EFF brings Professor Patrick Lumumba lecture on the History of Pan Africanism

and therefore by 1863 when Abraham Lincoln was signing the proclamation treaty it was as much a contribution of the uncelebrated efforts of people like Marcus Garvey but Marcus Garvey aside it is Williams from Trinidad whose activities spawned modern-day pan-africanism and we remember that Williams in the year 1900 organized a meeting in London and that meeting held in London and organized by that great man was the beginning of the efforts toward bringing Africans irrespective of where they were geographically geographically resident to talk about Africa the 1909 1900 the meeting was ordered by yet another meeting in 1990 and that meeting was organized by yet another great African and great an African is wb2 WA and Du Bois was telling his audience at that time there are kith and kin in the continent a business enslaved our kids and kin have been colonized and if we do not support them they'll not regain their independence the 1919 meeting was fathered once again by the 1921 meetin and 1923 meetings both held in London and ultimately in 1927 there was a meeting in New York but the most critical meetings for pan-africanism at least the one that we can relate to in the continent of Africa was in 1945 that was held in Manchester in the United Kingdom well I think that that was very significant because Africans were represented there Kwame Nkrumah represented Ghana at that meeting Peter Brahms was present from South Africa Hastings in wauzeka muzu Banda was present from Malawi Jomo Kenya was present from Kenya uber Samia Walla WA was present from Nigeria and they were representation from Jamaica and from Trinidad and from the United States of America the 1945 meeting was critical because at that time all African countries were under the tutelage of colonization except for Ethiopia and Liberia Liberia having been established as a settlement for freed slaves in 1847 and Ethiopia of course through the exploits of Emperor Menelik had defeated the Italians at the Battle of Ottawa and whenever there for successfully colonized after 1945 the struggle for independence was moving in honest and I think that the world war had help in this regard the freedom of India in 1947 had also helped in making colonization as a form of control to be one that was not very attractive to the colonizing powers which brings me to the question of how Africa was then divided Africa as we know was divided in Berlin in 1884 and it was divided at that time amongst the European powers chiefly the United Kingdom Spain Portugal Germany and of course the Belgians through the activities of Leopold sometimes refer to as Leopold of the Congo had also succeeded of course they were also other area the Arabs were present as colonizers in Zanzibar the amani Arabs and we know that that particular exercise of the partition of Africa was deliberately designed ensure that African countries were easy to manipulate but as I've said by 1900 45 the United Nations organizations have been having been established in San Francisco in the United States and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights also having been in those in Paris France in 1948 had recognized that colonization was dehumanizing so that of the sixth day of March 1957 well Ghana regained our independence Kwame Nkrumah was very clear but I think Kwame Nkrumah is not credited as much as he should be in this struggle for pan-africanism if you listen to kwame's statement of his speech on the day of the independence he was as clear as he was passionate that the independence of Ghana meant nothing if the rest of Africa was not free and he started in earnest to energize are the African leaders you remember that it is at that time that the French Fourth Republic was also being introduced with the return of shaadi gone into power and at that time would majorly happen for the benefit of Africa with the decision of Guinea through her Mexico today to vote no so that they could gain their independence and by 1958 we now had Ghana and Ghana representing the former British colonies as having regained our independence and of course Guinea Conakry representing the former French colonies having regained their independence and it is significant at that time the common core uma remains very faithful to his agenda because in 1958 in Accra Ghana he calls a meeting the all African people's meeting and what he is telling the leaders at that time at the leaders of the countries which were in depend at that time and in not meeting the countries represented were Ghana Guinea Ethiopia Sudan and Egypt and he was telling his tall words at at that time if we are going to conquer the colonies we must be united and we must move as one united front and it is instructive that although Ghana was independent in 1959 Kwame Nkrumah convinced us of Mexico to a and William tockman of Liberia to sign a treaty in-sample in Liberia to think about Africa as a united front there are series of meetings at that time the first meeting that we see at that time is in nineteen hundred and sixty in 1960 we see the meeting that is held that in 1960 and 1961 a meeting is held in Casablanca in Morocco and the meeting in Casablanca in Morocco is one that once a day is attended by through Pan Africanist it must always be remembered that even as early as those days the colonial powers were very clear in the agenda with some time to a subtle sometimes was not very subtle particularly the French the French had succeeded in recruiting the leaders of the so-called independent in francophone Africa people like ferric sulfate Bernie people like silver moons Olympia in turbot and others and these were essentially fifth columnist whose agenda was to torpedo the entire process of the fight against colonization so that when the meeting is held in Casablanca in Morocco at that time and even before we go to Casablanca in Morocco in 1963 another meeting in Aradhana and at that meeting we begin to see people beginning to get to gain interest in the struggle for independence and I go back to 1960 because Frantz Fanon is representing Algeria at that time even before the Algerians have regained their independence and this is going to be significant because the struggle for decolonization becames becomes the rather the rallying point in the struggle to unite the African peoples but we are talking about Casablanca but the colonialists have succeeded in persuading some Africans that you don't need unity what you need is nationalized nationalism so that we have two groups in 1961 the Casablanca group which comprises Algeria Egypt DNA and Libya and then of course we have sometimes what is referred to as the Monrovia or the Brazzaville group the Monrovia group is led by people that William tockman is led by people like the people the leaders from Nigeria and you have a number of people who think and are telling Kwame Nkrumah Kwame we know you are talking about unity but we hold the view the RAM freaka can not be united in the manner that you desire we are going to retain our nationalism but we are going to cooperate but the kuruma is telling them this is not the route to take ultimately both the cost of blanca group and the Monrovia group meet in Addis Ababa Ethiopia in 1963 and that is when the organization of African Unity is founded so that indeed it is the Monrovia Brazzaville group that wins and Kwame Nkrumah and the Casablanca group loses out but I wanted to listen to the speech of Carmen Akuma on the 23rd day of May in 1963 in Addis Ababa he was as passionate as he was eloquent he told his audience and allow me to paraphrase if we do not come out of this meeting with a United African government with one army with one currency with one capital I am Telling You that they asked while colonizer is going to ensure that we are divided those of you are present we are going to get used to your national flowers to your national anthems to your national motors those of you are going to be appointed as ministers are going to enjoy the perks that come with your office those of you are here as heads of states and government you are going to get used to 21 gun salute and he is not going to be easy to unite Africa he found me they are listened to the AUSA giver on that day Africa would have been totally different but lo and behold we ended up with a weak organization of African Unity whose history we know and whose history will discuss on another day but suffice it to say that after the 1963 meeting there was yet another meeting in Cairo in 1964 and when we are holding the Cairo meeting in 1964 once again it is the Monrovia Brazzaville group that is with the question at that time what do we do with the inherited colonial boundaries there are those who argued at that time that if we move in the direction of changing these boundaries it will create conflict at that time there was already a boundary conflict between Ethiopia and Somalia and ultimately in Cairo we came up with what is the organization's Africa's doctrine on the inviolability of the independence boundaries and it was agreed that the independence boundaries would not be disturbed and ultimately of course we know what that has brought about in terms of undermining African Unity it is also instructive that I am a tired they are those who took the view that there was something that was beginning to emerge the emergence of the Soviet Union after the world war 2 and the emergence of the United States of America and therefore a bipolar world so that the world is forced to look either East knowest and that is why Kwame Nkrumah says we should neither look East no West we should look forward and if you will appreciate that it is done that he writes his book in 1963 Africa must unit and he enters into an arrangement with Harvard secretary of Guinea Modi Pacquiao Molly come on Abdel Nasser of Egypt Hamid benbella of Algeria a big go gibbehhh' of Tunisia and Julius compared our dinner area and they are working jointly with Joanna Nehru in India and they come up with the idea of the non-aligned movement the movement that is non-aligned and positively neutral we are later going to look East no West a lot of activities are taking place and Africa is getting undermined at that time in 1963 there are 32 independent African countries what then begins to happen after 1965 1965 is a mocker year because in 1965 Kwame Nkrumah convenes a meeting in Accra Ghana and the meeting had two agenda items agenda item number one that we must leave Accra with the United government having failed in 1963 we must leave with the United government agenda item number two that we must not forget that there are some African countries which are still under the colonial yoke and it is incumbent upon all of us to ensure that we begin to move in the direction of guaranteeing their independence but unfortunately once again Kwame Nkrumah did not cause the day and what ended up happening is that the African liberation movement is what was established and ultimately the organization of African Unity did accept to form the African liberation committee which was to be headquartered in Dar Salaam in Tanzania but it is critical at that time that the colonialists have started to invade Africa invade Africa in a very subtle way the French are active the British are active the Portuguese have yet to yield their their colonies in Africa namely Mozambique Angola Guinea Bissau and kept there they are still under the Portuguese tutelage Equatorial Guinea has also not been freed from the yoke of the Spaniards Africa is in a very dangerous thing and yet again it is the essentia for Kwame Nkrumah whose name I shall pronounce and state ad nauseam today because actually he is the high priest of pan-africanism the osaki arrives a book neocolonialism the last stage of capitalism once again is warning the people that we cannot afford the luxury of resting on our laurels and you know what is Sir at that time through the activities of the colonial powers is that the era of assassinations and khuda' turns begin in Africa it begins as early as nineteen hundred and sixty Silvano's Olympia is assassinated in 1960 barely a few months after becoming the head of state of talk and is instructed that Silvano's Olympia actually escaped to the Embassy of the United States of America and is instructed that in fact and is debated that it is the French and the Americans who engineered is that I know the leg press the nothing may atom a claim that is the one who shot him but who ID him to shoot Olympia we have started a totally different phase Olympia is dead in nineteen hundred and sixteen and we now have Lumumba in 1961 once again Joseph Casa booboo has been recruited by the Belgians Mobutu Sese Seko has been recruited by the Belgians and Patrice Lumumba is assassinated at the behest of these powers courtesy of moisture Chompy and Congo has never known peace you had this type they are disturbing izing these countries to ensure that Africans are not United and after 1961 in 1966 Kwame Nkrumah himself is overthrown and after Kwame is removed from power the pan-africanism debate now begins to take the back burner I am NOT of course unaware that people like Julius compared in your area are still alive well but the truth is that with the death of common Akuma Africa is destabilized we see now the frequency of coos and some African commentators are now beginning to say that coos were as frequent as breakfast in Africa because immediately after Carmen is overthrown in neighborhood in Nigeria we see the departure of Nnamdi Azikiwe and Santa Fowler believer and after that a series of who's in that part of the world in Algeria had been Bella is also patron in Mali or in Mali Madiba kita is also a patron in Guinea Bissau cost not in the 60 but in later and the seventies in Guinea Bissau Milkha Tehran is also a patron and you can begin to see that the only people who are spared the food eaters are the Greek roots recruits such as phallic super bunny akka diva recruit such as daughter Kyra by Jawara of Guinea and others who are wishy-washy people alike léopold sédar Senghor although he lived the Negritude movement but he's as much a Francophile as he pretends to be an african so that there is a sense in which when you go into the entire alien region whether you are in in Mauritania we see a coup d'etat and the emergence of Mukhtar all Dada and you go down there and you see the departure of people like David Rocco in central Africa and the emergence of sharp Adele Picasa and you go into different countries you see changes have taken place and all these are designed to undermine Africa meanwhile the question that then arises is that Africa is divided into this new world you will remember I talked about the bipolar world the United States of America and the Soviet Union they themselves I engage in recruitment and I think this is very critical so that we are better able to appreciate why the pan-african movement is now undermined we now have those who are lying to the east and those who are lying to the west and Africa becomes a theater of conflict and we have with groups such as my Buddhist is the circle doing all manner of evil in the Democratic Republic of Congo but you cannot remove them because the United States of America ensures that they are there people are shot but the Bokassa cannibals but you can't remove them and even in the north and sometimes I hear this debate whether our Arab friends are also or candidates for pan-africanism permit me to remind my audience and you kids and kin and brethren that in the early days of the Strad beyond bin being upon arabic panelists Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt was a great pan-africanist have met Mandela of Algeria was the great pan-africanist a bit boggy BER of Tunisia was equally a great pan-africanist and it is instructive that much later in the year 2000 the real successor in terms of enthusiasm and passion for Africa was to be more moral Gaddafi of Libya in 2002 when he signed the agreement for the formation of the a you insert a and ultimately its adoption in Johannesburg in South Africa in a nutshell what one is saying and why this history is important it helps us to understand why the enterprise was to be towed by the machinations of the Western powers who do not want to see Africa United but allow me to backpedal a little as we are talking about the African liberation movement and pan-africanism we must also remember that many African countries were still not free from the colonial yoke and that is why in addition to the African liberation movement that was established in Dar Salaam in Tanzania in 1975 for the purpose only of focusing on the countries that were not independent in the south and African countries the frontline States was created and adopted by the OAU in 1975 with Meniere's comparable in your area as the chair and their gender of the frontline States and which comprised the Tanzania Zimbabwe Angola Zambia those things were mandated with the task of ensuring that Mozambique was free Rhodesia then which is embarked way was free Namibia was free Angola was free and South Africa to be liberated from the apartheid regime and it is critical to appreciate that it is the pan-african spirit that informed the formation of the frontline state the appetite regime was raised in these countries every soft we remember at one time an armored column nearly reached Angola Luanda Angola but ultimately through the efforts of the frontline state which was chaired as I've said well Amelia kaburagi narrator between 1975 and 1985 when Kenneth David Kondo Sambia now took over this was sacrificial and they were designed to ensure that once we are all free we can now unite and begin to look at the agenda of pan-africanism in the mana that was conceived in the 1960 and if you go a little further even in the 1900 what then happened with the frontline state because I think this is very critical because a lot of energy was being consumed by the countries which was still under the colonial yoke in Angola we see that even as we have parties that are fighting there are some parties which are not pan-africanist FNLA of Holden Roberto who need of Yanis mulheres Savimbi and of course we have Agostinho Neto MPLA it succeeds because it is supported in it is assumed that Leto is going to join in the pan-african agenda equally when the African is supporting zanu-pf at that time or designer zanu-pf and so at that time it is assumed that after Robert Mugabe and just one Como regained power from the Smith administration they will strengthen the African movement and equally when we see in Mozambique after the death of Eduardo Mullane and the emergence of some more amorous Michelle we are convinced that these are people who are going to be the engines of the struggle for independence and of course we also know that at that time Samri oma in Namibia is also ensuring that we we are moving in that direction so that in 1994 when Nelson Mandela becomes the president of South Africa and the appetite regime has been decimated we now know that indeed the Pan Africanist movement and when Mandela attended the organization of African meeting in June in Tunis Tunisia and sits Africa celebrates it celebrates because they are now 53 independent African countries no African country is under the colonial yoke of course you now know that we are 54 countries with South Sudan having broken away in the year 2012 22 2011 but at that time we celebrated because appetite was over this once again brings me to the entire question of pan-africanism it is something that is alive today as it is as it was alive in the early days because I've mentioned South Africa little bit I want us to backpedal to the year 1900 and six just to inform us particularly the younger Africans that the idea of pan-africanism was an old one you know as I said a liberal idea in 1900 the Williams from Trinidad was calling a meeting in London and we had the meetings in Manchester and we had all this meeting of the pan-african movement you remember in 1945 we talked about the Manchester meeting the pan-african meeting in 1974 we had a pan-african meeting in dar Salam in 1994 we had a father who can beat in Kampala Uganda and in the year 2014 we had a pun of competing in Johannesburg South Africa where does that spirit come from it came as I've already said in the 1900 but I wanted to speak about above an event in 1906 this was a speech that was delivered on the 5th day of April 1906 in Columbia University of Columbia by a great South African to South African tour give much credit Pixley Kosaka 7 in that speech which I commend to everybody untitled the regeneration of Africa picks like a circus ma looks at Africa and he says among other things that I look to the day when I go through the Sahara and I cast my eyes beyond Sahara and I go down into the Congo and I look at the last equatorial of Congo and I go beyond that and look to King chief comer of the batana and I go beyond that and I go to Angola and I go down to South Africa that I look courted the day where Africa will be regenerated Pixley kazama's a Kazakh salmon is clear about the pan-african agenda so today when we talk about pan-africanism against the history that one can only do justice to a certain extent given the constraints of time we find ourselves at a time when we are gone through those phases Africa has seen independence Africa has seen post independence Africa seen Cody turns Africa has seen guerrilla movements Africa has seen civil wars Africa has seen genocides in Rwanda Africa seen ethnic walls Africa seen religious wars but amidst all these there is a single spirit that remains alive and well and that spirit is that we must be united and that is why to talk about pan-africanism it is a latter-day understanding when the organization of African Unity heads of states and government granted in our disobey Theo Pia to celebrate 50 years after the formation of the OAU in 1963 South Africa's new causes are not limini took Oh Susannah Zuma who was then the chair wrote an imaginary letter to crime a new Karuma I will paraphrase the letter because she was saying in effect mrs. Zuma he was telling the AUSA careful how had we listened to you Africa would be different hard we listened to you we would now be united and we would not be at the dinner table of the Americans of the Europeans they type stock or the English stock or the French stock or the German stock we would not be at the dinner table being humiliated by the Chinese Zuma wrote that imaginary Latin said but all is not lost I can look forward to the day when Africa will have regained our last when the Democratic Republic of Congo will be the engine of Africa when there'll be a railway line from Addis Ababa Ethiopia to dhaka in Senegal when they'll be a railway line from Cape Town in South Africa to Cairo in Egypt Zuma rewrites that imaginary letter to America and I want to believe that that is the basis of Africa agenda 2063 because other agenda 2063 is actually a rehash of what Kwame Nkrumah was saying in the 1960 though so that today when we talk about agenda 2063 we must see it in the context of the lost opportunity and the desire of Africa that by 2060 three we will be united but I hope that it will be sooner rather than later that is how I understand the Africa continent of free trade area signed in Kigali Rwanda in the year 2018 which tells us that we must now you know that is how understand the Yamoussoukro agreement we say that the African skies must be open that is how I understand them a putas protocol that is our understanding all these protocols that is how I even understood that Libya the Lagos plan of action of 1980 of ensuring that Africa grows as one unit today when we talk about pan-africanism we must remind ourselves that pan-africanism is about uniting us we must tell ourselves whether we are Africans in the mother continent oh we are Africans in the United States of America or we are Africans in the Caribbean whether you are in Jamaica or Barbados or Buddha or in Brazil or in Europe Africans in the Diaspora we are saying that the time is now when Africa must begin to rebook we are telling ourselves that the parties that invoked the name of pan-africanism must now revive every political party in africa must now ask the question when will we dissolve all these boundaries when will it be possible in the spirit of pan-africanism that i can move without latin ignorance from Johannesburg in South Africa through to Namibia and from Namibia through to the suit to and from the suit to through to equity me and from ensatina through to Mozambique and from Mozambique through 2:02 to Zimbabwe and from Zimbabwe through to Angola and from Angola to Equatorial Guinea and from Equatorial Guinea I can move to Malawi and Zambia and have a t2 of the Camorra land from Kimora to Madagascar the decision and I as I comma am able to move into Tanzania and the Democratic Republic of Congo and I don't stop there I moved to Uganda and I moved to one and to Burundi and to Nairobi move to Eritrean to Somali and I don't stop there I go to Djibouti and from there I move to South Sudan and to Sudan and I don't stop there I go to Egypt go to attorney and I don't stop there and I come down into Algeria and I don't stop there and I go to Morocco and I don't stop there and I go to Gambia and I don't stop there and I go to Senegal and I go to Mauritania and I go to night night Misha and I go to Nigeria and I go to book enough Faso and I don't stop there I come to Central African Republic I come to come and rule I come to Amazonia to talk open in to Liberia to Sierra Leone Guinea and Guinea Bissau unto Liberia so that I don't need a passport to move in that way today Africa has currencies which none of which is called the hard currency we are here during the corona and some of us are now trying to hoard dollars because our countries mean nothing outside of our boundaries I look forward to the day because what that is what an African ISM is all about I look forward to the day when there is only one currency and that currents whether you call it afro or you call it any other name it is a currency that we can use I look forward to the day when the South Africans will not be threatened by the Nigerians or the Ghanaians threatened by the Nigerian I look forward to the day when I can set shop in Captain and nothing happens and that is how I understand latter-day pan-african such as Tamar isidori sankhara Tomine Sidora Shankara took power in 1985 1983 and within five years he had come and was speaking a different language sometimes when we talk about Thomas Sankara we think about the agent of karma new Karuma he lived in our lifetime but he used the opportunity of energizing the process of pan-africanism that is why I understand latter-day pan-africanist such as my good friend Jerusalem ulema who on a daily basis are telling Africans that our only salvation lies in our unity our reminding us that we cannot survive the a lot of the Chinese if we are disunited we cannot realize our potential if we disunited I hold the wheel that pan-africanism is our Avenue to success I hold the view that pan-africanism must now be understood not differently but in the manner that it was conceived by kamila Karuma in the manner that was understood by Julia's camera in your area but Camino Karuma is not telling us from the grave that his ideas are set in stone kwame nkrumah is telling us that you the younger generation must now take the baton and this brings me to the speech that I started with the speech that was delivered on the 6th day of March 1997 by Julia's camera January I had stopped at a point when Mohammad said that our salvation demanded that we are united and he said if Africans think that they can respect their so-called the boundaries in these little enviable countries then God saved them but God is not in the business of saving those who have chosen to embrace stupidity for its own sake well you say well he was said that when he retired at the president of Tanzania whenever he went out and he was introduced at the president of Tanzania some in his audience asked and what is Tanzania is Tanzania next to Johannesburg they do not know well you say but they recognize the fact that he was an African he reminded that it is not our Tanzanian s that matters it is not our Kenyan s it is not our Ugandan s o South African s or Namibian s or Angolan s that matters it is our African s when the Chinese are punishing our Africans in guangzhou in china during this karana period they make no distinction between Nigerian and Ghanaian and Kenyan all they see is or blacks killed when we are being humiliated in European efforts and are being asked for all manner of vaccinations and I suspect that in the coming future we will not go to Europe unless we have a vaccine which is manufactured by Roche or some other pharmaceutical company in Europe we will not be allowed to go into that part of the world when our great sons and daughters in the Diaspora are being humiliated in the United States of America in Brazil they are not asking whether they are done ends or whether they are denounced or whether their Central African Republic and they are saying these are Africa they are one stock Manila was say and he said that our generation may have been successful in midwifing the process of Independence the time is now that you younger generation must now take the baton and ensure that all this little Lagoon organization that you have created east african community sadaq ECOWAS Maghreb Central African Unity combined them into one so that Africa can't be united and we are not being naive in saying that we will be united immediately we must begin to move in the direction because I'm being hosted from South Africa I want to remember something that I saw as a young man in the 1980 it is a documentary prepared by a great fan Africanist under Kenyan professor Ali Mazrui Africa a triple heritage and in that particular documentary he talks about many things but I am choosing only one because it captures a conversation with the current president of South Africa Matt amela syndrome oppose who was then the Secretary General of a trade union in those younger days he had a beard those younger days he smoked and smoked in style and as Missouri talks about him he says that they have been many trade unionists who have been in the struggle for the liberation of Africa he said socata ray was a trade unionist patrice Emery Lumumba was a trade unionist whether a Mufasa will one day move from trade unionism to political leadership I do not know Missouri was not a Jewish prophet but Matt Amina Cyril Ramaphosa is now the president not only of South Africa but the chair of the African Union how I wish that when he leaves that office of the chair of the AU he will have embraced the spirit of the sake of Oh Carmen oh cool he will have embraced the spirit of Julia's Canberra Guinea red he will have embraced the spirit of Tomas Shankara he will have embraced the spirit of modificator we will have embraced the spirit of Ahmed band Bela he will have embraced the spirit of a Milkha cabron he will have embraced the spirit of Nelson Felice awesome Mandela and he will lead the continent towards unit so that historians may remember him fondly how I wish that pan-africanism going forward will mean that from today henceforth wherever we are in mother continent wherever we are in the Diaspora we will now begin to read from the same script a script which says our inherited boundaries mean little a spirit which says that our unity must mean that we improve intra of the contrary a spirit which says that we must now have a single Passport a spirit which say that we must have a single currency a spirit which says that we must standardize our education a spirit which says that all the resources of Africa will be utilized for the benefit of Africa a spirit which says that we shall not discriminate amongst ourselves a spirit which says that there will be no xenophobia a spirit which says that our success lies in our unity a spirit which says that we shall no longer accepting that are conceived from Europe and America and swallow them lock stock and barrel a spirit which says that our continent is capable of achieving for ourselves a spirit we say that our men and women in the Diaspora who are some of our best brains can have something to come back to Africa for a spirit which says that united we stand and divided before a spirit me says that Africa can actually survive and that is why it blackens me when I move across the continent of Africa now and I see younger whom you will never hear about in the newspapers and I need them in the recent past have had the occasion to listen to great african - the lady who was dismissed by the african union dr. Aconitum require who in the recent past has come out and made a position known against the french manipulation of meta have not only meta have also met and read great africans nanak open and cassia from ghana who has written about the need for africa to have a different governance system I have had the occasion of reading great Africans such as the great Cameroonian Aquila member who from Witwatersrand University writes about Africa have listened keenly to other great Africans mentioned in before Sheila Julius Malema young Africans who sometimes may irritate us but is it not our duty to be irritated by younger generation in fact I dare say that the young generation must only have one mantra and only one claim to say that they must irritate those royal power so effectively and in such an organized manner that they'd have no choice but to do that which is good and right I met a young Zambian Kelvin Conda founded a university the Eaton university teaching about pan-africanism I can go on and on but there is no reason why we should give up we should not give up on any one of us because united we stand divided we fall that was Professor Patrick Lumumba delivering the pen Africanism lecture courtesy of the economic freedom fighters the very good afternoon to you and the one welcome to the agenda on s ABC News I'm some pure in corner thanks for joining us as too you

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