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Prof. Chinua Achebe: Why I rejected Nigeria's 2004 national honors from Obasanjo's government
Over fifty-thousand have died, tens of thousands more will
perish, more than 1.4 million are displaced, homeless and refugees in
their own home land. This tragedy 
continues
as the world watches in an almost total catatonic like silence. It is
a tragedy that has gone on for years. The violence continues to be
more horrific than anything the world has seen at least since the
Jewish holocaust. Even the United Nations has called the horror in
Sudan the worst of humanitarian disaster in the world today. Only the
former Secretary of State, Colin Powell and the former American
ambassador John Danforth had enough courage to state the facts as
they are in Sudan and called what's going on in the largest African
nation nothing less of genocide. And you see what has happen to both
of these whistle blowers. But as the violence, poverty, and
natural disasters continues, the world, America included, acts
confused, dazed, and generally aloof in a near state of paralytic
denial hoping that this human crisis will go away on its own when
this is nothing short of ethnic cleansing at its best and genocide on
the grandest of scales.
America
sat back and watched a decade ago in the same fashion when 800,000
people died in Rwanda. It has done the same thing with every
humanitarian disaster that has ever occurred on the African continent
including the recent Liberian and Sierra Leone conflicts. Not only
have we ignored political holocaust-ype conflicts such as what is
going on in Sudan, but many times we convientanly ignore as much as
possible other humanitarian disasters on the continent such as
floods, famines and other natural disasters; giving mere token type
of concern.
The support is nothing even close to the type
of concern that we have shown to the victims of the recent Tsunami in
South Eastern Asia. We have sent two former presidents as a show of
support and concern along with the promise of billions of dollars of
aid.
While I by no means want to compare the two
disasters; I do want to draw attention to the hypocrisy in dealing
with the two crises. When there was the mere hint of genocide in
Bosnia, President Clinton rushed in and saved the Serbs. President
Bush fights the war in Iraqi partially based, so he says, on what
were the barbaric acts of genocide like behavior by Saddam Hussein
against his own people.
The British, like the Americans, have sat back
and watched these poor African people annihilate themselves from the
face of the earth. They like the Americans are more concerned about
the disposition of the emerging oil industry and who will control it
once the dust settles from the atrocities that are being carried out
by the citizens of Sudan against each other. So not only are these
Black Africans who it seems are not that important to the West in the
global scheme of things, but they are also Black Africans who are
sitting on oil fields which the West needs and wants to control. It
them becomes to their interest politically and economically to do
nothing.
But to do nothing while violence, hunger and
disease continues to kill little children is more of a crime than
what the Sudanese are doing to themselves. How can America along with
Britain be the world moral police and do virtually nothing to stop
this massacre of an entire race of Black People? How it that America
Is not calling on the international community to rise up and stop
these atrocities. Why is that billions of dollars are not being
rushed to the villages of al-Junaynah, Twaila, al-Fashir, Nyala,
Dunqulah and Khartoum? How is that the world watches as an entire
generation of Sudanese children are being wiped away from the face of
the earth, not just because of the violent war but because of the
malnutrition that hangs over the country like a funeral pall.
Human rights groups have been calling for help
now for some time. And all agree that unless something is done soon
these that an entire people will vanish from face 
of
the earth. It appears that America works from the premise that these
people, (the Sudanese) must get rid of this problem themselves. But
this is not the stance that America took when she invaded Bosnia,
Iraqi or Afghanistan or even when we send two presidents to check on
the people in South East Asia. This pull yourself up by your own
bootstraps mentality that America has used with her own blacks she
continues to use with blacks of the world. It's unfair. It's unjust.
It's immoral and it is of itself tantamount to the most
egregious form of a genocide that one could ever perpetrate.
Dr. Sanders,
contributing editor and columnist for The Black Business Journal
magazine, www.BBJonline.com
and USAfricaonline.com,
is a Suffragan Bishop in the Pentecostal Assemblies of the world, is
the founder and the pastor of the Emmanuel Temple church in Sandusky,
Ohio. He holds a Ph.D in American Culture Studies and has served in
many leadership capacities in the organization that include national
evangelist, international youth leader and missionary to West Africa.
Responses will be published in our online and print editions.
February 24, 2005
INSIGHT:
Why America should halt the
genocide in the Sudan. By Chido Nwangwu, Founder and
Publisher of USAfricaonline.com. Certain facts and the continuing,
bigoted impudence of Islamic Sudan offer clarity to why the U.S
should aggressively halt the genocide and gory events in Africa's
largest country. The Sudan has almost 918,000 square miles in size
and a war-weary population of 30million. Even as I call for a red
line to be drawn against the rag-tag army of Arab-taliban-fascists in
Africa and the assorted troops of religio-criminal rapists who have
since four decades set upon the southern Christian, indigenous
African Sudanese, I agree with Gen. Powell that "America will be a
friend to all Africans who seek peace; but we cannot make peace among
Africans." He is right. Africans must respect and love each other.
Continued
here....
Bush, if not Affirmative
Action, then what: Reparations?
By Dr. RUFUS G.W SANDERS: Affirmative
Action has worked for the last 30 years to create a Black middle
class. It has helped to integrate the American society and to truly
diversify the American culture. It also has served to help nurture
the socialization and the psychosocial development of Black people in
this country. It was through affirmative education that Black people
finally were able to assimilate into the American mainstream; but now
the president wants to end the one social program in the history of
America that even came close to the closing of the gaps of racism. No
other program has had as much success..... Affirmative Action is
about attempts to bring historically underrepresented groups who have
suffered discrimination into a higher degree of participation within
the society. Affirmative Action attempts to remedy some of the
vile-ness by allowing for opportunity, chance and redress of being
historically taken advantage of by the state all because of the color
of ones skin. Bush has proposed nothing to replace the progress of
Affirmative Action. While he certainly is no visionary; he still must
be aware of the tremendous strides that have been made because of
the
bold action taken by the Affirmative Action
Program.
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neither validated by the economic exchanges nor
geo-strategic interests of our two continents."
These views were stated
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analyst Jeff Greenfield had with Mr. Nwangwu on Saturday
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Politics 2000.' Nwangwu,
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U.S., and immigrant home to thousands of Africans) argued
further that "the issues of the heritage interests of 35
million African-Americans in Africa, the volume and value of
oil business between between the U.S and Nigeria and the
horrendous AIDS crisis in Africa do not lend any basis for
Governor Bush's ill-advised
position which
removes Africa from fair consideration" were he to be
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for an engaging understanding of African pre-colonial,
colonial and post-colonial history and realities. I believe
that such insight has made him a favorite of
African-Americans, and other scholars and regular folks in
search of a better, realistic understanding of Africa, at
least, from Achebe's utilization of his rich and dynamic
Igbo ancestry, in south eastern Nigeria. I share the same
ancestry, and he's one of 
USAfricaonline.com
Founder Chido Nwangwu with the U.S. former Ambassador
Carrington (right) at the U.S. embassy in Lagos during a
courtesy visit.
Obasanjo: Let me say this to you, when you put the question
of 10,000 -- 10,000 people dying in Nigeria, of course, for
a population of over 120 million people...."
But USAfricaonline.com Founder and
recipient of the Journalism Excellence award (1997),