----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Abdurrahman Nelson <[email protected]> To: bankie bankie <[email protected]>; TheBlackList <[email protected]>; The Black List <[email protected]>; The Black List <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Kwasi theblacklist <[email protected]> Cc: AAPRP Ohio <[email protected]>; AAPRP Oregon <[email protected]>; AAPRP DC <[email protected]>; NAACP-DC <[email protected]>; AAPRP Sacramento <[email protected]>; U. Illinois- Urbana- Afro- American Studies <[email protected]>; AAPRP Ohio <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; AAPRP <[email protected]>; CHINWEIZU CHINWEIZU <[email protected]>; CPPUK <[email protected]>; CPPUSA <[email protected]>; CPP-Sec-General Greenstreet <[email protected]>; CPP - Youth <[email protected]>; CPP Forum <[email protected]>; Friends of the Congo <[email protected]>; CPP <[email protected]>; coliaclark <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]>; Lumumba Campaign <[email protected]>; Alimamy sankoh <[email protected]>; Alimamy SANKOH <[email protected]>; Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh <[email protected]>; Ali Mazrui <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [TheBlackList] Bankie's email to a friend
No enemy of Nkrmahism is a friend of mine. Take your "Strategy and tactics" and shove them. You will not trick me with non-sense. We are Pan-Africanists and do not compromise on it. And Nkrumahism is the highest form of Pan-Africanism. We have no apologies to offer. Abd ________________________________ From: bankie bankie <[email protected]> To: theblacklist <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 2:52 PM Subject: [TheBlackList] Bankie's email to a friend Windhoek, Namibia Dear Friend The images from Black Star Square were beamed around the world. Good fortune to Ghanaians, but the current relations they have with Khartoum are unsustainable. I was last in Accra, as you might remember, in 2009, for the funeral of my Brother. I recall leaving the funeral reception to attend an FM Radio interview on Sudan on the Ring Road – I think it was Radio Vibe. It went badly and I was almost thrown out of the studios due to my critique of Bashir. I left Ghana with strong impressions on Ghana/Sudan relations. My understanding of Ghana/Sudan relations is that these are based on ‘mutual interests’. Ghana is/was importing oil from Sudan, whilst it’s own oil extraction capacities are being developed. Ghana imports this oil at concessionary prices and will continue to do so until such time as it is able to feed it’s internal oil needs from internal sources. For these arrangements Ghana defends in public forae the Bashir Government ( or is not critical of it). The Late Mills claimed to be following the footsteps of Nkrumah. This explains the alignment of the Ghanaian Nkrumahists with the defence of the Khartoum Government and their hostility ( witness Nelson ) to Juba. Conveniently the Nkrumahists in Ghana are able to defend Continentalism, as Nkrumah created the OAU as a continental body. Thus they are able to defend Khartoum, oppose the self government of the South and oppose the concept of the African Nation, which excludes north Africa. The unwillingness of the Ghanaian Nkumahists to shift their position away from Continentalism was explained to me whilst in Accra in 2009. I spent time explaining to my interlocutor Arab inequities in Sudan, but it was clear that Mills and co had decided, whatever the consequences, to stand by Bashir. The fact that the Ghanaian Foreign Minister happens to be a Muslim and the new President likewise, would indicated that the Nelsons, Nubours, Pratts etc, will defend continentalism till the end. BUT in my view the continentalist view is unsustainable. It will not sell to the Ghanaian public, especially as Ghana’s oil exports grow and events continue to unfold in the Sahel. I’m sure you are following the inability of Mali to defend it’s territorial sovereignty, despite all the noise coming from the different segments of it’s society and despite its defence arrangements with France, which led to it’s being unable to defend itself militarily. I thought I ought to share these insights with you, which you’d know anyway. Bye the way, the situation I found in Mali on the north bank of the Niger, of the hostility of the Moors in their shops, to Africans, me included, was the same type of anti-African racism I found in the Arab run coffee shops/resteraunts in Zanzibar. Best regards Bankie B.F.Bankie Sudan Sensitisation Project (SSP) http://www.bankie.info/ -- Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com
