Ngomhla zingama-20 kuNcwaba, ngokuhambisana nesikhumbuzo sosuku lokuzalwa lukaMhlonishwa u-Marcus Mosiah Garvey, i-Pan African Unity Dialogue (PAUD) yase-Greater New York izokwethula umqulu onesihloko esithi – Isimemo Sokwenziwa Kwezinguquko Ngezinguquko Zokuthuthela kwelinye izwe: Ukuthuthukisa Izintshisekelo Zabantu Bokudabuka e-Afrika. Noma ubani ojwayelene nezindaba kanye nokukhathazeka kwe-Black America uyazi ukuthi ukuguqulwa kwabokufika kuwudaba oluyimpikiswano futhi olushisayo. Ngenxa yokugxila ezizweni ezivela eMelika Ephakathi neseNingizimu, inani elikhulu labaNsundu libheka ukuthuthela kwelinye izwe “njengendaba yaseSpain.” Futhi, ngenxa yokuthutheleka okukhulu kwabantu abangenazo izincwadi ezivela kulezi zifunda, abantu abaningi bomdabu wase-Afrika babona ukuguqulwa kokufika kwabantu kwamanye amazwe njengosongo oluqondile ezithakazelweni zabantu abaNsundu. Lo muzwa uzwakala ikakhulukazi phakathi “kwabase-Afrika baseMelika.” Ngakho-ke, inhloso yombhalo we-PAUD akukhona ukuphikisa ukuthuthela kwelinye izwe kodwa ukuqinisekisa ukuthi kukhona uguquko oluhlanganisa nokuvikela izintshisekelo zabantu bomdabu wase-Afrika. Ekugcineni umgomo uwukunqoba ukuphikisa emphakathini wabaNsundu ngokuqinisekisa abantu bomdabu wase-Afrika ukuthi noma yimuphi umthetho ohlongozwayo uzolingana futhi ubandakanye. Lokhu kuzokwenza abantu bomdabu base-Afrika bakwazi ukuba ngabalingani abakhuthele futhi balwele izinguquko ezithinta abantu abavela kwamanye amazwe. Ukwethulwa kombhalo wezinguquko kwezokufika kuyimpumelelo enkulu. 

 

I-PAUD ingumhlangano wabaholi baseCaribbean American, Continental African, Afro-Latino kanye nabase-Afrika baseMelika abahlangana njalo ngekota ngaphansi kwe-Institute of the Black World 21.^st Ikhulu leminyaka ukushintshanisa ulwazi mayelana nomsebenzi wezinhlangano zabo, ukukhuthaza ubunye bokusebenza kanye nomsebenzi ohlanganyelwe. Ngenxa yemizwa eshubile kanye nenzondo yenguquko yokufika kwabantu kwamanye amazwe, kwacaca ukuthi wudaba okumele iqembu libhekane nalo. Kwenzeke into ethokozisayo njengoba umbhalo wawuphothulwa. Abahlanganyeli be-PAUD baqala ukuxoxa ngezinye zezingxabano nezingxabano phakathi kwabantu bomdabu wase-Afrika. Abantu baseHaiti bakhuluma ngokugconwa abantu base-Afrika baseMelika (uKango Kid no-Wyclef Jean balandisa ngokugconwa ngonya beyizingane). Abantu basezwenikazi lase-Afrika balandisa ngezenzakalo zokuba yizisulu zamahlaya ngenxa yemvunulo yabo yomdabu yase-Afrika. Abantu baseCaribbean baseMelika bacaphune izehlakalo zokuthukwa ngenxa yegama labo kanye nozalo. I-Afro-Latinos ikhononde ngokunganakwa njengabantu bomdabu wase-Afrika ngokumane ixhunywe "ngamaHispanics" ngokujwayelekile. Abanye “abaseMelika baseMelika” bajatshuliswa ukuthi abantu abaningi base-Afrika abavela ezwenikazi, eCaribbean, Central kanye naseNingizimu Melika abafuni ukubizwa “ngama-Afrika aseMelika.” Lezi zibonakaliso zazithinta kakhulu. Bakhalela umsebenzi onzima wokuvala ukuhlukana nokuqeda ukungezwani phakathi kwabantu bomdabu wase-Afrika. 

 

Izingxoxo ze-PAUD mayelana nezinguquko zokuthuthela kwelinye izwe ziveze ukuthi nakuba abantu bomdabu base-Afrika babegxile kulokho okwakubhekwa abanye "njengosongo lwangaphandle," kukhona "usongo lwangaphakathi" olubeka ingozi emathubeni obumbano lwabaNsundu kanye namandla aBamnyama ukuthuthukisa umnotho. izithakazelo ezihlangene zabantu base-Afrika e-US nakwamanye amazwe. Le ngozi ayibonakali nje kuphela ezingxabanweni phakathi kwabokufika base-Afrika abasanda kufika, ibonakala ekwehlukaneni okudala ngokwezigaba nebala emphakathini wabaNsundu, ukuntula ukuzethemba okuhle ngokobuhlanga mayelana nokuphika ubuNsundu/amadlozi ase-Afrika kanye nokwamukeleka kwabaNsundu. ezinye zezinganekwane zomphakathi we-post racial. Konke lokhu kungiholela ekutheni ngibuze umbuzo owaduma ngawo uRodney King: “Singakwazi yini ukuzwana sonke?” Noma ikhumbula izikhuthazo ze-19^th Umbhubhisi oMnyama wekhulu leminyaka uDavid Nickens: “Masithande ukuhlangana kwethu ngokwethu.” Lena inselelo i-PAUD nezinye izinhlangano, izikhungo kanye nama-ejensi ase-Black America okufanele abhekane nayo uma sifuna ukukhulisa i-Pan Africanism kanye namandla aMnyama ku-21.^st Ikhulu.

 

Ukuze kuhlangatshezwane nale nselelo, abantu base-Afrika baseMelika banoma iyiphi imvelaphi kumele babhekane neqiniso lokuthi “sinomphakathi omusha wase-Afrika e-US” owakhiwe izigidi zabantu abasanda kufika bevela ezwenikazi lase-Afrika, eCaribbean (kuhlanganise neHaiti), Emaphakathi nase-Afrika. I-South America. Abokufika abasha base-Afrika abaselona idlanzana elincane emadolobheni amakhulu asenyakatho-mpumalanga njenge-New York ne-Washington, DC I-New York inemiphakathi “encane yase-Afrika” ehlala abantu baseSenegal, abaseMaliya, abaseGhana, abaseGuinea …… Abantu abamnyama baseWashington, DC bahlanganisa inani elandayo labantu base-Ethiopia, AbaseSomaliya nabaseNigeria. Ngokwezilinganiso ezithile kukhona abantu baseNigeria abangu-50,000 e-Houston. Kulezi zinsuku ungathenga i-Jerk Chicken noma i-Roti e-Jackson, e-Mississippi nase-Atlanta kanye nasezindaweni eziqinile zase-Caribbean e-Brooklyn. 

 

Indaba iwukuthi sinabantu bozalo lwase-Afrika, abafowethu nodadewethu abanobuso obuMnyama abahlala ezindaweni/izindawo ezifanayo ngaphandle kokuhlobana ngendlela ehlosiwe neyakhayo. Kunokuntuleka “kokuhlanganiswa kwangaphakathi” okuhlangene okunciphisa amandla ethu okusebenzisa amandla ezomnotho nezepolitiki ngokuhlanganyela noma, esimweni esibi kakhulu, okunomthelela ekungezwani nasekungqubuzaneni okungakhiqizi imiphumela. Njengoba udadewethu esimthandayo ongasekho u-Charshee McIntyre ayefundisa, ubuhlanga namasiko kuyizinto ezinamandla zobumbano kunombala wesikhumba wodwa. Akunjalo ngengozi ukuthi sineMali encane neSenegal encane ezingxenyeni ezincane zase-Afrika eHarlem naseBronx eNew York. Umgomo wethu akumele kube ukwakha umphakathi wabaNsundu obubodwa, kodwa kube owokuthi abantu abahlukene bozalo lwase-Afrika bangalondoloza ubuzwe babo bobuhlanga/ubuzwe kuyilapho beqaphela izibopho ezibopha bonke abantu base-Afrika mayelana nokufana okudlulele kwamasiko kanye nokufana kwengcindezelo yethu ngoba lokucwasa ngokwebala/ukubusa kwabamhlophe. Amaphoyisa ahlukumeza u-Abner Louima awazange amhlukanise ngoba engowaseHaiti, futhi amaphoyisa awazange ambulale u-Amadou Diallo ngoba engowaseGuinea. Emehlweni amaphoyisa babengamalungu ohlanga oludelelekile kanye/noma babebonwa njengamadoda amnyama ayingozi–inkathi!

 

Lezi zakhiwo ezinhle nezingezinhle kufanele zihlanganise isisekelo sobumbano lwe-Pan African e-US nakwamanye amazwe. Okusho ukuthi, kufanele sikubone njengenzuzo yethu sobabili ukunqoba amabhuloho asihlukanisayo ukuze sakhe izibopho ezivumela abantu bomdabu base-Afrika ukuthi basebenzise iqoqo lethu lezinsiza zabantu ukuze bahlangabezane nezidingo zabantu bakithi. Lokhu kufanele kwenziwe kuqala futhi kuqala ngokusebenzisa izinsiza zethu ukuze sizithuthukise ngaphakathi/kwangasese. I-Afrika iyizwekazi elicebe kakhulu ebusweni bomhlaba. Asikho isizathu sokuthi ngemizamo yethu ehlangene izinsiza ze-Afrika zingasetshenziselwa ukondla intuthuko yama-Afrika ezwenikazi kanye nakwamanye amazwe. Lokhu kudinga ukuqaphela nokuzibophezela ekusebenzeni ndawonye njengabantu base-Afrika kanye nefilosofi yentuthuko ebeka izidingo zomuntu kuqala kunokuhaha, inzuzo kanye nokwaneliswa komuntu ngamunye. Azikho izaba ngezigidi zama-Afrika aphila ngobumpofu nosizi phakathi kwemithombo yemvelo emangalisayo. Abantu bomdabu base-Afrika kumele futhi basebenzise izigidigidi zamarandi esinazo njengomthombo omkhulu wentuthuko yangaphakathi. Okubaluleke ngokufanayo, ama-Afrika aseMelika ikakhulukazi kufanele abumbane ukusebenzisa amandla ethu ahlangene ukuthuthukisa izintshisekelo zethu mayelana nokwabiwa kwezinsiza zikahulumeni ukusiza imiphakathi yabaMnyama ecindezelekile kuleli zwe kanye nokunxenxa usizo lwangaphandle ukusiza amazwe ase-Afrika ngokusekelwe ezintweni ezibalulekile kanye amasu abawabona njengawusizo kakhulu.

 

Ukwakha lolu hlobo lobumbano lwePan African angeke kube lula. Noma kunjalo, akukho okunye esingakwenza ngaphandle kokwenza umzamo. Kumelwe nje sithole indlela “yokuzwana,” futhi njengoba uDavid Nickens asikisela, kumelwe kuqale “ngokwazisa ubunye obunobungane nathi ngokwethu.” UDkt. Maulana Karenga ubelokhu ephikisa iminyaka ukuthi "inkinga esemqoka empilweni yabaNsundu yinhlekelele yamasiko," ukuntula ukuzazi kahle/ukuzethemba kuze kufike ezingeni "lokuzizonda" kwezinye izimo. Kubuhlungu ukubona ukuthi naphezu kwenqubekelaphambili yamalungelo omphakathi kanye nokunyakaza kweBlack Power/Consciousness ekutholeni abeNsundu abaningi ezikhundleni nabezindaba, naphezu kwayo yonke impumelelo ekukhetheni abaNsundu ezikhundleni zomphakathi, izinhloko zezinkampani eziNsundu kanye nabasubathi Abamnyama ngobuningi, ngokusho kwezinye izifundo, sisenenani elikhathazayo lezingane ezibonisa ukukhetha okuhlukile konodoli abamhlophe nemifanekiso kunodoli abamnyama nemifanekiso. Lokhu kungenxa yendlela engaguquki, engeyinhle yokuvezwa kwabaMnyama emithonjeni yezindaba njengama-ganstas, izigebengu, imilutha yezidakamizwa nokunye okunjalo. Kubonakala sengathi izithombe/izimpawu ezinhle zisibekelwe okubi. Kuyihlazo futhi ukuthi abanye abaNsundu basadlala umdlalo wokuhlukanisa umbala wesikhumba emphakathini wethu ngokusabalalisa umbono wokuthandwa kwesikhumba esikhanyayo. Impela lolu uhlobo “lokucwasa okungaphakathi” oluhlanganisa umbono omhlophe wokuthi “uma umhlophe ulungile, uthi oluphuzi oluphuzi, olunsundu nxazonke, kodwa buya umnyama!” Okushiwo yingxabano kaKarenga ukuthi siyohlala sithola noma sidale ezethu izithiyo ebunyeni obunezimiso nenqubekelaphambili inqobo nje uma sikholelwa ukuthi “iqhwa labaMhlophe lihlala libanda kakhulu.”

 

Ukwazisa inyunyana enobungani nathi njengabantu base-Afrika kusho ukuthi kufanele sisebenzise umlando namasiko abantu bakithi njengesisekelo sokuziqinisekisa. Kufanele sibe nesibindi sokukholelwa ukuthi phakathi kwezinhlanga eziningi ezihlanganisa umndeni wama-Afrika, singasebenzisa amagugu omphakathi, ahlangene kanye nawomndeni endlela yokuphila yendabuko yabantu base-Afrika kanye nolwazi lwethu olufanayo lokugqilazwa, ubukoloni kanye ne-neo- ingcindezelo yamakholoni, ukuhlukaniswa kanye nokucwasa njengesisekelo sokwakha izibopho zobunye obunezimiso, ukubambisana kanye nokwenza. Angeke kube khona umgoqo ophakeme kakhulu ukuthi singanqoba ekufuneni amandla aMnyama kubantu abaMnyama kanye nabacindezelwe bazo zonke izinhlanga, izinhlanga nezizwe. Abantu abaNsundu noma ama-Afrika aseMelika abalandelela okhokho babo emuva kuma-Afrika agqilaziwe alethwe kulezi zigwini, kumele bamukele abantu base-Afrika abasanda kufika bevela ezwenikazi, iCaribbean, Central kanye neNingizimu Melika njengabangane abangahle bahlanganyele emzabalazweni wokuthola inkululeko ephelele. Ngokufanayo, abokufika abasha base-Afrika kumele babone ukuthi kwakuwumzabalazo wabafowabo nodadewabo base-Afrika baseMelika, uMzabalazo wamaqhawe weBlack Freedom, owavula indlela yokuba beze e-US ngaphandle kokubhekana nezici ezisobala kakhulu ze-de jure and de facto. ukuhlukaniswa. Ngalokhu kuhloniphana, singabhekana nomsebenzi wokuhlangana ukuze silwele inyunyana ephelele e-US enokulingana, inkululeko kanye nobulungiswa kubo bonke.

 

Ukwakha ubumbano lwe-Pan African e-US nakwamanye amazwe ngenjongo yokuthuthukisa nokuvikela izithakazelo zabantu base-Afrika kuyinkokhiso i-PAUD yaseNew York eyamukele. Ngakho, kukhunjulwa uMarcus Garvey, ngo-Agasti 20^th, kuzophinde kube neForamu enezikhulumi kanye nethimba lokuxoxa ngamabhuloho asihlukanisayo namasu “okwazisa inyunyana enobungane nathi ngokwethu.” Lolu hlelo luzophinde luhlanganise namasiko ase-Afrika. Uma sonke sifuna ukuzwana, lezi zinhlobo zezinkundla nezingxoxo kumele zenzeke kulo lonke elase-Black America. Ubunye obunezimiso nokwenziwayo kufanele kube yisimiso sosuku emphakathini omusha wase-Afrika e-US Ngamazwi ka-Marcus Garvey: “Phakathi kohlanga olunamandla, ungakwazi ukufeza lokho okufunayo.”

 

UDkt. Ron Daniels unguMongameli we-Institute of the Black World 21^st I-Century kanye Nomfundisi Ovelele e-York College City University yaseNew York. Izindatshana zakhe nezindatshana zakhe nazo ziyavela kuwebhusayithi ye-IBWwww.ibw21.org futhi www.northstarnews.com . Ukuthumela umlayezo, ukuhlela izingxoxo nabezindaba noma izingxoxo zokukhuluma, uDkt. Daniels angatholwa nge-imeyili kokuthi info@ibw21.org.

  

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