collectively based on contemporary, not historical,
realism, with intelligence, patience, tolerance, respect for self and others
and fulfil of our solemn duty to our unborn.



Your call for a Pan African Federalist Congress, a campaign for the birth
of a United African States (UAS), must be considered, because it is one of
the options on the table.



There are also other options, including a United Afrikan Nations (UAN), a
Constitutional Forum for Continental and non-Continental Afrikans -
residents and none residents of the Afrikan Continent.



Our Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Adi) has a standard policy of
transparency, professionalism and willingness to work with others, whatever
their levels of Afrikan consciousness to share knowledge and work joint on
relevant and practical programmes, as we aim to get to know one another
better, in the interest of promoting Global Afrika.



The first example of our unity must be among ourselves at a micro level,
long before we get to macro level. If we cannot unite at a micro level, it
is unlikely that we will affect unity at a macro level.



We look forward to good productive working relationships as we move forward
progressively together.



Dr Vince Hines

Chairman

Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Adi)





From: Joomaay Faye [mailto:africanf...@gmail.com
<mailto:africanf...@gmail.com> ]
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Subject: Re: SHN Discussion Paper:



Greetings to you All,

. Prof. Rupert Lewis of Jamaica once stated, the; “discussion of the
African Renaissance is important for the people of the Caribbean, as it
marks a transition from the anti-colonial and antiapartheid phase of our
relations with Africa to the post-colonial and post-Cold War world. The
issue is not so much the analytical rigor of the term 'African Renaissance',
but whether or not it can be a catalyst for a new phase of 21st century
Pan-African relations”. This statement of Prof. Lewis is, in my opinion,
applicable to all of the African people who are involved in the African
renaissance project. If we want to give a new life to the Pan African
Movement and make of it an effective tool for the African Renaissance
project we need to update the way we link the problems of Africans on the
continent and in most of the Caribbean countries with those of the Black
communities in the West. We need to find a clear common link between the
problems Africans on the Continent and the Caribbean are grappling with,
with issues such as racial profiling, high poverty and un-employment rates
within the black communities, particularly the youth, in Europe and the USA.
In my view Pan Africanism was conceived for Black people as a tool for the
reconquering their dignity taken away from them through slavery, colonialism
and apartheid. As long as Black people will be considered, consciously or
subconsciously by others as inferior, Pan Africanism will be a relevant
ideology to rally around.

We must however differentiate Pan Africanism with Pan African Federalism
which aim is to Unite All the States Where "Africans of the Soil and of the
Blood" as defined by A. Mazrui, make up the majority of the citizenry .
These States are found on the Continent of Africa and in the Caribbean
Island. The First Pan African Federalist Congress that We are calling for
is intended to Launch the Campaign for the Birth of these United African
States within less than a Generation.

Joomaay Ndongo Faye

http://www.Africanpublius.com





_____


[1] The African Renaissance and the Caribbean” published in the South
African Journal of International Affairs in it volume 8 Number 1 Summer 2001



On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:50 PM, Afrika and Diaspora Institute
<a...@ubol.com <mailto:a...@ubol.com> > wrote:

Greetings Learned Colleagues



Attached is a Discussion Paper by Self-Help News – “Giving Voice to the
Voiceless”, presented for comments on contents and substance. The paper has
a grassroots appeal, practical and perceptive, which seems to be
questioning the effectiveness of current political Pan-Afrikan theories,
which are not seen to be lasting, practical or attractive to the Afrikan
masses, and “depending on the dead for point of reference and directions of
current issues among the living.” This is a marked contrast during the
1940s to the early 1990s, when unassailable Pan-Afrikan giants walked the
Earth. They are with the Ancestors now.



The paper asked, “what is sacred - ineffectual political theories?; or our
duty to cooperate with others, who do not necessarily share our individual
belief systems, in the interests of our survival?” And, as such, we
would be obliged to generate new perspective about our protracted
realities. A search for new ‘solution focus ideas’, that is, theories and
practice, likely to be embraced by a significant majority of Global Afrika.
We would probably “jettison” what is not seen to be working for our
collective good, and so moving us away from “our comfort zone.”



Self-Help News Collective challenges us to “Draw the curtain wider to have
more light streaming in. Every one of us has curtains of our minds. It is
probably time to open them in the interest of experiencing a different
Afrikan Dawn. One which learns from the past, but carries less baggage of
the past; and so steeped fully in the complexities of the 21st century and
beyond. One which is capable of countering effectively those who are
standing in our way of Global productive Community Development.”



In effect, putting our Afrikan survival before individual divisive belief
systems. Is it not time for a ‘ BIG EVALUATION’, a process for preparing
ourselves for the next leg of our Afrikan journey deeper into the twenty
first century and beyond? Making sure that we travel lighter with less
baggage of the past.



The Collective asked “What proportion of our youth today are engaged
passionately in building Pan-Afrikan Platforms? And what proportion are
focusing on narrow individual nationalism? Are our Afrikan schools teaching
Pan-Africanism? If this is not happening”, according to the Collective, “how
can we realistically talk of achieving Afrikan and Afrika unity. What would
be our credible unifying and effective rallying cry? The colour of our
skin?”



The final set of quotes from Self-Help News Collective - “Afrikan modern
arts and cultures are crucial platforms to bringing Afrikans together.
Politics are not the only vehicle to affect Afrikan Unity. By founding Tamla
Records in Detroit, Michigan, on 12 January 1959, and later in 1960, the
Motown Record Corporation, Berry Gordy, Jr. probably did far more for
lasting Afrikan consciousness and Unity than any of the Afrikan politicians
of his period. Today, many called for 'Afrikan revolution' yet they think
conventionally. One suspects that they are still too influenced by
Bolsheviks' polemic legacy. One also suspects that Ancestor Kwame Nkrumah
partly fell, here, unlike Ancestor Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The Bolsheviks
loved Nkrumah and hated Garvey unto this day. Yet we must reconcile these
contradictions among us.”



Your comments are welcome.



Regards

Dr Vince Hines

Chairman

Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Adi)




--

Pan African Federalist Harambe
Africa can be united/L'Afrique peut etre unie
http://www.africanpublius.com




--

Pan African Federalist Harambe
Africa can be united/L'Afrique peut etre unie
http://www.africanpublius.com

[Self-Help News]

From: Afrika and Diaspora Institute [mailto:a...@ubol.com]
Sent: 04 April 2015 16:09
To: 'Joomaay Faye'
Cc: 'Valerie Dixon'; 'Dr Osakwe Osifo'; 'Tom Dalgety';
'cecilg...@yahoo.com'; 'Shaka Barak'; 'Celebrate African Australians';
'Victor Payne'; 'self-he...@googlegroups.com'; 'Bankie Forster Bankie';
'cens...@gmail.com'; 'Bob Brown'; 'Banbose Shango'; 'Bob Wes'; 'University
of the West Indies'; 'Menelik PD Harris'; 'John Jackson'; 'Amun Ra';
'Mushitu Mukwame'; 'Gus John'; 'Alexander Cameron';

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'Kofi Klu'; 'sjaugu .'

Subject: RE: SHN Discussion Paper:



Greetings Joomaay

Thank you for your clarification. My suggestion was a response to yours
".WE ARE DETERMINED
TO OVERCOME THE "DIVIDE AND CONQUEER STRATEGY THAT IS BIENG USED TO WEAKEN
US".


You are calling for a gathering to ‘merger’ concepts and ideas, without
first ironing out cruder contradictions which normally associated with
matters of this type, found in all racial/ethnic groupings. Your suggestion
sounds interesting, but unlikely to have the desired outcome, because the
ground is not prepared in advance, in order to manage unrealistic
expectations from groups and individuals full of passion for the subject
matter. Arguably, the likely outcome, based on your suggested strategy, are
frustrations and disappointments, caused primarily because of our failure
to manage effective methods of communications. It is not good enough just to
have good ideas. These must be associated with excellent management and
communication of those ideas.



Time is of the essence. We are still relatively poor and we don’t have
resources, to sit for long period of time in conference to arrive at one
conclusion. It does not work like that.



Garvey, Nkrumah and Cheikh are dead. They fulfilled their purpose and
moved on. The living have our purpose to fulfil and move on. Sending the
wrong signals to an already disoriented people may not be the best way to go
about nation building, particularly when we have a credible alternative.



You are giving the impression that you and your group are the presenters,
like a Chief Chef, who has prepared a meal for the Masses. The ingredients
of which are already selected, cooked and now ready to serve. You appear to
be saying that you will allow other meals at the banquet, but there is not
enough time for the customers to taste and examine all. And the Chief
Chef, who is bias by default, is in no objective position to set the banquet
table.



We encourage you to add a little pragmatism in your thinking on this
matter. Work with us. What have you got to lose? We are here, as always.
What’s family for, if not to build together?



I hope that throughout the exchange of my e-mails, I have not
misrepresented your noble aspirations for Afrikan unity, in any way
whatsoever.



For the time being, I now leave you to ponder on the sum total of my
substantive argument on the matter.



Best regards

Dr Vince Hines

Chairman

Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Adi)

From: Joomaay Faye [mailto:africanf...@gmail.com]
Sent: 04 April 2015 01:25
To: Afrika and Diaspora Institute
Cc: Valerie Dixon; Dr Osakwe Osifo; Tom Dalgety; cecilg...@yahoo.com
<mailto:cecilg...@yahoo.com> ; Shaka Barak; Celebrate African
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Shango; Bob Wes; University of the West Indies; Menelik PD Harris; John
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Subject: Re: SHN Discussion Paper:

Dr Hines,

You Stated in you response to my comment on Sister Valerie's email that;
"WE should not, however, assume that the intention is to divide, conquer and
rule, simply because others expressed a slightly or wholly different views
from ours, or even requesting clarifications to ours". Can you please point
out to me where in my response it sounds like I am saying/insinuating
anything similar. I was agreeing with Sister Valerie on the Need for US
Africans to find means and ways of ending the Divide and Conquer strategy
that has been used to enslave us and colonize us.

Dr Hines,

We are not saying that our Strategy for the birth of the United African
States is better than anybody else. What I am telling you is that we are
committed to see it through. We are calling for a Gathering of the Pan
African Federalists in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora. These
Organizations and Individuals will come to this Congress with their Plans
and will try their utmost best to MERGE all these plans in One Plan for the
Birth of the United African States in less than a generation.

Dr Hines,

The implication of Pan African Federalists from Jamaica is very important
to us for two reasons. Number one it is the Birth Place of Marcus Garvey and
having Jamaica as one of the Member States of the Union of African States
will be fulfilling the dream of this African Giant. The second reason is
linked to the fact that Jamaica as an African State plays a key role in the
Caribbean. For those reasons reaching out to Sister Valerie, the head of the
Organization that was founded by Marcus Garvey is certainly something that
we will not spare any effort for.

The Organizations that were founded by Nkrumah and Cheikh Anta Diop are
both involve in this initiative and having the organization that was founded
by Marcus Garvey come and join them will certainly be a great contribution
to the success of this gathering.

I hope that this time I am very clear.

Joomaay



On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Afrika and Diaspora Institute <a...@ubol.com

<mailto:a...@ubol.com> > wrote:

Greetings Joomaay,

I am grateful for your evident attempt at reconciling with the proposal
that is on the global table. That is, to bring into being a Forum, a
Commission for Progressive Constitutional Transparency (CPCT), and have,
as its basis, aims, global membership, tenure, benefits, output and
outcome, as already enumerated in my previous e-mail. We are speaking and
others are listening, and so, this is a very good thing, because our talk
are not useless chatter, but with purpose.



WE should not, however, assume that the intention is to divide, conquer and
rule, simply because others expressed a slightly or wholly different views
from ours, or even requesting clarifications to ours. Ironically, the UNIA
Lady President, Valerie Dixon, comments were largely requesting clarity,
and
her tone was supportive of the need for Afrikan unity. Who has greater
right
to talk of this than a sitting Lady President of the original 1914 UNIA
where it all began in Jamaica, and where it is still bubbling.



The logical course that we should take, is exposing all our ideas to the
light of day, as it were, bringing into synergy and construct the most
feasible mandate from the all. In addition, we must demonstrate that we are
Always ready to make adjustments to accommodate new circumstances, based on
our experiences, on our journey.



As I stated recently, struggles are dynamic, like a flowing river stream,
fresh at one point; but sometimes gets muddy along the way. We must be able
to adjust to ensure that the freshness and wholesomeness of the original
are maintained. Like a revolutions which starts off as a virgin in thought
and deed; but later apparently imperceptibly metamorphosed into a harlot,
losing nearly all its original qualities, yet we pretend that nothing has
changed, and showed surprised when our people cannot relate to us any
longer. And we become repressive.



The Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Adi) is a forty year old independent
statutory recognised institution, inter and multi-linked with a wide
variety of self-help, advocacy, community, education, training, academic,
artistic, cultural, gender and age specific activists’ diverse networks,
not
only in Europe, but other parts of the world. Our primary aim and thrusts
are to work with like-minded individuals and groups and share
intellectual
and common-sense ideas to achieve best practice for our peoples. Remove the
mystique of Afrikan leadership in the 21st Century and beyond. We are
motivated by the reasonableness of the circumstances – truth, rights and
justice. When these are obtained, we can reasonably expect peace, harmony
and prosperity. When they are absent, war, confusion and poverty. Our
strength can be found within our collective, based on examples of effective
Afrikan leaderships.



As I understand it, You are fighting to defend your corner of ideas. So
are the others with similar ideas in our Global Afrikan Community. None of
these defenders is qualified to be objective referee. Our efforts and
energies are haemorrhaging away, because it is perceived that the players
are not capable of dovetailing their ideas in order to make one. And,
instead of cooperating, we compete and fight ourselves. Yet we have
powerful
and praise worthy aspirations for Afrikan unity. But there is positive
here,
in that the underlying assumption by nearly all the parties is that
Afrikans
must be our own leaders. This is unity in thought, which must be recognised
fully and encouraged.



WE have proposed a sea changing idea, in that we must collectively
construct a Global Platform, made up of representative individuals of
integrity, with clear vision, lover of Afrikan people, imaginative, filled
with common-sense, hardworking, practical and fair, to be part of a
harvesting of all known documents like yours. Fused them, without the
loss of substance, and present the outcomes to all concern to focus their
attention on an edited and widely consulted upon draft. Now in one place,
all the versions, without duplications. Each showcasing individual strength
and weakness on which the people will be able to focus and consider,
without
the spin and froth. WE are also planning for our unborn.



WE are being regulated everyday by hostile forces and we show less
resistance to that than we appear ready to demonstrate against logical
proposals being generating from the Afrikan Community, tailor-made, to cut
froth and spin among us and focus on substance. The people would have a
clear and verifiable track record of the process. There would be no
corner,
just an open transparent table with our collective ideas of good-will for
our proposed effective leadership and survival.



We are Garvey; we are DuBois; we are Nkrumah; we are Padmore. We are our
Ancestors. We recognise the importance for our minds and hearts working
together in harmony to achieve best results. We are living at the beginning
of a New Dawn where Global Afrika has rediscovered our inner strength, the
results of which the world is beginning to witness progressively.



In respect of your reference to historical landmarks in Europe, these are
our contemporary work catchment areas, and has been so for decades.



On the issue of differences, while we recognise them, they are not our
focus. Similarities are. We do not speak of a “SUPER think Tank”, as you
suggested. We speak of an effective evaluating machinery, credible to the
majority of our Global Community, where the logical arguments are clearly
demonstrated in the outcome.



We are committed to working with you and your group, and if you truly
believe that you have found the panacea to Afrika and Afrikan Unity,
present
it to be evaluated and tested along with the many others. Like yours,
theirs
have equal right to be heard prominently, as stated previously.



A Commission for Progressive Constitutional Transparency (CPCT) would
have provided an objective, non-partisan platform, and so remove the
potential bile from this matter. Who in their right mind would object to
the
type of modern management tool of comparative study and application. Your
suggestion that the ordinary Afrikans could be excluded by this methodical
approach to funnelling change, is probably disingenuous, to say the
least.
What have you got to lose in this process?



In solidarity, as always.

Dr Vince Hines

Chairman

Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Adi)

London, England

From: Joomaay Faye [mailto:africanf...@gmail.com
<mailto:africanf...@gmail.com> ]
Sent: 02 April 2015 16:08
To: Valerie Dixon
Cc: Afrika and Diaspora Institute; Dr Osakwe Osifo; Tom Dalgety;
cecilg...@yahoo.com <mailto:cecilg...@yahoo.com> ; Shaka Barak;
Celebrate African Australians; Victor
Payne; self-he...@googlegroups.com
<mailto:self-he...@googlegroups.com> ; Bankie Forster Bankie;
cens...@gmail.com <mailto:cens...@gmail.com> ; Bob Brown; Banbose
Shango; Bob Wes; University of the

West Indies; Menelik PD Harris; John Jackson; Amun Ra; Mushitu Mukwame; Gus
John; Alexander Cameron; wale.a...@africanviews.org
<mailto:wale.a...@africanviews.org> ; General Ishola
Williams; sundo...@gmail.com <mailto:sundo...@gmail.com> ; Isaac Kumah;

IYPAD Barbados Chapter;
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ishlaw...@ymail.com <mailto:ishlaw...@ymail.com> ; Yishebah Baht
Gavriel; Kofi
Klu; sjaugu .

Subject: Re: SHN Discussion Paper:

Sister Valerie,

The Initiators of the Call for the First Pan African Federalist Congress
have in their Agenda the Campaign for the Political Unification of the
African States. No one in their right mind and with the minimum
objectivity
can question the fact that Jamaica is one of those Africa States. With more
than 90% of its population being African, the Home of Marcus Garvey is
indeed and African States. So for us any State where the Majority of the
Citizenry is African, ought to be a full member of this union. If Hawai
can
be part if the USA I do not see why Haiti, Guyana, Jamaica, to only name a
few, can't be part of the United African States. In one of the Draft
Preparatory documents of the Congress we state that "federalism being the
highest form of Unity among Africans, Any African throughout the Word, even
if their States is not a member of the United Africa States (UAS) will have
the right to carry the Passport of the UAS and will have the full right to
settle in any of the States that are members of the UAS". WE ARE
DETERMINED
TO OVERCOME THE "DIVIDE AND CONQUEER STRATEGY THAT IS BIENG USED TO WEAKEN
US".

Dr. Hines,

I can see how your idea can benefit the First Pan African Federalist
Congress and Vis versa. In other words I can see a useful way for merging
these two ideas. The major difference in the Methods of Garvey and Dubois
is
that Garvey relied on the Mass Movement by reaching out to organizations or
encouraging their creation. Dubois on the other hand relied on the
Intellectuals Analytical Power of the situation and issue petitions that
the
oppressors had no way of rejecting the truthfulness of the statements they
made. The major difference between the first Four Pan African Congress and
the 5th is that the main organizers on the ground (Padmore and Nkrumah)
decided to hold it on a date that would coincide with Pan African Trade
Union meetings in Paris and London. This allowed the 5th Pan African
Congress to combine the Garvey and Dubois Method and we all know how
effective this Congress was.

By Combining our Idea of Calling for the First Pan African Federalist
Congress and your Idea of the SUPER think Tank we can repeat what Padmore
and Nkrumah Did in a MORE efficient way.

What do you say?

Joomaay



On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Valerie Dixon <valerie...@gmail.com
<mailto:valerie...@gmail.com>
<mailto:valerie...@gmail.com <mailto:valerie...@gmail.com> > >
wrote:

I must commend Dr. Vince Hines on the fulsomeness of and balance in his
clarion call for "Afrika to unite". I am particularly impressed with the
paragraph that states very clearly how the invaders and conquerors of
Afrika
were able to put aside their differences and diversities in areas such as:
national identity, cultures, languages, size and their various
growth-stages
of development etc. and became temporary friends. What was the driving
force behind these "forced" and temporary friendships?



To my mind, the driving force was the achieve the objective of destroying
Afrikan mentality and innate intelligence, through a process called "divide
and rule". For over 500 years this strategy has enabled the few (read
White
people) to sleep with their windows and doors wide open, while the millions
(read Black people in Afrika and her Diaspora) were and are still unable to
sleep with both eyes shut, because of the psychological warfare that cause
Black people not to trust each other, because we are so deeply divided in
areas such as national identity, skin colour, cultures, languages, size and
our various growth-stages of development etc. It also seems that our
problems are compounded by some Black leaders who do not know if they are
Black or Coloured, Afrikan or not Afrikan or otherwise. All this cause us
to appear incapable of ever being able to unite for our own common good and
common survival as a race.



I believe that the time has come for us to stop careening over the
precipice (cliff) like uncontrolled lemmings rushing to our deaths, or
killing each other through civil wars and genocide. I believe that the
time
has come for us to get to know one another better. I am in agreement that
"we need to get going in working with others as proposed, to build that
Platform of Transparency". Let this opportunity become our "Berlin
Conference", where even enemies can become temporary friends and stop the
further and future exploitation and balkanizing of Afrika and her Diaspora.
We as Afrikans, whether at home or abroad, have not benefited in any real
and tangible measures from the foreign policy of "divide and rule". Only
the
foreigners who are now rooted in Afrika and her Diaspora and the new
entrants who appear to be using subterfuge to convince us that they mean
Afrika and her Diaspora well, can truthfully say that they have benefited
in so many, many ways from their policy of "divide

and rule".



Valerie

Lady President, UNIA-ACL, Jamaica



On 1 April 2015 at 17:33, Afrika and Diaspora Institute <a...@ubol.com
<mailto:a...@ubol.com>
<mailto:a...@ubol.com <mailto:a...@ubol.com> > > wrote:

Thank you very much, Joomaay, for your continued engagement.



As usual, I appreciate your response.



On the face of it, yours has fallen short of addressing the substantive
elements of my e-mail, including 1,2,3,4,5,6 and 7, as itemised. Yours is
not a balanced response, because I am unable to assess the areas with which
you agree or disagree. A logical argument cannot be ignored without being
addressed, especially by an individual or group who is rightly calling for
Afrikan unity. This area of work is no one individual or group preserve.
This is about Nation Building, which cannot be done in isolation.



Your points 1,2, and 3 are not in dispute. These had never been in dispute.
You are laying down YOUR Vision. Let's build an objective platform on which
others will be able to lay out their visions on the same topic and so
receive equally careful consideration. This approach is consistent with
modern management tools.



It must be seen that all Afrikan ideas and intellectual strengths are
marshalled and are taken fully into consideration in regard to any draft
instrument, before any specific model is recommended to Global Afrika for
consideration and implementation, as a guide to our progressive way
forward.
Each of our ideas must be respected because, out of that respect we may be
able to begin to pull ourselves collectively out of our current ideological
morass of cyclical 'unproductive' motions.



This is not and must not be about personality or intellectual competition
among us. It is about collective substance.

Unless we have this level of managed transparency, we could be accused of
forcing ourselves through a singly narrow conduit, and causing ideological
log jam, disputes and frustrations, as seems to be the case today. And when
examined closely, the problem is basically a lack of clear communications
among us.



WE must learn how to speak with one voice. Those who had and are still
causing us harm had spoken, and are speaking, with one voice, in respect of
our circumstances. At the Berlin Conference in 1884-5, enemies became
temporary friends, came together in unity over a period of one year, and
balkanised Afrika and Afrikans. Within 90 Years, 1914-18 and 1939-45, those
very same people who divided Afrika fought two world wars among themselves
killing millions, in addition to sacrificing millions of Afrikans without
benefits, in that ritual.



If enemies are able to unite to do Afrikans perpetual harm, why can't
Afrikans get to the level of unity in diversity for self-defence, wealth
creation and general prosperity? We cannot afford to reject any element
of
our Afrikan Communities, be they academics, learned individuals, single
parents, farmers, field hands, illiterates, the physically disabled,
youth,
religious and non-religious, spiritualists, the rich, the poor, janitors,
etc. Unity is like the exercise of constructing a 'flag' for the
Collective,
to which all must be able to pay deference without malice and defend that
flag, when necessary, and make any appropriate sacrifices in the process.



States are made up of people and do not function in a vacuum. No one has a
monopoly on good ideas, creativities and inventiveness.



The Afrika and Diaspora Institute (Adi) and Associates are answering the
call for Afrikan and Afrika unity in a structured way. And we are assisting
to construct effective methods to create best options for our people, in a
clear way, bringing to light all variables.



We must be sufficiently secure within self, to have our ideas tested and
compared along others. We should seek to take the best of our ideas and
make
one for the benefit of all. Otherwise, we are in danger of having ours
withered on the vine of ideas, as it were.



Let's get going in working with others, as proposed, to build that
Platform of Transparency, harvesting all the Afrikan and Afrika unity
ideas
floating about in Global Afrika. Let us take collective ownership of them,
and recommend a feasible cocktail of ideas. Let us create the conditions
for these ideas to stop colliding, and start working together, for the
benefit of Global Afrika.



Vince Hines

From: Joomaay Faye [mailto: <mailto:africanf...@gmail.com
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Subject: Re: SHN Discussion Paper:



Greetings Dr. Hines,

Thank you for the comments and the suggestion, I must however letmake it
clear to you and the Members of the ADI that:

1) Our focus is on securing a Federalist Compact between the majority of
the States where Africans make up the majority of the Citizenry.



2) Our commitment is to see into the Birth of the United African States
(note here that we are not calling for the United States of Africa because
the States that we want to unite are not only located on the African
continent).



3) Our Plan Start with a Pan African Federalist Congress which is going to
be a gathering on Mainly Organizations(political parties, trade unions,
civil society organizations, gild organizations, youth movements, women's
movement etc.). The Organizing Committee of the First Pan African
Federalist Congress will also reach out to Individuals in the Pan African
world who are committed to the Need For the Political Unification of the
African States and can greatly Contribute to the Campaign for the Birth of
the United African States in less than a Generation which will be Launch by

the First Pan African Federalist Congress.

Dr. Hines,



We are not interested in Academic or Learned Individuals, no matter what
their level of expertise is, Coining a DEFINIT Plan FOR OTHERS TO
IMPLEMENT.
We want to gather Organizations and Individuals who will Come Together,
Coin
their OWN ACTION PLAN for the Political Unification of the African States
and IMPLEMENT IT THEMSELVES.

That is what the Call for the Congress is ALL about. If you Carefully Read
the DRAFT Concept of the Congress, you Will see that we are interested in
What Political Activists Can Agree on, not what Academics or Experts can
IDEALIZE ON.

I sincerely hope that organizations like your will ANSWER this Call.

Joomaay Ndongo Faye

http://www.africanpublius.com





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