African Holocaust | We shall never forget the Greatest Holocaust in History

- SLAVERY
- >>African Holocaust
- >>Slavery in America
- >>Arab Slave Trade
- >>Jewish Slave Trade
- >>Slavery Revolts
- >>Modern Slavery
- >>Mental Slavery
- CULTURE
- >>Culture Complex
- >>Rites of Passage
- >>African Agency
- >>Language & Africa
- >>Music and Dance
- IDENTITY
- >>African Race
- >>Educating a Child
- ANCIENT AFRICA
- >>African Kingdoms
- PAN-AFRICA
- >>Development Paradigms
- >>African Cinema
- >>War and Religion
- >>Art of Revolution
- >>Garvey Economics

Until lions tell their tale, the story of the hunt will always glorify the hunter

– African Proverb

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will

– Frederick Douglass

The most pathetic thing is for a slave who doesn't know that he is a slave

– Malcolm X

Every man is rich in excuses to safeguard his prejudices, his instincts, and his opinions.

– Ancient Egypt

Cowardice asks the question: is it safe? Expediency asks the question: is it political? Vanity asks the question: is it popular? But conscience asks the question: is it right.

– Dr. Martin L. King, Jr

Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories

– Amilcar Cabral

What kind of world do we live in when the views of the oppressed are expressed at the convenience of their oppressors?

– Owen 'Alik Shahadah

We are not Africans because we are born in Africa, we are Africans because Africa is born in us.

– Chester Higgins Jr.

Leave no brother or sister behind the enemy line of poverty.

– Harriet Tubman

MOTHERLAND: is an epic and unprecedented entry into the canon of African-owned cinema, which charts the glory and majesty of the Motherland.

Motherland is a film that calls for African unity, self-determination and the African rebirth. Motherland is the first complete Pan-African films ever made on Africa.

AFRICA AND SLAVERY: The word '''Maafa''' (also known as the African Holocaust) is derived from a Kiswahili word meaning disaster, terrible occurrence or great tragedy. The term today collectively refers to the Pan-African study of the 500 hundred years of ongoing suffering of people of African heritage through Slavery, imperialism, colonialism, apartheid, oppression, invasions and exploitation.

The African Holocaust or Maafa, is a crime against humanity and is recognized as such by the United Nations, scholars, and historians who have documented the primary and overwhelming culpability of European nations for enslavement in Europe, in the Americas and elsewhere.

BLACK OR AFRICAN: Black is a construction which articulates a recent social-political reality of people of color (pigmented people). Blackness isolates skin color, and not land of origin, as the most critical aspect of African people. So where do Black people come from? Blackia, Negroland or Blackistan! There is no escaping this argument so black is redundant and African is relevant. There are no black people in Africa and especially no "black Africans." "Black" compared to who? "Black (English) = Negro (Spanish)= Nigg*r (Latin)."

Africans; the native people of Africa, our skin, hair, ethics, culture, in all its diversity are shaped by the African landscape.Black-African is racist and offensive, and it is a term that has evolved to dispossess Africans of claim to their land, and dignity. It comes out of the colonial worldview of dark and dire continent. Everyone has evolved out of color based ethnic descriptions except African people and the apex oppressors.

OUR HUMANITY: A practical guide to humanity. Go and look at your wife/husband/children/parents watch them smile, watch them laugh, watch them enjoy life, watch them dream and hope. Would you want a bomb to come through your roof and end that? Would you like someone to come and chain, and ship them off in the night to be slaves? Can you imagine the aftermath if you had to watch that happen?

Well know no one; Arab, Muslim, Christian, Atheist, Jew, Palestinian, African, White, Chinese, communist, would want to ever experience that. If everyone in the world started to do this exercise they would never in a million years ask for war. 99% of the time there is a better way and we can exercise our greatest gifts; our large brain, ability to dialog and our ability to feel compassion. To lose the compassion, is to lose what defines us as human beings. The greatest crimes of humanity occur when our moral conscious which informs empathy is made silent but selfish justifications.

IRAN - FUTURE CRIMES: Iran is a new power broker in the area, like China they have been making investment inroads into Africa. They are the last politically self-controlled Middle Eastern nation. Nukes for war or peace, are not the concern of Israel, Iran is the sole economic threat to Western interests in the region. But Israel cannot justify a war with this truth, so they need the big, simple, repetitive lie(Hitler). And they have too much oil which the wolves want (they already got Libya, now who is left?)

And the thing about the media lies is this: Before, you actually had to do something to be guilty of a crime, today your enemy is using mind tricks: "I think you were thinking of developing Nuclear warheads"- How do you defend yourself against what someone thinks you are going to do in the future?

MALCOLM X: Malcolm X was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska. He died El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, and went into history as one of the most influential and revolutionary minds of the African world. His legacy has become eternal in the foundational paradigms of progressive African thinking and Pan-Africanism. He is an icon beyond race and an influential figure in the social movement and a hero of Islam.

Malcolm studied the teachings of Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Muhammad taught that white society actively worked to keep African-Americans from empowering themselves and achieving political, economic and social success. Today these models are the cornerstone of the African Holocaust society and many other African organizations. Malcolm X never died as his speeches, humanity and principles are timeless and continue to shape countless generations.

ADWA: In the history of African resistance to the evils of European conquest was an ongoing affair, while the vultures tried to put their greedy covetous hands on the Motherland. Ethiopia was the only African nation to survive this direct assault on its sovereignty. In 1896, Ethiopia fought a desperate battle against a stronger European nation attempting to invade, conquer, and colonize the smaller nation and more importantly, be able to exploit its natural resources

With the victory at the Battle of Adwa in hand and the Italian colonial army destroyed, Eritrea was King Menelik’s for the taking but no order to occupy was given. It seems that Menelik II was wiser than the Europeans had given him credit for. Realizing they would bring all their force to bear on his country if he attacked, he instead sought to restore the peace that had been broken by the Italians and their treaty manipulation seven years before.

LIBYA IS FINE NOW - ONLY AFRICANS DYING: It started as human rights objective. But the Africans in cages are not news worthy. A few human rights groups may give them the odd mention in an update or two, but beyond that the cameras have left the scene now that the objectives of regime change has been achieved. Under Gaddafi, Africans had a protected status from the vicious Arab racism. Now they are victims of the American supported campaign. "Killing their own people doesn't apply" because all immigrants and Africans are "unworthy" mercenaries-- or so they say.

CHINA THE GOOD PARASITE?: China doesn't care about your religion, they don't care about your culture, they have no interest in your notion of human rights, they don't want to mess with your culture, or get too deep into your politics; it is a far less invasive relationship. China wants business, and deals with whatever cultural political set up you have in existence. The West wants to own your body, mind and soul. "Beijing has emerged from its largely ideologically driven encounters with African countries to become an economically driven pragmatist,

which is largely manifested in its resource and market deals as well as its vivid role as "constructor-in-chief."--Richard Aidoo. However, both China and the West are parasitic relationships but China has a more symbiotic parasitism. The West is cannibalism; the degrees can be debated, and certainly Africa has to politically find liaisons other than the Western exploiters. But we must never forget do for self as oppose to debating whose dinner party should be the main course, at — the wolf or the fox. Far more of our debates need to be focused around creating internal trade, and localizing skill pools. Why does Africa need the Chinese to build roads and African Union buildings? Can the AU not apply its Pan-Africanism to make at least create a tangible symbol of Do for Self?

CONFLICT - RELIGION or RESOURCES: What is termed "religious wars" is largely a Western dichotomy of different power configurations that serves a Western consumer audience. If you look at any conflict; Nigeria, Palestine, or even Darfur, we can choose to identify the agent of the conflict as religious difference; however, no one in Nigeria is killing anyone because of a spiritual disagreement over a verse in the Qur'an.

In Nigeria, for example, the North is relatively barren; education and infrastructure are also suffering compared to the South. Now in Africa ethnic lines also follow religious and geographical lines. When one group strikes they always target the symbols of their "oppression." So an attack often has in religious characteristics; attacking a church for example. But the root of the problem is always some idea of inequity or entitlement. But If CNN wants to sell headlines it is far easier to ride in on the rising tide of Islamophobia."In Nigeria the Christian-Muslim thing is the tip of the iceberg, what's underneath the water is a much more complex sociopolitical situation, which cannot be explained just in terms of the religious divide. You have a recipe ripe for conflict, and it just so happens to be Christian-Muslim."—Andrew Kakabadse

BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Black History Month- Shortest month of the year for the longest history in history. Why do we have it? If we understand development stages we realize that the consequences of the ongoing African Holocaust means that today African people are not in good mental and social health. Thus a month is needed to try to balance a world that has knocked the African-Diaspora off axis. A month which tries to raise the visibility of African history and therefore redress the issues of social imbalance and marginalization.

BHM will remain relevant until we appreciate ourselves and our history. But if BHM is only going to be just about Civil Rights, Poetry Jams, Hip Hop parties and allow Rihanna to have a few more semi-porn concerts then rename it to Black Entertainment Month. BHM should not be an opportunity to catch up on the re-runs of the Jefferson or watch Will Smith chase down I-Robots, because our history did not start in Blackness; it started in Africa 120,000 Years ago.

RIP BROTHER GADDAFI - WE WILL CONTINUE: RIP our Pan-African warrior Brother Gaddafi. You fought hard and brave, and we respect what you did for our continent. You could have run, but you chose to live by your words. No one is perfect, but you rose above the rest; God be with you on your final journey. To the entire neocolonialist, know your oppression will never last forever, your day will come. And right now across the globe, we see people standing up and looking beyond the price of oil for their humanity.

Petition for South Africa to show 500 Years Later

TRADITIONAL HEALING: It is impossible to separate African religion from traditional African healing for it is African theology that attempts to explain illness and disease. Traditional African healers (diviners, medicine men, herbalists etc) are often priests, priestesses, or high priests. Within different African cultures, healers are called by different names; Inyanga, while in other parts of Africa they may be referred to as Sangoma, Bwiti ceremonies are led by spiritual leaders called N'ganga.

MAU MAU APOLOGY: It is not widely known that prior to Kenyan independence, during the so called Mau Mau Rebellion, Britain perpetrated human rights abuses and war crimes on a vast scale. In the 1950s and early 1960s thousands of Kenyans were subjected to unspeakable acts of torture and abuse at the hands of British officials, including castrations, sexual abuse and repeated beatings.

PETITION TO GET AFRICAN FILMS IN AFRICA: 500 Years Later for 4 years has been stuck with SABC in the negotiation process. SABC is trying everything to stall and delay the broadcasting of this film. Beyond excuses, how is it possible for Motherland and 500 Years Later to have so much trouble being shown by African broadcasters in Africa? A film about African people with dignity is struggling for broadcast while all manner of Hollywood poison is shown daily.

SOMALIA FAMINE ROOTS: The structural adjustment program reinforced Somalia's dependency on imported grain. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, food aid increased fifteen-fold, at the rate of 31 percent per annum.' Combined with increased commercial imports, this influx of cheap surplus wheat and rice sold in the domestic market led to the displacement of local producers, as well as to a major shift in food consumption patterns to the detriment of traditional crops (maize and sorghum).

The devaluation of the Somali shilling, imposed by the IMF in June 1981, was followed by periodic devaluations, leading to hikes in the prices of fuel, fertilizer and farm inputs. The impact on agricultural producers was immediate particularly in rain-fed agriculture, as well as in the areas of irrigated farming. Urban purchasing power declined dramatically, government extension programs were curtailed, infrastructure collapsed, and the deregulation of the grain market and the influx of food aid led to the impoverishment of farming communities.'

RACE IS REAL: The appreciation or relevance of Africaness is located in the face of a multi-racial world and the primary function of defining African identity is first and foremost an exercise in political self-interest and African agency. The power of definition must remain with the majority and today African is a term used to super-umbrella all the indigenous ethnicities of the African continent and their modern-day descendants in the Diaspora.

Escaping race is clearly a luxury for those who have already ascended to become the dominant race-class. For everyone else, race engagement is a consequence of that domination.

AFRICAN CULTURE: We often hear rhetoric such as, the original African spirituality of Africa, but which Africa is this? Is it Africa when Europeans wandered into villages in Benin? Or is it the Africa of Axsum, Kmt and Songhay? The treatment of Africa seems to imply a constant historical and cultural monolith that was at peace and pure before a certain set of invasions.

How is the cultural shift from Ethiopia to Benin homogeneous, while the cultures from Ethiopia to Yemen 22Km away are heterogeneous? Linguistics alone tells of a completely different historical relationship.

GAY RIGHTS & AFRICANS: The issue of homosexuality and lesbianism in the African community is one which is a challenge to the cultural integrity and moral fabric of African societies which are traditionally pro-life systems. The challenges of homosexuality is not a new thing to any society, African or otherwise. Homosexuality in various degrees has been a long companion of civilization; with varying degrees of tolerance and accommodation.

It is a human right for a people to define those things which they believe is critical to the way they chose to define their humanity and the cultural process of that humanity: to keep alive the traditions which best represent that which makes us unique and defines our African orientation and sensibility.

FGM & FGC: The West perceives everything African through a narrow lens of misunderstanding and cultural supremacy. FGM is a word constructed for pure shock value, to shop for funds for yet another campaign into a continent still perceived as dark and backward. While they pass judgment over African people the plastic surgeries of California are advertising a new service called "Designer Vaginas."

So cutting is mutilation and barbaric in Africa, vogue and fashionable in Hollywood, however female cutting goes back as far as Ancient Egypt, and while harmful practices do go on we feel there has been an, as always, an overwhelming lack of balance debate. As long as there is choice and health safety in female cutting then it is all culturally relative. There is a wide range of cutting practices which do not come near to mutilation that we need to discuss. Expert Fuambai Ahmadu shares a deeper insight on this issue.

REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE: The methodologies of the 60's should be evolved to function in our globalized world. It can no longer be acceptable for another generation to have to come and re-invent the wheel of failure via antiquated models of working. In the high tide of globalization, what are the roles for economic and cultural development at the macroeconomic level?

Pan-Africanism is 'do or die', but it needs tangible mutually beneficial partnerships, which create wealth, in its broadest sense, for all those involved, and hence creates incentives for a Pan-African ideology. All of this must slug through the issue of sincerity, efficiency and work ethos, and this needs mechanisms, which tease out the personalities, and egos that perpetuate failure.

ISRAEL'S RACISM TO AFRICANS: Israel's treatment of Ethiopians "racist" Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug, in what Israeli women's groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of African babies. Ethiopians are reported to face widespread discrimination in jobs, housing and education and it recently emerged that their blood donations were routinely discarded.

Some schools advertise "White only." "The unspoken policy is that only children who are white and Ashkenazi are wanted in Israel," she said, referring to the term for European Jews who founded Israel and continue to dominate its institutions.

ANOTHER ORPHAN CHILD FROM AFRICA: Southern Sudan | Africa has given birth to a new child, in the opposite direction to Pan-Africanism. And with the war in Libya these are dark days for unity. There is nothing to celebrate if Southern Sudan, via duress, has to separate itself from its Northern African neighbor. It only speaks to our inability to form constructive spheres around our common challenges as African people.

While it is hard to expect the South to put up with the Northern contempt and domination it is still a muted victory for Southern Sudan who will now be targeted by Western agendas and imperialism because of the pressure from under-development. The vampires are already "helping" the new administration and we know there is no altruism in politics. Already we hear of false victories: "We are free to drink now Shariah is gone" , "we do not need to speak Arabic we can learn English" from an Arab slave master to a Western one. Independence YES, but independence to do what? Drink ourselves to death, is that what freedom is for? The West love it, pipelines through corrupt Kenya which has British interest is perfect for the UK. Southern Sudan is only another weak orphaned statelet to be victimized. Watch what happens with the oil (as this is what the West wants). "I would not be surprised if South Sudan became the next Eritrea" - Sudan Watch.

Recently the state authorities say more than 600 people from the Nuer community were killed, 200 children abducted, and as many as 25,000 cows were stolen. The attackers - from the Murle ethnic group - were responding to a recent assault by Nuer fighters in which an estimated 400 Murle were killed. Not the first time see 1991 Bor Massacre. But this is also happening everywhere especially the Jonglei state. No so-called "Arabs" in this horror so not too much focus. The Brown (Arab) v Black (African) is just a tidy way for simple minds to understand a complex mess. For western designs, race is a just convenient package for greedy pockets. Who wants to be bored with the reality of a South complicity in Europeanization and a North complicit in Arabization - too complex a story to fit in a CNN headline, too texty to fit in a tweet.

500 YEARS LATER: Ground breaking definitive multi-award winning documentary. Perhaps the best documentary ever on slavery. Filmed in over twenty countries and on five continents, 500 Years Later is a compelling journey that chronicles the struggle of a people from enslavement who continue to fight for the most essential human right - freedom.ON DVD

Pedagogy for African Studies

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures

Cabral

The first location of anything African starts with the re-evaluation of the pedagogy and paradigms. Even the most progressive minds of the African world are still responding to, and framing African history within that 15th century discovery paradigm created at the moment of European conquest.

'Progressive' African studies for most of the time has meant painting over the white walls of Eurocentrism with romance and pseudo-historical analysis. All of this is fundamentally based on race-pride projected back into history. Thus the "slave" reality of the African-American is imposed on sovereign African nations in antiquity— even nations like Ethiopia that had no similarities to the nations of West Africa. None of these places had a concept of modern race constructions, and none of them shared any striking similarities so much so to justify being lumped under the victim thesis. As a result conclusions on Africa still speak in the language of: victims, foreign, conquered " and black" people.

And as much as we celebrated a lot of post-colonial writers and their revisionism, what can be noticed (with the exception of people like Fanon) is a lot of it did not invoke the paradigm shift. They inherited all Eurocentrism false dichotomies: The perpetual conflict between religion and secular governance, religion and spirituality, the notion of imposition, the denial of agency, the constant over generalizations and lack of nuance research. All the baggage from the colonial era even today is still evident in a lot of the work. African history by Africans still has this margin vs. the middle attitude which justifies itself by binary opposition and negation, rather than affirmation.

The history of Africa overlaps world history, the term ‘Africa’ is only used to help a modern appreciation of the histories of people who today are victimized because of that African origin. However, historically there was no African identity despite being people of the continent of Africa. So the politics of "African" history is a modern paradigm of an identity that is only a few hundred years old.

Christian History, Islamic History, Jewish History is also African history. At every major development of Christianity kingdoms such as Ethiopia were there, even during the Crusades. In Jerusalem for 1000s of years—until now—there is an Ethiopian quarter still occupied by Ethiopian monks. African attended the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD. African people were there, at the first Muslim call to pray (adhan), at the Jewish temple when Rome burnt it down, on the frontlines of the Ottoman army in World War 1. The Red Sea was hardly a barrier to movement of trade (Swahili), ideas and people. DNA shows it certainly was not a barrier to genetics.

There is history and then there is politics. History is an account of what happened, politics is explaining away those events to service a specific objective. Africa vs. the world is not history; it is only a recent consequence of the last 500 years of conquest. We cannot look at Africa as an island south of the Sahara. The current narrative shows that anytime Africa and the world meet we play the victim and someone else the conquerer—Africans are shown as having no agency. And we must also factor in that Ethiopia as a nation had its ‘Ethiopian interest’, it was not "We Black people" when it was facing down the African-Muslim Armies of Somalia, and vice versa. World power and conflict have not always followed tidy racial lines.

It is problematic to understand the history of African people from the point-of-view of an African-American standing for 300 Years in the land of their oppression. It is also problematic to understand African history standing in the shoes of colonial victims whose idea of perfection is still located in the European dream. So the first location of any study must deal with these distractions and caveats so that we can create a new lens for understanding (as much as humanly possible) an authentic discourse into African history. (African Holocaust Society, 2011)

Always bear in mind that the people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children

Amilcar Cabral

ART OF REVOLUTION

Bad liberation grammar has battles being fought that have no solution mechanism which reinforce existing work or foster constructive change. "We need to control our image" has already been established as a liberation necessity, the how becomes primary in the 21st century.

AFRICAN LEADERSHIP

Africa's biggest problem today is with the leadership. They are so removed from the people that they are looked upon as foreigners. They are driven by self-interest, so excessive that their peoples' interests are forgotten.

MAAFA: AFRICAN HOLOCAUST

The Maafa reduced human beings to mere labor units. The legacy of Slavery would continue to shape and scar the world we know

PAN-AFRICAN CINEMA

There is no denying the power of media; it has been the fundamental social marker of our century. It is becoming more than a tool for entertainment. But as an agent of Pan-Africanism...

ETHIOPIA: THE JEWEL OF AFRICA

Of all Africa’s treasures Ethiopia is one of the brightest. From its rich history to its rich culture, Ethiopia is beyond argument one of Africa’s most precious gems.

AFRICAN MARRIAGE RITUAL: The largest cultural cermony in all of Africa is the wedding cermony. African weddings are a family affair and involve the combining of two lives, two families.

AFRICAN MARRIAGE RITUALS

The largest cultural ceremony in all of Africa is the wedding ceremony. African weddings are a family affair and involve the combining of two lives, two families.

Arab enslavement of Africans predate the European trade. However the Arab slavery was rooted in greater cultural, historical and religious complexities

ARAB SLAVE TRADE:SPECIAL

Arab enslavement of Africans predates the European trade, however the Arab slavery was rooted in greater cultural, historical and religious complexities.

WILLIE LYCH: This speech was "allegedly" delivered by Willie Lynch. Lynch was a British slave owner in the West Indies.

WILLIE LYNCH LETTERS

This speech was "allegedly" delivered by Willie Lynch. Lynch was a British enslaver in the West Indies.

Dr. Kimani Nehusi explores: Phyiscial chains have been broken but mental chains remain. The greatest battle of the new century, is the battle for the African mind.

MENTAL SLAVERY

Dr. Kimani Nehusi explores: Physical chains have been broken but mental chains remain. The greatest battle of the new century is the battle for the African mind.

AFRICAN SLAVE REVOLT

Resistance, revolt, and eventual social transformation are born out of an oppressed peoples awareness of themselves.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today

Malcolm X

"white" depends for its stability on its negation, "black." Neither exists without the other, and both come into being at the moment of imperial conquest.

Franz Fanon

You cannot measure an African success with a European ruler

' Alik Shahadah