.A. ADIIlYeIDi
- July 1964, the second an
nual conference of the Or
ganization of African Unity
(6AU) as held in Cairo,
Egypt. At the time under the
leadership of Gamel Abdel
Nas ar, the United Arab
Republic (Egypt) leading
e amo the r dical . -im-
perialist oatio in Africa and
the middle-east. .
Egypt had undergone
chaoae of gove�ent during .
1952 which eventuapy lead to
it's staunch policy again t
British Imperialism, Zionism
and colonialism in Africa. In
1956, N . na1jzed the
British controlled Suez Canal
leadiDg to a military con
Oid with Britain and IsraeL
Durin the early 19605,
Egypt under N ar hosted
hundreds of members of nation-
. al bOer tion moycments from .
territorie Still under co oDial
rule in Africa. At thi time
Egypt made a coDSCio politi
cal decision in CODjUDdion ·th
Dr. K Nkrumah of Ghana
a d the other r di�al pan-
African . -imperialist
to break down the imperialist
imposed division between north
aDd sub-saharan Africa.
H�r, by 1963 n die
OAU formed in Addis
OAU again under different ag
Ababa,Ethiopia,tbeAfricanin- NEO.COLONIALIS . I take mi6t . stanceinrelation
dependent es were · into AFRICA to colonial regimes..fDd the
various f ctions based on organization.'s rei tionship to
regionalism, politics and By the early 1960s after e the world community ere
colonially imposed I nguage ern im .. collabor _ paramount in the proceedid •.
differences. tioo in the sab ogiDg of Con- Kwame Nbumah, president
The two main fac:tions 'Were goIeae independence resadting of Ghana's First Republic,
the majority MODI'cMa group, in the assawnation of Patrice stated during his ddress at the
which held a micro-nation8tilt Lumumba, the radical aDti-im- 1964 OAU conference that: "I
pro-we tern vie and the pcriaIiat forces began to recog- not arguing that 'We should
C blanca group, composed nize that political cut off all economic relation
of evea -couatrles, includiDa independence devoid of shil?' with countrie_s out side
Egypt, . ch took a more con- CCX)Il • c power was rendering Africa. I am n �ymg tlta we
tinental pan-African and anti- Africa to a new systematic form sh�uld � �ore1p trade �
imperialist position in r d to of exploitation and depeadeacy . reject foremg m'VeStment. �
both dome tic and foreign by the' I am ying .. �t we should get
policy. UCS.' Africa's inability to put down together, think together, "Ian
This schism reflectiYe of the imperialist inspired conflict tog.ther and organiz�· our
the political hi tory of the in Congo during the early 196Os, Afri� economy a umt, and
vario natiOlHtates in regard illustrated the lack of a collec- negotl�te o�r o�ers as
to the proce es that each tive political will on the con- economic relaboDS as. p of
respective coIny to it', indc- tinent. Ghana, Egypt, Mali, our g�beral. continental
peedeaee. Some countriea Guinea, and Algeria were ecoDODll': plan':'lDg.
G waged a protracted militant in their pleas for the On�y In thl w�y can e
political to become the formation of an AU-African gotlate economic ana g-
lint sub- colony to pin Hi&h Command to fight against � on terms fair to ounel-
geDuiDe iDcIepcDcIcDc:e ill 1957. the forces of coIODialism ud - · I
In Algeria, the National Libera- imperialism on the continent.. .
tion Front (PLN) fought an HoweYer, their � were THE O''''U AND ... 'DRiC
eight year guerilla ar which rejected by majority of nco- AMERI�S ftI I
drove the French colonialist eolODial control1�. statc;a . 0 It· also sipifi�t that t
hom the COUDtry.' upheld the cardinal pnmcple the 1964 OAU Cairo con-
Whereas other former ensbriDed � �e O�U charter. ference MaIco X presented
colonie s ch Coa&o aDd prohibited iDtcderence ,. eight-pile mcmoraod to
terri':� theinF:ee::. � intbeinternalaffairsofmcmber the heads of ta e askiDg. or
ates. their support in the struggles of
Africa experienced inde- When the OAU conYencd i people of African descent in
pende ee processes which were. seeo d annual conference in America. .
ha tingly eoaeeived by the Cairo in 1964 the issue of Placing the plight of Afri
colonialists and desiped for whether the orj,nization would within the context of the inter-
failure. -
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Over A Thousand People
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'ix!'U urderstmi why
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national struggle against im
perialism and coloniali m,
Malcolm laid the ideological
basis for the emergence of
. modem-day Pan-Africanism in
the
Although in recent months
Reverend Je e J ackson h
been credited with .coining' the
African-American nationality
description, Malcolm, t,wenty
five years before in Cairo
declared at the OAU con
ference. "The OAAU h sent
me to attend thi historic
African summit conference as
an observer to represent the in
tere t of 22 million African
Americans whose human rights
are being vio ted daily by the
racism of American im
perialists. •
Malcolm�s identification
ith Africa sprang from a
militant anti-imperialist aDd
pan-Africanist perspective,
the iDclusiYe biddiDg of J
J cbon, seeking entry into the
America Democrat" c Party
and the political system.
These eurrea surrounding
the . . of Malcolm X to Cairo
and other African countrie
along with the revolutionary
po ture of Egypt and other
African countries, e r ec
live of the burgeoining IDOYe
ment toward African unity
based on anti-imperialism and
the national rec:onstructiOD of
African and ceo .
EGYPI' AND AFRICA TODAY
After the death of Nassar ill'
1970, Egypt's progre ive
domestic and foreign policy ob
jectiYeS began to shift. In the
aftermath of the October 1973 . .
�gypt-Israeli war, the ne
Egyptian leader An Sada
moved closer to the U ni ed
States. •
Breaking former ties with the
Soviet Union and igning
separate peace treaty with Is
rael, Egypt oon became the
largest recipient of U.S. foreign
aid in Africa. It i al 0 the
second largest recipient, next to
Israel, of U.S. . d intemation -
Iy. .
As a result, how can Egypt
the current der of the OAU
adequ tely represent Africa'
interest? Ho ni Mubarak,
r F
DOHo n
ph rm ev
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