TONIGHT ON THE TERRORDOME: Molefi Kete Asante on African Liberation, Unification and Renaissance.
FM88 Edmonton cjsr.com worldwide 6 pm Mountain Time Since the 1950s, Afrikan countries have wa ged wars for national liberation which forced the imperial powers of Europe to abandon their occ upations. In the West, those revolutionary wars are called “granting of independence.” But the political liberty that followed decolonisation has stalled in what Ghana ’s founding president Kwame Nkrumah called “neocolonialism,” a system of formal political sovereignt y, but economic shackles which e nforce political servility. Nkrumah, like Marcus Garvey before him, proposed formal Pan-Afrikanism as the solution: the unification of all countries on the Afrikan continent into a federal republic in command of the greatest supply of natural resources on the planet. Of course, any attempt to comman d such resources and thus rescue Afrika from the continuing exploitation and devastation of foreign powers had to have been met with maximum retaliation. And so Western destabilisation intensified: