Omali Yeshitela - Asia Moving into Africa

Africa is with little argument the most resourcefully rich and energy-abundant continents on the planet. Now Asians, as Europeans have been doing for centuries, are establishing long term plans of investment in the rich and fertile African soil.

History, Pan-Africanism and Self-Esteem

I found this Facebook discussion on this statue in Italy very interesting and it reminded me of a time when I was all into Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism was introduced to me by the book Stolen Legacy in school and my interest grew while in Boise, ID because (as a former boss at hp and friend put it when he first traveled to Asia on an extended business trip ) you really get a sense of your race when you're in an environment where no one looks like you. So I was reading all kind of stuff (Chiek Anta Diop, Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey, Isis Papers, etc) and several things jumps out:

1. There is so much to the history of the people of African decent (and other ethnic groups) but so few knows about any of it is kind of embarrassing.
2. Since so much of what people of African decent did was lost or hidden its kind of hard to make sense all of it.
3. All history books are fudged in its accuracy because there is a huge self-esteem, identity game that comes into play, basically everyone wants to look good so some of the claims are exaggerated. I would say the modern day example of this is Deadliest Warrior on spike TV
. Its so funny when they get people from same race to explain the weapons and the warrior and why they are better than the other warrior, its so funny.

Anyway lets hear your comments

facebook spat ( you don't need facebook to view it)