Adie Vanessa Offiong
12 July 2008
Artists under the auspices of the Pan African Association of writers and the African Institute Committee for the return of Morocco to the African Union (AU) have started a campaign for the return of Morocco to the AU. The leader of the group, Professor Atukwei Okai from Ghana along with Ambassador Silcarneyni Gueye from Senegal as well Dr. Wale Okediran from the Association of Nigerian Authors paid a courtesy call on the Director General of the National Gallery of Arts, Chief Joe Musa.
In his remarks, Prof. Okai commended Nigeria, saying, "Africa's status is very clear because she can boast of assets, several assets including Nigeria. If you want to put your mind to examine all at South Africa, yes South Africa benefited extensively from the principal position and support of Nigeria." He went on to buttress his point. "For us to make sense of these our groanings, we need to come together like they have come together in the European Union, like they have recently come together in South America and are thinking of one currency and like they are doing in China, India and the United States of America. When we have come together as a family to decipher ways of solving our problems and helping ourselves to grow, one member of the family suddenly walks out in anger and has been away for almost 30 years now. We have now come to a point where we are seriously trying to work things out to become a united continent because it is in our interest and is very crucial." The team had visited Morocco three weeks ago and decided to come to Nigeria. In his words, "in African affairs, the role of Nigeria is outstanding." The committee after serious research decided that she must mobilise Africans towards a new state of affairs which will be impossible with one member outside. He backed this up by quoting the parable of the lost sheep and the shepherd leaving the 99 in search of that one lost sheep. On their visit to Morocco, they said to her, "we do not know what you think but we say you must come back into the African Union. The committee also went to Gabon where their initiative is well supported.
The committee has the mission to get as many people as possible to sign the declaration. They came to Nigeria to seek her understanding for the mission because when Africa is ready to stand as one, nobody on earth can rival her act. Prof. Okai concluded by saying, "this is nothing but God's own way of externally exhibiting the grandeur of the state. They also plan on visiting Ethiopia, South Africa, Libya and Algeria.
In his response, Joe Musa said in this era when major political blocks like the European Union are consolidating their unity, it is a welcome development that a group of committed African scholars and patriots are thinking of bringing Morocco back to the African Union. He pledged that the National Gallery of Art will make her staff available to the group anytime the need arises. He rounded off by quoting the African adage which says that a stick of broom cannot do a thorough job of sweeping but a whole bunch will do it good and nice.
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My brother, or sister to whom that wrote the above statement. I must say this, please bear in mind that a/an black sheep of a family will sometimes break or fragile that particular family. Africa is Africa and should always be like that; let's please remember that. And secondly, please read the geography of Europe very well before you qouted in your words that, the North Africans aren't indigenous to the African Continent. Remember the queens and kings of Egypt? Remember the Nubian of the Sahara Desert? Remember the rapid migration of the Ethopians to far away places like Egypt; and not to say the Sudanese Migration. Let's stop being in the dark and FIX Africa problems ONCE and for all!!!! Do you think that the Europeans will count the Norwegian and the Slavic out of the European Union? Please my brothers and sisters let's stop being fools to oourselves;but so much so, to our belove countinent "AFRICA". A single broom can be a vital and pivitol weapon or tool; please remember that.
Your Brother in Christ and Allah
Black African nations have to discard slave mentality. First, THERE HAS TO BE UNITY AND THE CREATION OF LARGE SUPER-STATES IN AFRICA, COMPOSED OF MAJORITY BLACK AFRICAN NEGRO PEOPLE, WHO STAND FOR PRESERVING AFRICAN CULTURE, AFRICAN PEOPLE AND AFRICAN LAND.
Secondly, the nations of North Africa are composed of people who are NOT INDIGENOUS TO THE AFRICAN CONTINENT, and are therefore settlers on African soil, in the same way that Europeans are settlers on American soil.
Thirdly, why is Morocco so quick to mow down Africna s and carry out the same type of behavior that the Jewish state carries out against Africans.
Clearly, Africa has to stop BOWING AND BEGGING. It is time to PAY MORE ATTENTION AND ASK MORE OF OUR OWN PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS -300,000,000 (three hundred million African Descent People who are African, Black and pro-Africa and have no agenda of making all Africans bow in any direction or follow any religion or have any agenda to occupy African land or support those involved in genocide against Africans so thier lands can be taken and used to resettle foreign occupiers from West Asia and the Arab lands.
Instead of beggin Morocco to return to the AU, AFRICANS SHOULD DO AS THE CHINESE AND EAST INDIANS HAVE DONE - CALL THE AFRICANS SPREAD GLOBALLY AND IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORAT TO COME AND HELP REBUILD AFRICA, AND TO LEND THIER SKILLS AND TALENTS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICA ( See http:// blackafricanamericansunited . blogspot.com
also see 'Susu and Susunomics' http:// www . iuniverse. com and "Susu Economics," http:// www . authorhouse . com
and finally see this very important essay ABORTION, FAMILY PLANNING DESTROYING BLACK NATIONS ECONOMIES http:// blackmalepowermovement . forumsland .com/blackmalepowermovement-post-211.html#211
Finally, the African renaissance that Nelson Mandela called for in the mid- 1990's HAS TO BE BROUGHT TO REALITY, but with some African nations mistreating others, throwing thousands out of their nations while inviting 'parasitic' nations to settle and contribute to more genocide, ONE HAS TO WONDER WHAT IS WRONG WITH OUT WAY OF THINKING.
Can any African imagine a nation where they eliminate large numbers of thier populations (relatives, friends, cousins) so foreigner 'parasites' looking for raw materials and their puppets can have access to their land?
That will not happen anywhere else and it says much about African people as a race on this planet.
If we have to learn something, LET US OBSERVE TEH WAY THAT OTHER NATIONS TREAT BLACK AFRICAN PEOPLE (INCLUDING MOROCCO, EGYPT, LIBYA AND OTHER 'WHITE' OCCUPIER/SETTLER NATIONS IN NORTHERN AFRICA, WHOSE ORIGINAL BLACK POPULATIONS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO SLAVERY OR ARE NO LONGER IN EXISTENCE AFTER YEARS OF VIOLENCE, CONVERSIONS AND CULTURAL GENOCIDE AGAINST THEM.
Where is the African nation that STANDS UP FOR THE RIGHTS OF AFRICANS TO THEIR LANGUAGES, CULTURE, BLACK SKIN COLOR AND BLACK HERITAGE?
Is it Mali, Niger, Nigeria, -- NATIONS THAT SEEM TO ALLY THEMSELVES WITH OUR FORMER SLAVE KIDNAPPERS AND DISTROYERS OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATIONS, AND WHO SUPPORT THE ANTI-AFRICAN GENOCIDE IN SUDAN WITH THEIR LACK OF SHOWING STRENGTH TO BRING ABOUT A PROPER AFRICAN SOLUTION?
Is it Nations that ally themselves to the 'parasite' natons of the northern hemispher, WHO ARE TRYING TO USHER IN A NEW ERA OF AFRICAN COLONIZATION?
WHO STANDS FOR BLACK AFRICAN UNITY AND SELF-PRESERVATION ON THE AFRICAN CONTINENT?
Since when are nations who 'HALF-HEARTEDLY' ARE MEMBERS OF THE 'AU' (BUT ARE MORE ALLIED TO AFRICA'S OLD ENEMIES OF SLAVETRADERS, OCCUPIERS, COLONIALISTS IN THE NORTHERN NATIONS), more important to AFRICAN UNITY AND DEVELOPMENT THAN AFRICANS THEMSELVES.
The time has come therefore FOR THE CREATION OF A BLACK AFRICAN LEAGUE - COMPOSED OF BLACK AFRICAN STATES, NATIONS AND DIASPORA, WHO ARE HOMOGENOUS AND WHO HAVE THE SAME PROBLEMS TO SOLVE.
An African Negro who is mowed down in Morocco or Gaza or beaten in Egypt HAS NOTHING IN COMMON WITH THE 'OCCUPIER' RACES OF NORTHERN AFRICA. The first problem is that RACISM AGAINST BLACK AFRICANS IS STRONG IN THESE 'AFRICAN-OCCUPIED' NATIONS, MANY WHO DO NOT CONSIDER THEMSELVES AS HAVING ANY THING IN COMMON WITH BLACK AFRICANS, BUT ARE ONLY LIVING ON BLACK AFRICAN SOIL DUE TO INVASIONS AND OCCUPATION.
Hence, THE CREATION OF A 'UNION OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN NATIONS' COMPOSED OF BLACK AFRICAN STATES AND THE BLACK AFRICAN DIASPORA WOULD UNITE THE 1,300,000,000 PEOPLE WHO ARE OF BLACK AFRICAN ORIGINS IN THE AMERICAS AND AFRICA. Add that number to the 600,000,000 Africoid-Melanesian people from South India to Papua New Guinea and the Black African/Pan-Negro population WHO ALL SUFFER FROM SKIN COLR AND RELIGIOUS RACISM (IN NORTH AFRICA, SOUTH INDIA, WEST PAPUA, OTHERS), THEN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A MOVEMENT TO HELP UPLIFT THESE BLACK NATIONS CAN BEGIN.
After all, HOW 'WHITE' AND 'EUROPEAN' ARE THE JAPANESE, YET, THEY ARE IN THE 'G8' WITH THEIR COMMON INTERSTS. Hence, Blackskinned people of Proto-AfricaN origins in South India, Melanesia and SE Asia are directly connected to African Blacks both in language and genes as well as some cultural patterns - so why should we not unite and work together to help make the lives of these 'Pan-Negroid' people beter, when we are all suffering from GLOBAL RACISM AND GLOBAL EXPLOITATION - WHETHER ITS THE RAW MATERIALS AND PEOPLE OF WEST PAPUA BEING TAKEN AND ATTACKED, OR THE RAW MATERIALS AND PEOPLE OF SUDAN BEING TAKEN AND ATTACKED TO BENEFIT 'PARASITE' NATIONS.
'Susu Economics," http:// www . authorhouse . com "Susu and Susunomics," http:// www . iuniverse.com
IF EVERY AFRICAN LIVING LUXURIOUSLY IN EUROPE BEGINS TO RETURN TO AFRICA (AS THE CHINESE HAVE DONE IN RETURNING TO CHINA TO HELP ITS DEVELOPMENT), AND IF EVERY AFRICAN-AMERICAS PERSON (WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE AMERICS FOR OVER 30,000 YEARS - SEE 'A History of the African-Olmecs," http:// www . authorhouse . com ) ORGANIZES 'BY CREATING A 'TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC PEACE CORPS,' then Black nations, African nations can be developed USING THOSE AFRICANS IN THE DIASPORA AND THOSE ON THE CONTINENT WHO HAVE THE SKILLS AND ARE WASTING IT IN THE NORTHERN NATIONS.