Greetings M'Afrika
21st March Sharpeville and Langa Massacre Commemoration has passed, I guess some are eagerly waiting for the following year so as to continue the tradition. I am haunted by simple and basic questions which I hope M'Afrika will greatly assist to provide responses adequate to serve as an answer! Year after year as PAC we commemorate 21st March Sharpeville massacre and very soon it will be June 16 National Students Uprising and followed by the 31st July Heroes Day dedicated to Poqo cadres hanged and some buried in unmarked graves. These fallen people of various ages and languages hold one thing in common probably lost as the horns of the chronometer are drowned by the lapses of hours and days. Using word cited by M'Afrika Ali, which succinctly captures my thoughts haunted by the questions of the significance of commemorations, Has the PAC become a commemoration of historical events party?, that is, on June 16 a journalist inquired "So how best do we thank those girls and boys who, armed only with stones, took on a mighty state? Do we put up monuments in their honour? Do we compose heroic poems about their valour? Name public institutions after them and their deeds.? Or The way to honour them is to realise their dream of creating a just and decent society. (Editor; 2006; 38)and Soweto Massacre! The question is" How and in what forms can the PAC give a concrete meaning that have an extended effect with the mixed generations living in this era? Shango lashu! Nkrumah -- -- Sending your posting to [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to [email protected] You can also visit http://groups.google.com/group/payco Visit our website at www.mayihlome.wordpress.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pan Africanist Youth Congress" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
