Your Excellency Dr.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of the Islamic Republic of
Iran;
Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations;
Heads of State and Government;
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen.
By 1900, the whole of Africa, except for Ethiopia, was under colonialism.
India, Indonesia, Indo-China, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, the Middle East
and the Caribbean were also under colonialism. China was a semi-colony being
predated on by European imperialism.
The colonization of Africa was because of our internal weaknesses small
chiefdoms and kingdoms or segmentary societies. This was in spite of the
fact that the entire continent of Africa, eleven million square miles of
land area, is occupied by only four language groups:
the Niger-Congo group of languages (including the Bantu dialects);
the Nilo-Saharan (including the Cushitic languages like the Nubian and the
Somali);
the Afro-Asiatic languages (Arabic, Tigrinya and Amharic); and
the small Khoisan languages of Southern Africa (the so-called bushmen).
Therefore, Africa is not as disparate as it is made out to be by the
foreigners and the local traitors as well as reactionaries. Moreover, the
four language groups have linkages among themselves. Nevertheless, political
integration was limited and this is where the problem was. Africans are
similar or linked but they were not governed together for much of the time.
Trade, however, took place from the coast to the interior. It is this low
level of political integration that enabled the colonialists to conquer
Africa. This is why we, the pan-Africanists, work for African political and
economic integration.
Colonialism brought about serious distortions and human haemorrhage in the
form of slave trade, massacres, genocide and the killing of indigenous
industries. The other colonized peoples also suffered greatly under
colonialism although that colonialism took different forms. By the 1960s,
European colonialism had been ejected from Asia, the Caribbean, Africa, etc.
European imperialism was defeated because of three factors:
the resistance of the colonized peoples;
the emergence of the socialist camp in the USSR (1917), China (1949) and
in other countries; and
the inter-imperialist wars of 1914-18 and 1939-45 which had greatly
weakened the imperialist countries to our advantage.
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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