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Africa is EVERYWHERE
http://thenation.com/article/179050-why-us-military-averaging-more-mission-day-africa
props to Nick Turse
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Dying In The Great Lakes: A demonstration in Central London against the atrocities being committed in the DRC and CAR
heading down there now. ANYONE CAN COME. apologies for the late notice
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Can the citizens of the Great Lakes region and their friends around the world project the picture of atrocities being committed by Kagame and Museveni into the homes of Westerners’ families? They know that most of these Europeans don’t have anything against them and would be appalled to learn more about those crimes, the responsibility of their governments, and do something about it
This is what the campaign Dying in the Great Lakes is trying to do. Please join us in Piccadilly Circus [London] on October 19th, 2013 from 11:00 am.
The group is inviting people especially living in London to participate to the event organised this coming Saturday 19/10/13 at Piccadilly Circus from 11:00 onward and denounce continuing atrocities being committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo where Congolese and Rwandan youth forced into fighting are killed in masses. And this has been going almost for the last 20 years. The West has become indifferent to that situation. The group is mobilizing Africans to come out in numbers to tell the West to stop their indifference.
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Let’s discuss ‘Zimbabwe’ & this weekend’s ‘KILOMBO Conference’: Another World Is Possible is back on-air today (24/09)!
just a quick one here. Another World Is Possible is back on air tonight and I’ll be flying solo while the rest of the team makes their way to Peki, Ghana to join the others for this weekend’s annual Kilombo Conference. tonight’s discussion is Zimbabwe – The Way Forward. I’m looking forward to this as some myth and rumour is either going to be dispelled or confirmed! guests include Senator Chen Chimutengwede, Deputy President of the Zimbabwe Senate and former Zimbabwean Minister of Information, Mafa Kwanisai, Tafadzwa Choto and Johngershon Agbozo who will close the show with some more Kilombo Conference info
We’re on air between 7pm-9pm UK, 2pm-4pm EST/USA , 6pm-8pm GMT, 9pm -11pm Central African Time. You can log on to www.gfmradio.com and click to listen live to radio or go to TuneIn.com and search for ‘GFM Radio’ and listen
Put your comments / questions forward and join social re-construction as Another World Is Possible! Our studio number: +44 208 520 1355
I pray you can tune in and get involved!
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officially
he was actually already dead from having been captured and tortured by the Police almost a month before. he was then driven to Pretoria pointlessly. all he wanted was his people to be free: mentally, spiritually and culturally. that’s all most Africans want. he gave his life for the cause. our efforts may pale in comparison but… at least make the effort
only 30 years young
BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL
© Steve Biko
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Let’s discuss Pan-African structures & the upcoming KILOMBO Conference: Another World Is Possible is back on-air today (10/09)!
yep yep – another week, another radio show. the last time I was on 4 weeks ago I was flying solo. it was slightly daunting and hard work (especially growing the extra arms needed 😉 but a lot of fun and the response was great. thank you for listening
today’s show promises to be just as informative and full of edutainment as always if not more so with another international line-up of guests, the annual Kilombo Conference held in Peki, Ghana fast approaching and brotha Rema Diallo back as co-presenter. how can you not want to listen? see below for more details
Topics
1). How to develop a Functioning Structure to Build Pan-Africanism from Below
2). the Kilombo Annual Conference (http://www.tnj.com/news/african-and-caribbean/new-african-conference-social-justice-set)On the programme will be
1). Andrew Seraus; Pan-Africanist Advocate, Analyst, Critique and Activist, Antilles
2). Eric Sewor Addae, Peki Local Organizing Group and Teacher.
3). Juliana Coufie, Teacher and Central Region Kilombo Network Member,
4). Johngershon Agbozo, Teacher and Peki Local Organizing Group MemberHosted in GFM Radio studios in London by Rema Diallo, Emile Kargbo, Nii-Teiko (me!), Phyllis Abebreseh and Afia Kwaten
With contributions from Nia Noel (Associate Producer, AWIP) in Los Angeles, USA and Explo Nani-Kofi (Coordinator and Producer, AWIP) and an introduction by Mercy Owusu Achaw from Kumasi, Ghana
The AWIP Team in Ghana includes Ohene Nana Quame Adjei, Elikem Nunekpeku, Mercy Owusu Achaw, Austin Akrobor and Abeku Adams
On Tuesday 10th September 2013
7pm-9pm UK, 2pm-4pm EST/USA , 6pm-8pm GMT, 9pm -11pm Central African Time
Log on to http://www.gfmradio.com and click to listen live to radio or go to TuneIn.com search for ‘GFM Radio’ and listenPut your comments/questions forward and join social re-construction as Another World Is Possible London studio number: +44 208 520 1355
so there you have it. listen in and get involved! we look forward to interacting with you
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P.S
we know that Apple are vying for your attention by unveiling two new phones but they’re only going to rip off other products with their same old schtick ;-)… some things are actually more important eh?
Happy Earthday to Aunty Ruby Nell Bridges Hall
also just known as Ruby Bridges. she is known for doing this in 1960, New Orleans. you’re probably not braver than the young her. believe me
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A 50 year African Development Plan: Wanna contribute? Have a read within
A 50 year African Development Plan: Wanna contribute?
as usual the ever brilliant, Rising Continent blog gives up the goods with this post born out of a Facebook group I’m a part of. written by Cecile Johnson, it’s an epic read. no TL; DR here. it’s worth your time
what I like about this impassioned essay is that it almost perfectly strikes the right balance between subjective, objective, factual and personal. I haven’t come across a balanced combination in a while
the piece uses the example of the Foreign Direct Investment of the Marshall Plan (which saved Europe after the 2nd World War) to provide cursory analysis at the hypocritical, abject lack of similar efforts across Africa
then the title is what it’s all about however with an idea of an 8 stage African Development Plan. this plan is not only active with Cecile leaving his contact details at the end (plus see end quote of this piece) but in some ways I’m reminded of the appendix to the famous The Destruction of African Civilisation by Chancellor Williams which detailed a theoretical structure of what an actual African (not a European structure maintained and run by Africans) government institution should look like. it was a bit surprising to see the African Union mentioned here as despite the rhetoric I’m not sure they really stand for the kind of Pan–African unity and purpose Cecile is alluding to. apart from that it’s a brave attempt to encompass such a multifarious topic. critics may balk at the lack of certain hard math or stats but put them to one side… this is well worth your time. click the hyperlink at the beginning of this of you want more. I’ll end with this
We have the minds, we have the bodies, we must now have the will. I ask that you join me and sign up to be a member of the brain trust. Help fund the creation of the databases, participate in the needs assessment, recruit for the leadership academy, share your ideas for Africa with each other and seek ways to make them come true. We are only as strong as our weakest link, so let us unite and come together and work on an African Development Plan that unites all the minds of our people worldwide
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I agree... unfortunately. it would be nice for humans to not be injust without the use of power...but such is life and it has to be done
this is not a slight to the OG MLK Jr. that’s not possible from me. I’m just trying to take personal stock of what the speech means to me in 2013. as Global African people approach end game status in our various locales, there is so so much to do. however thank you Martin and all the others involved in the Civil Rights Era from small to tall however for standing up and being counted. when the bell tolled, you decided to listen
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It’s 50 yrs to the day of Martin Luther King Jr.s ‘I have a dream’ speech but I find myself thinking about Marcus Mosiah Garvey
stand up. be counted. don’t shirk responsibility
If I go to Notting Hill Carnival tomorrow, it’ll be the first time in 10 years
and I used to live 10 minutes away from the event. in fact, we used to stand outside and just watch crowds of people (we were mainly watching girls to be honest) going from the station all the way up to Edgware Road and then all the way back in the evening. good times
my interest waned when I saw the first Trance float then a House float or something. then randoms goons with masks on scaring peeps for no reason. then too many man dem that we knew wearing those shiny Sean Jean / Bushi / Johnny Blaze jean suits (that I still have never figured out if they were fake) posted up just watching each other. then some s*** going down at the former Westwood area. these were isolated incidents however
I went back street evangelizing with my old church back in 03′ I think. one dude gave his life…then that was me done
my mood towards the event soured further when I realised that the event was a more or less a cultural safari: a lot of non – African (Black) people smiling, suddenly feeling irie, eating chicken, corn, drinking Red Stripe, wearing RGG wristbands. funnily enough these same people would transform into the same people screwing me on public transport and clutching their bags the very next day
it was around this time that I stepped back to think “what is this event really about?” I discovered Claudia Jones. then the final nail in my interest coffin was brotha Toyin getting treated like a criminal for trying to start a remembrance for her one year
I think a lot. all the time. especially the relationships of power that involve Global African people. it’s kept me in good stead. sometimes it holds you back. so I may go back tomorrow. we’ll see
reh
Idris is holding a rave yeah? this is like 10 minutes from where I used to live. I hear the areas in a state of gentrification. so it goes I guess
Nii-Teiko 