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Senegal: Islamic Summit Fails to Meet Host's High Expectations

"This is a repetition of an African Union summit", a young fellow journalist joked after he counted the massive presence of African heads of state, compared to the little representation of Arab leaders at the eleventh summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in the Senegalese capital last Thursday and Friday.

Author: maches

The summit should have put the Dafur crisis into its proper historical perspective by asking delegates from African and Arab countries to take a good look at the map of Africa and ask this simple question: How did it come about that all the countries on the northern part of Africa, from Mauritaania through Algeria all the way to Eastern part of Africa are in the hands of the Arab "brothers"? By answering this question, the summit would have concluded that the genocide and ethnic cleansing currently going on in Dafur is part of centuries old activities that Arab "brothers" with their lackies have perpetrating on Africans. That's simply the way all Africans got robbed of their lands and reduced to servitude and second class citizens. The summit should have redefined the struggle in Dafur as a liberation struggle in the same proportions as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Angola and Guinea Bissau, thereby serving notice that Africa is going to take the same approach it took during the anti-colonial struggles against colonizing powers. Africa's IOC brothers currnently ruling over Africans in Africa would have learnt that Africans are no longer in the mood to ask for alms. They need their lands back and Dafur will be taking another dimension. Sudan will not be another Arab occupied where the majority of Africans have been slaughtered and ethnically cleased and the rest reduced to servitude.

Author: mayospeak

Black Africa has never had leaders represent the black humanity. This expains why comercial slave trade wiped the blacks from North Africa. Black Kings from time immorial were willing participants in enslaving blacks. The White race outlawed slavery without any help from black kings or autorities. Colonialism was established with explicit approval of Black Kings who in most cases saw their positions reduced to Chiefs with no autority at all. The mordern crop of Black Presidents and Prime Ministers are following the old trend. For example, they steal money from their government treasuries and hide it outside Africa.I am not aware of any White or Arab Politicians who stole money from their countries and hid it in Africa. Black political leaders trot the whole globe "cap in hand" seeking resources to opress their own because slavery was banned by the whiteman. I am a Zimbabwean, and I was in Zimbabwe when His Excellence the President (Mugabe) instituted a policy of "uprooting the stumps" which effectively meant ridding of the country of the Matabele People. He only stopped the genocide when the White World threatened isolation.



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