Public lecture at the University of Nairobi, Monday 25 July 2016 Professor Horace G. Campbell Syracuse University, USA

Challenges of the Pan-African Movement in the 21st Century

The 21st Century of Revolution and Counter Revolution

Challenges of the Pan African Movement

Revitalization Pan Africanism and Black Lives

Revitalization and rejuvenation of the Movement

# Black Lives Matter today

Africans Unite – Bob Marley

Tiken Jah Fakoly Abi Reggae

Get up stand Up

Pan African Response to Imperialism

Pan Africanism from above Pan Africanism from below Pan Africanism as a

movement Social class Social consciousness Anti imperialism and anti

racist foundations

Walter Rodney 1942-1980

Walter Rodney and InspirationTo talk about Pan-Africanism, to talk about international solidarity within the black world, whichever sector of the

black world we live in, we have a series of responsibilities. One of the most important is to define our own situation. A second responsibility is to present that definition to the other parts of the black world, indeed, to the whole of the

progressive world. A third responsibility… is to help others in a different section

of the black world to reflect on their own specific experience

Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual

Where is the sixth region?

Beyond colonial borders and boundaries

Pan Africanism of the people

Principal challenges of the Pan-African Movement

Life

Health

Peace

Clean environment

Pan African Assets in the 21st Century

Demographic strengthThe skills and knowledge of African

mathematicsThe recent history of liberation and

mobilizationThe rich natural resourcesDiversities - linguistic, cultural, religious

Question of Quantum Leap

The Bio Economy

Revolution and Counter Revolution

Dynamize the demographic dividend

Biodemocracy and quantum leap in the era of information technology.

Real Reasons for NATO Intervention

A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil production,

Increase French influence in North Africa, Improve his internal political situation in France, Provide the French military with an opportunity to

reassert its position in the world, Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi’s

long term plans to supplant France as the dominant power in Francophone Africa

Faultlines and the Challenges of Pan Africanism Issues of war and Genocide The position of Pan Africanists Politicized religion in the Sudan John Garang and the Dar Es salaam School Garang and concepts of Sudanese and African

Unity African Women in the Sudan and concepts of unity Lessons form Eritrea for Pan Africanists Independence of South Sudan July 9,2011

Can military intervention be humanitarian?

Pan Africanism and ColonialismMorocco and application to rejoin the

African UnionThe future of colonialism in Western

SaharaThe future of Puerto RicoFrance and colonial territories –

Martinique, Cayenne,Panama Papers and offshore islands,

Cayman, Virgin Island

Pan African Revolutions

“black peoples are at the center of world events and that that the revolutionaries of the world need the Africans as much as Africans need them.”History of Pan African Revolt

C.L.R James 1901-89

New Moment in world history Global Financial crisis – collapse of neo

liberalism and the liberal virus

The question of the European Project and Brexit

The implosion after the invasion of Iraq and repercussions in Syria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia

Xenophobia and white supremacy – Trump phenomenon

African Revolutionary TodayAsma Mafhouz

Egypt at the crossroads of Pan Africanism and Pan Arabism

Pan Africanism “Pan” means all, so Pan Africanism includes

all people of African ancestry living in continental Africa and throughout the world. At the period of slavery when the ideas of inferiority of black humanity became one component of enlightenment thinking, Pan Africanism emerged as a complex set of ideas and ideologies containing social, cultural, political and spiritual aspects of dignity and liberation. Ron Walters

Who is an African?

Issa ShivjiNyerere resource Center

Ali A. Mazrui

Mazrui, Gaddafi and Bujra

Revolutionary African Women

Queen Amina- Zaria-1588-1589- Queen of Zazzua (Zaria) – Hausa city state

Queen Nzinga- Angola, 1580-1663

Yaa Asantewaa- Ghana 1850-1920

Micere Mugo Fumilayo Ransome

Kuti Angela Davis

Pan Africanism and the Lived Experiences of a People

“…though not cited in intellectual discourses that have so far come to be the literary cannon on Pan-Africanism, in their activism, as well as

participation, women were and have always been the heart of the Pan-Africanism’s essence, or if you like,

substance. My point is that Pan-Africanism may be seen as manifesting itself in two major ways, which are equally

important: through the movement itself and through its lived aspects. As a movement, Pan-Africanism has been characterized by fluctuation,

registering bouts of life and dormant lulls. On the other hand, its lived aspects, actual substance, or essence, have always remained alive and persistent over historical time. Ordinary people, or the masses,

including the majority of Africana women, have been the key keepers or carriers of this essence.”

Micere Githae Mugo

Trayvon Martin and Mike Brown

#BlackLivesMatter

I created #BlackLivesMatter with Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for Black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was post-humously placed on trial for his own murder and the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held accountable for the crime he committed. It was a response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our society and also, unfortunately, our movements.

Pan African creedBlack Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise.  It is an affirmation of Black folks’ contributions to this society, our humanity, and our resilience in the face of deadly oppression

Alicia Garza and her sisters Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people by police and vigilantes.  It goes beyond the narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within some Black communities, which merely call on Black people to love Black, live Black and buy Black, keeping straight is Black men in the front of the movement while our sisters, queer and trans and disabled folk take up roles in the background or not at all.  

Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks, Black-undocumented folks, folks with records, women and all Black lives along the gender spectrum.  It centers those that have been marginalized within Black liberation movements.  It is a tactic to (re)build the Black liberation movement.

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Spirit of the PeopleWhen the spirit of the oppressed people revolts against its oppressors, that revolt continues until freedom is achieved. We have not the arms with which to fight as the Americans did against the British, but we have the moral and spiritual forces at our disposal which outnumber all the physical weapons.

Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972

It is now widely recognized that Pan-Africanism needs to leave the confines of conferences and executive mansions of our leaders and become part and parcel of all our lives building from the down-up

Recognizing the Youth potential

How to dynamize the demographic dividend?

We rededicated ourselves to the enduring Pan African vision of “an integrated, prosperous and peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representinga dynamic force in the global arena.”

AFRICA WE WANT A prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth and

sustainable development An integrated continent, politically united and based on the

ideals of Pan Africanism and the vision of Africa’s Renaissance

An Africa of good governance, democracy, respect for human rights, justice and the rule of law

A peaceful and secure Africa An Africa with a strong cultural identity, common heritage,

values and ethics An Africa where development is people-driven, unleashing

the potential of its women and youth Africa as a strong, united and influential global player and

partner

Bill Gates and Challenges

health and nutrition,

education,

economic opportunity,

and good governance.

Key areas of transformation

Agriculture

Energy and Water

Infrastructure

Information, Communication Technologies (ICT)

Education

Health delivery

Housing and urban planning

Environmental repair

African Union, Pan Africanism and Reparations

Lessons of the OAU and Reparations Lessons of the contributions of Ali Mazrui African Union Specialized Commission on separations Slavery and modern Trafficking of Africans African Union and African Charter of Human and

Peoples Rights Pan-African Infrastructure Investment Fund (PAIID). Decision of Accra 2007 African Knowledge and Wealth Creation

Basic PremiseReparations: The Act or process of

making amends restitution and compensation Rehabilitation Material and symbolic Satisfaction and Guarantees of non

recurrence. Lessons of Caribbean Reparations

Commission Kenya and the Reparations discourse

Transformative Education “is the production of knowledge and

people need to rehumanize the world by dismantling hegemonic structures that impede such knowledge”

Joyce King

Pan African Education

Pan African education is the education that encourages initiative, curiosity, cultural awareness, responsibility, respect for collective rules and a taste for menial work. There is a need for education that inspires the self confidence of Africans.

Multifaceted nature of transformationsTransformation of material conditionsTransformation of consciousnessTransformation of political relationsGender relations and family formsKnowledge systems and breaking

fundamentalism Importance of a new educational system

and African languages

What is the bioeconomy “industrial production moves from the use of

fossil and mineral resources (coal, petroleum and natural gas) toward living biological raw materials, primarily ‘biomass’ plant matter such as woodchips, agricultural plants and algae

Bioeconomy associated with wider application of modern biotechnologies in areas such as agriculture, medicine and industry.

Durban program of action and the DecadePopularize the Durban declaration

Popularize the decade

Force governments and cultural institutions to come to terms with the decade

Tactics and strategiesShort term to ensure that this is accepted

internationallyTo change the educational system at home

and abroad

Medium Term to civilize the enslavers and to re educate them

Long term to repair the human spirit and repair the planet

Three aspects of Bioeconomy Inputs: The Biomass Economy

Processes: The Biotech Economy

Services: The Bio services Economy

Unity and Diversity

We should not see unity as an imagined uniformity. Unity instead should be expressed through the multiplicities of diversities. Universality then becomes the “unitary significance of our diverse diversities. Albert Einstein

a) democratic state is bound to grant complete freedom for the native languages and annul

all privileges for any one language. A democratic state will not permit the

oppression or the overriding of any one nationality by another, either in any particular

region or in any branch of public affairs

Bioeconomy also known asThe Biobased Economy – OECDKnowledge Based BioEconomy – EU Industrial Biorefinery industry – World

Economic Forum

White Biotechnology or Industrial Biotechnology –Biotechnology Industry Organization

The Green Economy and Biodiversity Services

The Bioeconomic Revolution

New Leadership

Condemn Africans to debt

Some leaders lazy or bought off

Group of 77Pan African Climate

Justice alliance

Fingerprints of Global Warming in AfricaRising TemperaturesDroughts andRising Sea Levels Ice Melting on Mt KilimanjaroDisappearing Glaciers

Reparations and the Unification of the Peoples of Africa

Transformation linked to peace, justice , health, a new mode of politics and a new mode of economics

Short term, medium term and long term strategies Short term- peace and break with genocidal

traditions. This is linked to healing Reparations- healing and moral reawakening of

the society away from imperial culture. reconstruction

Reconstruction beyond conceptions of regions

Bishop of DurbanHealing and Repairing the DamagePutting right what has gone wrongRescuing what has been lostMending what has been BrokenHealing what has been wounded

'condemning Africa to incineration'

Archbishop Desmond Tutu

Universal Declaration of Mother Earth Rights – Cochabamba Declaration

Those who violate Rights Face Legal Consequences

Climate Justice Tribunal Poor Countries should receive

various forms of compensation –Climate Debt

Mechanism for people to Express their Views- World’s Peoples Referendum on Climate Change

Evo Morales

The self-esteem, self-confidence, potentialcreativity and spontaneity that come with being

able to use the language (s) that haveshaped one from early childhood (one’s “mother

tongue”) is the foundation of alldemocratic polities and institutions

Neville Alexander

African Fractals and IT Ron Eglash and Revolutionary

Possibilities in Fractal Approach Fractals: Recursion, Scaling,

Self-similarity, Infinity, Fractal Dimensions

Fractals in African Society and Culture

Spirit and Matter Fractals Meet Euclid and Linear

Thinking

Elements of quantum societybeyond the individual /collective

dichotomyPlural GreenBottom upSpiritualspiritual dialogue with the sciences

Great Green Wall of Africa

Inspiration of Wangari Muta Maathai

Green Collar Economy and Solar Democracy -

each square kilometre of desert receives solar energy equivalent to 1.5 million barrels of oil. Multiplying by the area of deserts worldwide, this is several hundred times as much energy as the world uses in a year = promise of perovskite

Biodemocracy and Validating all lives

Responsibility of the Teacher Sharpening Teaching Tools Building New Resources and Researching

African Fractals Inspiring Students Collective Responsibility Raising African Voices for Freedom and

Renewal of the Human Spirit

Ubuntu, Reparations and Education

Spirit of sharing, forgiveness and loveRepair the Human SpiritMoral ReparationsNew textbooksEducating and civilizing EuropeCooperation among indigenous PeoplesWorld Conference against Racism ProcessProgram of Action of Durban and ACALAN

Her story

The honorary duty of a human being is to love I am human and nothing human can be alien to me." Maya Angelou

UBUNTU & AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM

EVIRONMENT FAVORABLETO ALL CLASSES

DEMOCRATIZATION

RECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY &FREE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE

ELIMINATING GENDER VIOLENCE &DEFORMED MASCULINITY

ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION

JUSTICE

HEALTH

REPARATIONS

ERADICATE NEGATIVE VALUES

PROMOTION OF CULTURALVALUES & TRANSFORMATION

OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE

AFRICAN UNION