Fwd: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da – the world as it is, goes on after Olof Palme

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Cornelius Hamelberg

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Olof Palme was very popular in Africa and the rest of the third world. To what extent our world could or would have been different if he had not been brutally assassinated some thirty years ago is for a competent political scientsist to assess or speculate
This is something else: 

John Mbaku

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Unfortunately, a lot of people have forgotten, and many Africans do not know, the role that Palme and his country played in the struggle against the insidious system called apartheid. One member of this forum, however, did not forget. Consider the following:

Abdul Karim Bangura, Sweden vs Apartheid: Putting Morality Ahead of Profit (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2004). It is worth reading. It is a study that can help the reader recognize the "power of one" when it comes to making a difference in this world. Whether it is "one person" or "one country", even an individual acting alone or a country acting alone, against all odds, can indeed change the world. That is the legacy of Palme and that is the legacy of Sweden.

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John:


Thank you very much for reminding us of Professor Abdul Karim Bangura's very excellent and educative book. Published as a hardcover publication of barely 164 pages, it did throw an illuminating light on contemporary perspectives on developing societies. I was glad to use the book as one of the important books for an upper-level seminar I used to teach at Indiana University and, later, at University of Maryland, Eastern Shore (UMES).


Those of us, who lived in Sweden during the nefarious apartheid era, did admire the hard work of Sweden’s assassinated Prime Minister Olof Palme and other progressive Scandinavian leaders. I, in fact, remember having the opportunity – as a local Journalist in Stockholm -- watching a lawn tennis game between Mr. Palme and Mozambique's assassinated President Samora Machel. Also frequenting Stockholm , at the time, were SWAPO’s Sam Nujoma of Namibia; ANC's Oliver Tambo; Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere, who marched on “May Day” alongside Mr. Palme; and other Pan-African revolutionaries. Sweden did deserve our gratitude in Africa!


I did pat Professor Bangura on the back for his insightful and fine book.

A.B. Assensoh. 



 

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John Mbaku

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Thanks. Hope you are doing well. Best wishes to you and yours. John

Cornelius Hamelberg

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Keeping it short:

Indeed, Sweden's role in the struggle against Apartheid , and Sweden’s role  in the Liberation of South Africa from the clutches of Apartheid was a very significant role indeed, and up till today it would not be a gross exaggeration to say that  “half the story’s never been told” -  at least not directly from all of the horses’ mouths. Sweden’s role has been variously discussed in other fora apart from this one  - the details of the morality could be discussed here if this thread  needs to  get longer -  and it’s acutely true that “Unfortunately, a lot of people have forgotten, and many Africans do not know, the role that Palme and his country played in the struggle against the insidious system called apartheid” . Stefan Löfven who is  the current  leader of the Social Democrats and Prime Minister of Sweden  was twenty eight years old when  Olof Palme  was assassinated.  A lot of  other people were not even yet born or were mere toddlers  by 1994 and not even acquainted with third hand reports and materials, and like some writers  of glossy covers and titles,  poorly  informed, just as they are still badly informed and know next to nothing about what was once called The Nuremberg  Laws

Sweden and the Liberation Of South Africa

The ANC in Stockholm

 The relationship between the Swedish Trade Unions and COSATU etc. was important., especially at a time when Sweden’ s car  manufacturing industry etc. was in dire need of raw materials from South Africa. My own brother was knee-deep and stood to be striking it rich in diamond mining  in Sierra Leone  at some time and needed  suction pumps,  galvanizers and separator  and other mining equipment which  was most readily available  from Boliden and Granges, two Swedish companies  in South Africa  - but of course it was a no go from me to my Bro : SANCTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 We should also not forget Nigeria’s role (over the table and under the table)  in the same struggle. Patrick Wilmot’s  article in the Nigerian Guardian  in 1981 was advocating that Nigeria go nuclear – dance real  mathematical rhythms and with nuclear capability  then talk to the barbarians in South Africa. – this was at the exact time when the   Ivory Coast’s  Francophone president  Félix Houphouët-Boigny was recommending dialogue  ( the exasperated Dr. Wilmot was asking how can a lamb  dialogue with a lion?  So he recommended that Nigeria go ballistic  - nuclear – weapons of mass destruction and then  you  dialogue. An order was issued for the arrest of Patrick Wilmot ( by the uncle toms)  Wilmot went  underground completely, in Kaduna…

If only Olof Palme had lived on to see the fruition of the struggle  then he could have joined in the song : Namhanje – and would have sung and danced jabula with Madiba Nelson Mandela. As things were  Sweden is the first country that he visited  when he was released from  Robben Island  - because his trusted  comrade-in-arms and the ANC’s  second in command / charge d’affairs Oliver Tambo was recuperating at Ersta hospital in Stockholm at the time….

 From the day that I arrived in Sweden ( July 1970  - and  secondly in  October 1971) I met various resident political exiles ( both White and Black) from South Africa,  some of whom  are not mentioned here, among others,  writers and ideologues such as  Molefe  Pheto ( who was passing through  - later on working at the Commonwealth Institute in London where he completed and published his prison diary)  Sobizana 'Bizo' Mngqikana  ( later on appointed  South Africa’s ambassador to Turkey and then ambassador to Finland ) Cecil Sondlo ( PAC , whose  motto was “one settler, one bullet” ) wrote often in the Swedish press , musicians  such as Ebrahim "Brian" Isaacs,  the legendary Chetty, Jackie,  Jeff Cartriers ( a friend of the Palmes) Peter Radise, Wana Makoba later on Bheki Mseleku  and Johnny Mbizo Dyani  (who gave me the name Themba Feza ( Hope to complete  - after his late trumpet player Mongezi  Feza)   artist Lefifi Tladi and of course Dudu Pukwana who I first met  when he played at  his birthday here in Stockholm – at Fasching  Jazz Club - and later at his residence in Marble Arch, London   from where he was operating musically…

These friendship and contacts  if not static can sometimes  prove to be effective networks…

Music is a weapon ! We should not underestimate the contributions that  various South African musicians in and outside of  South Africa contributed to the success of  that struggle. And we should not undervalue the contributions made by the Rastaman and his “ free Mandela” music…

1986 – the always experimental Miles Davis :  Tutu

 I’m sure that Sonny Okosun  did a lot of consciousness raising within his orbit with his Fire in Soweto  and  his Papa’s Land  

 In 1979 in Stockholm , Wole Soyinka declared year  of  theatre war against  the obscenity.

And  in that regard we cannot  underestimate Athol Fugard, one of the greatest dramatists alive..

The week that I arrived in Rivers State Nigeria for the first time  -  and it may sound incredible – but that week  there was a debate  - broadcast  live on radio – between  those opposed  to Apartheid and those who argued against it. After the debate  there was a vote and  the con side won the debate, but only  narrowly.  Such a debate – could never have  taken place in Sweden  - Swedes are far too educated (informed) and therefore far  too conscious and took  up a moral stand against the such evil long before 1981…

 About two months ago Alice Bah Kuhnke  our Minister of Culture and Democracy  started a new cultural centre in South Africa ( there’s also one in  Senegal and  between me and you , I think that it’s high time we had a few in Nigeria)  

Very  IMPORTANT:

Pär Wästberg  ( Swede) the Chairman of the Pen Club was at the forefront of the literary struggle against the barbarism called Apartheid . It was a crucial, powerful , endless moral crusade.

 We ( Sweden) hope  that Sweden’s role  in various liberation struggles  and  the Olof Plame legacy and his spirit that lives on  will help  secure  for us a seat in the Security Council after the voting in June this year

Sorry, but I haven't read this over.
Cornelius

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Cornelius Hamelberg

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Salimonu Kadiri

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Olof Palme stood for the impoverished, the oppressed, the dispossessed and the persecuted. Due to what he stood for, social Darwinists at home and abroad accused him of betraying his class and his race. I come to think about him when he led series of public protests against the bombing of North Vietnam by the Americans. What happened next was the replacement of the American Ambassador in Sweden with a Black American, Jerome Holland, by the American President, Richard Nixon. The media in Sweden, right-left-centre-conservative-liberal, in unison declared that they knew that President Nixon had sent a coloured Ambassador with the intention of insulting Sweden because of Olof Palme's criticism of American's war in Vietnam.
 
Jerome Holland tenure as American Ambassador in Sweden was a hell for him as he was pelted with raw eggs where ever he showed up. The raw egg attacks was excused as demonstrations not against his person but against his country, America because of the war in Vietnam. After the impeachment of Richard Nixon, and Gerald Rudolph Ford became President, he removed the coloured Jerome Holland as American Ambassador in Sweden and replaced him with a colourless  American. Even though the American war in Vietnam continued unabated, the colourless American Ambassador was not pelted with raw eggs as Jerome Holland was made to suffer. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da- the world as it is (for the Blackman), goes on after Olof Palme.
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Obadiah Mailafia

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Lord Cornelius,

Olof Palme belonged to a long tradition of Swedish internationalism that began with the great Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and his wife Alva Myrdal, both of them Nobel laureates. We cannot forget the immortal Dag Hammarskjold, a highly learned economist, intellectual and mystic, who became UN Secretary-General. I recall memorable six months spent in Uppsala as a graduate student under the wings of Bishop Bengt Sundklar, missionary, theologian and Africanist. The Swedes have done very well for a middle ranking northern European country. Even at a time when it was not quite popular, they were unequivocally against Apartheid; remaining stalwart anti-colonialist defenders of African liberation. Lars Rudebeck was a friend of Amilcar Cabral, Samora Machel and Agostinho Neto in the Portuguese speaking territories. Olof Palme hailed from that rich tradition of progressive internationalism. Later there were younger academics such as Bjorn Beckmann and his wife Gunilla Andrae who taught some of us as students at ABU Zaria.  

I have deep affection for the Swedish people and their culture. From my little flat near the Linnaeus Gardens in Uppsala I used to walk on foot to the great university library, Carolina Redeviva. We lit candles in the great Cathedral to remember Dag Hammarskjold, who remains for me a model of intellectual culture and international service. Hammarskjold was the most brilliant student of his generation, with degrees in Literature, Law, Economics and Political Science. He was fluent in English, French, Spanish and German, in addition to his native Swedish. A friend of philosophers such as Martin Buber and poets such as W. H. Auden, he was a man extraordinary brilliance and mindfulness who put his talents at the service of humanity. Floreat Sverige!

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Lord Obadiah Mailafia,

I lost my younger brother Patrick Johnson at three a.m. this morning. He was sixty years old, survived by his wife Debra and his daughters Abrah, Lisa, and grandchildren.  I was not in Sierra Leone when he was born (April 19, 1955) so I got to begin to know him a little later and he gradually became my  favourite brother. Our youngest and strongest brother, Michael passed away a few years ago. I have a younger brother remaining  – Ola  - lives with his wife in the Hague where he is still surviving, coping with prostate cancer and diabetes. And a younger sister Helga, in Florida.

The only greatness I really want to talk about is the infinite greatness of Our father in Heaven and His Infinite Mercy and Compassion…

Other matters. I’m touched by your “deep affection for the Swedish people and their culture” – an affection that I share with you.  My wife ( my Better half)  and the Swedish part of our family  - by far the bigger half, are the best representative of the Swedish people that I know and love. When she talked to Patrick’s wife this morning she was weeping uncontrollably. I am still calm.

I’m impressed that part of your graduate education was at Uppsala University  - Sweden’s in fact Scandinavia’s oldest university and university town. The second oldest and very famous is the University of Lund  - also very much a university town and of more recent vintage the University of Stockholm where I learned a little about research methods at the English Institution approximately forty years ago - at which time I proposed illuminating Derek Walcott but was simultaneously deterred by a whining inner question: “But Who wants a doctorate in English from a Swedish University?” Well, Stockholm University produced e.g. Stefan Jonsson who did an interesting doctoral thesis involving Soyinka and cyclical time (and no it was not  him either, who organised  students into the first  anti-apartheid movement at the University of Stockholm)

Another passing thought : Assuming that 140 universities are insufficient for the 170 million souls in Nigeria – a university is not a merely a library and standards have to be raised and maintained at all levels from primary school upwards, of course.

Excellence is excellence  - this means that the worst among us do not pass off as the extra-ordinary  best and now I know where you’re coming from far from any poverty of spirit or  the psychological need for self-aggrandizement let us give thanks to the Almighty!  Those are great names that you lift up whether in connection with pan-Africanist ideals, working to create a better world , the usual little free speech  tittle-tattle whether about Trump  or about joining or not joining NATO, fighting against the proliferation of nuclear weapons , fighting poverty and fighting for  peace and love in the world of a United Nations  - in the order in which you have mentioned them,

Olof Palme

Gunnar Myrdal

Alva Myrdal

Dag Hammarskjöld

Bishop Bengt Sundkler

Lars Rudebeck

Björn Beckman and his wife Gunilla Andrae ( who are our friends from Ghana)

 I’ll now return to reading Ezekiel  and later making a few phone calls.

Very best wishes to you

Cornelius

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dear cornelius
my deepest condolences.
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Prof:  May your brother’s soul rest in peace, and may God grant you the fortitude to cope with his departure.

Bitrus

Obadiah Mailafia

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Bro Cornelius,

Good morning. Let me express my profound condolences on the passing of your beloved younger brother. May his gentle soul rest in the bosom of our precious Lord.

The French novelist and philosopher Albert Camus famously declared that a man has not yet begun to truly live until he has come to terms with his own inevitable mortality. It is our inescapable destiny. What matters is that we live genuinely and love deeply while serving others unselfishly. All else, as the ancient Hasidim and Rabbis would say, is commentary. Shalom!

OM

Nimi Wariboko

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Dear Dr. Hamelberg:

Accept my heartfelt condolences on the passing of your younger brother. I do not presume to know how his death cuts deep into you, but I know how I felt when I lost my younger brother years ago. This kind of event really hurts; it leaves one of the deepest cuts in life, reaching even to the abyss of the soul and bone marrow and violently shaking the spirit. May the good Lord strengthen and comfort you and the whole extended family. Take care, Sir.

Nimi Wariboko

Uyilawa Usuanlele

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Dear Cornelius,
                         Accept my condolences on the passing of your brother. May God grant his soul peaceful repose and console you an other members of his family.  
Uyi

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Abolaji Adekeye

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Prof, may the soul of the dearly departed find rest. May you and his
immediate family find comfort. May we the living find meaning.

On 3/3/16, Cornelius Hamelberg <cornelius...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Lord Obadiah Mailafia,
>
> I lost my younger brother Patrick Johnson at three a.m. this morning. He
> was sixty years old, survived by his wife Debra and his daughters Abrah,
> Lisa, and grandchildren. I was not in Sierra Leone when he was born (April
>
> 19, 1955) so I got to begin to know him a little later and he gradually
> became my favourite brother. Our youngest and strongest brother, Michael
> passed away a few years ago. I have a younger brother remaining – Ola -
> lives with his wife in the Hague where he is still surviving, coping with
> prostate cancer and diabetes. And a younger sister Helga, in Florida.
>
> The only greatness I really want to talk about is the infinite greatness of
>
> Our father in Heaven and His Infinite Mercy and Compassion…
>
> Other matters. I’m touched by your “*deep affection for the Swedish people
> and their culture*” – an affection that I share with you. My wife ( my
> Better half) and the Swedish part of our family - by far the bigger half,
>
> are the best representative of the Swedish people that I know and love.
> When she talked to Patrick’s wife this morning she was weeping
> uncontrollably. I am still calm.
>
> I’m impressed that part of your graduate education was at *Uppsala
> University * <file:///C:/Users/Cornelius/Documents/Uppsala%20University> -
> Sweden’s in fact Scandinavia’s oldest university and university town. The
> second oldest and very famous is the *University of Lund*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Lund+University>
>
> - also very much a university town and of more recent vintage the
> *University
> of Stockholm*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Stockholm+University>
>
> where I learned a little about research methods at the English Institution
> approximately forty years ago - at which time I proposed illuminating *Derek
>
> Walcott*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Derek+Walcott>
>
> but was simultaneously deterred by a whining inner question: “But Who wants
>
> a doctorate in English from a Swedish University?” Well, Stockholm
> University produced e.g. *Stefan Jonsson*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Stefan+Jonsson+%28author>
>
> who did an interesting doctoral thesis involving Soyinka and cyclical time
> (and no it was not him either, who organised students into the first
> anti-apartheid
> movement at the University of Stockholm)
>
> Another passing thought : Assuming that 140 universities are insufficient
> for the 170 million souls in Nigeria – a university is not a merely a
> library and standards have to be raised and maintained at all levels from
> primary school upwards, of course.
>
> *Excellence*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Excellence>
>
> is excellence - this means that the worst among us do not pass off as the
> extra-ordinary best and now I know where you’re coming from far from any
> poverty of spirit or the psychological need for self-aggrandizement let us
>
> give thanks to the Almighty! Those are great names that you lift up
> whether in connection with pan-Africanist ideals, working to create a
> better world , the usual little free speech tittle-tattle whether about
> Trump or about joining or not joining NATO, fighting against the
> proliferation of nuclear weapons , fighting poverty and fighting for peace
>
> and love in the world of a United Nations - in the order in which you have
>
> mentioned them,
>
> *Olof Palme*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Olof+Palme>
>
> *Gunnar Myrdal*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Gunnar+Myrdal>
>
> *Alva Myrdal*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Alva+Myrdal>
>
> *Dag Hammarskjöld*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Dag+Hammarskj%c3%b6ld>
>
> *Bishop Bengt Sundkler*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Bishop+Bengt+Sundkler+%28+Professor>
>
>
> *Lars Rudebeck*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Lars+Rudebeck>
>
> *Björn Beckman*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Bj%c3%b6rn+Beckman+%28+political+science>
>
> and his wife *Gunilla Andrae*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Gunilla+Andrae>
>
> ( who are our friends from Ghana)
>
> I’ll now return to reading *Ezekiel*
> <https://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GUEA_svSE668SE668&q=Ezekiel>
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Ibrahim Abdullah

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Alagba Cornelius the senior diaspora salone man way dae tok lek nah yesterday e lef salone: Osh for berin sah. Le God gi u brodah good road.
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May our collective ancestors console you and the rest members of the family of the deceased. Aase Edumare. 
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