TheBlackList's Blog – December 2009 Archive (5)

The Spirit of Fela Kuti Lives!

by Dr. Ron Daniels:

One of the most exhilarating and fulfilling experiences I have had recently was attending the Broadway Musical Fela, which depicts the life of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the flamboyant, defiant, multitalented, artistic phenom who challenged corruption and dictatorial rule in his native Nigeria and Africa. In a word, the Play is Phenomenal!

I first learned about Fela Kuti from Sandino Thompson, the son of Wayne Thompson, my long time friend and… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on December 31, 2009 at 10:22am — No Comments

Happy Holidays America: Enjoy the Religious War

By Ezrah Aharone

While President Obama revs-up the war machinery during this holiday season as he simultaneously holds the Nobel Peace Prize, it brings ponder to the possibility of lasting peace, considering that this conflict also embodies a borderless ideological “collision of religions.”

Although 9/11 makes the US feel justified in droning Afghanistan into submission, a few factors are worth noting since the groups known as Al Qaeda, Taliban, and Islamists are… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on December 25, 2009 at 10:30am — No Comments

LET’S HAVE A PAN-AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH

DAVID A COMISSIONG:

LET’S HAVE A ‘PAN-AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH’

A call for the establishment of a ‘Pan-African Commonwealth or League of Nations’ comprised of all of the countries of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean that have been impacted by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was one of the main outcomes of an historic Seminar on African, Caribbean and Latin American unity that was held in St Vincent on the 5th and 6th of December under the auspices of the Embassy… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on December 17, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments

African unity on the basis of a unity of Africa south of the Sahara plus the East and West Diasporas‏

B.F. Bankie:

ANTITHESIS – THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE AFRICAN UNION (AU) AND ITS CO-ORDINATION WITH THE ARAB LEAGUE FOR A VIABLE AND SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION FOR THE UNITY OF AFRICANS

‘ The Africans may borrow a leaf from the Pan-Arab Movement and solidarity in terms of it’s form and structure but with different social and cultural content’ ( Nyaba 2007, 26)

Introduction

Franz Fanon, the Algerian… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on December 7, 2009 at 5:54pm — 2 Comments

United States a microcosm of Global Africa

by Prof. Ali A. Mazrui

Never has the Black population in the United States been as diverse as it is today.

If Global Africa means people of African ancestry all over the world, the Black population of the United States is a microcosm of Global Africa. Today, this Black population includes people from literally every Black country in the world: from every member of the African Union, Organisation of American States and from other parts of the Black world as… Continue

Added by TheBlackList on December 7, 2009 at 4:30pm — No Comments