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Posted by MMV on September 18, 2002 at 02:44:45:
Listen Africans: here is an organization with the potential to unite and empower Africans internationally in a grassroots movement of African people themselves.
Join the APU and create your own branch/chapter in Jamaica, Cape Verde, Suriname, Texas, Ghana, etc. to oversee/create an economic wing to support the organization and encourage black wealth circulation, and, where necessary, to create a political party with a Pan-African agenda.
Show you want freedom. Stop talking, start acting.
Stop subscribing for newsletters alone after a visit to our site in a wait-and-see attitude. Don't let it take tangible sight of improvement before you join. The APU is designed with this in mind: you prevent the very things you are afraid will happen from happening through active participation, not by observing.
The APU is a simple yet effective alternative to most who claim to work for and in the name of black people. We are non-denominational. We are not affiliated with any political organization, nor do we subscribe to parochial partisan agendas. Our ambitions are broad, yet the organization can easily meet them, with your support, criticism and encouragement.
The following is not speculation, conjecture or simple innuendo about organizations which already exist and claim to be working for African interests, including Nepad and the AU.
- Their ambitions are restricted to the regional. They limit themselves to a group of Africans, and mostly lay themselves open to exclusivity or elements out to label them in an attempt to isolate them from the rest when need arises. There is very little they can do when isolated for attack, not least because they are weak by their very design, but because their very position can easily be abused to someone else's advantage.
- They require immersion in what turns out to be brainwashing texts to understand and run for many. Since the source education creates an entrapping atmosphere around the mentalities of those engaged in the running or founding, they tend to be replicas or are modeled on organizations with different circumstances or milieus as the designing guide, and the fact that they are not congenial to African settings is overlooked, and hardly given the blame for the failure of these organizations.
- Apart from dependence on funding from suspicious sources, organizations like the new AU have in key positions leaders and officials from governments which are in power through dubious means. In some cases, they are clearly puppets of imperialistic forces, put and maintained in power by the wherewithal of such. Trusting the task of uniting the continent into these hands is counterintuitive. If they succeed, what kind and whose united Africa will it be?
These organizations actually provide the cloak of darkness by which the continent can be robbed. They cause inactivity since everyone is convinced something is being done about the African crisis.
We Africans have been held in bondage for much too long. Enough should be enough. It is time for action. African unity can also be made using channels other than the traditional route through governments elbow deep in colonial constructs, through the grassroots themselves
For more information on the APU, go to "http://apu.mukazo.com" or "http://www.mukazo.com". Request more information or send comments and suggestions to "the-apu@mukazo.com"