Cde Seroke: I am expecting to be soon blessed with a baby boy, and my intention is to name him 'Azania' and 'Patrice'. On the latter, Patrice Lumumba, a Congolese Africanist who was murdered untimely in a sectarian disunity of Congolese people. Lumumba is one of the forgotten heroes of Africa, among the list of the unsung heroes I may include Tom Mboya of Kenya. It is noteworthy that prof in his speeches made references to them and others incessantly. I have had a disagreement with my wife, who is uniformed about the gigantic contribution that these men made in our course of self-determination. Azania, adopted by the PAC in circa 1967 was a preferred name for a liberated South Africa ( a colonial name which marked the unity of settlers after the Anglo-Boer war in 1909). This name was latter adopted by the BCM activist in the late seventies. I have been attempting without a success to get its etymology. Where did we get 'Azania' ? one thought says it is an Arabic name which means land in the South. My overall intention is that whenever we are no more, those that will remain could say we were there, as pro put it in one of his speeches. Keeping the legacy intact, one means is to popularize the name Azania, I am happy that there are many people with the name Azania. At one instance, where I work, I came across with a vendor called Azania enterprises was emboldened with that, to me, that that an embodiment of pride with the Africanist ideology. To those scholars who subscribe that we are in a post -ideological era, I say to them their assessments or analysis is blind.
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