LETTER TO THE BLACK WORLD.
Dear brothers and sisters,
Today, some four hundred years after our slavery began, we are still the poorest, most neglected, most abused of humanity. Our plight as a people is simply pathetic to say the least. We have demonstrated, prayed tirelessly and fervently, rallied, rioted, marched on Washington, London, Paris, and other state capitals of the world. We have held conferences, workshops, seminars, congresses, groups and family discussions. We have formed pressure groups, associations, fraternities and publish protest and scholarly documents. We have fought and murdered each other in endless instigated civil wars and even liberated apartheid South Africa all to no avail. We have thrown up leaders ready to risk life and limb to set us free who were prompt killed before their prime. In fact, we have become so painfully divided and apathetic to matters basic to our survival, most of us have now accepted total defeat. Many definitely have lost the will or drive to live and to achieve, which is the birthright of every living being. We have collectively lost all hope of every winning respect back for our beleaguered race. Twenty years ago, a handful of us decided to try for the first time from Africa, our common route to reverse our global plight by adopting a different strategy from the once used by our past leaders, because we believe that our pains as a people were not ordained. We set out trying to unite the black world through the institutionalization of the one hundred years old Pan-African Movement idea Diaspora Africans bequeathed to our race. We had no illusion about a quick fix. We expected mountains of obstacles to be placed in our ways both from within and without. In fact, among other painful experience, Osahon’s properties in USA, (mainly black power books for distribution to bookshops), worth over three sources. Our seventh congress was hijacked at the last minute with Arab financial assistances, but we have remained determined not to be diverted even if the struggle took our lives. The structures of the movement are now being put in place world-wide. The Think Tank of the Black world (TTB) produced an elaborate Constitution for the movement ten years ago. The constitution has received no dissenting views so far but constitutions by themselves do not solve problems. In 1992 also, the Think Tank of the Black world produced The Black Agenda spelling out our positions: the Pan-African Movement represents the interest of all black people world-wide. Every black person is a member of the movement by birthright. The movement serves as the meeting point for all black experiences and tendencies, enabling prestige and power to share equality with grassroots people. The movement is devoted to creating as African centered framework of liberation, self-determination, empowerment and collective black ascendance. The Bank Agenda transcends Euro-Christian, Jewish, Arab-Islamic, Euro-Marxist and other non- Black agendas that have been manipulating the Black race. The movement’s most urgent project right now is to develop a strong and independent economic power base hinged on solid traditional African spiritual system of discipline and outlook that can not be compromised lightly by anyone from within, let alone from outside the race. In other words, the movement represents absolute unity in blackness. An impenetrable black brotherhood, sisterhood that transcends externally imposed black differences to develop global black power. The Movement’s base philosophy is that all black people in the world originated from the belong to one family and our home is Africa. Every black person in the world has a stake in Africa, regardless of where we may be sojourning physically outside Africa at anytime. While we may be away from home, we remain Africans and our souls remain in Africa. We carry the proud heritage of the origins of the human race, which means, we are born to lead and so must continue to aspire to be the best in everything we do. We are the first and the first means the best in any language. The Black Agenda has been extensively distributed around the world and has received popular acclaim but acclaim is not enough. We need every black person world wide to join with us to make the agenda work. Mhuri ye kutanga (My K) offers the opportunity for mass mobilization of the entire black race into the Pan African Movement. As the binding force, the My K, which is adapted broadly from the cosmology of our ancestors is designed to do for the black race, what Judaism has done for the Jews, Islam for the Arabs and Christianity for the Caucasians. The My k concepts were with great fanfare, introduced for the first time in the world between the 14 and 17 February 1995, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, where the Khu Mkuu, Naiwu Osahon, was honoured on 15 February 1995 with: (a). An honorary Citizenship of the County of Shelby in Tennessee, USA; (b). the key to the city of Memphis, Tennessee; (c). Certificate of appreciation from the county of Memphis for services rendered to the community of Memphis and the black race. (d). An honorary City Councilmanship of the Memphis city council and (e). An honorary Commissionership of the Shelby county in Tennessee.Before receiving the awards the Hon. Khu Mkuu Naiwu Osahon issued the following press statement, which the white dominated Memphis media distorted or declined to use: This is my first visit to this great southern state and in particular, the city of Memphis, which has one of the largest concentrations of my kith and kin in the USA. I am honored to be among relations torn away from me violently, over a period of four hundred years. I want to confess though that no one ever asked our permission before snatching from us at gun-point, our grand parents, parents, sons, daughters, mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers, cousins, nephews and nieces. Chaining and dragging them like common criminals into dingy hellholes of boats that sailed far out into the forbidden high seas without giving us a chance to say bye-bye. No one has so far been able to explain to us back in Africa, what sins our relations committed that warranted their being sold like cattle from plantation to plantation, to be viciously raped, mercilessly flogged, callously roasted in slow fires, castrated and worked like beasts of burden without pay of compensation of any sort. I want to know what manner of men brought my relations out here. What animals, in the name of what religions, that they had to lose their names, customs, religion, languages, self-esteem, and even the basic right of knowing their African dresses, so that they can return home to us some day. Is it true that slavery is over if my kith and kin are still treated as second-class citizens in the USA because of the color of their skin? If they are still the last to be hired and first to be fired? If more of my brothers and sisters are in the prison than any other racial groups relative to their populations? If blacks are denied adequate shelter, security, schooling, political and civil rights. Even as late in the day as 1995 AD? I am proud and happy to be here: (a) To spiritually lead my kith and kin back home to Africa after 400 years of catching sheer hell in America’s sweltering heat of racial injustice and oppression.(b) To introduce them to the My K cosmology of our ancestors. Sit them down at the feet of our ancient seers who first admonished us some ten thousand years back to pay attention to who we are in the worlds: “Man Know Thyself” Our ancestors are our best mediums because they are likely to love us more than the other racially imposed religious intermediaries. To assure my kith and kin that all is not lost. That they are not alone, not forgotten. That they have a large family out there in the world rooting for their success and our collective well being as a race through a number of projects including the popular “ZAWADI KWAFRIKA” (ZK meaning gifts of the from the people of Africa) of the Pan-African Movement. ZK requires every black person alive to contribute a hundred units of their local currencies. In the USA, a hundred dollars, in Nigeria a hundred Naira, in Kenya, a hundred shillings, once in life time into a world-wide fund to be used to set up and operate the bank of the black world to finance our empowerment agenda. Every black person alive and unborn owes this obligation to the black race, the fulfillment of which earns the contributor, global black recognition, a certificate endorsed by the Black Parliament (which is the ultimate government of the black world). The first national branch of the My K took off in March 1995 in Toronto, Canada introduced by Charles C. Roach, the deputy leader of the World Pan-African Movement. Two weeks later a local community branch came on stream even though the My K’s guiding document had not been fully compiled at the time. Toronto launched its ZAWADI KWAFRICA in 1992 and it has been receiving enthusiastic support. It is with this mind and a great sense of responsibility that we invite you to join the movement and help launch our My K branches around the world. Write to us to tell us what you are going to do for our race in this regard. We are reaching out to your especially and individually because we recognize family. The black world needs you desperately now because the only weapons available to us to fight with involve our unity, collective resolve, steadfastness and loyalty to our race and I know we can absolutely count on you. Let’s be one family again. Come link hands with us to climb back together to our lost pinnacle of world leadership. With love from all your kith and kin previously lost to you and scattered all over the world.
Your brother,
Naiwu Osahon
Ameer spiritual of the black race,
Hon. Khu Mkuu World Pan-African Movement.
