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Professor Ayittey
No it is only your head which needs that service
ASAP
Em
The
Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
"avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans
l'anarchie"
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 5:12
PM
Subject: Re: [Mwananchi] ZIMBABWE LEADS
IN FIGHT AGAINIST IMPERIALISM
Folks,
What is posted below is a shining example of
"intellectual
obsolescence". It is amazing how some people continue
continue to cling
to obsolete paradims and models -- like the coconut-heads
in Africa
cling to power. It is ludicrous to think that the enemies of
Africa
today are the same colonialists and imperialists of
yesteryear.
Are we not the same people who BEGGED the French to
intervene in Ivory
Coast, the British to intervene in Sierra Leone, and the
Americans to
intervene in Liberia because we have shown ourselves to be
hopelessly
incompetent in managing our own affairs? Didn't the OAU
demand
compensation from the U.S., France and other Western countries in
2000
for FAILING TO INTERVENE to stop the 1994 Rwanda genocide because
the
OAU itself was asleep when the genodice was taking place? And
having
destroyed the livelihood of WHITE commercial farmers in Zimbawe,
who
produce the bulk of the nation's food, didn't Mugabe accept FOOD
AID
from the EU? As if that food was produced by BLACKS in the
European
Union! Now Mugabe leads the fight against imperialists? Give me a
break.
Our collective head needs to be examined.
George
Ayittey,
Washington, DC
> Mulindwa Edward wrote:
>
>
Zimbabwe leads in fight against imperialism
>
> By Beloved
Jambawo
>
> When a revolutionary moment has reached the climax,
it is a great
> honour to mankind, a moment of historical reality, of
swift and
> tremendous transformation. Its effect is felt across the
continents
> and identifies itself with all those whose anticipation for
identical
> liberties has been ever rising.
>
> It is a
watershed in human history and civilisation which sweeps past
> the face
of counter-revolutionaries against all odds, leaving them in
> a
delusion.
>
> In the past four years, events in Zimbabwe and the
current economic
> problems which Zimbabwe will certainly overcome, mark
the summit of a
> new phase of historical transformation ever since the
rise of
> industrialisation and imperialism.
>
> It also
marks the "final lap’’ to total emancipation of the Third
> World
countries, as has been demonstrated by the candid and unbridled
>
support Zimbabwe received from non-Western countries.
>
> What
has remained as a great historical divide are the
> "white-supremacist’’
policies of the 19th century that have left
> bitterness and distrust of
the white man’s motives, which are now a
> major menace to world peace,
apart from being a moral disgrace to the
> non-Western world and human
civilisation at large.
>
> It is almost fifty years when a sense
of unity began to develop among
> non-Western countries, with the first
conference of Asian African
> nations held at Bandung in Indonesia in
April 1955, which denounced
> the imperialistic designs of the West on
their countries.
>
> The non-Western world comprises Africa,
Latin America, Asia and the
> Middle-East — many worlds apart but whose
parts have more in common
> with each other than with the West. It is
larger and more populous and
> has at one point or another suffered the
bruise of colonisation and
> today still suffers neo-colonial
domination.
>
> At the Bandung Conference, Nehru, the Prime
Minister of India then,
> was aware of the long-term implications and he
observed: "It would be
> a misreading of history to regard Bandung as an
isolated occurrence
> and not part of a great movement of human history.
Today fifty years
> down the history line the sense of unity of purpose
among the
> non-Western world has reached fever pitch and the white
supremacist
> attitude remains the greatest threat to global peace as
dramatised by
> the attitude of the biggest 19th century imperial power
Britain and
> the twentieth century imperial power America."
>
> Instability in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, the DRC,
Kashmir,
> Liberia, Palestine, Israel and the September 11 attacks
emanate from
> the white man’s past and present bellicose
imperialism.
>
> These case studies are a direct result of
imperialistic designs
> denounced at the Bandung conference fifty years
ago.
>
> Zimbabwe has become the nerve centre of the beginning of
the new era
> in the fight against white supremacy in the non-Western
world since
> flag independence. The support Zimbabwe received from
non-Western
> countries indicates the ever rising expectation of
non-Western
> nationalism against white domination.
>
> A
revolutionary moment is one of universal truth. In December 2001, in
>
an article in this column titled ‘’Masters of deceit’’, I made two
>
important predictions which have today come true. It was after the
>
ailing racist Lord Soames together with Jack Straw were lobbying for
>
the Zimbabwe Democracy Bill, supported staunchly by the MDC.
>
>
I pointed out that the Bill was a pie in the sky and if it were to
>
have any effect it would strengthen the African alliances and split
>
the Commonwealth, rendering it irrelevant.
>
> I also said
Zimbabwe was about to make a bold statement on the
> international
arena. Today Africa, the sleeping giant, is gradually
> awakening and
Zimbabwe is the shining star in the new chapter towards
> human equality
and justice and castration of white supremacist
> policies since the
19th century.
>
> Almost fifty years ago, Anorld Tonybee made a
similar prediction,
> which is currently on the verge of
fulfilment.
>
> He said: "It maybe that the era of white
supremacy is a temporary
> stage in history, and when the stage of
transition will be over, Asia
> will emerge as the new giant in this
world with a new Africa standing
> at its shoulder.’’
>
>
In the coming century the non-Western world must be the hammer not the
>
anvil.
>
> History and civilisation distinctly reveal, in the
eyes of mankind,
> the naked truth. Firstly, that there is only one
human history and one
> world civilisation which is the reality.
Secondly, that all men are
> born in the image of God, not his colour.
Lastly, the dilemma for
> centuries is that both history and
civilisation are Westernised.
> Everything is seen in the eyes of the
West neglecting the history,
> traditions and cultural values of the
non-Western world.
>
> l To be
continued
>
The Mulindwas Communication Group
> "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in
anarchy"
>
Groupe de communication Mulindwas
> "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est
dans l'anarchie"
>
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