African Opinion - Freedom Archives

spite this, some mysteries developed .
The school boards and administrators
of these communities schools were
jailed for their efforts to reverse a
prevailing dangerous trend . Can you
unravel this mystery, Uba?
Uba---Da, we live in an age of
secrecy . Those modern forces, often
referred to as "Structures", have secret
plans most of which are smelly
and harmful to the rest of mankind .
Biit the plans satisfy their depraved
ycaruings . The strategists at times
begin their action in remote places
to avoid detection and mass opposition
until they reached their planned
position-a fait accompli . Trapped
at that point, the mass have no other
alternative but to unwillingly go
along .
The problems in tlx , two experimental
schools - Oceanhill Brownsville
in Brooklyn and Public School
901 in Harlem- reflect a technique
to force the African communities into
righteous indignation over infraction
of their inalienable rights. The
debacle of "Haryou Act" immediately
preceding was another upsetting
tactic .
Aware of our interest in the African
homeland and our natural reaction
to the attempt at re-occupation
by neo-colonialists, the "Structure"
creates conditions envisaged to keep
our eyes on our centuries of domestic
troubles with the deceiving hope of
change for the better, while they digin
and consolidate their position in
Africa .
Da-Yes, Via, it can be recalled
that for years African Nationalists
have been active in the communities
keeping the people informed of the
Homeland affairs . Anticipating a reaction
(similar to that which turn
the LT . N . into a Flanders' Field over
the Murder of Patrice Lumumba) to
the Europeans provocation in Rhodesia,
"Har-you Act" and other setups
were established. And all those
leaders were employed in an attempt
to silence them . The identical method
was used when they deported
Marcus Garvey from the U . S . A .
Every leader of his divisions and
energetic personnel were taken in
public services. Clever moves, were
they not, Uba ?
Uba-Clever ? That's why we are
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AFRICAN OPINION
AFRICA INVITED BLACK POWER CONFERENCE
Photo : Shows the great road, a link in the Cape to Cairo, which winds its way up
the Rift Escarpment at Chunya in the Southern Highlands Region . The region
contains some of the finest mountains and woodlands in Tanzania, Tanganyika .
The Black Power 11 ovetm nt, a
kind of renaissance quickened by the
wind of change, field its third annual
Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
in September, 1!)t3S . At this
conclave over 3,000 representatives
cf African- Ainericans from all seetions
of America, it was announced
that the government of Tanzania
(formerly Tanganyika) in East Africa
invited the nest conference to
that progressive African State .
The leader of the movement is the
controversial Mr. Ron Karengo, an
African born in the United States
of America, a Cum Laude graduate
from Los Angeles, California University
with masters degree in languages
- Swahili, Zulu, Arabic,
French, Spanish .
Mr . Karengo - dressed in his African
clothes, as were the majority
of delegates, men and women in
dashikis, turbans and garments seen
in Guinea, Mali, Sudan, Kenya or
Kongo --- is 27 years old with three
children, all with African names, and
who plans to cement a "National
Black United Front ."
Urban Army Proposed
Al(acg with other leaders o£ substaiice
were l)r. Nathan Wright,
chairman ; 1}r . Nathan Hare, Soci-
Olo-v Prrefessor at Harvard University,
dismissed for advocating Africa,
ccnsciousness last year, took active
part in tile Confen, nee.
Among resolutions unanimously
passed was the establishment of an
"urban arm of black men for defense
and aggressive self-defense" to guarantec
:kfrican-Americans' survival .
The invitation to Tanzania might
turn out to be a blessing in disguise .
They might discover why that African
state established a patrol of 500
young men and women to resist what
they considered to be decadent fort
ign fashions, such as "miniskirts",
"wigs," "skin bleaches" and other
incongruous patterns .
While there too, the leaders of
Plaek Power might feel what freedom
is like, the security of sons at
home and compare it with the problems
encountered by unwantedadcpted
sons outside, a rewarding
experience .