 Here, originally from Ivory Coast, where the speaker is from too, and a son of the mother, proud son of the mother. Thank you for being here for the third edition of Africa Day. And this year, we thought that, you know, enough of Zoom, enough of, you know, we need to feel that we still humans. And then we can't talk about Africanism like version. So we decided to bring a friend of mine. We grew up in the same country, a beacon of capitalism and pro-west Ivory Coast. Côte d'Ivoire was like the stronghold of the block of African countries devoted to imperialism. But Côte d'Ivoire has also been a beacon of education. We went to a school system that was one of the best in Africa. 60% of the gross income of the country was devoted to educating us. That's why here you see the product of this. But at some point, yeah, me and the speaker, but also Côte d'Ivoire in the 90s had enough of IMF World Bank and the structural adjustment that was destroying, you know, the social fabric of this country. We were part of a revolution of students who said enough is enough. And then from there, the multipartism came back to Ivory Coast and democracy started. So I want to pay a tribute to all our friends. Even my brother was coming from Montreal tomorrow for the second, you know, discussion which will take place at the Fletcher Library. They went in exile because, you know, it wasn't very good to stay in Ivory Coast and then face, you know, the oppressive regime over there. But today, we're not talking about that. We're talking about a larger, you know, view on the continent. And for that, I would like to introduce Dr. Nyaka Laboke, professor of history. He will introduce himself, but I wanted to say that is a pure product of Ivory Coast. He was educated here also in the U.S. And he's here. So welcome, Dr. Nyaka Laboke. You're going to hear about WPT Boys. And you'll be hearing about Henry Sylvester William. Yes, they played a great role in the history of Africa and the world. But somehow, that series of the Pan-African academics is somehow overlooked. And as I was doing research, I discovered some names. Homer Jack, George Love, Henry, like a single twig, all those names. And then when I came here, when Eric was telling me that Robyn's father created a newspaper a years ago, a years ago, and I did not know what he was talking about until this morning as I was talking to her and I was talking to Greg, I discovered that some of the information that I was looking for was in the world freedom. So for me, even if none of you have shown up today, I have already found what I was looking for in Burlington. But I'm glad that you guys are here. So thank you Greg and thank you Robyn. Thank you for the wonderful work. Now I'm going to try and take the mantle of a professor of Pan-Africanism, but at the same time as a student of Pan-Africanism. Pan-Africanism is composed of two particles, Pan and Africanism. Pan, which means all Africanism, which is related to Africa. The word Pan-Africanism was coined around 1900, but many people say in 1900, during the first Pan-African conference organized by the Dream Latin and Henry Sylvester William in London. The idea of Pan-Africanism is about unity, solidarity of people of African descent, of people of Africa. I would have in common the living experience of suffering because of several systems of oppression back then, slavery, Jim Cruller segregation, and these are the people of African descent in the Americas. I decided to come together because at the same time in Africa, Africa was under colonialism. But one thing that I learned and learned that I discovered that I'm going to share with you is that there is no way to talk about Pan-Africanism. And that's why if I wanted to talk about Pan-Africanism, I always want people to talk to see what are called the schematic of Pan-Africanism or the anatomy of Pan-Africanism. I'm number two below on this. The first thing that we have to have in mind is about four categories of phenomena, four. The first one is a series of system of oppression, slavery, colonialism, Jim Cruller segregation, and then apartheid. And then of course you understand people under the system, theft they need to come together in order to resist the oppression. The second category of phenomena is a series of theories, race theories, white supremacy, social Darwinism, the white man burden. I would think that is obtained by the divine to bring civilization across the globe and to colonize non-white people. The third category of phenomena is what I call the rise of nationalism. Let me talk first about a series of revolutions. The first one is the American Revolution. Sometimes when Portugal and Africa don't see how you guys here, your ancestors, have inspired or impacted other people. Even though the American Revolution did not suppress slavery, but America gave to the world the principle of unity in the organization of people when most of the European nations were under monarchy, democracy, and the principle of unity. That revolution was going to inspire the French Revolution of 1789. And then the French Revolution was going to inspire the Haitian Revolution, which started as a struggle in 1791 and ended in 1804. Black people slaves here in the Western Hemisphere organized and bought and inspired by the American Revolution and the Russian Revolution and the South and the game of freedom. Of course I can talk about the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution, the Europeans decided to go to different parts of the world, not just in Africa, and then they decided to use and explore the resources of the people and exploit them in order to sustain the industrial age in Europe. But the Industrial Revolution gave rise to other ideologies. One is feminism. Another one is what? The rise of nationalism. And when the Austro-Hungarian Empire was put together in 1867, and then when we saw that people were organizing according to what they called common nationalism, we saw the rise of pan-Germanism. The unity of the Germans. We saw pan-Slavism, the unity of the part of the Slavish-speaking people under the leadership of Serbia, which by the way was going to lead to World War I. It was in that context when the Italian also claimed the right to be not to be united. It was in that environment that the people of Africa came with concepts like pan-Negroism, a word coined by W.P.T. Boys. And it was in that context that Henry Severs of India coined the word pan-Africanism. So for categories of phenomena, series of system of oppression, series of theories of racist theories, and then a series of nationalism, and then of course a series of revolutions. Now we move to three movements that pertain to pan-Africanism. Those three are one type of revolutions, pan-Negroism, and the second one was going to be the path to African movement. In this place, in the Western hemisphere, where black people thought that if it was hard for them to live here, some tried to think about going back to Africa, the land of the ancestors, the mother land, or the father land. The movement was not too successful, but some did try to go, supported by a white abolitionist and supported by a white colonialist and supported by black leaders. This is how Liberia was going to be created as an American invasion, and this is how Sierra Leone was going to be created by the British. So we have the path to African movement, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and then we have pan-Negroism that I just talked about, and we have another movement called Ethiopianism. There was a time that the word Ethiopia was used as a generic term to identify all black people of Africa. Later on it was going to be claimed by spiritual leaders in the United States or in the Americas, and it was going to be a movement about black driven, black led independent churches. And that movement was going to have three parts of entry in Africa, Cape Colony, created by in 1652, which was going to be the foundation of what supremacy in South Africa, Liberia and Sierra Leone. And then when Ethiopia defeated the Italians in 1887 at the Battle of Tungali and 1896 at the Battle of Atoi, the Ethiopian movement was going to become so strong that for black people all over the world, Ethiopia symbolized the dignity of black people. Ethiopia, by the way, was going to be the only country not in colonized. When Manelik II, the leader under whom it was defeated in 1896, he drafted the colors of Ethiopia. So if you go, you can check online three major colors, green, yellow and red. So when Kwame Nkrumah became the leader of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, who was an advocate of Ethiopianism, Kwame Nkrumah decided to follow the Ethiopian things of colors. This is how, when you go to the check online for African flags, you can have one of the colors that map is that they used, but you will see yellow, green and red. Togo, Mali, Ghana, you will see everywhere people have worked to see the colors in the spirit of Pan-Africanism. Now, I'm going to talk about the evolution of the Pan-African movement, 1900. 1900, Pan-African, the world was coined at the conference in London in 1900. But I'm going to tell you now, friends, let's see what is going to happen. One leader comes, he gives a particular name to his cadre, contributes somehow to the evolution of the movement. Henry Sylvester Williams with the naming of the movement. WB Du Bois organized the five major Pan-African congresses, 1919, and in 1921, 1922, 1927, 1925, like in Manchester, was going to be the one who theorized the movement. Marcus Garda from Jamaica, one of the greatest figures during the Harlem Renaissance, was going to be the one who transformed Pan-Africanism into a mass movement. During the Duklu era, when he worked on the Nazi East Conventions in Harlem, thousands of black people gathered to support him, and he was the greatest advocate of the back-to-African movement in the 20th century. Kwame Krumah from Ghana, who was at the Manchester Congress in 1945, who has headed a gentleman from Trinidad called George Padmore. Kwame Krumah became the leader of Ghana, and thanks to his rise to power, the Pan-African movement now was going to reach the level of the state. When Africans could not agree on how to deal with the Cold War and how to resolve the Congo crisis, as people were claiming different emergencies, some were supporting the West, some were supporting the Soviet Union. In that context, there were several groups, the Krupakasa Planca, the Krupakasa Film, the Krupakama Lugia, and then, I used to last year organize a meeting in Atisababa, and then they met and they came together and then they created the organization of the African Unity, which is what the first major continental body. The African Unity now was going to reach the level of the continent. Malcolm X, who was the member of the connection of Islam, after he left that movement, created the food of Islam, and then when he went to Africa, visited many countries in Africa, and I even saw the report in Towards Freedom, when Malcolm X had came back, he created an organization called the Organization of the Afro-African Unity, in order to manipulate the organization of the African Unity. This is how Pan-Africanism as a movement was going to touch the level of the diaspora through the structure Malcolm X put together. I think in the year 2000, the Afro-Africanization of the African Unity was transformed into the African Union, and they recognized the diaspora as the sixth region of the African Union. The five major, the first, Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Western Africa, and Northern Africa. So this is the basic things that I wanted to share with you about the Pan-African movement. And one very important thing that I want to talk about now is about the construction of Pan-Africanism. When I meet, I'm not saying that because I'm here, I sit in front of many white people. I'm saying this everywhere I go. I say the same thing in total. In the beginning, Pan-Africanism was a part of black nationalism. It is true. When blinding an advocate of Ethiopianism, an advocate of the part of the African movement in the 19th century, was the first to coin the word African personality, which, by the way, was going to inspire Leonardo Claude Hamas and Mrs. Ed, and the new president, to articulate a cultural movement called Negritude in the 30s in Europe, while here in America, people were dealing with the Harlem Renaissance. But when Kwame Kuma launched the series of the All-African People's Conferences, supported by George Pagma from Trinidad, and supported by Rasmakunem, the first one took place in December 1958. But before the conference of December, there was a conference in April 1958, when I think eight African independent countries met each other in April from April 15th to April 22nd. During that conference, the major issue was the War of Independence in Algeria, and during that conference, Kwame Kuma said, this is how the president, Leonardo, divides us. And then, when he finally defined or proposed the African personality, he was thinking about a multi-racial definition of the African personality. You can be black, you can be an Arab, you can be from India, or you can be an Arab, you, as long as you claim Africa as your home. And then you don't claim any other place as your home. And then you believe in the law of the majority, you in Africa. So since 1958, African personality has a multi-racial dimension. Since 1958, Pan-Africanism has a multi-racial definition. And this was reinforced during the conference of the All-African People's Conference, the All-African People's Conference in 1958. There were some white people. Pan-African from South Africa was white, from the Liberal Party. Michael Scott was a white person, and many other people. Your father was not there, but certainly his mis-people wrote a popular report written by Homer Jack. So this is what we need to know when we are talking about Pan-Africanism. As I want to talk about the ideological divide during the era of the African independence, some wanted communism, socialism, some wanted capitalism. But all of them knew that they needed to draw on the African cultural value system. Somehow the Cold War was too strong, and then we could not see the rise of the articulation of a true and precious value system around which to build the development of Africa. Juris Nereire from Tanzania was going to be one trial, and it came with the concept of Ujama, that it called African Socialism. And by saying African Socialism, it reduced the purity of the African conceptualization in terms of finding concepts in order to build Africa. Kwame Kuma believed in socialism, learned how to create and articulate the concept of consciousness, and then this is what the debate was about the ideology. Why am I saying that? When Nelson Mandela was going to have to expand 27 years in prison, when he became the first black president of South Africa, South Africa brought to the world an African and indigenous value system called the Ubuntu philosophy, which is about humanness, which is about African collectivism, which is about the African family. In other words, we don't have to go to the east or to the west in order to find a theory about which articulate the destiny of Africa. And I, as I'm articulating a new dispensation of panatheism, I advocate, defend, promote Ubuntu. In Africa, we have 2,000 languages. And out of the 2,000 languages, there are 6, between 600 and 900 Bantu, Bantuic languages. Ubuntu is the philosophy of the Bantu people. One human being is called Ubuntu. More than one is Bantu. The way the Bantu people interpret each other is called Ubuntu. And then you can have that concept in many languages in Africa. Ubuntu in South Africa, Ubuntu in Shorin Zimbabwe, Bantu in Uganda, Bumoto in Ligala, Burkindi in Burkina Faso, Namam to Ibupu in Nigeria, Ubuntu in Akela in Aka language in Ghana. And this is what we have to create. Now, let's talk about what is happening today. As I talk about what is happening today, I'll go back to the Benin Conference of 1884, 1885, when Africa was partitioned like in different European spheres of influence. When colonialism was defeated, it was replaced by another system called neocolonialism, the Kameh Kuma called collective colonialism. And today, Africa is under neocolonialism. From east to west, from south to the northern part of Africa, the Europeans put together several institutions. Tomorrow, when I present my book, I will show you what I call the Wheel of Improvalism and how it functions. But today, just look. When you take the media, you will see First of America, PPC, CNN. You talk about international trade, the World Trade Organization. You talk about the military bases. You have got NATO, the French bases. You talk about international affairs. In fact, you have the union with what the real theory, according to which, might be right. So you have all those institutions created by the nuclear power control. And then when you talk about trade, same thing. And then you can see the power of those multinationals just to give an example. The Arab is a French company. They were exploiting uranium in Nigeria. And then there was a crisis. And Arab are saying, what? We don't want to fabricate this anymore. Now, we are willing to give you to a person of the uranium that is under your soil. The question is, what was the percentage that was given to the state before that agreement? Same thing is happening in my country, Ivory Coast, water, electricity, the third bridge, the banking system. Everything that is important about the economic and social life of my country is controlled by the French. And they call us independent. The currency that we use created in 1945, right ago, is still enforced. The bills are printed in France. And the currency is a French construct. Just to give an idea, you go to Nigeria, you go to Ghana, the same system. And now today, there is a weakening of the African people. You may have heard about a series of coup d'etats. But we call that a series of revolutions. Mali, the Central African Republic, Bukina Faso, even Ivory Coast, my country, where a former president was taken to the head and spent almost eight years there for them to find out that it was not guilty. But at the same time, his life has been destroyed. I went back 77, old, tired, with multiple sicknesses, but he's there. And then this is what is happening today in Africa. Today in Africa, we see a new scramble for Africa. We see that with the war in Ukraine, the Europeans, led by the United States, thought that they were going to mobilize the entire university against Russia. And it is not happening. Why? That is the question people should ask themselves. Why the United States cannot mobilize the entire world to condemn or to punish Russia? The heat of Africa is that when colonialism was enforced, when our ancestors were fighting to become free, there were some countries that supported the decolonization process in Africa. Russia was one of them. Cuba was one of them. China was one of them. And then when you go online, if you see Cuba, an African odyssey, that documentary talks about how Cuba, the Cuban's blade, died on the battlefield of Angola for Angola to be free. And then the struggle of Cuba in Africa led to the decolonization of the Portuguese colonies, to the independence of South West Africa and Namibia, to the freedom of Nelson Mandela and to the dismantling of the apartheid system. You will see that in that documentary. And we're lucky to find visions of freedom, both written by Piero Gripeses, who teaches at Georgetown American University, great professor. He books on the Cuban involvement in the decolonization of Africa. So Russia may be an autocratic country. Putin may be the evil of the 21st century. But those who want to see a new international order, those who want to see freedom, they think that Russia seems to be offering an alternative compared to what the Europeans are doing. So I am just sharing some information. If you do not agree, we can debate. I can give you more details. So this is what is happening today in Africa. That's why even the leaders that we do not praise in Africa, they decided to embrace non-enlightenment like their predecessors in the 50s or in the 60s. And this is what we need to know. And that's why we think that the Europeans, they should adjust. They should understand the cry, the suffering, the pains of those who were oppressed by the systems of oppression and who still are suffering today are from the oppressive existence of the what we can call the group of governance, what I call the group of governance. So ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your attention. If you have any questions, I have a really interesting one. Thank you. For such a rich history of the Pan-African movement throughout the many decades. And as he mentioned, my father was involved with this from 1952 onward. And it was called the non-aligned movement. So my question is now, how can the non-aligned movement, the Pan-African movement be involved in maybe bringing peace to Ukraine or to some of the struggles? I mean, poor Somalia is destroyed now by forces that are outside by proxy, what I would call proxy forces. And I wish the Pan-African movement could strengthen itself to lay out the future path that needs to be taken. Some other questions? Yeah? Yeah. Be talking to you. You have to come here. I'll fix that. One thing that's been amazing talking to you and others from Africa is the fact that there does seem to be a new world order emerging, and that seems to be really around the war in Ukraine. And I've become aware of that, talking to this man and Eric Anyero and others who seem to be pointing out that the developing world is really moving into an alliance with Russia and China over the war with Ukraine. Americans don't like to think about that because we are supportive of Ukraine. And regardless of whether we are supportive of the war in Ukraine or not, I think if you read the facts on the ground, the developing world is moving in the direction of China and Russia. And I want to ask if that's a fair analysis and why that might be, and what is the United States going to do about it? Thank you very much. I'm going to give some, and so I'm going to try. Okay, so this is what we do. Wherever I go, I see white people, and many of them know that I do things without hatred. And then I love to give facts, and then I love to challenge myself. So even though the presentation I gave today, I gave like a shorter version in Togo. But when Greg gave me towards freedom, like all those articles, you won't believe I was just reading, reading, reading because I always like to find facts because when you meet brilliant people, you don't have to be sure of your facts. So it is unfortunate that many people are dying in Ukraine. And then I deploy the war. I don't want to see any human being being killed or oppressed. It happened to me one day I was talking about the war in Ukraine. I was so recorded that... Now the microphone can go all the way to Essex Junction. That's what's wrong. Thank you very much. So this is one thing I'd like to share with Americans. I understand I've been teaching, I've been here for 20 years. I taught in elementary school. I taught in high school, and I taught at the college level. I went to Harvard University, and I taught at Montgomery College. So I have been around a variety of people in America. White people, black people, Africans, and then why am I saying that? I understand that Americans want to remain the most important country in the world. I understand that. And it is a legitimate desire. Who does not want to be the greatest? Who does not want to be the strongest? But listen to this. Today there are things I'm going to say. Maybe you are hearing that for the first time. But there are different ways to achieve greatness. America did not become the greatest nation during World War II because they dropped two atomic bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. No. By the way, when they dropped those two bombs, I don't know if you know that, they were the only two bombs that they had at that time. But because they were the only ones, everyone knew that the power was the United States of America. But guess what? Four years after America dropped those two bombs, Russia, Russia created their own bomb. And that's why people spoke about the nuclear race because no one wants to do a war with nuclear bombs. In other words, even if America put 800 military bases in the world, because this is the understanding of the American leadership to control the world, even if the thing that this is the best way to do it, my argument is that America is not what it is because of the 800 military bases. When I was growing up, who has not watched the American movies? Who does not know the names of those American actors? Or Elvis Presley. Who does not know, even myself even though I'm not a big fan of music, I remember being a child watching those movies of Elvis Presley. So America, who does not know the sweetness of Coca-Cola? So all those things I'm saying that just to say that China is becoming a power not because of the 800 military bases, not because China dropped some nuclear bombs on someone, but China found a different way of rising to power. One of the strategies that the Chinese use is population growth. 1 billion, 400 million people. If there is a war between the United States of America and China, and if they wanted to use those nuclear bombs, there will be some survivors likely in China, in the United States where the population is what? 340 million people. What a horrible argument. I know. Maybe for people to listen to the fact that you cannot resolve everything with violence. So now, John Merchimer, that is his name, great professor of books, maybe more than 10 books. Jeffrey Sachs, those two people that I've just mentioned, they're not black like me. They're Americans. Since 2015, Merchimer has been saying that Ukraine was going to be what? Correct by the United States, by Russia, because what the West is doing is going to lead to a war. If you never find that document, that argument, it's online. Now, even though we understand American exceptionalism, but why what was applied to the Cuban crisis cannot be applied to the Ukrainian crisis. That is my argument. If America and the West understood that we can preserve the lives of people, this can be applied, and then Russia can fall maybe in 10 years, and then whatever thing they want to do to show that the greatest decision they could do that. So that is my answer. The next thing now is what? When the war erupted, because of the history of Africa, 1 million people, the history of China, 1 billion, 400 billion people, the history of India, 1 billion and 400 people. When you put those 1 billion, 1 billion, 1 billion all together, it's going to be what? 3 billion, 500 million people out of 8 billion people. Those 3 spaces that I just mentioned experienced in the case of African slavery and in the case of India, colonialism. In the case of China, colonialism and the scramble for China. The historical memory is pushing the citizens of those countries or those regions to say, you know what? Maybe we need to have a new order and that's why the leaders of Africa, the leaders of China, even though they deploy the war in Ukraine, they think that maybe instead of doing a war, there should be an opportunity for discussion. So now in the case of Africa, people think that maybe it is an opportunity for people to change the international order. The peace countries are receiving applications in order to counter the Bretton Woods institutions. We saw that Mexico is trying to be closer to some other countries like China or Russia. We saw that China, Russia, India, Brazil they are trading in their respective countries and people are talking about the deep polarization of the world. These are things that are happening. So what I'm sharing with you, I'm living here in America. I want America to offer the opportunities it has been offered to the world but it can be done differently and this is what my argument in this and the Pan-Africanists think that we need to organize as people in order to propose an alternative or a new force. Thank you. There was this gentleman even before you. Sorry, I will speak in French because it is easier for me. I will speak in French so you understand that I will translate here. Your exposure was great. You have made the history of the Pan-Africanism as many people as I have. Thank you very much. I want to ask you a question This question is not for the French this is the question I want to ask you. Because it is very good to talk about the Pan-Africanism while most Africans who are in these countries or the French don't do anything to change it. Because for us, we think that money is part of the sovereignty of a country. Of all these African countries over there. What is your idea on the French part? Is it to suppress or do you have another alternative? I was just wondering if you could talk a little bit more about China's strategy in Africa particularly what I understand is the belt project. What impact is it having in Africa particularly on this scramble for Africa and in fact, how do you think it will play out? Sorry gentlemen, this will be the last question because you can come tomorrow to the other gathering. I am going to start with the CFA Frank. The CFA Frank is a source of debate in Africa particularly since 2017. There was a group of Africans at the launch of an anti CFA Frank campaign. I know you guys have been patient so I did not want to give too many details. No, no. So I am against I think that Africans should have their own currency. It's not even about if they are capable of managing the currency it's just like a common sense. If you said that you are free you should be in charge of your currency. Now the leaders in power this is one thing I say everywhere I go it is not easy it is not easy to go and say you do not want to be a part of the CFA Frank campaign the CFA Frank zone because the system has been established since 1945 and many leaders who went against that system were either killed like the first president of Togo Sylvain Lusorepio it's a long story I don't want to take time to talk about it or some other leaders so we what we do is what we do we are raising awareness we are denouncing some people are more active on that campaign and then many African leaders who are giving those who are close to the French they seem to understand that something needs to be done because this is what is happening today in Africa now great question great question again like I said we can talk about this like we say in my country until tomorrow but I do not want to do that even though Africans used to do that they can be on the developer for hours when Americans are saying time is money for them they don't know they just talk for hours so I do not want us to do that so I have spoken about America and that's why I like your question what China is doing and everyone knows that China wants to be the most important country of the world that is a fact now how they doing that they building some Confucian centers Confucian centers in Africa in order to promote the soft power and then China but decided somehow that when or while the Europeans are still in that new colonial mindset they seem to show that they don't want to be involved in enforcing a particular world view in many countries in the world the third thing that the Chinese are doing it is the Belt and Road Initiative you can listen to this I wrote that somewhere but I saw I always forgot the name Ursula the lady from the European Union Ursula again there I think I noticed just the first name so that lady last week she said that the west needed to propose an alternative to the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative that's right yeah that's right so what is that it is a number of projects construction of ports seaports construction of bridges construction of highways construction of several other things as re-incarnation of the Silk Road that the Chinese control hundred years of go in the case of Africa as I was doing some research I discovered that from Ethiopia to Djibout there is a road there is a seven hundred or seven hundred and sixty kilometers to link Djibout to Ethiopia when people wanted to do trade it will take ten days for people to reach Djibout from Ethiopia the Chinese built a highway and a train to link those two countries seven hundred and some kilometers the trading that people used to do in ten days now in seven days they are doing the trading in ten hours who is not going to be sensitive to such a developmental infrastructure if the United States of America the greatest decision on the face of earth if America decides to withhold the billions for dollars that they are pouring green and grasses first of all to build more shelters in the United States and then to give food and education to Americans or if they could mobilize some forms instead of using those forms for people to be killed or because they think that that is the opportunity to control Russia if America decides to find its own model of development listen friends we can live in a better world that is my argument and that is the argument of New Zealand from the European Union and that is the argument of the think tank it's online I forgot the names of the people who put that together they said exactly the same thing so this is what the Chinese are doing because the Chinese that we are seeing today of Xi Jinping they are different from the Chinese that we know under Mao Zedong even though Mao was believed to have killed many people somehow we did not recognize that China has been involved in the new liberal world view the way China is doing today I am saying that the Tibetan model is not based on the Sacha Graha of Gandhi it is not based on the concept of me of the Russians and it is not based on the Confucian ethics and it is not based on the Ubuntu philosophy that I was talking about it is based on a model of what? Exploitation too and then we as Pan-Africanists as we are creating a new dispassion of Pan-Africanists if I were to meet the Chinese if I were to meet the Russians listen, you know you have not colonized us but you can do better than that that would be my position thank you ladies and gentlemen for the opportunity to speak to you thank you very much folks thank you very much we will be here tomorrow but I have something to say if America gives us in Africa the means to make a choice I have been like working for the US government I was a voice of America I know I have been even called by some people I thought that I was even an agent because I know I am a baby of the US government but we have to understand that people over there have changed generation doesn't want to be seen as our fathers were seen like colonial beings I was working for the US government the US have put billions of dollars you know in what condoms during the AIDS pandemic only condoms billions of dollars we don't want condoms we want to do business there are African Americans that are from Africa here like Niaka, like Jacob leaders that could be economic ambassadors of the US go there as China does you know how China do? China give money to its own citizens to go conquer Africa why not give it to Americans why not give it to African Americans who will be welcomed in Ghana in Togo, in Liberia militarism is not the answer nobody can blow Africa because you have music here blah blah blah it's diplomacy thank you very much the following act will be music and then we can eat for shall we eat before music? let's do it at the same time why not at the same time start getting your plates and then we gather for music from Madagascar Madagascar by which you went to Madagascar it's a beautiful place beautiful island that drift away from the continent oh and then we have a son of this country but who is open, the bar is open and then in 15 minutes or 20 minutes who come for this act of our friend from Madagascar Mikaela thank you very much Mikaela so he's quite remarkable isn't he? this is my friend hi everybody this is Mikaela I'm so happy to be here with you thank you of course we are thank you for all of us sharing some music oh you gonna listen I play world music on a guitar and Valia Valia one of the instrument the musician playing in Madagascar during the ceremony Spiritel the Madagascar believe I'm so glad to be here to share with you about that because we are human living with our spirit that's the difference between the animals they are so sweet because they came before us yeah nobody can complain about that yeah the rhythm the rhythm is our heart to give the beat the same beating we start counting zero and this song it's called Rijeka Rijeka means ocean wave ocean wave because the people the people before to talk to their ancestor or the creator they have to go to they meet the wave first because the wave is one of the strongest if the wave is gonna do is craziness we really gonna be know about that so this song it's called ocean wave because all the benediction is all the cleanest from the ocean wave it's everybody I hope you feeling good and again this is Mika Heli originally come from Madagascar playing world music on the valley guitar and so happy to be here share some music with you how's everybody doing cisvabo always so happy to be here because I'm gonna tell you a little stories the first time I came to United States and then my second here and then I came to Vermont and then I meet Esli and then she translate me at the hospital I was been really sick at the hospital and then no one can speak my languages here and then I still have a hard time to speak the English language she came and she introduced herself to me and then I was really happy to meet her and then ok we stop that day and then another day and then I have a show around in Vermont and then I heard someone says cisvabo and then who is that guy and then that guy is fucking C language and then that was Eric he's right there and then I'm here now yeah he said cisvabo nothing much always good everything is good don't think a lot of things cisvabo cisvabo is a good thing and it's a very good language it's a very good sentence in Malaga cisvabo that means you are well right we are all well that's why we are meeting each other here today and that I'm so happy to be here with you because this is the time we share each other right we have to think about the what is the future future because why all is we are human right we are human because what is the first problem the first problem is the climate change if our environment is gonna be bad we are all gonna lose our life that's it so that's our goal how to protect our earth that's really important for everybody that's Mikhail's message let's protect our earth because if we lose our earth nobody can see anything anymore yeah let's protect our earth let's give a love that's a love to our earth let's give us food give us our opportunities because give us a chance to live to live to this beautiful earth and we are all together to fight with that and then why because we can see that we start to lose small small small our life now what is for our next generation if we don't protect that so if we don't protect that that means we are we love just ourselves but love other life so that's Mikhail's to be here today to share reveal let's give a hope to our earth thank you thank you sorry about that