*Hello Fellow Ugandans, especially those on the East Coast!*
*Do YOU think you can attend?*
*I am just spreading the word!
Assumpta Mary Kintu
*
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From: Gervais Lagoke Gnaka <glag...@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 11:38 AM
Subject: Panafrican Conference July 16
To: panafrica....@gmail.com
Dear,
Be advised that there is a panafrican conference on July 16. Please help
spread the word. Attend if you can.
*THE REVIVAL OF PAN-AFRICANISM FORUM*
*Pan-Africanism: A Viable Ideology to Address Africa’s Rape
Redux/Euro-American 21st Century Neo-Colonial Re-Conquest & Scramble for
Africa*
*
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*When:* * 3:45 PM, Saturday, July 16, 2011 *
*Where:* * Hilton Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852 *
(Across from the Twinbrook Metro station (Red Line)
Rockville, MD)
*Who: Molefi Asante, Ph.D.*, (*Keynote speaker)* Professor and
author,
* Samar-Al-Bulushi*, Activist and journalist,
* Maurice Carney*, Director of Friends of the Congo
and human rights activist, and
* Peter Bailey*, Activist and journalist.
On the anniversary of the Coalition Forces’ invasion of Iraq, Africa
witnessed overt imperialist aggression by former European colonial
oppressors and the US. Civil unrest in nations across Africa is partially
caused by hegemonic Western influence, which few mainstream media outlets
address as an important factor. In Egypt and Tunisia, popular movements
have appeared to have extinguished their Western-backed dictatorial regimes.
However, oil and resource rich nations including Ivory Coast and Libya face
imperialistic machinations of a cabal of Western nations and Arab monarchial
states fomenting illegal neo-colonial wars to drive nationalist governments
from power. A third category of African nations in crisis is comprised of
countries, such as Burkina Faso, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, and
Uganda, where proxy resource conflicts or unpopular geopolitical
Western-backed regimes struggle to hold state power.
While some applaud the progress of democracy on the continent, others
denounce the re-conquest of Africa. The US supported military intervention
of NATO, France, and the UN in Africa “in the name of democracy”
demonstrates the desire of Western powers to reassert their hegemony by
nullifying independent nationalistic leaders and replacing them with
subservient proxies willing to perpetuate super-exploitative and neo-liberal
policies set forth by the Washington Consensus. The West hegemonic project
over Africa is also a reaction to China’s meteoric 21st Century rise and
grand entrance into the African scene, and an attempt to deny it and other
rising powers such as India, Brazil the right to commerce with Africa and
alter Africa’s intra-trade and self-determination. The US and Europe’s
plans to make Africa *terra nostrum* is best demonstrated by the perfidious
actions of the French forces, the planned imposition of AFRICOM, and the
militarization of the UN.
The speakers will discuss the US, NATO, UN, and France led illegal and naked
aggression in Africa, particularly in Libya and Ivory Coast, and the current
trends in the African scene, highlighted by the regime change, in Tunisia,
Egypt, and Ivory Coast with the capture of Gbagbo by the French troops, the
overlooked movement of Burkinabe to remove the Compaore regime, the
emergence of Southern Sudan and the ongoing crises in the Democratic
Republic in Congo, Uganda, and Somalia.
Renowned Pan-Africanist activist and philosophical founder of concept of
Afrocentricity, *Dr. Molefi Asante* is the keynote speaker to discuss the
Anglo-European agenda to re-colonize Africa.
*About Us:* The Revival of Pan-Africanism Forum’s purpose is to rekindle the
spirit of the African collective consciousness consolidated by an awakening
of the African masses in the face of current forceful Western engagement in
Africa.
*Contacts:*
Dr. Randy Short (731) 394-7217 ; Delmas Irigale
(240) 550-4349 ; Makhaya Sibongile (225) 361-5417; Coti Chapo
(240) 476-1791 ; or send an email to panafrica....@gmail.com
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