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“Garvey did not fail. Indeed, it was Marcus Garvey’s philosophy that inspired the Nkrumah fight for the independence of Ghana from the colonialism that was imposed on it by England. It is also the same Black Nationalism that has been spreading throughout Africa and that has brought about the emergence of the present independent African states. Garvey never failed. Garvey planted the seed which has popped up in Africa-everywhere you look, and although they’re still trying to stamp
it out in Angola, in South Africa, and in other places, you will soon be able to see for yourselves whether or not Garvey failed. He may have failed in America, but he didn’t fail in Africa; and when Africa succeeds, you’ll find that you have a new situation on your hands here in America.”-Malcolm X
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Nana Garvey did not fail.
Majority of Ghanaians do not know that Nana Kwame Nkrumah got the inspiration of the Black Star on the Ghana flag 🇬🇭 from Nana Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line.
Majority of Ghanaians think the Black Star on the Ghana’s flag simply means Black people are Stars. It is still a positive, uplifting, and encouraging message for Black people,
But the correlation between Nana Kwame Nkrumah and Ghana’s Black Star Flag and Nana Marcus Garvey’s Black Star Line is lost.
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That quote was off the mark and certainly didn’t age well. When are we gonna get real about what’s really going on? How Nana Garvey and Nkrumah are often mentioned in the same sentence never made any sense.
And, did Nana Garvey succeed in his ultimate goal? No, he didn’t. In fact his movement like many movements before and after him has been infiltrated and corrupted almost to a point of no recognition.
Nana Garvey, however still stands as a Great Ancestor and his successes can’t be denied. The reason he didn’t accomplish his ultimate goal is because his ultimate goal was not only his. He only failed because we failed. He called us to action. He mobilized us. He inspired us. But ultimately, a lot of us weren’t really down with the Black Star vision. Christianity was more important to a lot of us. Holding hands with arabs was more comfortable for a lot of us. Only preaching about Black Power while living against it was just a new version of church for many of us. Fast forward to over one hundred years later, we still singing those same songs.
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“Infiltration and corruption” is still the number one reason why ALL Black=Afrikan organizations, Black=Afrikan movements don’t succeed.”
If we can put a stop “infiltration and corruption” among us, then we can accomplish all that we set our mind to as Black=Afrikan people.
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Christianity is more important to us. Holding hands with Arabs is more important to us.
I couldn’t agree have agree with you more.
Prime example:
Palestinian Arabs
Black people all over the world are in solidarity with Palestine, but the same Black people are silent on the genocide that is going on in Sudan.
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I believe the reason why Nana Kwame Nkrumah and Nana Marcus Garvey get mentioned in the same sentence is because, Nana Kwame Nkrumah has publicly stated that the one person that inspired him the most as Black=Afrikan person was Nana Marcus Mosiah Garvey.
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He’s a con artist. He used what Nana Garvey started and corrupted it. The worst enemy is the enemy that pretends to be a friend. It was obvious then what he was about as it is now. He is mentioned in the same sentence as Nana Garvey by many people because we are not being anywhere near critical enough and because really many of us think just like him = not Black.
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Him marrying that white Arab woman tarnished his legacy as a true Garveyite Pan-Africanist.
I still respect him because, he fought for Ghana and African independence.
But again, him marrying outside his Black race to a white Arab woman has tarnished his name and legacy forever as a true Pan-Africanist.
All of Nana Nkrumah’s children are married to white people.
All his children lives in Europe, but his daughter makes regular visits to Ghana.
Nana Nkrumah’s daughter also married a white Italian man; and I saw a photograph of her son. Nana Nkrumah’s grandson looks like a white man. If nobody tells you that Nkrumah’s grandson has African ancestry, you will literally think the grandson is a regular white European man.
All of Nkrumah’s children lives in Europe; which means they probably married white people and procreated with white people; which means all of Nana Nkrumah’s grandchildren literary look like white Europeans.
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
There is a well-known quote from the autobiography of Nana Kwame Nkrumah where he says:
Long before many of us were conscious of our own degradation, Marcus Garvey fought for African national and rational equality. Of all literature I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (Nkrumah, 1957, 45)
From this quote, many may come to the conclusion that Nana Kwame Nkrumah was a Garveyite. However, in the very same text, he seeks to dissociate himself from Nana Garvey with the following quote where he says:
‘Africa for the Africans!’ I cried. ‘Africa for the Africans, but not the kind of philosophy that Marcus Garvey preached, No! (Nkrumah, 1957, 184)
[…] Garvey’s ideology was concerned with black nationalism as opposed to African nationalism. And it was this Fifth Pan-African Congress that provided the outlet for African nationalism and brought about the awakening of African political consciousness. (Nkrumah, 1957, 53-54)
This quote is important to take note of, in that implicit in it is the notion that there is a difference between Blacks and Afrikans, and, necessarily, that there is a difference between Afrikans and Blacks. While to some this may seem like a very minor point, it has very serious implications in terms of our situation right now (Kambon & Yeboah 2018).
https://obadelekambon.com/pubs/t-r-h-nana-marcus-mosiah-garveys-universal-negro-nana-kwame-nkrumahs-all-african-and-the-theory-of-intraspecific-aggressive-ideological-mimicry/-
“Africa for the Africans! No! Not the kind of philosophy that Marcus Garvey preached.”
Yeah, Kwame Nkrumah was a con artist.
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Yup. As I said before, it was obvious then as it is obvious now. We gotta be a lot more critical as a collective. He even chose Ghana instead of Wagadu. Sounds like he was motivated to go against Nana Garvey after reading about him. And yup, looks like all of his children followed in his footsteps. One of his sons got with a Black person as well however and had a daughter and it looks like they’ve been using her for their public appearances.
Two others that are considered “Pan-Afrikanists” that are clearly not (many more could be listed unfortunately):
Nelson Mandela
Cheikh Anta Diop
Cheikh Anta Diop is one of the greatest researchers in recent history. That don’t make him a “Pan-Afrikanist”, though. If every Black person lived similarly to how he lived there would be no more Black People on this planet after one generation.
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True.
Most of our greatest so-called “Pan-African” leaders all married white women.
Prime example:
Frantz Fanon
Amílcar Cabral
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
We have a talk about what we term “bedroom colonialism” https://www.abibitumi.com/shop/bedroom/
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