105 Years of Formal Pan Africa Actions

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I am because we are, so we are because I am.



THE INTERNATIONAL AFRIKAN MINISTRIES—UBUNTU, INC.

I.A.M.U. NEWS BRIEF
Immediate Release 7/23/2005
From: Mganga (Rev) P.D. Menelik Harris,
Pan African Minister/Founder of IAM UBUNTU


105 Years of Formal Pan African Actions
July 2005 marks the 105th anniversary of the first Pan African Congress formally launched in 1900.as the dawn of a new era for African people in the world. The Pan African Conference on July 23-25, 1900 is a key date in the Pan African Movement for the liberation and reunification of Africans since African dispersion from Africa during the holocaust of enslavement and genocidal wars against Africans by both Europeans and Arabs. The African conference was a response to the 1885 Berlin Conference organized by European leaders to conquer and divide Africa into colonial real estates under European domination. Convened by the visionary Attorney Sylvester Williams of Trinidad, the African congress was the first bold effort by African leaders from across the African world to work together to organize a program of action for the liberation of Africans from European imperialists onslaught. The primary goal of the London conference was to “protect Africans from the depredations of the empire builders.�



The Pan African Conference was mainly sponsored and attended by 19th century key leaders like Booker T. Washington, USA; Bishop Theodore Holly, Haiti; Bishop James Johnson of Sierra Leone; Bishop Henry Mc Neil Turner, U.S.A; Rev. Majola Agbebi, Nigeria; Rev. C.W. Farquhar, Caribbean; Judge Augustus Straker, USA; Prof. W.S. Scarborough, USA; Henry Cargill, Jamaica; J. Tengo Jabavu, South Africa, Otanba Payne, Nigeria; Sylvester Williams, Trinidad; Bishop Alexander Walters, USA; Mrs. Anna Cooper, USA; Ms Anna H. Jones, USA; Mr. D.E. Tobias, St. Kitts; Mr. Benito Sylvain, Haiti; Mr. Henry F. Downing, USA; and WEB Dubois, USA. In an article promoting the pan African Conference Booker T. Washington stated, “ I beg to advise as many of our people as can possible do so, to attend this conference. In my opinion it is going to be one of the most effective and far reaching gatherings that has ever been held in connection with the development of the race.�



Some of the demands highlighted at the conference were issues relating to the: 1.) Oppression of Africans in South Africa and Zimbabwe (Rhodesia); 2.) Segregation of Africans in public places (U.S./Southern Africa); 3.) Destruction and exploitation of the Congo; and 4.) Imperialist powers encroachment on the integrity and independence of Ethiopia, Liberia and Haiti. Further, the conference called for Africans in Africa, the Caribbean and America to struggle to “prove to the world� that they are entitled to the “great brotherhood of mankind.� At the end of the Pan African Conference, WEB Dubois presented his famous prediction that “the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line… the basis of denying to over half the world the right of sharing to their utmost ability the opportunities and privileges of modern civilization.�



The 1900 Pan African Congress provided Africans with a pan African blueprint for power through which global coordinatated actions were taken against imperialism. Under the leadership of Pan Africanists, most African nations in Africa and the Caribbean achieved their political independence by the early 1960’s, thereby influencing the rights of Africans in the Diaspora, especially in the United States. Indeed, the culmination of the work of the Pan African Movement has being the creation of the Organization of the African Unity (OAU) on May 25, 1963, now the African Union.



As we entered the 21st. , Africans are again seriously challenged by modern merchants of capitalism and their governments who are bent on invading and controlling African resources. Africans must now awaken from their dreams of integration and assimilation in the oppressors' international and national systems of enslaving humanity. As a result of African collusion with neocolonialism at Home an Abroad, Europeans, Arabs and others have become empowered to forge their old economic, religious and political order in Africa, disguised as new initiatives for African development. Indeed, the Asians are running a close third in the new global war for Africa’s resources. Africans have for too long surrendered our will to fight for African interests as our foremost priority. We have a responsibility to act now to promote “Pan Africanism or Perish.� We must once and for all stop the criminal legacy of imperialism, colonialism and neo-colonialism before it fully engulfs Africa in centuries of more genocidal wars against Africans



Pan Africanists across the world are urgently needed help coordinate activities to convene the 8th Pan African Congress to mark the 110th anniversary of the formal launching of the Pan African Movement and establish the Pan African Congress as a global structure to advance the work of OAU/AU with the Will and Resources to completely secure the liberation and unification Africans in the 21st century and beyond. The 21st is another new era to advance Pan Africanism. For more information contact me at amenelik@aol.com or 404-527-7756.







HERITAGE POWER SUNDAY

Garvey Whirlwind

“The Economic, Cultural & Political Imperative of the Million More Movement�

With

Minister Sharief Muhammad (NOI)
& Representatives of
African Hebrews, African Christians, African Traditionalists & Activists Organizations…
Sunday August 7, 2005 5:00 PM

&
…….Dr. Molefi Asante (TBC)…….
Pan Africanism & Afrocentricity in the 21st C.
September 4, 2005
The Afrikan Djeli Center 840 R. D. Abernathy Blvd, ATL.

Call: 404-753-8933 Free Admission/Freedom Is Not Free!

Mganga (Rev.) P.D. Mene-lik Harris, Organizer/404.527.7756

IAM-UBUNTU INC. – A Pan African Ministry

Call Us to Promote A Revolutionary Ministry

(Ubuntu - is the Collective Spirit of our Creator in Us...)

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