- African Kings and Queens
- African Marriage
- Facts About Africa
- War and Religion
- Garvey Economics
- Abolition and Wilberforce
- Black Panther Critique
- Jews and Slavery
- Gay Rights
- Failure Of African Leadership
- Facts About Africa
- Female Genital Mutilation
- Failure to Engage
- Libya Invasion
- Dubois: Souls of Black folk
- Slavery in America
- Amilcar Cabral
- Agency and Africa
- Mis-Education of the Child
- African Revolt
- The Flag of African Cinema
- The Politics of Liberation
- White Supremacy
- The Horrors of 500 Years
- Africa and the Rise of Islam
- Why Kwanza
- Seen But Never Heard
- African Classical Music
- South Africa: 10 Years On
- Music and Dance in Religion
- White Abolition of Slavery
- A Threat to Black Studies
- Art of Revolution
- African Influence in Barbados
- Origins of Voodoo
- Black Out White Wash
- Ethiopian Slave Trade
| | MOTHERLAND: is an epic and unprecedented entry into the canon of African-owned cinema, which charts the glory and majesty of the Motherland. |
Motherland is a film that calls for African unity, self-determination and the African rebirth. Motherland is the first complete Pan-African films ever made on Africa. 
Motherland is a film that calls for African unity, self-determination and the African rebirth. Motherland is the first complete Pan-African films ever made on Africa. |
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| The African Holocaust or Maafa, is a crime against humanity and is recognized as such by the United Nations, scholars, and historians who have documented the primary and overwhelming culpability of European nations for enslavement in Europe, in the Americas and elsewhere. |
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| Well know no one; Arab, Muslim, Christian, Atheist, Jew, Palestinian, African, White, Chinese, communist, would want to ever experience that. If everyone in the world started to do this exercise they would never in a million years ask for war. 99% of the time there is a better way and we can exercise our greatest gifts; our large brain, ability to dialog and our ability to feel compassion. To lose the compassion, is to lose what defines us as human beings. The greatest crimes of humanity occur when our moral conscious which informs empathy is made silent but selfish justifications. |
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| And the thing about the media lies is this: Before, you actually had to do something to be guilty of a crime, today your enemy is using mind tricks: "I think you were thinking of developing Nuclear warheads"- How do you defend yourself against what someone thinks you are going to do in the future? |
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| Malcolm studied the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught that white society actively worked to keep African-Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political, economic and social success. Today these models are the cornerstone of the African Holocaust society and many other African organizations. Malcolm X never died as his speeches, humanity and principles are timeless and continue to shape countless generations. |
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| With the victory at the Battle of Adwa in hand and the Italian colonial army destroyed, Eritrea was King Menelik’s for the taking but no order to occupy was given. It seems that Menelik II was wiser than the Europeans had given him credit for. Realizing they would bring all their force to bear on his country if he attacked, he instead sought to restore the peace that had been broken by the Italians and their treaty manipulation seven years before. |
 | LIBYA IS FINE NOW - ONLY AFRICANS DYING: It started as human rights objective. But the Africans in cages are not news worthy. A few human rights groups may give them the odd mention in an update or two, but beyond that the cameras have left the scene now that the objectives of regime change has been achieved. Under Gaddafi, Africans had a protected status from the vicious Arab racism. Now they are victims of the American supported campaign. "Killing their own people doesn't apply" because all immigrants and Africans are "unworthy" mercenaries-- or so they say. |
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| which is largely manifested in its resource and market deals as well as its vivid role as "constructor-in-chief."--Richard Aidoo. However, both China and the West are parasitic relationships but China has a more symbiotic parasitism. The West is cannibalism; the degrees can be debated, and certainly Africa has to politically find liaisons other than the Western exploiters. But we must never forget do for self as oppose to debating whose dinner party should be the main course, at — the wolf or the fox. Far more of our debates need to be focused around creating internal trade, and localizing skill pools. Why does Africa need the Chinese to build roads and African Union buildings? Can the AU not apply its Pan-Africanism to make at least create a tangible symbol of Do for Self? |
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| In Nigeria, for example, the North is relatively barren; education and infrastructure are also suffering compared to the South. Now in Africa ethnic lines also follow religious and geographical lines. When one group strikes they always target the symbols of their "oppression." So an attack often has in religious characteristics; attacking a church for example. But the root of the problem is always some idea of inequity or entitlement. But If CNN wants to sell headlines it is far easier to ride in on the rising tide of Islamophobia."In Nigeria the Christian-Muslim thing is the tip of the iceberg, what's underneath the water is a much more complex sociopolitical situation, which cannot be explained just in terms of the religious divide. You have a recipe ripe for conflict, and it just so happens to be Christian-Muslim."—Andrew Kakabadse |
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| BHM will remain relevant until we appreciate ourselves and our history. But if BHM is only going to be just about Civil Rights, Poetry Jams, Hip Hop parties and allow Rihanna to have a few more semi-porn concerts then rename it to Black Entertainment Month. BHM should not be an opportunity to catch up on the re-runs of the Jefferson or watch Will Smith chase down I-Robots, because our history did not start in Blackness; it started in Africa 120,000 Years ago. |
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 | TRADITIONAL HEALING: It is impossible to separate African religion from traditional African healing for it is African theology that attempts to explain illness and disease. Traditional African healers (diviners, medicine men, herbalists etc) are often priests, priestesses, or high priests. Within different African cultures, healers are called by different names; Inyanga, while in other parts of Africa they may be referred to as Sangoma, Bwiti ceremonies are led by spiritual leaders called N'ganga. |
 | MAU MAU APOLOGY: It is not widely known that prior to Kenyan independence, during the so called Mau Mau Rebellion, Britain perpetrated human rights abuses and war crimes on a vast scale. In the 1950s and early 1960s thousands of Kenyans were subjected to unspeakable acts of torture and abuse at the hands of British officials, including castrations, sexual abuse and repeated beatings. |
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| The devaluation of the Somali shilling, imposed by the IMF in June 1981, was followed by periodic devaluations, leading to hikes in the prices of fuel, fertilizer and farm inputs. The impact on agricultural producers was immediate particularly in rain-fed agriculture, as well as in the areas of irrigated farming. Urban purchasing power declined dramatically, government extension programs were curtailed, infrastructure collapsed, and the deregulation of the grain market and the influx of food aid led to the impoverishment of farming communities.' |
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| Escaping race is clearly a luxury for those who have already ascended to become the dominant race-class. For everyone else, race engagement is a consequence of that domination. |
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| How is the cultural shift from Ethiopia to Benin homogeneous, while the cultures from Ethiopia to Yemen 22Km away are heterogeneous? Linguistics alone tells of a completely different historical relationship. |
 | GAY RIGHTS & AFRICANS: The issue of homosexuality and lesbianism in the African community is one which is a challenge to the cultural integrity and moral fabric of African societies which are traditionally pro-life systems. The challenges of homosexuality is not a new thing to any society, African or otherwise. Homosexuality in various degrees has been a long companion of civilization; with varying degrees of tolerance and accommodation. |
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| So cutting is mutilation and barbaric in Africa, vogue and fashionable in Hollywood, however female cutting goes back as far as Ancient Egypt, and while harmful practices do go on we feel there has been an, as always, an overwhelming lack of balance debate. As long as there is choice and health safety in female cutting then it is all culturally relative. There is a wide range of cutting practices which do not come near to mutilation that we need to discuss. Expert Fuambai Ahmadu shares a deeper insight on this issue. |
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| Pan-Africanism is 'do or die', but it needs tangible mutually beneficial partnerships, which create wealth, in its broadest sense, for all those involved, and hence creates incentives for a Pan-African ideology. All of this must slug through the issue of sincerity, efficiency and work ethos, and this needs mechanisms, which tease out the personalities, and egos that perpetuate failure. |
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| Some schools advertise "White only." "The unspoken policy is that only children who are white and Ashkenazi are wanted in Israel," she said, referring to the term for European Jews who founded Israel and continue to dominate its institutions. |
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While it is hard to expect the South to put up with the Northern contempt and domination it is still a muted victory for Southern Sudan who will now be targeted by Western agendas and imperialism because of the pressure from under-development. The vampires are already "helping" the new administration and we know there is no altruism in politics. Already we hear of false victories: "We are free to drink now Shariah is gone" , "we do not need to speak Arabic we can learn English" from an Arab slave master to a Western one. Independence YES, but independence to do what? Drink ourselves to death, is that what freedom is for? The West love it, pipelines through corrupt Kenya which has British interest is perfect for the UK. Southern Sudan is only another weak orphaned statelet to be victimized. Watch what happens with the oil (as this is what the West wants). "I would not be surprised if South Sudan became the next Eritrea" - Sudan Watch. Recently the state authorities say more than 600 people from the Nuer community were killed, 200 children abducted, and as many as 25,000 cows were stolen. The attackers - from the Murle ethnic group - were responding to a recent assault by Nuer fighters in which an estimated 400 Murle were killed. Not the first time see 1991 Bor Massacre. But this is also happening everywhere especially the Jonglei state. No so-called "Arabs" in this horror so not too much focus. The Brown (Arab) v Black (African) is just a tidy way for simple minds to understand a complex mess. For western designs, race is a just convenient package for greedy pockets. Who wants to be bored with the reality of a South complicity in Europeanization and a North complicit in Arabization - too complex a story to fit in a CNN headline, too texty to fit in a tweet. |
500 YEARS LATER: Ground breaking definitive multi-award winning documentary. Perhaps the best documentary ever on slavery. Filmed in over twenty countries and on five continents, 500 Years Later is a compelling journey that chronicles the struggle of a people from enslavement who continue to fight for the most essential human right - freedom.ON DVD |
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Pedagogy for African Studies
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| | The first location of anything African starts with the re-evaluation of the pedagogy and paradigms. Even the most progressive minds of the African world are still responding to, and framing African history within that 15th century discovery paradigm created at the moment of European conquest. |
'Progressive' African studies for most of the time has meant painting over the white walls of Eurocentrism with romance and pseudo-historical analysis. All of this is fundamentally based on race-pride projected back into history. Thus the "slave" reality of the African-American is imposed on sovereign African nations in antiquity— even nations like Ethiopia that had no similarities to the nations of West Africa. None of these places had a concept of modern race constructions, and none of them shared any striking similarities so much so to justify being lumped under the victim thesis. As a result conclusions on Africa still speak in the language of: victims, foreign, conquered " and black" people.
And as much as we celebrated a lot of post-colonial writers and their revisionism, what can be noticed (with the exception of people like Fanon) is a lot of it did not invoke the paradigm shift. They inherited all Eurocentrism false dichotomies: The perpetual conflict between religion and secular governance, religion and spirituality, the notion of imposition, the denial of agency, the constant over generalizations and lack of nuance research. All the baggage from the colonial era even today is still evident in a lot of the work. African history by Africans still has this margin vs. the middle attitude which justifies itself by binary opposition and negation, rather than affirmation.
The history of Africa overlaps world history, the term ‘Africa’ is only used to help a modern appreciation of the histories of people who today are victimized because of that African origin. However, historically there was no African identity despite being people of the continent of Africa. So the politics of "African" history is a modern paradigm of an identity that is only a few hundred years old.
Christian History, Islamic History, Jewish History is also African history. At every major development of Christianity kingdoms such as Ethiopia were there, even during the Crusades. In Jerusalem for 1000s of years—until now—there is an Ethiopian quarter still occupied by Ethiopian monks. African attended the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. African people were there, at the first Muslim call to pray (adhan), at the Jewish temple when Rome burnt it down, on the frontlines of the Ottoman army in World War 1. The Red Sea was hardly a barrier to movement of trade (Swahili), ideas and people. DNA shows it certainly was not a barrier to genetics.
There is history and then there is politics. History is an account of what happened, politics is explaining away those events to service a specific objective. Africa vs. the world is not history; it is only a recent consequence of the last 500 years of conquest. We cannot look at Africa as an island south of the Sahara. The current narrative shows that anytime Africa and the world meet we play the victim and someone else the conquerer—Africans are shown as having no agency. And we must also factor in that Ethiopia as a nation had its ‘Ethiopian interest’, it was not "We Black people" when it was facing down the African-Muslim Armies of Somalia, and vice versa. World power and conflict have not always followed tidy racial lines.
It is problematic to understand the history of African people from the point-of-view of an African-American standing for 300 Years in the land of their oppression. It is also problematic to understand African history standing in the shoes of colonial victims whose idea of perfection is still located in the European dream. So the first location of any study must deal with these distractions and caveats so that we can create a new lens for understanding (as much as humanly possible) an authentic discourse into African history. (African Holocaust Society, 2011)
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