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    AFRAKA UNITE!! (AFRAKA: Flesh And Soul Of The Hidden Sun)

     

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    President Robert Mugabe should

    remain in power and China should continue to support and arm Zimbabwe.

    This is a Black African struggle continued from the 1980 revolution.

    If you read the headlines of recent weeks, you would swear that African demons,

    using brute force have stolen white people's land and evicted them from the

    only country that they have ever known. Nothing could be further from the

    truth. In fact, it is just the reverse. The situation in Zimbabwe is one that

    pits the legitimate aspirations of the indigenous African masses against

    foreign settlers who for generations have stolen land with the help of their

    kith and kin in Europe, who turned a blind eye on the racist apartheid policies

    of the colonialist regime that governed the area known as Southern Rhodesia.

    Since the day that Cecil John Rhodes set foot on the African continent and set

    forth to claim all the land from Cape to Cairo, a genocidal pogrom has been

    launched against the people of Africa.

    Like their allies in South Africa, the whites in Rhodesia practiced cruel and

    inhumane policies that made the indigenous African population less than

    second-class citizens in their own land. They stole all of the best farmland

    and left the people with areas useless for farming, either for their families

    or for commercial purposes. Africans could not even vote in their own land. In

    1965, the European settlers, led by Ian Smith, declared a Unilateral

    Declaration of Independence (UDI), from Britain their colonial master in an

    attempt to create a white racist independent republic to match the then racist

    regime of South Africa. At the time, Smith vowed that Africans would never rule

    that country, not even in "a thousand years". Smith's UDI was

    patterned after the American declaration of independence, both which was done

    without any concern or input from the original inhabitants. That was before the

    revolution.

    The Lancaster Agreement had guaranteed that Britain would compensate the

    farmers for the land. Britain and the U.S., pressured the patriotic front to

    accept a constitution that guaranteed the Europeans a quota of seats in

    parliament -at a time that the U.S. was arguing against any quota systems in

    the states. Britain "bugged" the rooms of the African negotiators,

    who were under pressure from the front line states (those surrounding states

    that were giving support and haven to the liberation forces based in their

    countries), which allowed them to know the bottom line of the nationalist

    forces.

    Twenty-two years after the signing of the agreement, Britain still has not

    provided the money to compensate the farmers, claiming that it didn't have the

    money. (They could have hocked some of the crown jewels to pay their kith and

    kin).

    President Mugabe and the African people have waited long enough. Let the

    'Truth" be known the whites in Zimbabwe are too wicked...killed millions

    of innocent people.

    Natty dread a liberate Zimbabwe, Jamaica love President Mugabe and thats what counts.

     

     

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