Prof Horace Campbell Lecture On Challenges of the Pan-African movement in the 21st century

1. Public lecture at the University of
Nairobi, Monday 25 July 2016
Professor Horace G. Campbell
Syracuse University, USA
Challenges of the Pan-African
Movement in the 21st
Century

2. The 21st
Century of Revolution and
Counter Revolution
Challenges of the Pan African
Movement

3. Revitalization
 Pan Africanism and Black Lives
 Revitalization and rejuvenation of the
Movement
 # Black Lives Matter today

4. Africans Unite – Bob Marley

5. Tiken Jah Fakoly Abi Reggae
Get up stand Up

6. Pan African Response to
Imperialism
 Pan Africanism from above
 Pan Africanism from below
 Pan Africanism as a
movement
 Social class
 Social consciousness
 Anti imperialism and anti
racist foundations
Walter Rodney 1942-1980

7. Walter Rodney and Inspiration
To talk about Pan-Africanism, to talk about international
solidarity within the black world, whichever sector of the
black world we live in, we have a series of responsibilities.
One of the most important is to define our own situation.
A second responsibility is to present that definition to the
other parts of the black world, indeed, to the whole of the
progressive world.
A third responsibility… is to help others in a different section
of the black world to reflect on their own specific
experience
Walter Rodney Speaks: The Making of an African Intellectual

8. Where is the sixth region?
Beyond colonial borders and boundaries
Pan Africanism of the people

9. Principal challenges of the
Pan-African Movement
 Life
 Health
 Peace
 Clean environment

10. Pan African Assets in the 21st
Century
 Demographic strength
 The skills and knowledge of African
mathematics
 The recent history of liberation and
mobilization
 The rich natural resources
 Diversities - linguistic, cultural, religious

11. Question of Quantum Leap
 The Bio Economy
 Revolution and Counter Revolution
 Dynamize the demographic dividend
 Biodemocracy and quantum leap in the era of
information technology.

12. Real Reasons for NATO Intervention
 A desire to gain a greater share of Libya oil
production,
 Increase French influence in North Africa,
 Improve his internal political situation in France,
 Provide the French military with an opportunity to
reassert its position in the world,
 Address the concern of his advisors over Qaddafi’s
long term plans to supplant France as the dominant
power in Francophone Africa

13. Faultlines and the Challenges of
Pan Africanism
 Issues of war and Genocide
 The position of Pan Africanists
 Politicized religion in the Sudan
 John Garang and the Dar Es salaam School
 Garang and concepts of Sudanese and
African Unity
 African Women in the Sudan and concepts of
unity
 Lessons form Eritrea for Pan Africanists
 Independence of South Sudan July 9,2011

14. Can military intervention be
humanitarian?

15. Pan Africanism and Colonialism
 Morocco and application to rejoin the
African Union
 The future of colonialism in Western
Sahara
 The future of Puerto Rico
 France and colonial territories –
Martinique, Cayenne,
 Panama Papers and offshore islands,
Cayman, Virgin Island

16. Pan African Revolutions
 “black peoples are
at the center of
world events and
that that the
revolutionaries of
the world need the
Africans as much
as Africans need
them.”History of Pan African Revolt
C.L.R James 1901-89

17. New Moment in world history
 Global Financial crisis – collapse of neo
liberalism and the liberal virus
 The question of the European Project and Brexit
 The implosion after the invasion of Iraq and
repercussions in Syria, Turkey and Saudi Arabia
 Xenophobia and white supremacy – Trump
phenomenon

18. Egypt at the crossroads of Pan
Africanism and Pan Arabism

19. Pan Africanism
 “Pan” means all, so Pan Africanism
includes all people of African ancestry living
in continental Africa and throughout the
world. At the period of slavery when the
ideas of inferiority of black humanity
became one component of enlightenment
thinking, Pan Africanism emerged as a
complex set of ideas and ideologies
containing social, cultural, political and
spiritual aspects of dignity and liberation.

20. Who is an African?
Issa Shivji
Nyerere resource Center
Ali A. Mazrui

21. Mazrui, Gaddafi and Bujra

22. Revolutionary
African Women
 Queen Amina- Zaria-
1588-1589- Queen of
Zazzua (Zaria) –
Hausa city state
 Queen Nzinga-
Angola, 1580-1663
 Yaa Asantewaa-
Ghana 1850-1920
 Micere Mugo
 Fumilayo Ransome
Kuti
 Angela Davis

23. Pan Africanism and the Lived
Experiences of a People
“…though not cited in intellectual discourses
that have so far come to be the literary cannon
on Pan-Africanism, in their activism, as well as
participation, women were and have always been
the heart of the Pan-Africanism’s essence, or if you like,
substance. My point is that Pan-Africanism may be seen as
manifesting itself in two major ways, which are equally
important: through the movement itself and through its lived aspects.
As a movement, Pan-Africanism has been characterized by fluctuation,
registering bouts of life and dormant lulls. On the other hand, its lived
aspects, actual substance, or essence, have always remained alive
and persistent over historical time. Ordinary people, or the masses,
including the majority of Africana women, have been the key keepers
or carriers of this essence.”
Micere Githae Mugo

24. Trayvon Martin and Mike
Brown

25. #BlackLivesMatter
I created #BlackLivesMatter with Patrisse Cullors and
Opal Tometi, two of my sisters, as a call to action for
Black people after 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was
post-humously placed on trial for his own murder and
the killer, George Zimmerman, was not held
accountable for the crime he committed. It was a
response to the anti-Black racism that permeates our
society and also, unfortunately, our movements.

26. Pan African creed
Black Lives Matter is an ideological
and political intervention in a world
where Black lives are systematically
and intentionally targeted for demise.
It is an affirmation of Black folks’
contributions to this society, our
humanity, and our resilience in the
face of deadly oppression

27. Alicia Garza and her sisters
Black Lives Matter is a unique contribution that
goes beyond extrajudicial killings of Black people
by police and vigilantes. It goes beyond the
narrow nationalism that can be prevalent within
some Black communities, which merely call on
Black people to love Black, live Black and buy
Black, keeping straight is Black men in the front of
the movement while our sisters, queer and trans
and disabled folk take up roles in the background
or not at all.

28. Black Lives Matter affirms the lives of
Black queer and trans folks, disabled folks,
Black-undocumented folks, folks with
records, women and all Black lives along
the gender spectrum. It centers those that
have been marginalized within Black
liberation movements. It is a tactic to
(re)build the Black liberation movement.

29. !
Spirit of the People
When the spirit of the oppressed
people revolts
against its oppressors,
that revolt continues
until freedom
is achieved. We have
not the arms with which
to fight as the Americans
did against the British, but we have
the moral and spiritual forces at our
disposal which outnumber all the
physical weapons.
Kwame Nkrumah 1909-1972

30. It is now widely
recognized that Pan-
Africanism needs to leave
the confines of
conferences and
executive mansions of our
leaders and become part
and parcel of all our lives
building from the down-up

31. Recognizing the Youth potential
How to dynamize the demographic dividend?

32. We rededicated ourselves to the enduring Pan African
vision of “an integrated, prosperous and peaceful
Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing
a dynamic force in the global arena.”

33. AFRICA WE WANT
 A prosperous Africa based on inclusive growth and
sustainable development
 An integrated continent, politically united and based on
the ideals of Pan Africanism and the vision of Africa’s
Renaissance
 An Africa of good governance, democracy, respect for
human rights, justice and the rule of law
 A peaceful and secure Africa
 An Africa with a strong cultural identity, common heritage,
values and ethics
 An Africa where development is people-driven, unleashing
the potential of its women and youth
 Africa as a strong, united and influential global player and
partner

34. Bill Gates and Challenges
health and nutrition,
education,
economic
opportunity,
and good
governance.

35. Key areas of transformation
 Agriculture
 Energy and Water
 Infrastructure
 Information,
Communication
 Education
 Health delivery
 Housing and urban
planning
 Environmental

36. African Union, Pan Africanism
and Reparations
 Lessons of the OAU and Reparations
 Lessons of the contributions of Ali Mazrui
 African Union Specialized Commission on separations
 Slavery and modern Trafficking of Africans
 African Union and African Charter of Human and
Peoples Rights
 Pan-African Infrastructure Investment Fund (PAIID).
 Decision of Accra 2007
 African Knowledge and Wealth Creation

37. Basic Premise
 Reparations: The Act or process
of making amends
 restitution and compensation
 Rehabilitation
 Material and symbolic
 Satisfaction and Guarantees of
non recurrence.
 Lessons of Caribbean
Reparations Commission
 Kenya and the Reparations

38. Transformative Education
 “is the production of knowledge and
people need to rehumanize the world
by dismantling hegemonic structures
that impede such knowledge”
Joyce King

39. Pan African Education
Pan African education is the
education that encourages initiative,
curiosity, cultural awareness,
responsibility, respect for collective
rules and a taste for menial work.
There is a need for education that
inspires the self confidence of
Africans.

40. Multifaceted nature of
transformations
 Transformation of material conditions
 Transformation of consciousness
 Transformation of political relations
 Gender relations and family forms
 Knowledge systems and breaking
fundamentalism
 Importance of a new educational
system and African languages

41. What is the bioeconomy
 “industrial production moves from the use of
fossil and mineral resources (coal, petroleum
and natural gas) toward living biological raw
materials, primarily ‘biomass’ plant matter
such as woodchips, agricultural plants and
algae
 Bioeconomy associated with wider application
of modern biotechnologies in areas such as
agriculture, medicine and industry.

43. Durban program of action and
the Decade
 Popularize the Durban declaration
 Popularize the decade
 Force governments and cultural
institutions to come to terms with the
decade

44. Tactics and strategies
 Short term to ensure that this is accepted
internationally
 To change the educational system at home
and abroad
 Medium Term to civilize the enslavers and
to re educate them
 Long term to repair the human spirit and
repair the planet

46. Three aspects of Bioeconomy
 Inputs: The Biomass Economy
 Processes: The Biotech Economy
 Services: The Bio services Economy

47. Unity and Diversity
We should not see unity as an
imagined uniformity. Unity
instead should be expressed
through the multiplicities of
diversities. Universality then
becomes the “unitary
significance of our diverse
diversities. Albert Einstein

48. a) democratic state is bound to grant complete
freedom for the native languages and annul
all privileges for any one language. A
democratic state will not permit the
oppression or the overriding of any one
nationality by another, either in any particular
region or in any branch of public affairs

49. Bioeconomy also known as
 The Biobased Economy – OECD
 Knowledge Based BioEconomy – EU
 Industrial Biorefinery industry – World
Economic Forum
 White Biotechnology or Industrial
Biotechnology –Biotechnology Industry Organization
 The Green Economy and Biodiversity
Services
 The Bioeconomic Revolution

51. New Leadership
Condemn Africans to
debt
Some leaders lazy or
bought off
Group of 77
Pan African Climate
Justice alliance

52. Fingerprints of Global
Warming in Africa
 Rising Temperatures
 Droughts and
 Rising Sea Levels
 Ice Melting on Mt Kilimanjaro
 Disappearing Glaciers

53. Reparations and the Unification
of the Peoples of Africa
 Transformation linked to peace, justice , health, a
new mode of politics and a new mode of
economics
 Short term, medium term and long term strategies
 Short term- peace and break with genocidal
traditions. This is linked to healing
 Reparations- healing and moral reawakening of
the society away from imperial culture.
reconstruction
 Reconstruction beyond conceptions of regions

54. Bishop of Durban
 Healing and Repairing the Damage
 Putting right what has gone wrong
 Rescuing what has been lost
 Mending what has been Broken
 Healing what has been wounded

55. 'condemning Africa to
incineration'
Archbishop Desmond Tutu

56. Mother Earth Rights –
Cochabamba Declaration
 Those who violate Rights Face
Legal Consequences
 Climate Justice Tribunal
 Poor Countries should receive
various forms of compensation
–Climate Debt
 Mechanism for people to
Express their Views- World’s
Peoples Referendum on
Climate Change
Evo Morales

57. The self-esteem, self-confidence, potential
creativity and spontaneity that come with being
able to use the language (s) that have
shaped one from early childhood (one’s “mother
tongue”) is the foundation of all
democratic polities and institutions
Neville Alexander

58. African Fractals and IT
 Ron Eglash and
Revolutionary Possibilities in
Fractal Approach
 Fractals: Recursion, Scaling,
Self-similarity, Infinity,
Fractal Dimensions
 Fractals in African Society
and Culture
 Spirit and Matter
 Fractals Meet Euclid and
Linear Thinking

59. Elements of quantum society
 beyond the individual /collective
dichotomy
 Plural
 Green
 Bottom up
 Spiritual
 spiritual dialogue with the sciences

60. Great Green Wall of Africa
Inspiration of Wangari Muta Maathai

61. Green Collar Economy and
Solar Democracy -
each square kilometre of desert receives solar
energy equivalent to 1.5 million barrels of oil.
Multiplying by the area of deserts worldwide, this
is several hundred times as much energy as the
world uses in a year = promise of perovskite

62. Biodemocracy and
Validating all lives
 Responsibility of the Teacher
 Sharpening Teaching Tools
 Building New Resources and Researching
African Fractals
 Inspiring Students
 Collective Responsibility
 Raising African Voices for Freedom and
Renewal of the Human Spirit

63. Ubuntu, Reparations and
Education
 Spirit of sharing, forgiveness and love
 Repair the Human Spirit
 Moral Reparations
 New textbooks
 Educating and civilizing Europe
 Cooperation among indigenous Peoples
 World Conference against Racism Process
 Program of Action of Durban and ACALAN

64. Her story
The honorary duty of a human being is to love
I am human and nothing human can be alien to
me."
Maya Angelou

65. UBUNTU & AFRICAN KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM
EVIRONMENT FAVORABLE
TO ALL CLASSES
DEMOCRATIZATION
RECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY &
FREE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE
ELIMINATING GENDER VIOLENCE &
DEFORMED MASCULINITY
ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION
JUSTICE
HEALTH
REPARATIONS
ERADICATE NEGATIVE VALUES
PROMOTION OF CULTURAL
VALUES & TRANSFORMATION
OF EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM
ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNANCE
AFRICAN UNION