A New Beginning for Ghana and Africa Too
10 July, 2009 | By Kwami Agbodza
On the 4th of June 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama at Cairo
University said among other things that:
“I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that
includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in
Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan [the Muslim call to prayer] at
the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in
Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their
Muslim faith.
The relationship between Islam and the west includes centuries of co-
existence and co-operation, but also conflict and religious wars. More
recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and
opportunities to many Muslims, and a cold war in which Muslim-
majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to
their own aspirations.
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was
Islam – at places like al-Azhar University – that carried the light of
learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's
Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim
communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic
compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our
understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires;
timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of
peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has
demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious
tolerance and racial equality.
The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that
the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an
empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and
we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to
those words – within our borders, and around the world. We are
shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and
dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum – "Out of many, one." I
know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in
recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in
Iraq. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be
imposed upon one nation by any other.
For many years, Iran has defined itself in part by its opposition to my
country, and there is indeed a tumultuous history between us. In the
middle of the cold war, the United States played a role in the overthrow
of a democratically elected Iranian government.
I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United
States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and
mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam
are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap
and share common principles, principles of justice and progress,
tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” (Excerpts from his
speech) But President Barrack Hussein Obama must recognise that that
the azaan is the creation of Bilal of Ethiopian Orign, a black man from
Africa, who in his melodious voice created that institution which today
is the Muslim call to prayer. Muhammad, may God bless him, when he
heard that melodious call, approved it as the call to prayer. Africa’s
economic relationship with both Islam and West also includes centuries
of co-existence, co-operaton, conflict, economic and religious wars
and colonialism that denied our human rights and opportunities to
Africans because of the colour of our skin. In our case since 1957, it is
the United States of America and its Central Intelligence Agency that
continues to treat us as proxies without regard to our legitimate
aspirations as the original race from which all people and nations
including the United States sprang.
Civilisation owes a debt to Islam. But the Islam to which civilisation
owes a debt is Africa. Africa created Islam and Monotheism, millions
of years before the Holy Koran was revealed, and not our Arab
brothers as his speech implied at Cairo. It is we Africans with our
black skins who are the source of Europe’s Renaissance and
Enlightenment. We translated works in European monasteries before
they emerged from darkness. It is not the Arabs. The White Man is our
son; the Arab is also our son; they are both offsprings of the black
dominant gene. We are the originators of Western Civilisation. Africa is
the origin of the Islamic culture that has given the world ‘majestic
arches, soaring spires, timeless poetry, cherished music, elegant
calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation’. Africa itself is the
Garden of Eden. It is the peaceful (Islam) Original Man, the Black Man
that has demonstrated the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial
equality.
Africa, the modern Africa of nation states, as Marcus Garvey dreamed
of, and the Kwame Nkrumah vision of a United and Strong Africa as
the only guarantee of a peaceful world in which Africans of all
ethnicities are respected and Africans also respect themselves was also
born out of revolution just as The United States: the unfinished African
Revolution. The United States contrary to what Barack Obama said
was never founded on the ideal that “all are created equal”. If it was,
Africans in The United States would not have been denied their human
rights until the success of The African Revolution in The United States
itself as the Civil Rights Movement and the laws it engendered in the
1960s.
President Hussein said no system of government can or should be
imposed upon one nation by any other. But The United States through
its CIA, USAID and similar intelligence and military arms continues to
impose Neo-colonial Liberal-Conservative Governments on Black
Africa and has been assassinating or murdering progressive leaders or
imposing Governments on African Nations and impeding the desire of
Africans to build a united and strong Africa since the more tolerant
British decided to grant us the independence we fought for. The United
States may have been shaped by every culture from every end of the
earth, but The United States and its White Establishment is the progeny
of Black people and a recent arrival on this earth as a Super Power and
has a certain and definite end not too long from now. The future is
African and it is black. It was not only the elected Iranian government
that The United States played a role in overthrowing during the cold
war and long after that. The United States also played a role in the
overthrow of The Government of Ghana on 24th February 1966. The
atrocities The United States assisted by The British High Commission in
Accra dished out to us are captured in many media including Kwame
Nkrumah’s “Dark Days in Ghana”. If “America can never tolerate
violence by extremists” Ghana also abhors violent extremism of all
kinds championed by The United States with its illegitimate permanent
interests in all cases involving the illegal overthrow of Governments
whether it is in Africa, Latin America or Asia.
Ghana welcomes President Hussein. But Ghana has a Sovereign right to
expect a new beginning on behalf of all Black Africa too and not just
Muslims on African soil. Egypt is part of Africa but Africans are not all
Muslims. Ghana wants a new beginning between the United States and
Africa as a whole. It must be based on US humility and not arrogance,
respect and not disrespect because we Africans are their parents and
upon the truth that America and Africa - a United and Strong Africa
that is highly industrialised and prosperous - are not exclusive and need
not be in competition. We also believe that they overlap if the United
States is even capable of upholding the basic principles of justice and
progress, tolerance and the dignity of we Black people especially. Not
light-skinned Africans or those of Mixed-race but all Africans especially
the majority with very dark skins like our daughter Michelle Obama.
Africans have always believed that humanity has “the power to make
the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new
beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.” We know because
our Great Ancestor, Mawu-Lisa or Dada Segbo-Lisa or Ataa-Naa
Nyomoo or Tweduapon Kwame-Asase Yaa made the self-propelled
Solar System with a fixed Sun of diameter 853,000 miles; and planets
revolving around it, while the earth, one of the planets 93,000,000 miles
from the Sun is rotating on its own axis and leaning 231/3 degrees
revolving at the speed of 1,037 miles per hour. We also know because
we wrote all that has been written in the Holy Koran, the unadulterated
Bible and the Talmud. We know that “the people of the world can live
together in peace. We know that is God's vision,” because God (Mawu-
Lisa) is our own Great Ancestor who lives in us. To build such a world
The United States must dismantle all CIA Operations in Africa and
return all CIA personnel home NOW from the current American
Embassy in Accra. The United States must stop paying Ghanaians to
undermine the project to build an equal, just and united nation here in
Africa. The United States must abort the policy mission to make Ghana
the military base of AFRICOM to secure Africa’s resources especially
oil for The United States. President Barack Hussein Obama must order
the IMF-World Bank to stop imposing unjust, unequal and unfree Free
Market Policy Conditionalities on Africa that they are not prepared to
implement at home whether in The United States or UK in an economic
depression which Africa continues to suffer from. The IMF and the
World Bank must stop interfering in the domestic economic affairs of
Ghana and Africa. They must stop resolving all struggles over Africa’s
resources in favour of non-Africans. They must stop championing
discredited economic policies that have all been reversed in the United
States, UK, China, Germany, and Japan amongst others. Finally,
through them working with USAID, the United States must stop
funding depopulation policies in under-populated Africa while they fund
white families to have more white children.
Africa demands a new beginning; it is our human right.
Background:
• President Obama's speech on June 4th at Cairo University
• Kwami Agbodza is an African Ewe and a member of Kwame
Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party (CPP) and is currently it’s
Regional Education Secretary of CPP UK & Ireland. Kwami is a
Ghanaian and an Nkrumaist trained in Nkrumaist thought and practice.
Kwami is an economist by profession.
Courtesy
10 July, 2009 | By Kwami Agbodza
On the 4th of June 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama at Cairo
University said among other things that:
“I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that
includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in
Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan [the Muslim call to prayer] at
the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in
Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their
Muslim faith.
The relationship between Islam and the west includes centuries of co-
existence and co-operation, but also conflict and religious wars. More
recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and
opportunities to many Muslims, and a cold war in which Muslim-
majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to
their own aspirations.
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was
Islam – at places like al-Azhar University – that carried the light of
learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's
Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim
communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic
compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing; our
understanding of how disease spreads and how it can be healed.
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires;
timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of
peaceful contemplation. And throughout history, Islam has
demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious
tolerance and racial equality.
The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that
the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an
empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal, and
we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to
those words – within our borders, and around the world. We are
shaped by every culture, drawn from every end of the Earth, and
dedicated to a simple concept: E pluribus unum – "Out of many, one." I
know there has been controversy about the promotion of democracy in
recent years, and much of this controversy is connected to the war in
Iraq. So let me be clear: no system of government can or should be
imposed upon one nation by any other.
For many years, Iran has defined itself in part by its opposition to my
country, and there is indeed a tumultuous history between us. In the
middle of the cold war, the United States played a role in the overthrow
of a democratically elected Iranian government.
I've come here to Cairo to seek a new beginning between the United
States and Muslims around the world, one based on mutual interest and
mutual respect, and one based upon the truth that America and Islam
are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap
and share common principles, principles of justice and progress,
tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.” (Excerpts from his
speech) But President Barrack Hussein Obama must recognise that that
the azaan is the creation of Bilal of Ethiopian Orign, a black man from
Africa, who in his melodious voice created that institution which today
is the Muslim call to prayer. Muhammad, may God bless him, when he
heard that melodious call, approved it as the call to prayer. Africa’s
economic relationship with both Islam and West also includes centuries
of co-existence, co-operaton, conflict, economic and religious wars
and colonialism that denied our human rights and opportunities to
Africans because of the colour of our skin. In our case since 1957, it is
the United States of America and its Central Intelligence Agency that
continues to treat us as proxies without regard to our legitimate
aspirations as the original race from which all people and nations
including the United States sprang.
Civilisation owes a debt to Islam. But the Islam to which civilisation
owes a debt is Africa. Africa created Islam and Monotheism, millions
of years before the Holy Koran was revealed, and not our Arab
brothers as his speech implied at Cairo. It is we Africans with our
black skins who are the source of Europe’s Renaissance and
Enlightenment. We translated works in European monasteries before
they emerged from darkness. It is not the Arabs. The White Man is our
son; the Arab is also our son; they are both offsprings of the black
dominant gene. We are the originators of Western Civilisation. Africa is
the origin of the Islamic culture that has given the world ‘majestic
arches, soaring spires, timeless poetry, cherished music, elegant
calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation’. Africa itself is the
Garden of Eden. It is the peaceful (Islam) Original Man, the Black Man
that has demonstrated the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial
equality.
Africa, the modern Africa of nation states, as Marcus Garvey dreamed
of, and the Kwame Nkrumah vision of a United and Strong Africa as
the only guarantee of a peaceful world in which Africans of all
ethnicities are respected and Africans also respect themselves was also
born out of revolution just as The United States: the unfinished African
Revolution. The United States contrary to what Barack Obama said
was never founded on the ideal that “all are created equal”. If it was,
Africans in The United States would not have been denied their human
rights until the success of The African Revolution in The United States
itself as the Civil Rights Movement and the laws it engendered in the
1960s.
President Hussein said no system of government can or should be
imposed upon one nation by any other. But The United States through
its CIA, USAID and similar intelligence and military arms continues to
impose Neo-colonial Liberal-Conservative Governments on Black
Africa and has been assassinating or murdering progressive leaders or
imposing Governments on African Nations and impeding the desire of
Africans to build a united and strong Africa since the more tolerant
British decided to grant us the independence we fought for. The United
States may have been shaped by every culture from every end of the
earth, but The United States and its White Establishment is the progeny
of Black people and a recent arrival on this earth as a Super Power and
has a certain and definite end not too long from now. The future is
African and it is black. It was not only the elected Iranian government
that The United States played a role in overthrowing during the cold
war and long after that. The United States also played a role in the
overthrow of The Government of Ghana on 24th February 1966. The
atrocities The United States assisted by The British High Commission in
Accra dished out to us are captured in many media including Kwame
Nkrumah’s “Dark Days in Ghana”. If “America can never tolerate
violence by extremists” Ghana also abhors violent extremism of all
kinds championed by The United States with its illegitimate permanent
interests in all cases involving the illegal overthrow of Governments
whether it is in Africa, Latin America or Asia.
Ghana welcomes President Hussein. But Ghana has a Sovereign right to
expect a new beginning on behalf of all Black Africa too and not just
Muslims on African soil. Egypt is part of Africa but Africans are not all
Muslims. Ghana wants a new beginning between the United States and
Africa as a whole. It must be based on US humility and not arrogance,
respect and not disrespect because we Africans are their parents and
upon the truth that America and Africa - a United and Strong Africa
that is highly industrialised and prosperous - are not exclusive and need
not be in competition. We also believe that they overlap if the United
States is even capable of upholding the basic principles of justice and
progress, tolerance and the dignity of we Black people especially. Not
light-skinned Africans or those of Mixed-race but all Africans especially
the majority with very dark skins like our daughter Michelle Obama.
Africans have always believed that humanity has “the power to make
the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new
beginning, keeping in mind what has been written.” We know because
our Great Ancestor, Mawu-Lisa or Dada Segbo-Lisa or Ataa-Naa
Nyomoo or Tweduapon Kwame-Asase Yaa made the self-propelled
Solar System with a fixed Sun of diameter 853,000 miles; and planets
revolving around it, while the earth, one of the planets 93,000,000 miles
from the Sun is rotating on its own axis and leaning 231/3 degrees
revolving at the speed of 1,037 miles per hour. We also know because
we wrote all that has been written in the Holy Koran, the unadulterated
Bible and the Talmud. We know that “the people of the world can live
together in peace. We know that is God's vision,” because God (Mawu-
Lisa) is our own Great Ancestor who lives in us. To build such a world
The United States must dismantle all CIA Operations in Africa and
return all CIA personnel home NOW from the current American
Embassy in Accra. The United States must stop paying Ghanaians to
undermine the project to build an equal, just and united nation here in
Africa. The United States must abort the policy mission to make Ghana
the military base of AFRICOM to secure Africa’s resources especially
oil for The United States. President Barack Hussein Obama must order
the IMF-World Bank to stop imposing unjust, unequal and unfree Free
Market Policy Conditionalities on Africa that they are not prepared to
implement at home whether in The United States or UK in an economic
depression which Africa continues to suffer from. The IMF and the
World Bank must stop interfering in the domestic economic affairs of
Ghana and Africa. They must stop resolving all struggles over Africa’s
resources in favour of non-Africans. They must stop championing
discredited economic policies that have all been reversed in the United
States, UK, China, Germany, and Japan amongst others. Finally,
through them working with USAID, the United States must stop
funding depopulation policies in under-populated Africa while they fund
white families to have more white children.
Africa demands a new beginning; it is our human right.
Background:
• President Obama's speech on June 4th at Cairo University
• Kwami Agbodza is an African Ewe and a member of Kwame
Nkrumah’s Convention People’s Party (CPP) and is currently it’s
Regional Education Secretary of CPP UK & Ireland. Kwami is a
Ghanaian and an Nkrumaist trained in Nkrumaist thought and practice.
Kwami is an economist by profession.
Courtesy
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