Mar 20
Webmaster’s note: Caribbean people are invited to follow and particopate in the debate initiated by Pambazuka News on “Unbearable silence, or How not to deal with your colonial past”.
On 22 March 2012, the German parliament will debate a motion to acknowledge its brutal 1904-08 genocide of the Nama and Herero peoples. Germany’s refusal thus far, and its less than even ‘diplomatic’ treatment in 2011 of the Namibian delegation at the first-ever return of the mortal remains of genocide victims, demands a reassessment of suppressed colonial histories and racism…
Jan 21
Dudley Thompson was the quintessential Pan Africanist and a lifetime fighter for reparation for Africans everywhere. He was a member of the Pan African movement from his early days at Oxford where he was a close associate of giants such as Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, George Padmore of Trinidad and Tobago.
Nov 11
A special issue of the Journal of Pan-African Studies to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the death of the Martiniquan revolutionary and Pan-Africanist scholar, Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), available online.
CONTENTS● The 50th Anniversary of Fanon: Culture, Consciousness and Praxis, Kurt B. Young/Part 1: Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives: ● Frantz Fanon: Existentialist, Dialectician, and Revolutionary, LaRose T. Parris/ Revisiting Fanon, From Theory to Practice: Democracy and Development in Africa, Guy Martin/● Hegel and Fanon on the Question of Mutual Recognition: A Comparative Analysis, Charles Villet/Part II Fanon as Praxis ● Fanon Now: Singularity and Solidarity, Anthony C. Alessandrini/● Reading Violence and Postcolonial Decolonization Through Fanon: The Case of Jamaica, Maziki Thame/● Freedom and Development in Historical Context: A Comparison of Gandhi and Fanon’s Approaches to Liberation, Neil Howard/Part III: Literary Reflections on Fanon● Remembering the Wretched: Narratives of Return as a Practice of Freedom,Andrea Queeley/● Fanon as Reader of African American Folklore, Paulette Richards/● Meditations on Fanon: A Review Essay on John Edgar Wideman’s Fanon: A Novel, Ricky Hill/Part IV Fanon and African Unity, ● Untrapping the Soul of Fanon: Culture, Consciousness and the Future of Pan-Africanism
Kurt B. Young
Nov 02
” The system of international legal principles is the only mechanism that the smaller and less materially powerful nations of the world possess to protect them against the predatory intentions of large and powerful nations, and from the evil doctrine that “might makes right”. This resolution refers to the words of Article 2 (4) of the United Nations Charter, of UN Security Council Resolution 1973 of 17 March 2011 on Libya, and the United Nations General Assembly Declaration On Principles Of International Law - Resolution 2625 of 24th October 1970; and points to the actions of member states of NATO in Libya as constituting egregious breaches of the principles of international law deserving of international condemnation and investigation by the International Criminal Court.
Oct 23
Oil, countering of Russian and Chinese influence, access to African resources, and the targeting of troublesome leaders and regimes, lie behind the Western-sponsored overthrow of the Libyan regime and murder of its leader. Syria, Iran and Venezuela are in the Western sights, and even Russia and China could be targets of imperial belligerence.
The savage killing Thursday of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi served to underscore the criminal character of the war that has been prosecuted by the US and NATO over the past eight months. The assassination follows NATO’s more than month-long siege of Sirte, (which left) virtually every building smashed, with untold numbers of civilians dead, wounded and stricken by disease, as they were deprived of food, water, medical care and other basic necessities…
Oct 20
With every passing day the concepts of international morality and the rule of international law are being murdered in Libya! And so, if it turns out to be true that the British, French and American forces of NATO have finally succeeded in assassinating Libya’s Muammar Gadaffi - just as they have murdered thousands of his fellow citizens - this may well turn out to be the final nail in the coffin of the system of “international law”…
Oct 20
Gaddafi’s killing - with all the hallmarks of a ‘coordinated assassination’ - marks ‘one more episode in this NATO war in Libya and North Africa’, writes Horace Campbell. The ‘remilitarisation of Africa and new deployment of Africom is a new stage of African politics,’ says Campbell…
Oct 08
In my last column I put the current state of the African nation in perspective by observing the creation of the modern world 500 years ago with European military conquest which spread across the planet leaving hundreds of millions dead. Those imperial invasions entrenched a system of apartheid of white over brown over black, all over the world…
Oct 07
Urban architecture and construction is an area which cries out for the application of indigenous values and traditions–the Eastgate Centre and the designs of the Egyptian architect, Hassan Fathy, are stunning examples of sustainable, ecological architecture that required no air-conditioning and which were inspired by the local environment and by indigenous cultural traditions. Those successful examples should inspire Caricom countries to seek their own climate-compatible ecological solutions to the problems of habitat…
