Union Government: the UNIA ACL understands its need

[RWalker]

The highest form of Black Power and African Unity is Pan-Africanism; Pan-Africanism means an all African Union Government that is people controlled and oriented, that is scientific socialist and not capitalist. This is something that the broader movement understands, as for example see the insert below of my post to the Pan-Africanism-African-Centered group I moderate:



Unity is something that is based on a common perspective, thus when the UNIA ACL looks at the Nkrumah-led movement and organizations they readily see the complete unity of the Garveyist movement and the Nkrumah-led movement. Here are examples from the UNIA

Garveyism and Nkrumahism
By DR. Y.D. AGYEMAN-DICKSON

Garveyism preaches in eloquent terms the gospel of universal solidarity and cemented unity of the African race both at home and abroad. It simply means Africa for the Africans at home and abroad.
Nkrumahism richly underlines boldly but proudly that Garveyism's philosophy has as its logical goal that the Black race, to be respected by the other races, must command power and authority on the African continent. To interpret this ideology, Garveyism and Nkrumahism believe in positive terms that the United States of Africa is the only means for the Blacks to be respected in the Councils of the United Nations.
If the Union of Africa had been alive, Patrice Lumumba of blessed memory, the legal president of the Congo, would not have suffered the monstrous murder from the hands of the imperialists. Because Africans commanding respect, power and authority would have had the means of rushing African continental troops to the Congo and saved our great son, Lumumba.
Nkrumahism believes that the powers of governments spring from the will of the people and should be exercised in the optimum accordance therewith. Towards this refined philosophical end, Ghana has nobly lent and sacrificed her small national income in millions of dollars to Guinea, Mali and Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) to develop their industries and the running of their governmental administrative machineries.
Nkrumahism teaches in loud terms that the African race both at home and abroad should strive hard for the African Union and that no person should suffer discrimination on the grounds of sex, race, religion or political belief both on the African continent and abroad particularly in the United States of America and South America.
Nkrumahism believes in equal opportunities for all. To interpret the beliefs of Nkrumahism, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana has decreed compulsory and free education for all Ghanaians and the training of potential Africans in the African Ideological School in Ghana freely.
Nkrumahism as well as Garveyism believes that the higher standard of living must favour the race as a whole through a fair distribution of our national wealth both at home and in the United States, South America and West Indies. Nkrumahism believes that the Black people holding the reins of government should become producers of raw materials as well as manufacturers and not mere consumers of the finished products of other races. Only in this light will the Black race command a fair share of the world's selling and buying market and thereby employing the other races also.
On religion, Garveyism puts it in simple but plain terms that it is one's own opinion and belief in some ethical truth. The Belgian Catholic State Government went to the Congo with the religious belief to exploit our race. The Belgians ethical mission was clothed under the guise of religion whereas in reality they went to rob the Blacks in the Congo of their natural resources.
Nkrumahism thus sings to the tune of One God, One Aim and One Destiny, and this just God should be served in the maximum interest of each race's earthly happiness, on the altar of the brotherhood of man.
Nkrumahism believes that the power that holds Africa today is human and Ghana's independence is not divine. That power has indeed proved to the world that whatsoever that the whites have done and are doing, the Black race can do it with ease and in splendor. The ploughing of the Black Star Ships of Ghana manned by the Blacks on the seas have indeed given shade, shape and color to the African Personality.
Nkrumahism thus potentially preaches African Personality. Nkrumahism injects the virus of nationalism and pride of the race's history in her youths.
Nkrumahism thus faithfully but genuinely believes in the dignity of labor and the due respect for the race's womanhood.
*originally published in Garvey's Voice Sept-Oct 1963
Garveyism and Nkrumahism

and then there is this from Garvey's son, (who by the way we fought the US government over their refusal to allow him in this country it was one of the first assignments I was given in the early days of party-building in the US)

Hon. Marcus Garvey, Jr.
Marcus Garvey Jr. , elder of the two sons of Marcus and Amy Jacques Garvey , was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica. He received his early education at Calabar High School in Kingston, Jamaica. His subsequent academic and professional training were at the University of London, London, England; the University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica; and City College of the University of New York. He holds the Bachelor of Arts (English, Economics) and the Bachelor of Laws degrees of the University of London, the BS (Mathematics, Physics) and MS (Physics) degrees of the University of the West Indies, and the MA (Physics, 1976) and MS (Electrical Engineering, 1978) degrees of City College of the City University of New York.
Marcus Garvey, Jr. taught Mathematics and Physics at High Schools in Jamaica, at the University of the West Indies in Kingston, and at City and Hunter Colleges of the City University of New York, New York. Since 1978 he has worked as an Electrical Engineer in digital and analog circuit design, the analysis and design of optical fiber transmission systems and the analysis of navigational guidance systems. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the States of Massachusetts and New Jersey, and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the Optical Society of America, and the American Institute of Physics.
Marcus Garvey, Jr. is an African Nationalist who articulates the philosophy and teachings of his father, Honorable Marcus Garvey Sr. , founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL) . He is a student of history of African peoples in the Homeland of Africa and the Diaspora. He contributed a chapter to the comprehensive review of the life and work of his father, Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa, edited by John Henrik Clarke, published by Random House (1974) . He also contributed to Essays in Honor of Kwame Nkrumah, a collection of papers commemorating the Silver Jubilee year of the Organization of African Unity, edited by Kwesi Krafona and published by Afroworld Publishing Company (1988).
Marcus Garvey, Jr. was a member of the UNIA-ACL in Jamaica and is a member of the UNIA-ACL in the United States where he has lived since 1973. He is President of the A. L. Crawford Division of the UNIA-ACL in Brooklyn New York. He was elected President General and Administrator of the UNIA-ACL at the 39th International Convention held in Washington D.C. in August 1992. He was re-elected in to his second term in 1996 in Philadelphia PA. He is currently the seventh President General of the UNIA-ACL, succeeding to the office once held by his father, the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey-National Hero of Jamaica, from the founding of the Organization in 1914 until his departure in 1940.
Marcus Garvey, Jr. lectures extensively on Garveyism and the UNIA-ACL and articulates the message of African Nationalism as propounded by Edward Blyden, Bishop Henry Turner and his father. The Honorable Marcus Garvey Jr. is leading the UNIA-ACL into the next Millennium for Africans Those At Home And Those Abroad.
Marcus Garvey, Jr.

and this:
Hon. William L. Sherrill
President-General
The Honorable William L. Sherrill was drafted by the Hon. Marcus Garvey in Baltimore, Maryland in the early 1920's. Mr. Sherrill served in many capacities, among them, First Assistant President General until 1925. H was succeeded in that office by Hon. Fred A. Toote. Mr. Sherrill was an articulate officer of the Parent Body. Those of us who came into the organization in later years, marveled at his oratorical abilities. He was always willing to take young Garveyites under his wing and impart to them the true meaning of Garveyism. No position was too menial for him in the Universal Negro Improvement Association. his life's work was Journalism and Insurance.
He represented the Black peoples of the world at the League of Nations, sent by Hon. Marcus Garvey. Later, at the United Nations, when it met for the first time in San Francisco, California, he represented the parent Body of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League during the administration of Hon. James R. Stewart.
When he left the Parent Body as an official, he would find himself as a local officer wherever he was needed. Thus, we found him Vice President of the New York Local; International Organizer, Personal Representative of the Hon. Marcus Garvey; President of the Detroit Division; president of the Cincinnati, Ohio Division and finally becoming President General in 1953. He was invited by Kwame Nkrumah to represent the U.N.I.A. and A.C.L. at the Independence Celebration of Ghana.
He left as his heritage the Marcus Garvey Foundation and the now extinct West African land Development Corporation.
* compiled from ' The Souvenir Journal for the Centennial of the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey's birth.' published in 1987.
Hon. William L. Sherrill

One further example,

at this recent event of the UNIA-ACL:

UNIA-ACL Presents "An Evening with Dr. Sekou Nkrumah (Son of Kwame

Greetings Family:

The Marcus Garvey Study Group would like to cordially invite the entire
Afrikan Community to attend this week's session as we share an evening with and
offer a warm reception to His Excellency, Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, CEO of the WEB
DuBois Memorial Center in Ghana and son of President Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah.
Baring
the name of President Sekou Toure of Guinea and his father, President Kwame
Nkrumah of Ghana, Dr. Sekou Nkrumah continues building the PanAfrikan movement
in the same manner as they had before him.
As Director of the DuBois Center, Dr. Nkrumah has established a place where
PanAfrikan scholars and researchers abroad can visit to conduct research, speak
or take lodging. He also conducts speaking engagements on the history of the
PanAfrikan Movement and offers his insight on where he feels we need to go.

Please come out and share in this historic welcome of an Elder Statesman and
PanAfrikanist Organizer. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to meet and
greet Dr. Sekou Nkrumah as he offers his perspective on PanAfrikanism,
Reparations and the African Union. Come offer your salutations and give
solidarity to
the family of one of the greatest PanAfricanist Organizers of the 20th
Century.



This is a session you Do Not Want To Miss!


Invited Guests:



Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, CEO of the WEB DuBois Memorial Center in
Ghana and youngest son of President Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah and Fathia
Nkrumah(Gamal Abdel-Nasser's Sister)

Yahoo! Groups

Indeed there is even a UNIA-ACL section called Garvey-Nkrumah Progressive Division see UNIA-ACL Events the last item in the March 2007 Events....