Thus, so, was africa INDEPENDENCED

"Whites reasoned that even if Africans had once had entitlement to themselves as free people, such entitlement did not extend to slaves born and raised in white families-persons never free, raised at the "expense" of their owners.  But this reasoning implied that emancipating one's slaves conferred freedom upon them as a gift to which they were at best theoretically but never actually entitled.  And in the view of most whites, since even the act of being freed represented the exercise of the owner's power over the slave, an emancipated slave could never become a "free" person but only a "freed" one- a person acted upon, not acting."

~Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and "Race" in New England, 1780-1860, Joanne Pope Melish

Seen?

Have you seen?

Have you seen the new ones?

ReIdren.

Black folks that as CLR James said 

"we have never seen [before]

with so much concern

with so much less complaint

with so much more decision to solve their problems.

It dem.

Dey ah go build 

we independent black organizations.

Helotry AWO

And, stunned,

Magaica lit a lamp

to search for his lost illusions,

for his youth and his health which stay buried

deep in the mines of Johannesburg.

Youth and health,

the lost illusions

which will shine like stars

on some Lady's neck in some City's night.

~Noemia de Sousa (Mozambique)

Friends of the Congo

Please join the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Boston & NY Metro and Friends of the Congo for *"Silence = Rape",* an event on the ooccasion of the International Women's Day.

*Date: Sunday, March 8th, 2009; Time 2:30 PM*Event: "The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo"Film Screening and Q&AWinner of the Special Jury Prize Documentary 2008 Sundance Film Festival
*Jane Ngondo, an activist (Shalupe) from the Congo will provide testimony and report. This event will also include a PowerPoint presentation about the role of multinational corporations in the Congo and ideas for local community action.*
*Venue: The YWCA, 140 Clarendon Street, Kuumba Library, 2nd Floor, Copley Square
*More than five million people have been killed in the ongoing Congolese war and thousands of women and girls raped and mutilated.
"Christine watched from the forest floor as the rebels raped, burned and butchered. She was lying on her belly when she saw that her 18-year-old daughter, Chantal, had been captured. Chantal has not been seen since." - The New York Times
*Break the Silence - End the Violence* For More Info: Contact Boston WILPF

Kirikou & The Sorceress (incient wisdom)

Kirikou & the Sorceress 1hr20min Video

i saw this movie w/my cousin tribe 3-4 years ago. There is a deep & wonderful story in the script. i don't know if the movie makers even understand it...(perhaps their african story tellers knew it if they consulted on the project). idren recommend u see it [if u do, do not read further because my comments retell the story. ]
in my reading of it, karaba (sorceress) represents strange people (& others) infected by yt supremacy (back thorn). She causes all kind of sufferment (maafa) to the village (world idren). When a savior (a youth living in the positive, or ma'at) borns himself and has an old testament mission (keep fixing straying tribes) he ends up seeking his elders' wisdom, uses creativity, sacrifice & courage and curiosity (why? why? why?) to end the 'back thorn'. What happens when the back thorn is removed? Karaba screams in pain at first, but then all the green returns to the earth, the village, suspicious at first, embraces karaba and sings and the imprisoned black men return freed to the village (smile). Result: amenta/ heaven/ paradise/ mecca (all in the best rallying ground-the african village). To me, beside roots miniseries, I think this is one of the most important movies u can show yut, for it shows kids dem power to _______ ; eh? (smile). Quizasiman crazy but that is what am told thru this beautiful (pseudo-colonialist french) movie.