USAfrica- The Arab agenda
1. We must never forget that, despite Gadhafi’s rhetoric against colonialism, he and his Arab fellows are colonialists in Africa--white settler colonialist who invaded, conquered, expropriated and have settled on 1/3 of Africa beginning in 640.
2.Gadhafi’s hurry to implement his USAfrica is suspect. After he has spent 40 years trying to force Libya’s unification with Sudan, to forcibly annex the Auzou strip from Chad, and sponsoring destabilization in Liberia, Uganda etc. should we trust his intentions? We should be highly suspicious of a project by which he would diplomatically swallow in one gulp all of Black Africa where he has, hitherto, failed to militarily grab bits and pieces.
3. In Gadhafi’s speeches in 2005, where he pushed for the fledgling AU to appoint a Defense Minister, and a Trade Minister etc as matters of priority; and called for a continental army, he also urged the AU countries to compete to host the institutions of the AU/USAfrica. This hurry is all highly suspicious.
Clearly, the Arab countries, awash with oil money and with unlimited back-up from the rest of the oil-rich Arab League, will outbid the poor Black countries, leading to Arab domination of the USAfrica; just as the UN is dominated by the gang of imperialist countries where its key institutions are located—the USA with the World Bank and IMF in Washington and the UN Hqtr in New York, and Europe with Unesco in Paris, the Maritime agencies in London, and other key agencies in Geneva.
If the Gadhafi formula for locating its key institutions is allowed, this USAfrica will become an instrument of Arab colonialism in Africa; and will entrench Arab power over Black Africa.
4. Defense is the last thing a sensible sovereign country surrenders. Note that after 50 years of their merger process, the EU states have yet to do that and appoint a defense minister. Yet Gadhafi wants the AU to start with that! Highly suspicious.
5. The dangers of Arab colonialism are evident in Mauritania and Sudan, and should be studied and heeded.
6. Gadhafi’s arguments about the potential economic benefits of USAfrica are invalid. Continental size is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition for becoming an economic power. If it was, Britain, Japan, Germany, France, let alone Switzerland and most of the European countries would be economic midgets, and the Asian tigers too; On the other hand, Antarctica and Australia, as continents, would be economic giants. Gadhafi must believe that he is addressing an audience of economic blockheads!
7. Gadhafi’s Lebensraum statement at the Arab League meeting in Jordan in 2001:
“The third of the Arab community living outside Africa should move in with the two-thirds on the continent and join the African Union ‘which is the only space we have’”
--Col. Mouammar Gadhafi of Libya, at the Arab League, 2001
should be taken seriously as a clue to his intentions and what he and his Arabs will set about doing to Black Africa once they have us in their USAfrica trap.
8. There is a vital need to think through the Black African interest, and negotiate in detail to secure its requirements, before agreeing to this proposal. After it is signed, the Arabs will, predictably, treat any second thoughts and objections to details as treason.
Black Africans must never again repeat the folly of their leaders in 1973, when the OAU lined up behind the Arabs on the oil embargo, in hopes of getting concessions on oil, without any pre-agreed quid pro quo, and got nothing after the Arabs had exploited African support.
9. Because we are convinced that this USAfrica is a cover for Arab colonialism and Arab expansionism in Black Africa, we urge every Black African president in the AU to vote against it at Accra in July. At the very least, they should vote to postpone any decision on it for five years so that a vigorous debate can be carried out by the people, so they can knowledgeably and democratically mandate their presidents on what to do about it. We could take a lesson from the EU process where key stages of the unification have been preceded by plebiscites in each member country.
10. If this USAfrica is agreed this July at Accra, Gadhafi and all Arabs will be laughing at the dumb blacks whom they have easily duped yet again. Don’t forget their view of Blacks, as enunciated over the centuries, most famously by Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Sena and Osama Bin Laden. See the following quotes:
Ibn Khaldun sees the blacks as “characterized by levity and excitability and great emotionalism”
and [says] that “they are everywhere described as stupid” . . .
al-Dimashqi had the following to say: “The Equator is inhabited by communities of blacks who may be
numbered among the savage beasts. Their complexion and hair are burnt and they are physically and morally abnormal.
Their brains almost boil from the sun's heat.”
Ibn al-Faqih al-Hamadhani follows the same line of reasoning. To him . . . the zanj [black Africans]. . .are
“overdone until they are burned so that the child comes out between black, murky, malodorous, stinking,
and crinkly-haired, with uneven limbs, deficient minds, and depraved passions” . . .”
Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406CE) added that blacks are “only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings.” . . .
Even such luminaries as Ibn Sina considered blacks to be “people who are by their very nature slaves.”
“All African women are prostitutes, and the whole race of African men are abeed [slave] stock.
Your people are like rats plaguing the earth” –Osama Bin Laden to the Sudanese-American novelist Kola Boof in Morocco in 1996.
Here is a 5-point program of action suggested by the CAACBA
1. Fwd this series and program of action to as many Black Africans as you can.
2. Put it on as many websites as possible;
3. Get editors to publish it in your local Black Community Newspapers;
4. Hold community study and discussion meetings on USAfrica and Arab Colonialism, using the series as basic discussion materials;
5. Write to your local newspapers, call your radio stations, contact your church leadership, hold public meetings, organize marches and demonstrations, send petitions to the president and foreign minister of your country-- as well as of other Black African countries —and demand a five-year moratorium on any decision on the USAfrica to enable the black communities discuss and debate it and give the AU presidents a democratic mandate on what to do about it.
Having spent May educating ourselves on Arab colonialists and their USAfrica project, it is crucial that we make June 2007 a month of rallies and demonstrations on the theme: "USofAfrica? No!; USofBLACK-Africa?Yes!"
Every Sunday in June, wherever we are, lets hold warm-up rallies, teach-ins and demonstrations, culminating with massive demos on July 1, to let the AU presidents hear how we feel about Gadhafi's USAfrica trap!
To help mobilise for these demos, please urgently fwd this email, with the attached documents, to as many Black Africans as you can. As you will see, the material we've been assembling has been refined, with help from some websites, down to 3 essential articles, one of which contains URLs to sites where the rest of the series can be found. This format, I think, is more media-friendly. So, please, fwd it to your local media and urge them to publish or broadcast.
Below are some ideas suggested for slogans and placards for the rallies:
1. USofAfrica? NO!; USofBLACKAfrica? Yes!
2. USofAfrica: a trap for black Africa, by Arab colonalists!
3. Do black Africans really want to integrate into a USAfrica with Arab states that practice racial apartheid and still enslave blacks?
4. Do black Africans really want to integrate into a USAfrica with Arab states that are committed to Islamising and Arabising black Africa?
5. End slavery in Arab lands before we embark on any USAfrica project.
6. Stop Arab landgrabs from Black Africans in Egypt (Nubia), Sudan (Darfur) and Mauritania!
7. Darfur is an Arab landgrab from Black Africans.
8. USAfrica is a cover for Arab expansionism.
9. USAfrica is for the black African population, not the AU presidents, to debate and decide.
10. We want five years moratorium on USAfrica! Its too serious to be rushed.
11. Down with Arab minority rule in Mauritania and Sudan
12. Stop apartheid and black slavery in Mauritania.
13. Stop ethnic cleansing of Nubians in Egypt and Sudan.
14. Stop colorism and Arab enslavement of Blacks in Sudan.
15. Stop slave-raiding of black villages in Sudan.
16. Work for regime change in Khartoum, by any means necessary.
Chinweizu for the CAACBA [Committee Against Arab Colonialism in Black Africa]
