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The Black race will be exterminated if it does not build a black superpower in Africa by the end of this century.
Marcus Garvey and the Black Power Movement:
Legacies and Lessons for Contemporary Black Africa
INTRODUCTION
To avoid wasting anyone's time, let me make clear who I am not talking to, who I do not want to hear from, for as Çonfucius said: There is no point people taking counsel together who follow different ways", (ANALECTS XV:4O)
My audience consists only of those Black Africans who want the Black African people to survive. If you are a Black African, but don't much care if the Black African people survive or not, I have nothing to say to or discuss with you. So don't read on. Just go away.
But if you want the Black African people to survive, with dignity and in security and prosperity, just like the white or yellow peoples of this earth, then welcome! We have vital matters to discuss.
Since white Europeans began raiding Africa in the fifteenth century for black captives to enslave; since white Arabs invaded Egypt in i540 ad; and indeed ever since white Persians conquered Black Egypt in 525 BC, the cardinal question for Black Africans has been: How can Black Africans organize to survive in the world, and with security and respect?
That question has remained unaddressed for 25 centuries. We must today face and answer it correctly for the conditions of this twenty-first century, or we perish.
Pan-Africanism is an ideology made up of the most important ideas that have brought the Black race thus far in our quest for liberation from imperialism and racism, and for the amelioration of our condition in the world; it continues to be the vehicle for Black African hopes and aspirations for autonomy, respect, power and dignity. This ideology is embedded in the thinking of our intellectual progenitors, from Boukman of Haiti to Biko of South Africa. These thinkers include giants like Dessalines, Blyden, Sylvester Williams, Casely-Hayford, DuBois, Garvey, Padmore, Nkrumah, C.L.R. James, Azikiwe, Malcolm X, Aimé Césaire, Cheikh Anta Diop, Amílcar Cabrai and Nyerere.
There were three main strands of Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century: that of DuBois, that of Garvey and that of Nkrumah. These...