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- 1. PRESENTATION MADE BY S.S NDLOVU “I WAS BORN INTO A WORLD THAT ALREADY HAD MALCOLM AND KARENGA, DUBOIS AND BIKO. HENCE I WAS FORTUNATE NOT HAVE TO WONDER AROUND THE CULTURELESS DESERTS OF HUMANITY” ALIK SHAHADAH
- 2. I AM AN AFRICAN ‘LEGENDS OF THEIR TIME AND OUR TIME’
- 3. AFRICAN HISTORY IS THE OLDEST HUMAN HISTORY IN THE WORLD. FROM ANCIENT EGYPT TO THE PRESENT GREAT LEADERS (ALIVE AS WELL AS THOSE IN TRANSITION) HAVE SHAPED AFRICAAND WORLD HISTORY.
- 4. WITHOUT YARED, ASKIA, BELLO, SUNDIATA, IMHOTEP, MENELIK, WE WOULD HAVE NO HISTORY TO CELEBRATE. WITHOUT GARVEY, DU BOIS, DUSE AND DELANY THERE WOULD BE NO REVOLUTION. WITHOUT ELIJAH THERE WOULD BE NO MALCOLM, WITHOUT MALCOLM NO AFRICAN HOLOCAUST SOCIETY. OF ALL OF THE LEGENDS/ELDERS OF AFRICA NONE OF THEM HELD THE TOTAL SOLUTION, THEY EACH BROUGHT DIFFERENT ELEMENTS OF PERFECTION.
- 5. SO WE DO NOT QUOTE DIOP FOR ECONOMICS, BLYDEN FOR CULTURE, DU BOIS FOR HEALTH, GARVEY FOR WARFARE, KING FOR IDENTITY, OR BIKO FOR CULTURE. UNLIKE THEM, WE HAVE THE JOY OF HINDSIGHT AND THE BETTER WORLD THEY CREATED FOR US TO REFLECT ON. THEY ARE REMEMBERED BEST BY EMULATING THE BEST ASPECTS OF THEIR CHARACTER.
- 6. THEY LIVED AND DIED TO GIVE US A BETTER PLATFORM TO SPEAK ABOUT OUR OPPRESSION (OUR HOLOCAUST) AS WELL AS OUR VICTORIES. THEY ARE BEST HONOURED BY CONTINUING THE SPIRIT OF THEIR MISSION: ORPHAN QUOTES; AND AN X ON A CAP IS NOT HOW SERIOUS PEOPLE HONOUR THEIR ANCESTORS. NOT BEING CRITICAL OF THEIR SHORTCOMINGS IS ALSO NOT HOW A PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE HONOUR THEIR ANCESTORS. WE MUST THEREFORE BUILD UPON THEIR LEGACY TO BRING ABOUT A NEW AFRICAN FUTURE.
- 7. AND NONE OF THIS CAN HAPPEN IF AFRICA'S HEROES ARE "CULT" ICONS TO BE CELEBRATED WITHOUT CRITIQUE OR TO BE ABSORBED WITHOUT CRITICAL THINKING. CONSCIOUSNESS DEMANDS THAT WE REFLECT ON THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS BUT STUDYING THEM WITH THESE FACTORS IN MIND.
- 9. 'ALIK SHAHADAH (12-2005 (UPDATED 5/2012) . LINGUISTICS FOR A NEW AFRICAN REALITY. LANGUAGE AND AFRICAN AGENCY