FELLOW AFRIKANS, REVOLUTIONARY GREETINGS!

Tomorrow 18 sept. is the 90th birhtday of the OSAGYEFO DR. KWAME NKRUMAH,
the leading proponent of the decolonisation and the unification of AFRIKA. I
take this unique opportunity to wish you all, whether you celebrate it or
not, a HAPPY REVOLUTIONARY OSAGYEFO DAY!!! I think it is very significant
that his birthday came just a week after our present afrikan leaders met in
libya to talk of unity, and the proposals they made are the same things the
OSAGYEFO made at the founding of the OAU in the PROUD LAND OF OUR ANCESTORS,
ETHIOPIA. They didn't listen to him, but we are still and now talking about
the same things. In 1996 when Nyerere came to Ghana for a public lecture he
publicly declared that he made a mistake in the 60s when he opposed the
OSAGYEFO, and advocated for a gradual move towards unity. This type of
attitude seems to be typical of our intellectuals, and as I read thru the
comments of our people in the net, I still see unnecessary talk and
self-denial when the real issue is right in our palms and we do not have to
do anything but to grab it and declare it ours: UNION OF AFRIKAN STATES, or
whatever name you want to call it. Let us end the nonsense and self-denial
and unite. I had called for a congress and a march for unity, but all I get
is fears, skepticism, and rejections of unity. Such issues can only be
settled when we sit down in an organised manner and plan. You are the
descendants of YAA ASANTEWA,QUEEN NZINGA, QUEEN MAKEDA, MARCUS GARVEY, HAILE
SELASSIE 1, AMILCAR CABRAL, MALCOLM X, ZUMBI, TOUSSAIT L'OUVERTURE, IMHOTEP,
AKHNATEN, JESUS,MOSES, MOHAMMAD and ADAM and EVE.Now why are you scared? Let
us do it. We did it in Haiti when Toussaint led us. We did it Gambia when
Edward Francis Small led us. We did it in Sierra Leone when Edward Blyden
led us. We did it in America when Elijah Muhammad and Martin Luther King led
us. We did it in Kenya when Dedan Kimathi and Kenyatta led us. We did it in
Bissau when Mbalia Camara led us. We did it in South Afrika when Winnie and
Steve Biko led us. We did it Congo when Patrice Lumumba led us. We did it in
Angola when Augustino Neto led us. We did it in Jamaica when Bob Marley led
us. We did it in Brazil when Zumbi led us. We did it in Ethiopia when
Menelik 1 led us. And we won. And we shall still won if we want to.
I will end with this note. No one is going to save us except our own selves.
There will not be another Nkrumah, or Selassie or Malcolm or Marcus or
Nzinga or Yaa Asantewa or indeed any of our great ancestors. They are in us
and we have to live them out by acting and practicing their visions,
courage, wisdom, strength and their spirits, and free and unite our people.
Those who are waiting for a Jesus or a Mahdi or God can as well buy their
slave chains and get themselves a master so that when Jesus or Mahdi comes
(S)He can emancipate them. Thank you.

madi








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