Tendai MWARI!
Makorokoto egore idzva!
Afenhyia pa!
Odun de!
Happy New Year
For our first show for the year 6260, according to our adjusted Kemetic timescale (or 2020 for those on the Gregorian vibration) we invite our listeners to share their proscriptions for how Afrikans should proceed over the next twelve months.
Last year we saw:
The police continue to get away with murder when our people die in custody. (1)
Our children increasingly under threat of racist abuse in the UK school system, even as Afrikan supplementary schools are closing. (2)
Youth violence continued to dominate the headlines and take some young victims. (3)
Our health outcomes remained worse than every other community. (4)
The ‘Hostile environment’ intensified after its temporary “Windrush Scandal” recess. (5)
The British public handed Prime Minister Boris Johnson a five-year mandate to pursue his “Empire 2.0” agenda. (6)
Afrikan governments finally appeared to rouse themselves in opposition to ther CFA franc. (7)
The USA continued their global regime change programme. (8)
The challenges to Afrikan sovereignty at home and abroad presented an existential threat to our people globally. Already reports from this year show that the onslaught against our children shows little sign of abating (9)
In the UK we remain without a national representative body, whether by choice or circumstance. While elsewhere, the dismissal of an African Union Ambassador, apparently for merely stating well-founded historical and contemporary truths is hardly indicative of kujichagulia (self-determination). (10) Thus it remains to be seen how or if, Afrikans can influence the national agenda here in ‘Brexit’ Britain. Meanwhile, tales of Afrikan economic growth needs to reconciled with factors like the (for now) continuing CFA franc and the forty-six U.S. military outposts scattered across twenty-four Afrikan countries. (11)
For their part, with Iran in their crosshairs, the European axis has begun the year in sabre-rattling mode, with a promise of more to come. (12)
(1) INQUEST (06/06/19) Jury concludes death of Edson Da Costa following restraint by Metropolitan Police was misadventure. https://www.inquest.org.uk/edir-da-costa-inquest-concludes
(2) Leah Sinclair (29/03/19) NUS President Shakira Martin Calls Out School For Racism https://www.voice-online.co.uk/article/nus-president-shakira-martin-calls-out-school-racism; Lizzie Dearden (13/12/18) Number of far-right referrals to counter-extremism programme Prevent rockets 36% in a year. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prevent-extremism-figures-far-right-terrorism-islamist-statistics-isis-referalls-a8681221.html; Alkebu-Lan Revivalist Movement (02/09/19) Saturday Schools An Essential Resource Or Outdated Operation. https://www.alkebulan.org/2019/09/02/afrika-speaks-with-alkebu-lan-on-galaxy-radio-02-09-19-saturday-schools-an-essential-resource-or-outdated-operation/
(3) Sharon Hendry (02/03/19) ‘OUR FIGHT AGAINST EVIL’ Friend of stab victim Jaden Moodie says his exclusion from school put him on a path to tragedy. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8548021/jaden-moodie-murder-school-exclusion/
(4) Veron Graham (27/07/19) Experienced Midwife Fights To Tackle Health Inequalities. https://archive.voice-online.co.uk/article/experienced-midwife-fights-tackle-health-inequalities; Professor Frank Chinegwundoh MBE (12/06/18) Time to talk about the prostate cancer risk in black men and what we can do about it. https://www.england.nhs.uk/blog/time-to-talk-about-the-prostate-cancer-risk-in-black-men-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/
(5) Zita Holbourne (04/02/19) Stop the new deportation flights to Jamaica. They shouldn’t be happening. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/04/deportation-flights-jamaica-government-windrush-scandal. Comptroller and Auditor General (05/12/18) Handling of the Windrush situation. http://www.statewatch.org/news/2018/dec/uk-nao-report-windrush-situation-12-18.pdf; Home Office (19/07/18) Terms of reference. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/727184/WLLR_Terms_of_Reference_vn_5.0__003_.pdf
(6) Sam Coates (06/03/17) Ministers aim to build ‘empire 2.0’ with African Commonwealth. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ministers-aim-to-build-empire-2-0-with-african-commonwealth-after-brexit-v9bs6f6z9
(7) Menas Associates, (27/06/19) West Africa aims for a single currency by 2020. https://www.menas.co.uk/blog/west-africa-single-currency-2020/
(8) John Pilger (22/02/19) The War on Venezuela Is Built on Lies. http://johnpilger.com/articles/the-war-on-venezuela-is-built-on-lies; The Empire Files (22/02/19) An Ocean of Lies on Venezuela_ Abby Martin & UN Rapporteur Expose Coup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii5MlQgGXyk
(9) Frankie McCamley (01/01/20) Exclusions for racism in primary schools in England up more than 40%. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-50331687; Dave Speck (02/01/20) Exclusive: ‘Teachers’ racist attitudes stuck in 1980s’. https://www.tes.com/news/exclusive-teachers-racist-attitudes-stuck-1980s
(10) Stacy M. Brown (18/10/19) Unrest at the African Union Follows the Firing of Popular Ambassador. https://lasentinel.net/unrest-at-the-african-union-follows-the-firing-of-popular-ambassador.html
(11) Nick Turse (27/04/17) Tomgram: Nick Turse, The U.S. Military Moves Deeper into Africa. https://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176272/tomgram%3A_nick_turse%2C_the_u.s._military_moves_deeper_into_africa/
(12) David Smith (06/01/20) Trump defends ‘war crime’ threat to target cultural sites in Iran. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/06/suleimani-killing-donald-trump-defends-threat-to-hit-cultural-sites-in-iran
We ask the question:
Will we get plenty in 2020 (Can we achieve victory in 6260)?
1) Have do you see as the priorities for Afrikans in the coming year?
2) What should we do differently this year compared to last year?
3) Is our lack of a national representative body due to choice or circumstance?
4) What impact will support from the likes of Raheem Sterling have?
5) Are there any particular issues you would like to see covered on Afrika Speaks with Alkebu-Lan, perhaps that we haven’t covered before?
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