The Contemporary Relevance of Pan-Africanism

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THIS AND OTHER ESSAYS WILL BE PUBLISHED IN A COLLECTION BY PAUL TIYAMBE ZELEZA, BARACK OBAMA AND AFRICAN DIASPORAS: DIALOGUES AND DISSENSIONS, AYEBIA PUBLISHING (Oxford, U.K.) and OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS (Athens, OH, USA) in Fall 2009. LOOK OUT FOR THE BOOK!!! 

 

In international law ,

In international law , sovereignty is the exercise of power by a state, De jure sovereignty is the legal right to do so; de facto sovereignty is the ability in fact to do so (which becomes of special concern upon the failure of the usual expectation that de jure and de facto sovereignty exist at the place and time of concern, and rest in the same organization). Foreign governments recognize the Sovereignty of a State over a territory, or refuse to do so. For instance,Ambassadors are only exchanged between Sovereign high parties of the Countries recognized and between themselves .
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Africans Tricked Over

Africans Tricked Over Independence Issue In The Continent .

AFRICANS TRICKED OVER INDEPENDENCE ISSUE IN THE CONTINENT .

ROOT MEANING OF SOVEREIGNITY AND THE WHITE MENS ROLE ON AFRICA

Sovereignty is the exclusive right to exercise Supreme Authority over a geographic region,group of people or oneself. Sovereignty over a nation is generally vested in a government or other political agency, though there are cases where it is held by an individual. A monarch who rules a sovereign Country can also be referred to as the Sovereign of that Country. The concept of Sovereignty also pertains to a government possessing full control over its own affairs within a territorial or geographical area or limit.

In international law , sovereignty is the exercise of power by a state, De jure sovereignty is the legal right to do so; de facto sovereignty is the ability in fact to do so (which becomes of special concern upon the failure of the usual expectation that de jure and de facto sovereignty exist at the place and time of concern, and rest in the same organization).

Foreign governments recognize the Sovereignty of a State over a territory, or refuse to do so. For instance,Ambassadors are only exchanged between Sovereign high parties of the Countries recognized and between themselves .

They entertain de jure diplomatic relationships by maintaining offices of representation',such are then Embassies created there in the Soveregn Countries than otherwise Sovereign Countries prefer to entertain by appointing Lower scale Institutions headed by Consulates and High Commissioners only to non Sovereign countries which like Great Britain can only send on a simple diplomatic cover up to her African Commonwealth Countries , the High Commissioners but not Ambassadors at all . A plain truth .

Africans are being laughed at on Diplomatic issues on this matter .

In concept of Law therefore African leaders can only be considered as Governor generals , a post which a black had to take over from the white men Governor generals in the Colonial offices : for example , the British Overseas Colonies ( B.O C .)

The meaning of Independence to the blacks meant that ; because the land areas of Africa accordingly still belong to the Whites as overseas lands in the sense of law. Very sad affair indeed for all of us blacks as we Africans are till slaves and copy and speak foreign languages like parrots .

Take a look at the roots ( etymology ) of the word Soveregnity ; The etymology of the word sovereignty, with origins in the Latin super, conveys the idea of "Overness".

N.B - The key element of sovereignty in the legalistic sense is that of Exclusivity of Jurisdiction . Specifically, when a decision is made and by WHO ?

THIS IS THE BIGEST DILEMA NOW FOR THE DIFFERENT AFRICAN PEOPLE IN THE CONTINENT TO FACE ; IS THE SOVEREIGNITY ISSUE .

INFACT ; LADO KINGDOM STILL OCCUPIED BY BRITAIN IN AFRICA REFUSED TO BOW DOWN TO THE BRITISH AUTHORITY SINCE FROM 1947 OVER THIS ISSUE OF SOVERENITY WHICH CAN NOT BE SURRENDERED TO GAIN INDEPENDENCE TO THE KING / QUEEN OF ENGLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND AS MOST AFRICANS WERE TRICKED, SO DID SIGN AND TODAY REMAIN UNDER THE SOVEREGNITY OF ENGLAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND AS THE OVERSEAS AFRICAN COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES ( B.O.C ). B.O.C SIMPLY MEANS AND HAS NOT CHANGED AT ALL ( BRITISH OVERSEAS COLONIES ). THUS CONTROLLING THE BASIC ECONOMY OF THESE COUNTRIES .
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The term pan-African is usually attributed to Edward Wilmot Blyden, but the spiritual father of the movement that took that name was Henry Sylvester Williams from Trinidad. Today's conference, aimed at bringing together the peoples of Africa, on the continent and those of the diaspora, was originally planned to coincide with the bi-centennial of the Haitian revolution and the first decade of democracy in South Africa.

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