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This year’s Mosiah 31 day observance begins with official launch at the Mosiah Opening Ceremony takes place on Umoja-day (Sunday) 6th Mosiah at Chestnuts Community Centre 280 St Ann’s Road, Tottenham N15 7PH and feature the Mosiah Libation, Ceremonial Readings and rituals, performances and a keynote Address by Bro. Ldr. Mbandaka on the theme: 30 Years of Alkebu-Lan: Building on the Work of the Prophet (https://www.alkebulan.org/mosiah/).
But even before the opening ceremony takes place there are some key events happening to usher in the month.
On 1st Mosiah 2017, the Afrikan Emancipation Day Reparations March is taking place, commencing at 9am, Windrush Square, Brixton. Now in it’s forth year, the March has grown to be one of the highlights in the community calendar drawing thousands from across the country (and beyond) to raise the cry for reparations. (https://stopthemaangamizi.com/2017/07/24/reparations-march-2017-programme/)
On Imani-day (Sat) 5th Mosiah is the 4th Africa International Day of Action, organised by Rastafari Movement UK and the Nation Of Islam, described as “a day of Healing and Repair,” n Kennington Parkfrom 10am to 7pm. (1)
The Global Afrikan Congress UK have also arranged an extenssive programme throughout the month of Mosiah featuring international guests Baba Buntu, David Commissiong and Ifugunwa Temitope
The pervasive theme for many is reparations. Although in essence the fight for reparations began when the first assault on our sovereignty was repelled. In previous generations the fire was kept alive by the likes of Queen Mother Moore. (2) For for many the current incarnation can be traced back to the historic first Abuja Pan-African Conference on Reparations For African Enslavement, Colonisation And Neo-Colonisation, sponsored by The Organisation Of African Unity and its Reparations Commission April 27-29, 1993, Abuja, Nigeria and the resultant proclamation
“…Convinced that the issue of reparations is an important question recurring the united action of Africa and its Diaspora and worthy of the active support of the rest of the international community.
Fully persuaded that the damage sustained by the African peoples is not a “thing of the past’ but is Painfully manifest in the damaged lives of contemporary Africans from Harlem to Harare, in the damaged economies of the Black World from Guinea to Guyana, from Somalia to Surinam.
Serves notice on all states in Europe and the Americas which had participated in the enslavement and colonisation of the African peoples, and which may still be engaged in racism and neo-colonialism, to desist from any further damage and start building bridges of conciliation, co-operation, and through reparation...” (3)
Four main areas of have been emphasised as a framework for pursuing reparations: Restitution, compensation, rehabilitation, satisfaction and guarantee of non repetition. (4) But increasingly, the notion of self-repair is being regarded as a fundamental element of the reparations agenda:
“Afrikan Community Self-Repairs are the self-determined efforts that need to be made in building our own power, in such a way, that Afrikan heritage communities are able to identify and enhance ongoing work towards stopping the contemporary manifestations of the Maangamizi..” (5)
Once something is repaired it should return to it’s original capacity, so eminent historian Baba Chinweizu provides a compelling argument for why self-repair is needed:
“Now, that gives us a glimpse into the basic problem of the Afrikans for the past 20 centuries i.e. POWERLESSNESS! –the lack of the power to protect our lands, populations and cultures from alien attacks. On the other hand, everything on the Afrikan wish list (prosperity, security, dignity, respect, basic needs, an end to racist contempt, etc) requires Afrikan power.” (6)
(1) The Voice Online (02/07/17) Get ready for the 4th Africa International Day of Action. http://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/get-ready-4th-africa-international-day-action
(2) Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies (05/08/16) Queen Mother Moore: First Lady of African Reparations. Vol.9, no. 5. http://www.jpanafrican.org/docs/vol9no5/9.5-2-QueenM.pdf
(3) Organization of African Unity and its Reparations Commissions (1993) A declaration of the first Abuja Pan-African Conference on Reparations For African Enslavement, Colonization, and Neo-Colonization. http://www.ncobraonline.org/the-abuja-proclamation/
(4) Olatunji Heru (2007) Sis. Esther Stanford: Repair and Rebuild. The Whirlwind, Edition 5, p. 9.
(5) stop the maangamizi (02/06/17) Reparations March 2017: Promoting The Reparatory Justice Change We Are Organising To Bring About. https://stopthemaangamizi.com/2017/06/02/reparations-march-2017-profiling-the-reparatory-justice-change-we-are-organsing-to-bring-about/
(6) Chinweizu (27/07/06) Self-reparation for Afrikan Power: Pan Africanism and Black Consciousness.https://afrikanconsciousness.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/chinweizus-work.pdf
we ask the question:
Self-Reparations – What does it look like?
- Will you be attending the march, the day of action and the opening ceremony?
- Is there sufficient focus on self-repair in the community?
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What is the link between self-repair and power?
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How do we acquire power?
Our very special guests:
Bro. Ldr. Mbandaka: Resident guest who is Spiritual Leader of the Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement and UNIA-ACL Ambassador for the UK and national co-Chair of the interim National Afrikan People’s Parliament. Bro. Ldr is a veteran activist of over 30 years standing, a featured columnist in The Whirlwindnewspaper and author of Mosiah Daily Affirmations and Education: An African-Centred Guide To Excellence.
Minister Abdul Hakeem Muhammad: of the Nation of Islam. Minister Abdul is the the European regional representative of the Honourable Minister Louis Farrakhan and is co-organiser, along with RMUK of the 4th Africa International Day of Action.
Bro: Dulani: Bro. Dulani, Media Coordinator, African Emancipation Day Reparations March Committee.
Bro. Glenroy Watson: is the secretary of the Global Afrikan Congress UK branch. He is a veteran activist and trade unionist of international repute. Bro. Glenroy has been a stalwart of the TUC Black workers conferences for twenty years.
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