Pan Africanism in Today’s World
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- čas přidán 8. 06. 2022
- This panel explores Pan Africanism and its anti colonial and anti imperialist vision for liberation. In the context of a deepening global economic crisis and the increasing US imperialist offensive against the Global South, how do we understand Pan Africanism as part of the internationalist liberation project?
Photo credit: MIDIA NINJA
Speakers
Kambale Musavuli, Democratic Republic of Congo
Kambale Musavuli, a native of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is a leading human rights advocate and an analyst with the Center for Research on the Congo-Kinshasa. For over a decade he served as the Spokesperson for the Friends of the Congo. Musavuli lectures on conflict minerals, peace and security, advocacy, grassroots mobilizing, social movements, the role of youth in Africa, corporate social responsibility, gender-based violence and its connection to resource exploitation and poverty. He firmly believes that through Pan Africanism based on scientific socialism, Congolese and Africans have a chance to regain control of their land and destiny.
Hermela Aregawi, United States
Hermela Aregawi is a Los Angeles-based Ethiopian-American journalist and community organizer. She is a co-founder of the #NoMore movement at NoMore.Global. No More is a global, grassroots, pro-Africa and pan-African movement that originated in Africa. Hermela worked in Mainstream U.S. media for more than a decade and left in 2021 after being dismayed by western media coverage of the conflict in Ethiopia. Her resume includes CBS Los Angeles, Al Jazeera America, The Young Turks on Current TV - among others media outlets.
James Early, United States
James Early is the former Smithsonian Institution Director of Cultural Heritage Policy and Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service. He is a longtime Cuba, Caribbean, and Latin American solidarity activist. Currently, he is the host of The People’s Forum’s New World Coming, a political education interview series.
Channing Martinez, United States
Channing Martinez is the Director of Organizing, Labor/Community Strategy Center and co-chair of the Bus Riders Union. He is the producer of Voices from the Frontlines, on KPFK. He is a graduate of Audubon Middle School, Crenshaw High School, and Otis College of Art and Design and the Strategy Center’s National Leadership School for Strategic Organizing where he is now a member of the faculty. He plays a significant role representing the Strategy Center in the Police Free LAUSD Coalition which defunded the LA School Police budget by $25 million so far, as they move to full defunding.
Thumbnail photo: Midia Ninja
Moderator:
Eugene Puryear, United States
Eugene Puryear is a journalist and community organizer. As a high schooler in Charlottesville, VA, he organized a walkout when the war in Iraq began in 2003 and continued to organize large demonstrations against U.S. wars and occupations. He was a key leader in the struggle to free the Jena Six. He founded the anti-gentrification group Justice First, the Jobs Not Jails coalition, DC Ferguson Movement and Stop Police Terror Project DC. Puryear was the lead host of “By Any Means Necessary,” the author of Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration in Capitalist America, and currently works for BreakThrough News.
The future belongs to the global South. The West has isolated itself, and now Africa is free to do business with the rest of the world, on its own terms. I am so happy for you all!
What needs to happen, is for organisations from Countries to Unite via Social Media, and co-ordinate protest and demonstration, live. If we do this as well, HOLD co-ordinated Strikes etc..............
The west has isolated itself? The US and Europe combined make up for 47 percent of the global export and import trade.
The west has trade deals with literally every other continent. The west has the most country sovereign members of the IMF.
@@IrishCinnsealach Not for long. Ever heard about BRICS? They just decided to ditch the USD as reserve currency.
@@vonduus have I heard of brics? Why? What does that prove? Brics has 5 member countries the IMF has 194.
There are 30 NATO countries.
You think brics is a threat to them. 😂😂 Get a grip.
It was founded in 2006 by 4 countries since then it's added one new member.
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Won't be long? at that rate it would take 120 years to get another 8 members.
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Oh and does brics support your "the future is the global south" narrative?
China and India are in the east and Russia is west then east?
@@IrishCinnsealach Maybe you should count the number of people in these countries, rather than the number of states. BRICS comprise 40% of the world's populations, and is is growing. While the West is shrinking; a lot of states in the global South, who used to be firmly in the grip of the West, are now looking towards China and Russia.
But okay, how would you know, when you are ignorant of what the simple term "Global South" means.
Hermela: An African Heroines. Brave-hearted. Love you
Wow! You are all hero's of this generation. Thank you for investing your time and efforts to be a voice for the voiceless. #NoMore
Hermela the great journalist with great quality and ethics….
By talking about African matters to Europeans ? Bunch of 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Thank you, the great Marcus Garvey said "Africa for the Africans."
Thanks young generation reviving PAN AFRICANISM. Africa lost many heroes like Patric Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Mummar Gaddafi for freedom of PAN AFRICANISM.Western domination should perish. Thans again for your activity.
Thank you
This beautiful African Queen, along with the Congo King earlier are saying all the right things
All very wonderful, insightful & knowledgeable folks on the panel👍
Hermela we love u we respect every movement panafricanism የኢትዩጵያ የቁርጥ ቀን ልጅ።
I hear, I see, I'm with you. We are here and we are working hard now right now to make changes.
My African brother and sister keep up with the goals you are just talking all about my dreams.
Well done.
Welcome to the sister from the land of ORIGINS 🇪🇹. Bless you my beautiful sister!
A movement of the people able to keep the ruling elite accountable to the people. Very important idea looking at how African states are so often run into the ground by selfish leadership.
Exploitation is the main issue.We lost triple in exploitation combed to corruption.. I'm not saying corruption is right but we must be open minded let don't just follow what white media tell us..
-We lost 50 billion in corruption.
-Over 800 billion in Exploitation.
You do the Math
BT News strikes again! Never disappointed by your work guys. Great group of panelists and discussion. Keep on waking the peoples up and making them aware of their rights and the truth in general. Thank you
Go guys fight for africa and world! I appriciate that, Hermy!! we love you from the east.
It’s a matter of time, everything is from us. Don’t judge me wrong. One day Africa will be a super power…
One afrika!!!!!!!
One voice!!!!!!
One vision!!!!!
Thank you Breakthrough New for what you do. You folks are a beckon of hope. My regards to everyone who organized this event. I'm optimistic about the future as a result of what you folks do.
Brilliant,you said it right,congratulations Hermela and the rest of the panel.thank you,great job,.I’m Eritrean.
Very well-thought and insightful discourse thank you bothers and sister Hermela . You shined and are doing a very worthy job
Good job .keep it up.
Nigerian here. I want to volunteer to join the Pan African movement and community. Where should I go? Who should I connect with?
Yeah, me too and am from Ethiopia
Me too am in zambia couldreally love to be part of this movement..
Me too I’m from america
Mr. Musavuli made some great points. I told people for Africa to look like the West, you would need 600 yrs of looting and about 20 million free Western labor. That said, seminars like this have been held. Now is the implementation phase. Africa needs to set 5 outstanding Regional AU Technical Universities with complete faculties for research in engineering. We also need 5 African regional Disease Control institutes with pharmaceuticals. We must have 3 round of competitive exams to select the best from each country for admissions. We must have regional construction & mining companies for all road and physical development instead of the Chinese. We must establish the African "Friko" currency .
Kambale is an amazing speaker and thinker.
Kudos to BT news and all other militants for this amazing panel ! I'm an Eritrean. I have followed this movement on social media since one year now. It is a must for us africans to unite and take our future on hand. As Kambale put it well, let's know that our basic problem comes from inside. We should fight those pseudo leaders that are in Africa, who don't care about the majority as long as their private interests are granted. Africans should know more about Eritrea and its struggle for independence and the struggle to pave its own path for a geniune socio-economic development.
Harmela love🙏🙏🙏..proud of you all...
James, u are well experienced pan africanist avtivist, let me remind you that the foundation for our modern african strugle against imperialism is the African victory of Menilik The II of Ethiopia over italian in 1888. AMEN
What a great initiative.
Hermela, you are great, intelligent and beautiful pan Africanist, we Ethiopian are proud of you!
Thank you very much for such great contents.
Thank you for bringing the truth about the west. Lots of work to be done
Hermala you are the true and hero person.
Keep it up the africa Quinn,this need big support
Awesome discussion
You are our future!!!
What is needs to happen, is for organisations from Countries to Unite via Social Media, and co-ordinate protest and demonstration, live. If we do this as well, HOLD co-ordinated Strikes etc............
I love you hermala you are the future leader of the world
This conversation is even more important given recent geopolitical events. The exploitation of Africa's resources is going to intensify by a magnitude greater than ever before and it will take shape in the form of neo-colonialism with even more players this time, especially from Asian countries.
The only way to counter this second wave of colonialism is through strength but strength requires unity. I hope every African and all members of our diaspora recognise this and start to take action.
You think youre woke but youre basing on mainstream media again. Russia and China have no intention of exploiting Africa or Latin America. Themselves are currently fighting American imperialism from all fronts. The conflict of Ukraine was propped up by the Industrial military complex ' NATO.
@@alexlim6300 no disrespect but from your last name I’m assuming you’re not of African ancestry. I only raise this because I made my point from the perspective that Africans need to take a more Afro-centric approach to their continent. Yes, China and Russia may very well be fighting against American imperialism but that doesn’t, therefore, mean they suddenly have the interests of Africans at heart. For example, China is an ethnocentric society with the Han ethnicity being the predominant power within their society and most policy decisions serve the interests of the Han ethnicity. It’s naive for Africans to think that the Chinese invest and build infrastructure within Africa from a position of doing what’s best for the interests of Africans. Of course they don’t, the only difference is they don’t carry out a facade, like the West does, claiming to offer some sort of humanitarian development, whilst they rob you blind.
Africa needs to be Afro-centric in the way it allows it’s natural resources to be accessed and utilised by other states, and ultimately serve the interests of Africans first.
@@mdz1291 As we are speaking, Africa has had a lot of infrustructure build whether its roads, ports. They chose to get contracts from China instead of getting debt traps from the IMF and World bank which is basically run by the West. of course African countries can grow its economy. Gaddafi of Libya wanted that but he was violently murdered by the rebels that were trained by the US. China and Russia have long diplomatic ties ever since the countries of the world came out of the colonial era. The Chinese government lets ehtnic minorities get into the top universities favoring over the Han so I dont know what youre talking about. I dont give a shit if youre white , gay, muslim but if you can help me i welcome you with open arms.
@MDz Your view of China is very prejudiced. Your statement China is the same as the West, only difference is the Western facade, is wrong..
China hasn't been in a war for 40 years, instead China lifted 850 million people out of poverty, yes including the ethnic minorities. Meanwhile the West has literally killed millions of people all around the world in those 40 years. Not a day when they were not at war somewhere.
The US dropped on average 46 bombs per day in the last 20 years. China dropped 0 bombs..
How many governments did China overthrow? How many nations in Africa did China bomb and invade ever? China was already in Africa 500 years ago with the biggest naval fleet in the world at that time, but never attacked any African nation. What about the West?
148 nations have joined the BRI, nobody forced these nations to join. I can assure you these nations did not join because they love to be abused and robbed blind by China, that makes no sense at all..
Speechless 👏👏👏👏👏👏
Eugene is well informed
This is the mission of Africa leadership Academy and university in south africa, ethiopia,rwanda, egypt,muritius and more are there to change and decolonize west education.
So refreshing to hear so many talented bright and woke young people
"Fighters for independence, today victorious, I salute you! " Kwame Nhrumah 💕👍🙌
Hermela hero for the truth
your analysis really beautiful
Great insight !
Eye-opening, l Love listening to you guys. Learn a lot today thank you.
Hermela Aregawi, You're just a brave girl. You're a true nationalist and pan Africanist. We Ethiopians love you and proud of you very much.
Peace For Africa Peace For World
Great conversation this kind of talk will educate people especially people in the western countries. We really appreciate BT 💪🙏❤
Appreciate the focus on education to help those of us still in the infancy of our understanding of the movement.
Isreal's observer status in the AU was revoked if I'm not mistaken.
Yes it was..
Yes #TPLF is #Ethnic-Fascist Terrorist group in the Eastern Africa claiming 6% of the Ethiopian population.
For those who don’t know #Fascist.
Fascism is a political #philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the #TPLF) that exalts nation and often #race above the #individual and that stands for a #centralized autocratic government headed by a #dictatorial leader, #severe economic and social #regimentation, and forcible #suppression of opposition.
Go and ask your daa he will tell you everything about tdf
#no more colonized Africa hands off now 🇪🇹💪🏽🇪🇷
Wow , we will get there
Hermela- yes!
God bless👍
Great panel discussion. Breakthrough News you are such an inspiration and so much the type of real news and the real honest brutally frank journalism that is so very much needed in our very critical times. You are such a great beacon of hope in such a morrass of outrght lies, propaganda, rightwing political reaction demogogery, decit, countinued outright anti-Blackness by the establishment capitalist media and politicians. Keep on doing the great work you've been doing.
Great panel discussion. Shout out to Hermela Aregawi for her hard work in the #NoMore movement
Great group wonderful yes we can
Paraphrasing: If the West praise me, I have betrayed you, if they demonize me, it means I am doing the right thing by my people - Late Great Sekou Toure.
Thanks to Hermela, for the full scope about Ethiopia & talk about Anti-Africa U.S Sanctions.
France was doing the samething with Boko Haram.
Harmela, a good information.
bless you all what you said all is true
How are we supposed to move forward with our legs restrained by the western rope?
Always blaming the West for our woes.It is really a shame.Our mindset is what draws us back.It is not the West.We Africans should get rid of our mental slavery first.That is when we would see progress and development.
እግዚአብሔር ይጠብቅሽ እውነትን ይዘሽ ስለምትሄጅ
We need summit of the African people no politicians.
Yes, how do we take on the Big Boys?
Hermela you nailed it go on sister !!!
Thank you everyone 🙏👍👌
Africans have a saying, when white people came to our lands, they gave us the bible, they asked us to close our eyes and pray to the Lord, when we opened our eyes, we had the Bible, and they had all our lands and resources. It's heart breaking, my heart goes to all my African brothers and sisters 💔
Ma11111111111 mopoondoo macondo 5
Do you know Christianity was in Ethiopia in Africa before Europe?
@Some One no, I didn't know, I know they been everywhere including my own country India, now days they're not burning people on the cross, but they different and subtle tactics to convert people, Christianity is not a religion,
@Ismail Hadija please can you explain in a another way, because cannot what you're saying , because I'm not understanding what you're saying.
@@SomeOne-yo1hhno I didn't know that,
Paul Kagame certainly does have blood on his hands but the story of the Rwandan genocide was certainly one of targeting of Tutsis and Tutsi sympathetic Hutus. It's total revisionism to deny this. I don't know of a single incident of the RPF taking entire families out to a river and chopping them into pieces. This certainly happened to innumerable Tutsis however. How do I know? Because it happened to my extended family of which maybe 5% survived.
The left absorbing this totally absurd narrative is really sad. The truth is that Rwanda was a war between the Anglophone colonialists and the Francophone colonialists. The Anglos chose the RPF. They didn't like the socialist leanings of the early RPF so they had their stooge, Kagame, assassinate Fred Rwigyema and take control. The French, however, was busy trying to eliminate their main opposition, the Tutsis within Rwanda. Their chance came when Habyarimana was assassinated. By Kagame? Possibly. By France? Also possible. By the U.S./U.K.? Also possible.
Nonetheless, there was a plan in place to kill, mostly by hand, the entirety of the Tutsi population which had resisted French colonialism for decades.
After, the RPF came through and displaced the Interahamwe government, then the U.S. activated their real plan for Kagame and his well-trained military force: to dominate the Congo.
I make no excuses for the imperialist stooge, Kagame, but I also don't understand how the left can twist a history that is so thoroughly documented. It's tantamount to denying the nature of the Holocaust just because Israel is now a fascist apartheid state. A narrative doesn't need to be convenient to your pre-held notions to be true. You can accept that there was a true genocide of up to 1M Tutsis while also accepting the fact that Kagame is a stooge of U.S. imperialism that is ransacking the DRC.
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You guys keep leaving out Marcus Garvey, the REAL father of Pan Africanism. He founded the UNIA, the largest black organisation in the world at the time. So, one cannot talk about Pan Africanism without mentioning Marcus Garvey
Also, you guys not even mentioning His Majesty Haile Selassie I, a founding member of the OAU/African Union. Also he established African Union Headquarters in Addis Ababa Ethiopia 🇪🇹
Panafricanism will grow
Big up BT
I sit here listening to ALL these speakers, and NONE mentioned MARCUS GARVEY!😳😳...WOW!!
There's is that guy wearing locks and at no time he mentioned Marcus Garvey, or His Majesty Haile Selassie I 😳😳..WOW!!
Audience, please correct me, if you view my position to be without merit? I view power in terms of population size, economic and military power with a global reach that can de deployed on demand! Three fourths of the global population resides in the pacific rim. Recent data suggest that the continent of Africa's population will exceed 2 billion people by 2030. When, I observe the current international order, I believe that the world has reached an inflection point. The foundations are already laid for the respective Asian, African and Latin America century. It is unstoppable. I consult here with history. History teaches mankind that international power architectures evolves and shifts. The eurocentric world is becoming increasingly untenable.
Hermela go on....
Simone Bolivar was living in Jamaica for a while, he was giving help by Hati on the conditions that he would free the slaves after the revolution but he didn't.
Anybody have any books recs on Pan-Africanism
Every black person must see n hear these guys.
Do you consider somalis to be black
@@IbrahimMohamed-kw7vi I am not in colouring people, Somalis are Somalis.😬
@@IbrahimMohamed-kw7vi Yep Somalis are African aka black in America...
@@lloziO african yes, but black is what African Americans identify as because they don't know where they come from as they are originally enslaved people, africans Americans went through slavery and jim crow and where identified as black by their slave owners, somalis don't relate or associate with that terms, also im not proud to day this but some somalis were actually involved in the slave trade, selling bantu african slaves onwords to the arabian peninsula
@@IbrahimMohamed-kw7vi The term Black is older than colonization.. It was first called Hem/Kem which both mean "Black people".. In south Africa we where called Black also... Black is not a true identity but it simply means you are Indigenous to the African continent that includes Somalis..So if have African DNA You Black..It that simple It doesn't matter who sold whom to slavery..Mistreat or sell someone doesn't charge her/his identity... Who Germany bombed Europeans countries in the 1800s but they still white & calling themselves that...
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Channing Martinez has a good knowledge of what American Neocolonialism is doing
Best of luck to african countries and don't let american and western country to spoil your country.
Those Blessed wait the speedy return of Jesus Christ while others who are in deep sleep talk about pan africanism
I'm more for regional blocks. SADC for me and wherever else for the other regions
We're victory nuland
VIVA POMBE MAGAFURI OF TANZANIA, YOU DIED IN POWER ,YOU WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN ,MAGAFURIFICATION OF AFRICA IS ON THE WAY SOON.
600 years and counting nothing new.
I would love the Africans and Caribbeans to unite with Black Americans and stop hating us:/ I've been very alienated in so many conversations with folks. But I'm still willing to unite! We all have some power to contribute!
I Am Spartacus !
Ur brothers and sisters in the diaspora should come and help Dr Arikana
24:15 deja-vu... sounds like Rwanda
😛😛hermela
Hello my dear friends thanking all of you and Pan Africansim can you share me in your Pan A groups to participate
#PanAfricanismRising
I thought Swaziland is called Eswatini now?
be sure to build for bicycles and public transit rather than cars. cars suck and are inefficient
Africa and the Continent must concentrate on 5he Continent of Africa
Now made belief of the Unnecessary activities in Ukraine must not be point of conversations
What Hermela’ is saying about Ethiopia and Eritrea got nothing to do whit pan Africanism
I don’t have a problem with everything else she says
But to cover up for real dictators using such a useful platform is not really useful,
Are you high? Or are you on any type of medication? What dictator? Please ask your doctor to prescribe you a different medication before it gets worries!!! Good day and good night!!
If Who is dictator is your question it’s obvious the whole world know issayas afrworki is dictator!!!
About being high I really don’t know what that got to do with the issue,but anyway I can tell you have very low intellectual capacity.so no comment on that one!!!
Kambale Musavuli and Hermela Aregawi made clear to everyone the connection to THEIR linage. The black Americans didn't nor have we (BA) ever in history and why it was important for them to do so. BA fought and died to change the immigration laws so people like Aregawi could come here. When have they or any group in Africa fought for us especially when they came to the states?? The data says immigrants all through history gained higher wealth than BAs. That's what the stereo types about us were for, wealth not ignorance.
I think u missed the whole point of the discussion; pointing fingers doesn't help at all. We in Africa also feel the same way u do; we ask what have they (BA)done for us, they don't even want to hear our problems and they have failed to see that our fates are intertwined and want to run away as far as possible from African problems. But the truth is we all need each other and our efforts need to be organized. There will be people from both sides that are not aware of many things that go on in America and Africa but it is through discussions like this that we can go far and achieve true independence. Kambale and Hermela mentioned their lineage because it was important to their stories, to explain why and how they are in the position they are right now. So please brother/sister let's leave the things that divide us and focus on the things that unite us and move forward to create a better world for all of us.
@@gggmichael2561 "We in Africa also feel the same way u do; we ask what have they (BA)done for us" I just told you what we done for you. We changed the immigration laws so you could come to this country. You know that it was Africans that captured and sold us as slaves. What are talking about? you owe us an apology and reparations. ya haven't done anything. How dare you??
@@lurelover7065 I don't think it is fruitful to discuss about the past in this sense, saying it is Africans that sold us etc since there might be a lot we don't know and understand but currently I know many Africans including myself who are contributing positively towards ur fight against systemic racism in the US whether it is through financial contribution or by spreading the word so that others can wake up too and help in the fight. So what I am trying to say is blaming each other can only benefit the enemy.
@@gggmichael2561 The truth isn't fruitful in what sense??? There might be a lot YOU don't know. Please, there are always "individuals" who are an exception to the rule that's no different than when someone white arguing that not all whites are racist. How can I be playing a blame game when I'm telling you the truth??
@@lurelover7065 the truth u think u know today is not usually the truth that was in the past. U know having slaves in those days was kind of normal, I mean even with in the same country the winners in a war would take slaves from those that were defeated. But one thing I can tell u for sure is our ancestors including those that are responsible for capturing the slaves had no idea that the situation would be as it turned out to be (involving skin color and all that cruelty, which is why they fought hard for centuries to get their independence once they knew what was happening). So even though there is truth in what u said, we should also try to understand the circumstances of the past.