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Justice
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where he is hiding.
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"With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"
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Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 8:56
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Subject: [camnetwork] Kashagama's
Response to Edwin Ngang & Mulluh Mbuh
Kashagama,
Where are you, mister? I happened to have
come across this posting by
you on the African Union Front page. Very
amazing analyses as they
seem to drum home a position that does not exist,
as far as AU is concern
or which it cannot defend with concrete examples.
Show us the footprints
of the AU attempts at resolving such disputes on
the continent of Africa so
that I too could become a convert, a true
brethren.
We have not expressed anger and frustration by the AU dreams
of unity.
Very contrary, we have been challenging them to stand up tall
and proud
if they believe in all that they have stated as even
prerequisites for union--
not to talk of the fact that they lay claims to
democracy while propagating
union from the hands and minds of many a
dictators on that continent.
Our arguments against the union of all
African peoples are practically proven
by examples else where in the
world, and even on the African continent that
union or unity cannot
exclude a peoples inalienable right to chose who governs
them and what
kind of government they which to be under. By every standard,
AU violates
that very basic principle and fundamental human right--the right to
sovereignty. Who told AU that is has to salvage Africans when Africans
themselves have not developed relations with one another worth exploiting
and building on?
Our arguments with you, in particular date back to
whence you failed to
understand that Cameroun Republic was in violation of
international law and
has, as a consequence violated that fundamental
human rights of
Ambazonians (Southern Cameroonians). We then challenged
you and AU
that unless such disputes across the continent--from
Ambazonia's glaring
example to that of Biafra, Southern Sudan, Western
Sahara and so on, are
given treatment, the very threat that nation states
such as Cameroun, Nigeria
and Sudan face are contradictions, antithesis of
union continentally, unless otherwise you could prove us wrong. Unity is a
process not a point, an
instance in time whereby by some imaginary
proclamations, like God said
"let there be light" and there was light,
etc. We are human and such sudden gestures from the imaginary dream of African
union are as destructive as
they are illusions, period.
Neither
does our stance in defending our inalienable human rights give
credence to
the era of and continuous manipulations of colonialism and neocolonialist, as
you seem to suggest. Nor are we lacking in understanding
the tenets,
machinations and lie-low tactics of both the imperialist and many
an
African so secretly perfected modern Proletariats who now want to implant
this new dictatorship over the downtrodden masses of Africa as African
Union
does.
Far more sophisticated is our notion of Africa, which
void of union is today
badly caught up in the dictates of Saudi Arabian
Imperialism via Islamization,
traces of which are the current religious
riots and intolerance, nonsensism of
Northern Nigeria, as well as the
changing formula of oppression coming from multinational corporations and
servants of Communism in its purest form in the
name of African Union,
unless Africans recognize their differences and accept
their differences
and commonalties, a vision, even of regional union is far
fetched as is
symptomatic of the decay of nation states.
Our vision of Africa is one
where unity of our peoples, if the Maghreb of
North Africa would permit me
call them our people--thanks to the sun-burnt,
desert baked brown or
light skins, comes from the heart; whereby union of
one region or
territory or nation with another will be made by agreements
that stand the
test of time and truths, not some impositions from dictators
who serve the
ruling so-called global anarchy of lies of imperialists in every
shape.
Since we all seem to agree that neocolonialism is an
integral component
of the oppressive machinery which is ruining Africa,
our disagreement as
how to best serve the interest of our peoples can
hardly be misunderstood, dampened by your insistence that the best way forward
is by uniting these dilapidated nations that have been eaten up by termites to
their very core
and what you seem to be presenting is nothing but the
shell of nations,
while internally their masses rot of untold poverty,
deceit and total lack of
vision of how best to have and exercise
power--thanks to minds of Africans
who school in the West and only resort
to implementing Eastern draconian
measure.
Simple laws of economics
of large scale production whether from Marx or
from Keynes would indicate
that we are perfectly correct--that we ought to
rebuild these dilapidating
nations, give and serve them with practical laws
and leadership before
moving forward with even regional union--for that is as
far as we can go.
For it is totally and practically inconceivable how you
would want us to
subscribe to multiplying impoverished nations with poor communication networks
for what passes as your poor imaginations counter-colonialism
policy.
While you seem to dismiss the volumes of social cultural
evidence we
present in countering your African union as impractical,
contemporary
events continue to provide more and more evidence to support
our position.
And to be honest all you need do is take a good study of the
politics of the
Southern Cameroons before and after the fateful plebiscite
of 1961 to
understand what we say and where we made mistakes and are
embarking
on making corrections. We support every other groups in Africa
that seek
their self-determination and based on our experiance as part fo
Cameroun,
Unity, especially in the scale dreamt by the African Union is
nothing but
blasphemy in the highest degree.
When AU gives answers
to the demands of religious tolerance in Nigeria,
balanced development and
rotative democracy and economic liberalism,
only then can Ambazonia see
you as actuating union in any sense, whether continentally or regionally.
Until then, why don't you just watch Ambazonia
move on without
AU?
For I do not endorse the African Union unless such union is
practically possible
as it is practically viable. For now, it is nothing
but promotion of insolvency,
agony. I have close to forty years of a lie
that I am a Camerounian and it
hurts; I have also seen many a lie about
togetherness in Africa to accept
the lies of the AU, so foolishly. The
originality of my right to belong to a
sovereignty of my choice is
primordial to anything the Union can Offer--as if
we never complained to
the OAU about our demise in Cameroun lies of
union? Tell us how not to be
progressive some more by imposing union on
us again.
You said
without unity we would become nothing and that AU is not an
experiment? I
think on both counts you are dead wrong as unity is not an
imperative to
progress nor is it proven that AU is not a very bad experiment
justifying
how best to remain dormant, underproductive, underpaid and above
all
unprogressive! We therefore say: NO TO ISLAMIZATION OF BLACK
AFRICA AND NO
TO THE PROMOTION OF SAUDI ARABIAN IMPERIALISM
IN THE NAME OF AFRICAN
UNION.
Justice M. Mbuh
Secretary General
Ambazonia Peoples
Emancipation Council (APEC)
Washington, DC. ![]()
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Kashagama's Response to Edwin Ngang & Mulluh Mbuh:
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 10:22:45 -0800 (PST)
Dear Ngang, Mbuh,
Perhaps the people who keep on putting down the efforts of unity are
not
looking at the systemic nature of neocolonialism, but instead are
concerned
with the symptomatic expressions of the system and focusing on
particular individuals and groups on which they then vent their anger.
The African Union is NOT Salim Salim's "dream"...it is a the product
of
hundreds of years of African struggle. It is not an
experiement...perhaps
you have a better solution other than expressing
only anger and frustration
and asking us to wait another 40 years until
you finally realise that colonial
states are too messed up for each one to
single handedly liberate itself from domination by neocolonial powers...
What is so elusive about the logic of unity that we must keep on
pointing
out that there is strength in having more accountability at an
All-African level?
As for the people of Southern Sudan...you have
presented no solution but
are merely complaining about how the Union has
no teeth to solve the problem
...it is only a few days old!!!!
But
in fact the Union is the best hope for a long term solution to conflict in
Africa (including Sudan). The Union offers Africa a method of regulating
war
that the states do not now have.
As for Africans oppressing
Africans, I have explained twice before on this
forum that there is a
systemic neocolonial component essential for the
oppression to take place,
yet you continue to ignore that logic. Presenting
to me more and more
examples of social failure in Africa does not change
the fact that
neocolonialism is a disruptive force. Presenting new dimensions
of the
same old tired facts is equally pointless.
First you opposed the union
by presenting it as a matter of Islam against Christianity, then it was
Anglophones vs Francophones, now you tell me
it is lightskinned Africans
vs darkskinned...perhaps next you will tell me
men vs women, adults vs
children, black vs white, capitalist vs socialist,
human vs machine, and
so on and so forth, ad infinitum.
WHAT YOU FAIL to address is the
single most important element... that t
he Union is in place in order to
resolve these problems, not to exercerbate
them. What you fail to
understand is that these problems will not go away
simply by continuing in
the disunited way, and finally that other than the
union...we do not have
another viable alternative in terms of solutions that
have not been tried.
Unless you guys have discovered some other serious
anti-colonial dialectic
that no other human has considered yet...unless...do
you Mr. Ngang and Mr.
Mbuh operate in a new political dimension that has
eluded other Africans
for 500 years? Perhaps Neocolonial domination is not
your concern, in
which case I am wasting my time trying to make the case...
Unless you
have a new method of resolving Africa's problem, ...don't keep
me on
tenderhooks for so long. I am dying of curiosity. Please explain to
me how
you propose to free Southern Sudan by attacking Pan Africanism
...You Edwin
and Mbuh insist on conflating and juxtaposing issues ...you
ignore a
simple and tried method of historic experience, that unification is
a
source of political and economic power. It is not an experiment...it is
simple..
Moreover, even if the Union was a basket case...it's
articles are not written
in stone. It can and will be modified. Right now
the pan Africanists have the
inside edge and the momentum on its crafting.
This may not always be so...
as the case was when 40 years ago the states
rejected unity in favour of
gradualism and created the OAU instead of
giving up their private little power
bases. That was the experiment...and
it failed. We are now exactly where we
started in 1959...faced with the
prospect of choosing between the demented sovereignty of selfish neocolonial
states run by leaders in a hurry to "develop"
the people in the image of
the some European state, and unity... we chose
the wrong thing then...we
have another chance now to do the right thing...and
that is lucky...things
could have turned out so badly that we may never have
had the AU at this
time.
The pan-African movement will continue to grow stronger, and the
Union will
become more cogent and some of its weaker clauses will be
discarded.
What do we want...ideally the Union will a place where Africans
can be Africans without having to apologise for it everytime they turn on the
TV, or regret it every
time we arrive at the airport in some European
state. We want a nation that can stand up for the rights of Africans
everywhere, and HAVE THE CAPACITY TO
BACK UP OUR DEMANDS effectively
(diplomatically, economically, of militarily
if necessary).
We do
not want anymore Africans to die because Italy is dumping toxic waste
in
Somalia, or because Shell is pollution the Niger, or because American
industry is dumping toxic waste in the Zambezi, or because France is
landing
troops to install a head of state anytime they like, or because
each half-wit commander of a neocolonial state is spending hard earned money
on buying weapons to shoot his "enemy" across some colonial border because
those
brothers and sisters over there do not want to speak some European
language.
We need unity. How many more must die before you finally
under-stand that
without unity we will become nothing...
Best
regards,
Kashagama
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