The formation of organizations to help develop science, technology, culture and economics, with the objective of showing and teaching African/Pan-Negro people globally (from the Americas and Africa to Melanesia and Australia) will help to achieve the 'transfer of technology,' that can be achieved by uniting those Africans, African-Americans, Afro-British, Afro-Caribbeans and those Africoid people in Melanesia and Australia, South Asia and elsewhere who are already trained and have the knowledge and skills to teach their respective professions in the global Black communities.
The formation of African-American and Pan-African/Pan-Negro 'peace corps,' and a network of international African (Black) educational and professional exchange must be created to help in the spread of technology and ideas throughout the Black world. African-Americans, Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and others must take the steps necessary to make that possible since they are more involved and exposed to the changing world technology than Blacks anywhere on earth. Of course, there are also many parts of the Black world, particularly in Africa where technology among certain government agencies is widespread.
The technological advancement of African-Americans is greater than that of many wealthy nations, in that Blacks have a tradition in the United States of great inventors and contributors to modern technology. Their contributions are being used by the entire world. The technological knowledge of Black America was greater than that of Japan before the American contact in the late 1800's. During that period, various Black scientists, agriculturalists, inventors, doctors, researchers and teachers had come and gone in Black America since the early 1700's. Japan had not taken all the steps necessary to industrialize, or apply American technology as yet. The disadvantage that African-Americans had at the time, however, (which they still have today) is that they were in (and still are) in a state of economic oppression and disadvantage, nor did they have their own nation or autonomous all-Black region (WHICH WAS PLANNED WITH THE IDEA OF MAKING CALIFORNIA AND THE OKLAHOMA REGION INDEPENDENT, SEPARATE BLACK NATIONS, AFTER SLAVERY - Ironically, both the SE U.S. and California had pre-Columbian Black nations who existed up to about the late 1800's (see http://www.hotep.org/ also see 'A History of the African-Olmecs," http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~7283.aspx
http://www.authorhouse.com/ also see http://originalblacksofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com/ ). The descendents of these precolumbian Blacks in the US number over 3,000,000 and include the Wa$hitaw Nation, the Jamassee, the Black Calafians (of California), the Nanticote Moors, the Wampanoag Massapequoits, the Guale and others. Related groups of descendents of precolumbian Blacks PARTICULARLY OF THE MANDINGA-SHI AND MANDINGA-CUSH GROUPS STRETCH FROM SOUTHERN MEXICO ALL THE WAY TO BRAZIL.
Had Black America had the opportunity to carry out the industrialization of Black America without racist harassment in a separate and independent nation, Black America could have been one of the most powerful nations on earth today as well as one of the world's most productive (which they are in many areas already). By the time Commodore Perry visited Japan, Black America had great inventors such as Benjamin Banneker (Ben Bey, the Black African), who invented America's first clock. There was Norbet Rillieux who invented the sugar evaporating pan about 1846. There were many other inventors such as CB Brooks who invented the street sweeper. H.L. Jones invented the corn harvester. John F. Pickering invented the airship in 1900. Other inventors included slaves whose inventions were stolen and claimed by their masters. These inventors and slaves were involved in a Black industrial revolution that could have made African-America, were it an independent nation, one of the most powerful nations today, and the most industrialized. This reality is one of the reasons many African-American nationalists have worked for independence and self-determination in a separate autonomous region as the best way of progress for Black America.
Because of the history of Blacks in the U.S. (that history is actually over 10,000 years -- see http://www.hotep.org/ http://originalblacksofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com/
and the constant oppression and discrimination that Blacks have had to face, there ws no room to develop an industrial base totally independent of the dominant culture and totally separate from them (as Japan and France are separate from the US). Yet, in some cases Blacks did in fact develope separate industries and communities where they thrived in many types of businesses. Although Blacks were not treated as well as American whites, the contributions of Blacks were still copied or shamelessly taken by others, (also the case in 'Latin America,' in the past and to this very day (as with 'reggaeton' and other Black 'Latin' creations.
Today, however, African-Americans are involved in all types of industries and technologies, from space technology to agriculture and agricultural research (Tuskegee University, Alabama), and still it is to the benefit of other people, and not specifically to the Black world. The question asked by some is, what is the value of knowing all this technology if it is not shared with Blacks throughout the world and if the only people who benefit from it are Euro nations and those of the Far East?
African-Americans/Blacks in the United States ho are technologically advanced should spread their knowledge around the Black world by forming African-American Technological Corps and joining with other nations and communities to share ideas, and to exchange teachers and technical personnel. Technological corps would help spread education, science and technology to hose nations where such is lacking or needed.
The spread of technology throughout the Black world is not the only reason why Black 'peace corps' organizations should be formed, as well as an exchange of teachers and technical experts from nation to nation. Agricultural, cultural, social and other skills to improve human existence should be exchanged with those who have lost some of the traditions and knowledge they once had. For example, African kente-cloth weavers can be exchanged for African-American teachers of realistic, classical painting to develop (revive) Africa's ancient style of realistic classic paintings once practiced in Egypt, Cush, the Sahara, West Africa and elsewhere. Both the teaching of weaving and the expertise of the school teachers can help the respective areas since both contribute to the economy of the respective people and nations.
The value of SPACE TECHNOLOGY TO AFRICANS, particularly on the continent of Africa is one of the utmost importance particularly during this era and in the future. African-Americans who have knowledge of space technology and its related fields such as the study of weather patterns, should put their knkowledge together to save Africa from turning into a vast wasteland and to prevent the further destruction and death among thousands upon thousands of Africans from starvation.
Space technology can be applied to the sending of satelites to outerspace to find areas on the continent of Africa (as well as the Caribbean and Melanesia), where droughts or hurricanes/storms, locusts will strike, or where underground water may exist. The seeding of clouds to create rain, the pumping of water from underground wells (a major source of wate in places like California, with the richest agricultural output in the US), the running of PIPES THAT CARRY WATER BELOW THE SAND AND PROTECTED FROM THE SAND, or dry unproductive earth, the building of CANALS COVERED WITH CONCRETE SLABS WITH THE ABIULITY TO CARRY WATER, AND THE PLANTING OF DESERT-RESISTANT PLANTS SUCH AS THE ECUALYPTIS TREE, or trees created genetically to prosper with less water in arid areas and many other solutions can be applied to fighting drought and desertification, along with the use of weather and space technology.
An exchange in space and weather technology among Africans and African-Americans, Afro-Caribbeans or Black peoples and nations from any area, or those who are sympathetic to the plight of Black people regardless of race, can contribnute to the halting of drought, or the lessening of its effects if the knowledge exchanged can help. There is no way Blacks in the United States who are knowledgeable in science and technology, space and weather technology, manufacturing and information technology, agricultural and electronics sciences, should keep all the knowledge to themselves. That knowledge should be shared with Black/Pan-African/Pan-Negro nations globally, through an exchange of personnel and information. After all, Blacks contributed greatly to the same technology and science that helped and is continuing to make the European, American and Asian continents with the most industrialized nations on earth today.
An African-American 'peace corps' (technological, science, economics, agricultural corps) should be founded. It's mission would be to introduce high technology in Black nations worldwide and to use cultural and technological gifts of these nations (indigenous sciences, arts, technologies, crafts, ect..) for the benefit of Black America and these nations. It is unproductive and self-destructive for Blacks to believe that what Black invent, research and develop should go to other nations and peoples, just because they can mass manufacturer what Blacks invented at a cheap price, while those things Black America, Black Africa, the Black world create remain locked out of the technological revolution taking place in the industrialized nations of the world.
THE FOLLOWING STEPS SHOULD BE TAKEN TO CREATE AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN, PAN-AFRICAN 'PEACE CORPS.'
1. Groups of people skilled in specific trades should join together and form trade and technology guilds. These guilds or orgaizations would require the following:
a. Those involved in the guilds should be willing to help others and teach their skills to others.
b. They are skilled in whatever trade or field they decide to teach.
c. Those who join the trade or technology guilds should honor their contracts unless it becomes impossible to do so.
d. Those who want to break their contracts for whatever reason must petition the host government or home organization between 1 to 30 days before leaving (for emergency reasons).
e. In cases of emergencies, the member must be allowed tok take the necessary time and to resume his or her contract later if it would be possible..
2. Groups of teachers and educators who are willing to share their knowledge or teach othrs should learn from guilds or organizations who would travel overseas to teach for a specific period of time.
3. Corps should be formed of highly skilled people such as 'Scientific Corps,' 'Industrial Corps,' 'Agricultural Corps,' and so on. These corps should form networks with Black/Pan-African nations ('Black'/Pan-African means those communities (like Black AfricanAmerica, Black Aboriginal Australia, Black Europe, Indo-Negroid India, ect) and nations of the Americas, Africa, Melanesia, South Asia, SE Asia, South Pacific who are part of the original Pan-Africoid/Pan-Negroid race, or are related to the Pan-African/Pan-Negro race). Nations willing to share their technological and other skills with the Black world should be welcomed and rewarded (and some of these nations are already trading with African/Pan-Negro nations at present on a MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL, MUTUALLY RESPECTFUL AND MUTUALLY EQUAL BASIS - AND NOT A 'PARASITIC' BASIS).
4. 'Peace Corps' (or rather technological, scientific, industrial, economic corps) groups can be funded by using the 'susu system' and they can be part of the greatyer susu system. For example, a block of 1000 people may want to send ten people to various parts of Africa to help stop deforestation, drill for water, enhance traditional and new forms of agriculture by introducing or teaching various techniques and methods such as cloud seeding, irrigation and so on.
Every person in the 1,000 member susu group would contribute $100 dollars per month for a total amount of $100,000 dollars per month. Ten people skilled in professions who may be unemployed would be chosen. Each of these ten people would be paid an equal amount of money for their xpenses. In this case, $30,000 dollars for about one year in nations like Nigeria, Mali of West Afr4ica, Saint Lucia or Jamaica of the Caribbean. Agreements wouild have to be made with the host nations to pay a certain salary to those chosen to teach in their respective nations in order to supplement their income.
The host nation would send an equal amount of their skilled cultural or technological people if the host nations has an excess and wants to share. For example, if a nation like Nigeria has an ecess of herbal doctors, physicians or chemists, these professionals would be exchanged for an equal amount of time with African-Americans, or Pan-Caribbean professionals.
The exchange and transfer of high technology and science among the regions of the Black world, or those sympathetic to the Black cause is of paramount importance. There are thousands of highly skilled Black professioianls in the United States who are not working at the present. These professionals should join together in 'technological corps' and should teach or share their skills with Black nations worldwide.
(c) 1997, 2001 by PAB "Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation,'
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INTERNATIONALIZING SUSUNOMICS AND SUSUISM: THE PAN-AFRICAN/PAN-NEGRO GLOBAL CULTURAL/ECONOMIC UNIFICATION
The expansion of 'susunomics,' and 'susuism' must be carried out on an international scale throughout the Black (Pan-African/Pan-Negro) world. This can be done by forming 'susu federations', whereby groups of nations can pool their resouces, so that such resources can be used for the building of projects such s hydroelectric dams, space-exploration corporations, manufacturing companies, agricultural development, reforestation, development of railways and other infrastructure, city and urban development, the manufacturing of ships, cars, boats, buses, trains, planes/jets, defense systems and so on.
The creation of Pan-African/Pan-Negro organizations is needed because of the lack of strength and power that many small nations suffer, due to colonialism. For example, West Africa has been fragmented into a number of states that are easy to exploit because they are small in population, have no large defense forces and lack money. Yet, these states of the ancient Nok-Wagadu, Ghana-Mali-Songhai-Forest Kingdoms (Benin, Igbo-Ikwu, Yoruba, Ashanti) were once united into two major civilizations/empires; The Ghana-Mali-Songhai empire states, and the Guinea/Mandinga-Benin-Yoruba-Cameroon civilizations. There were many kingdoms in the region, but the idea of regional union and Empire was alive and helped these states develop and become among the world's most powerful between 3000 BC to the 1800's.
Hence today, the need for the creation of larger states out of the smaller, fragmented nations of West Africa and all Africa is needed. The present global groupings of Pan-African/Pan-Negro people includes:
PAN-AFRICAN AND PAN-NEGRO NATIONS, STATES GLOBALLY
The African Union
http://www.africa-union.org/ (representing 1,200,000,000 Africans in Africa, and Africans in Europe
The Organization of Africans of the Americas (Representing about 300,000,000 people of African descent in all the Americas)
http://www.oaa.org/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6876/OAAen.htm
MELANESIAN/ABORIGINAL UNION (East Timor, Papua-New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu - future Northern Territories Aboriginal Autonomus Region of Australia)
Representing 50,000,000 Negro-Melanesian and Negro-Australoid people in Melanesia and Australia.
Melanesian issues
http://rastafaritimes.com/rasnews/arc11-2001.html
http://www.cs.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=517
Article on Melanesians, who are part of the Afro-Asiatic, Pan-Negro/Pan-Africoid Family under racist oppression and Genocide in SE Asia/Melanesia, due to racist policies like the racist 'Asianization Policy' of displacement (West Papua). Yet, Melanesian, Oceanic Negroids, Negritoes and Negro-Australoids are the ORIGINAL RACE OF HUMANS IN ALL ASIA ( says Ben Tangghama, former Foreign Minister of Papua-New Guinea (Black Books Bulletin - 1970's -- See 'African Presence in Early Asia by Ivan Van Sertima; also see 'The Black Untouchables of India,' by VT Rajshekar, Runoko Rashidi, YN Kly, http://www.claritypress.com/
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html
PAN-AFRICANIST/ECONOMIC-CULTURAL UNIONS
1. United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa (begins with the ECOWAS nations). http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/eccas.htm
2. Organization of Africans in the Americas - OAA
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6876/OAAen.htm
3. African Union
http://www.africa-union.org/
http://www.africanunion.net/
4. Melanesian (Union) States
http://www.cs.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=517
http://www.house.gov/list/press/as00_faleomavaega/papuanewguinea.html
5. SADC (Southern African Development Committee)
http://www.sadc.int/member_states/index.php
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/sadc.htm
6. Sahel-Sahara States
http://www.cen-sad.org/
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/eac.htm
7. COMESA - Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/comesa.htm
8. EAC - East African Community
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/EAC.htm
9. ECCAS - Economic Community of Central African States
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/eccas.htm
10. ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States (the new and unified super-state - THE UNITED STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA -
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/ecowas
11. IGAD - African Horn/East Africa
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/igad.htm
12. DALIT/INDO-NEGRO ORGANIZATION/BLACK TRIBALS (300,000,000 Dalits/Black Untouchables and about 300,000,000 Black Tribals live in India (Black due to having prehistoric African origins as well as features, similar cultures, genes, resemblances - and social status as being mistread by others EXACTLY BECAUSE OF THEIR AFRICAN/BLACK ORIGINS AND THIER ANCIENT STRUGGLE AGAINST NORTHERN INVADERS.
http://www.dalitstan.org/
UNITING NATIONS AND GROUPS TO CREATE STRENGTH
The bringing together of groups of at least ten nations for the purpose of development is one of the most effective ways to acquire the finances needed to undergo development projects if the susu method is properly applied. The development of the Black world after the 1960's has not taken place on the same type of level, nor has the Black world received the same amount of financial and technical help that nations of Asia received, or the nations of Europe after the Second World war, including European nations that provoked, began and implemented war and genocide on others. Africa and most Black regions and nations received very little help. What they received was more Christian missionaries, more of the rape of thier resources and more neocolonialism.
The fate of European nations after World War II, and ot Asian nations like Japan, Korea, Taiwan and others was very different from tat of the nations of the Black world. Over the past forty years, these nations have developed rapidly due to the help of other richer nations, such s the United States. Many of these nations, particularly those of Southeast and East Asia are not classified as members of the Newly Industrialized Countires, where at a level of development similar to that of Africa, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and parts of Latin America today. Many were under some form of colonialism. Today, however, many of these nations in Southeast Asia and East Asia, particularly Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, have surpassed most Black nations in their level of development, while Black nations have lagged behind, or have regressed in many areas and in some cases taken steps backward not seen during the 1900's.
The development and industrialization of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and other nations of Asia, as well as those of Europe since the 1940's did not happen without outside help, particularly from the United States. Many of these nations had massive amounts of American investments in capital, industry and manpower. Others were delberately given industries and creations of groups like African-Americans ( see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ ), such as the hair-care industry pioneered by African-American inventors like Madame CJ Walker.
Thousands of the people of Asia and Europe received American technological training both in their home countries as well as in the technological institutions of the United States. Some of thse nations, inspire of their colonial past, continued to hold tightly on the good aspects of their culture such as Confucianism, Taoism, traditional family values, language, education, traditional religious beliefs they invented, (many rejected the notion of being happy and poor on earth, while hoping for a good 'hereafter',) industriousness and confidence.
These attributes are common in Africans (Pan-African people) as welland although they were kept in many areas, some were reject for 'Western' ideas that have done absolutely nothing to uplift Black people. Moreover, these attributes of the Asians did not contribute to the development of their industrial base all on their own. Money and help (including transfering some indigenous American inventions and manufacturing processes - see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ ) was the main factor and it poured ut of America. However, that money did not enter North Korea, China and Vietnam, and they remained poor, untill these nations took actioin to improve their economies (China and Vietnam).
There are many similarities between African cultures and that of the nations of East Asia. Both groups of cultures go back many thousands of years, with the African culture being much more ancient in every way. In both cultures, elders are respected. Both cultures have economic systems where financial and other resources are pooled together for the common good. In fact the Koreans in Los Angeles have a system of pooling money very similar to the 'susu' system that developed in West Africa thousands of years ago and was transferred to the Americas, then the US by Jamaicans/Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Americans ancestors. This system is partly responsible for the ability of some Koreans to buy businesses throughout the US. Hence, African-Americans should be using this system to enrich and build their economy nand it is not being used as much as it should. With the writing of these notes and the spread of Susu and Susunomics (http://www.iuniverse.com/ ) on the market, the situation can be changed for the best.
Both the African and Asian cultures place a high value on education and family values, with the Africans being more ancient and stronger in both respects. Both cultures place a high value on hard work and thrift, with the Africans being strong in these areas and having ancient civilizations, cultures and traditions that show this to be the case. Still, Africans and other Black nations lagged in development while Asians and Europeans prospered during the 1970's to the 2000's.
The reason why the Asians developed had nothing to do with any cultural values or traditions specifically, but with the massive amounts of help they received from the West/US. Both South Korea and Japan were flooded with American technology and money after World War II, with the Japanese having had that benefit since the late 1890's (and yet having a war with the US in the 1940's). Africa on the other hand was being stipped bare. In Congo and parts of North Africa as well as other areas, slavery, brutality and massive atrocities were taking place against Africans.
These evils were being practiced by the Europeans and Semites of course, and they continued the racist colonial policies till the 1960's (and some cases till today) until they were driven out through warfare, or were forced to grant independence. By then, they had destroyed and raped the African continent and its resources down to the bone. They had wiped out and enslaved tens of millions of Africa's best people and even after the so-called 'independence,' the Europeans and Semites continued a policy of neocolonialism, or occupation of settlers from Europe (and the Middle East). Today, many of the same people or their descendents control Africa's resources, as well as the resources of Black nations in the Caribbean Region, the South Pacific and South America. They have maintained thier control while contributing to the further underdevelopment of Black nations.
EXAMPLES OF HOW AND WHY NEOCOLONIALISTS HAVE CONTINUED THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF BLACK NATIONS WORLDWIDE
1. Many of the 'developed nations,' refuse to transfer or share advanced or any type of technology with Black/African nations, although they do so with nations like Japan and others. By keeping it all to themselves and their chosen cliche of friends and 'allies,' these developed nations place Black nations in the position of having to beg them for the expertise required to run mines, industrial plants and businesses.
2. These industrialized nations (some are infact 'RPN'S 'Resource Poor Nations,"), must of whom contribnuted to the underdevelopment of Black nations (most who are 'RRN'S ( 'Resource Rich Nations" ) have developed a system whereby they will loan money to Black nations, whlie calling it 'aid.' At the same time, this loan money to Black nations has to be repaid with interest and this repayment of such aid money contributes to the lack of, and underderdevelopment of Black nations. The loaner becomes wealthy on the backs of poor Black nations, since most industrialized nations already have their own capital and do not need to borrow as much as those who have no capital or limited capital. The borrower remains poor and indebted to the lender. Most of the money that the borrower could have used to develop their own nations must be put toward repaying the loans and interest.
These industrialized nations, encourage underdevelopment in Black nations by dumping their products on the international Black markets, while keeping their own markets closed to the products of Black nations. By doing so, they discourage local manufacturing of products, particularly in Black nations, and encourage the consumption and purchase of their goods. They keep the manufacturing industries of Black nations underdeveloped.
These are some of the reasons why Asian nations have developed rapidly today instead of African, Caribbean, South Pacific (except English-dominated New Zealand) and Black communities worldwide. The premise that Confucianism, Taoism or only hard work and determination or good cultural values ropelled the Asians so far ahead of Pan-African nations in the industrial and development fields is false. If that was the case , Asian nations like Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, the Philipines and others with cultures somewhat similalr to that of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Honk Kong would hae developed in the same way. Nations such as North Korea, Mongolia and China would have made great strides early on and immediately since the end of the Korean War. The conclusion has to be made, therefore, that those who developed were lucky due to the massive infusion of American dollars. The same is true for the nations of Western Europe that were devastated by World War Two. Those who remained under the Western umbrella developed; those who turned tot he Eastern European political philosophy of rigid socialism, remained underdeveloped.
As far as the confucian work ethic is concerned, it came from mainland China, and was not destroyed during the advant of communism there, nor in North Korea or Mongolia. Yet, China is not as developed as Japan, neither is North Korea as advanced as Japan or Taiwan who follow the same Confucian work ethic and similar culture to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. China, North Korea, Vietnam did not develop economic alliances with the West on the same level as Japan developed its economic alliances with the US, because the access of these three communist nations to Western capital and technology was closed, until recently.
Today however, China is booming, due to massive amounts of Western/US investments and the transfer of US companies to China. Vietnam is also developing rapidly. North Korea on the other hand is still stagnant, but the possibility for its development is getting closer at hand - showing that indeed, iit is Western capital that will help North Korea reach a level of development similar to South Korea. IT IS THIS SAME CAPITAL AND HELP THAT COULD HAVE HELPED MANY AFRICAN NATIONS MOVE INTO THE 'DEVELOPED NATIONS,' and it is the unity of Africans to build their economies that will make it possible, if they receive no help from other regions.
The former communist East Asian nations as well as nations of Eastern Europe were considered as 'enemies' of the West. While these nations recrived no help because of their political and ideological differences with the Western nations, Pan-African and Black nations worldwide received no such help, strictly on the basis of race. Black people will be Black and no matter where in the WOrld Blacks live, those who control the world's economic and technological power will never do anything that will help Black people uplift themselves. For example take Australia and Papua New Guinea. Why isn't Papua New Guinea and Melanesia the African and 'Melanesian Lions,' comparable to 'Asian Tigers.'? Not one, yet.
The conclusion has to be made that those who benefited from the 'transfer of technology' and capital, such as Japan, Taiwan, Gremany, France, England, South Korea and others (before and after World War II) developed into today's economic powers. Those who followed a socialist ideology that hampered the growth of private industry and capital, or the people's initiative to produce, or were enemies of the rich Western helpers also did not make progress as much as those who were 'friends' of the West. Black (Pan-Negro) nations whose resources were plundered (as it seems some are trying to do today), and whose populations decimated (as some is doing by pitting one group of Africans/Blacks against another), or who were refused significant capital, or sharing of technology are still struggling today for the most part.
The fate of Black America was even worse. The sad irony is that Black Americans contributed very much to the industrial revolution in the United States by having great scientists, inventors and in some cases industrialists (like the early Black American car manufacturers, factory owners, inventors, businessmen), and by improving the industrial system in the nation. Still, Black America never developed a separate and powerful economic system, nor a strong sense of Black separatism and nationalism until the 1960's (and for a period during the 1920's). Every effort to build a separate national and economic system for Blacks in the US (self-help, Black economic, cultural, political unity and autonomy within the US) has been met with opposition from the majority (who urge Blacks to 'pull themselves by their bootstraps' on one side of their faces, then try to twart the effort on the other side) or dissent and 'Uncle Tomism' from hand-picked Black 'misleaders,' who do everything in their power to keep the Black race in a position of dependence by colaborating (the 'Toms) with those wo want to keep Black people in a state of backwardness and oppression (and since 'neo-slavery' is the only industry left in America, some of these 'Toms are being tricked again with the same old 'doubletalk.').
In order to improve the lives of Black people worldwide and to put the Black world on an equal or even superior level to the rest of the world in economics, technology and every other way possible, the Black world must pool its resources and money in a 'susu' type of economic system, or in a manner whereby, technology, scientific and agricultural knowledge, and economics will be strengthed. Organizations should be created so that those who are skilled in the various technologies can pool their knowledge together for the benefit of the Black world.
THE SUSU ECONOMIC SYSTEM CAN BE APPLIED ON THE PAN-AFRICAN (PAN-NEGRO) LEVEL IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER
(a) Black nations globally should take steps necessary to form regional economic blocks and to create larger, more powerful nations and federations. For example, in the Caribbean region, the formation of a Caribbean Federation of One Caribbean Union, or Association of Caribbean States is necessary for the future development of the region. The same is true for Melanesia where about 50,000,000 (and perhaps more) Melanesians are spread from Indonesia and East Timor, West Papua to New Caledonia.
Every island in the Caribbean (and Melanesian region and Australia's Nothern Territories) as well as nations like Belize, the Giuanas with basically a Caribbean culture should unify either as unitary states (in the case of the Caribbean), or unitary and cultural unions (as in the case of a Melanesian Union united with Aboriginal Australia's Northern Territories as a cultural union - since Northern Territories is part of Australia (the colony created by the British) but is still part of the old Melanesian-Aboriginal region that existed for tens of thousands of years before the arrival of the British and other foreign people.
Nations such as those who speak Spanish and French (in the Caribbean) should be encouraged to become part of a large and strong One Caribbean Union. Each island or nation would be allowed to maintain its culture, but all would unify as a single nation in order to be able to make progress in a world that is becoming more and more defined by economic blocks and large super-states. There are about 45 - 50 million people in the Caribbean islands and mainland Caribbean-cultural/nations area, a number about the same as the population of France. The agricultural and industrial potential of the Caribbean region is limitless. When half the world cannot grow crops because of cold weather, the Caribbean (as well as Africa, Melanesia, South India, the tropics ) can. Agriculture and tourism can contribute to the development of the Caribbean, Africa and Melanesia -- along with a strong industrial, technology and information-age technology base (which is the Japanese, Korea, Taiwanese, Hong-Kong, British model -- all small, island-type states - who have learned to use means (colonialism, exploitation, help from powerful 'friends,' ect. - it is no joke, not even in the case of Korea, see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ to become rich and powerful ).
Yet, Japan did suffer after World War II (and China suffered to a very high extent so did Congo and much of Africa - one third who are still languishing behind - TWO THIRDS OF AFRICAN NATIONS ARE DOING VERY WELL ECONOMICALLY) and SE Asia, East Asia had many poor nations, including Taiwan and Singapore. The Caribbean region has a greater advantage than these nations in that it has more access to the hightest of technology not merely through the U.S., but through Canada and the African-Amerian scientific and technological institutions, as well as that of the Caribbean.
In spite of the lack of some resources, a problem that does not stop Japan or Hong Kong, the Caribbean region can create or become part of an international or Pan-African economic system, where goods, capital and resources can be transferred from place to place for the benefit of all. And so, if a nation like Jamaica wants to start a ship-building industry (after all, a small nation called Korea has a ship-building industry, and the legacy of Jamaicans and their African ancestors building ships and travelling the seas is over 10,000 years old - beginning in the Sahara, in Africa), the Jamaicans can buy steel from guyana or from West Africa or North Eastern Brazil (particularly if and when NE Brazil (Afro-Brazil, the former 'Palmares' now Alagoas becomes independent of a Black-ruled autonomous region). Jamaicans can use their abundance of bauxite (aluminum ) to create metal alloys for building specialized boats and ships, without using metals like steel and iron.
A political system would have to be established whereby no large island with a large population would be able to dominate the smaller ones (or no large state in a 'UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA,'). All that is necessary would have to be done to unite the entire Caribbean people as one. The racist attitudes of some (still slaves of the old colonial 'divide and conquer' trickery) particularly some of the 'Hispanic' and very lightskinned miscegenated populations of nations like the Dominican Republic, must be cleansed from the minds of these unfortunate subjects of the old slave/colonial system and from the egion.
(b.) Nations such as those who comprise of West Africa (THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA) should put aside their petty 'differences,' such as 'Anglo-phone' (slaves of England/English culture), and 'Francophone' (slaves of French language and culture), BOTH FORMER COLONIALISTS WHO STILL TREAT AFRICANS IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE WITH RACISM, AND NATIONS LIKE ZIMBABWE WITH RACIST 'DOUBLE-STANDARD' TREATMENT.
These African nations must eliminate foreign economic, political and religious/cultural domination and unite into a single nation (as proposed, the UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA' - ALL THE NATIONS FROM SENEGAL TO CAMEROON AND FROM CAMEROON TO NORTHERN MALI.
There is a need for balance in the world today both militarily and economically, and West Africa is the major region in the Black world where the creation of a new superpower is very necessary. Such superpower would include all the nations of West Africa, including those what have been occupied by foreign people who maintain a foreign custom (slavery and racism against Africans), and who arrived in the region during the 1500's and later. These descendents of invaders would have to to be forced to give back what they stole from the PEOPLE OF WEST AFRICA. A 'UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS' OF Africa located in West Africa has the potential to become an economic, military and industrial superpower, if the West Africans put their souls into making such an accomplishment become real. Unification in this area would be to the benefit of the region, Africa and the Black world in general. At last, there would be a balance between Africa, Pan-African/Pan-Negro states and the other 'superpowers' of the world. Why should Africa, Melanesia, African-America, Negro-Australoid Australia, or any Black reigon remain poor and lacking when these nations and peoples are actually holding the powerful 'parasitic' nation upward. Where do these 'powerful' nations get their resources? They get it from the Pan-Negro world. Hence it is time the Pan-Negro/Black world gain the same knowledge and accumulate the same wealth and power as the 'resource-poor' First World 'parasite' (those who take and give nothing back except churches and birth control pills and tools of genocide) nations.
(c) FORMING BLACK UNIONS OF STATES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE AMERICAS, AFRICA, MELANESIA
Nations or unions of states or independent nations can form susu groups. For example, ten (or more) island states of the Caribbean (or Melanesia), or all the nations in the ECOWAS OR SADC groups, who have already joined into a political and economic union and intoi single nation-states, can have each member of the 'states' in the newly unified 'super-nation' composed of ten to twenty nations of the union, to each put an equal amount of money in a 'susu' pool every month or at some given period. Businesses from these nations, as well as governments of states can both use this method. Thus, the private and public financial sectors would both find ways to pool their resources in each and every member of the Association of States, or Union of States and create a regional susu economic system, that would stand side by side ith the regular 'development bank,' or private banking system.
The susu of island-states would be organized in the following manner. All the slands of the Caribbean and those Caribbean nations like Guyana, Surinam, French Guyana on the norther coast of the South American mainland would all be part of a single 'supernation." The same would benefit nations of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States - known as, THE UNITES STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA), (or all the island nations of THE MELANESIAN UNION).
The French colonies would be part of the Union of Caribbean states and their independence and move to become free states and part of the Caribbean Union would be a matter of justice. The Spanish-speaking nations who identify with African-Caribbean culture and recognize African-Caribbean people in their own nations (like Cuba and the Dominican Republic) can both help to develop a strong economy in the region. Hence the new single political and economic union would comprise of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Surinam, Cayenne (French Guyana), Antigua, Saint Kitts/Nevis, Anguilla, Martinique, Guadalupe, Barbadose, Belize and all the territories that make up the geographical and cultural boundaries of the Caribbean-Islands and mainland community.
Every nation would have the opportunity to join into a single Pan-Caribbean 'susu' system and the formation of a Caribbean Federation with all the above nations would be much easier to accomplish and would make the entire region a new and powerful economic block.
(d) Susu banks would have to be established. One major bank for the entire region and a local bank for each island state or nation. These banks would function under the 'susu system' but would also follow other regular banking rules and laws which would be similar to the regional and banking laws of the Pan-Caribbeans States.
Each island-state or state would contribute an equal amount of money in the susu pool each month and would have to olpportunity to use what money is in the pool when each state's turn came to use it. Each state would continue to put money into the pool, including those who have recently benefited until all states have had the opportunity to use the money when their turn arrived.
(e) If a nation like Saint Lucia, West Indies wanted to build an automobile plant or construct a ship-building industry and the cost to begin would be one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), each of the twenty nations in the association/group (twenty million is being used as a round number) put five million dollars in the pool. At the end of the month, a collection of one hundred million dollars would be acquired. Saint Lucia would have one hundred million dollars to start off the automobile or ship-building industry. After Saint Lucha had received the one hundred million dollars, they would continue to put in five million dollars each month until all the other members (of the Caribbean Federation or Union) had the opportunity to collect the one hundred million dollars to use on various types of development in their particular state or island. It would take one year and eight months for each of the twenty states to use the money in the pool before Saint Lucia's turn came again.
Of course, each nation can save one hundred million dollars on its own and wait till it has collected that amount to start its own projects,, which would take about the same amount of time if that nation put in a savings of at least five million dollars per month in its treasury or bank. Still, using the 'susu system' creates a solid, strong financial foundation and a place to receive financial help when it is lacking elsewhere.
The collection of large amounts of money for development can come from the export of agricultural products, processed goods from agricultural products, tourism, jewelry, electronics, information technology, arts and crafts and other industries including manufacturing. The establishment of susu can aid in the development of the Caribbean, Africa, Melanesia/South Pacific and any geographic area with Black nations or with a large population of Black people (like the US, Latin America, South India, Europe) who must create their own economic system in order to survive and thrive, without depending on others. The need for development or any types of 'aid' from the industrialized nations would be lessened if susu is properly applied and if each nation in the susu system began trading, manufacturing and banking, beginning with their own regional ara. The need for 'aid' would diminish if each nation of group of states made the atempt to take a high position in the international, commercial, industrial and financial markets of the world. That must be the goal of the Pan-Caribbean states, as well as the nations of Africa, the Black nations and regions of the Americas (US South, Caribbean, Brazil, Guianas, Northern Coastal South, Panama-Central America, Afro-Mexico, Black California, other areas) as well as Black nations in the Pacific region.
Agriculture has the greatest potential to build economies in many tropical and subtropical nations - along with the agricultural bi-products to be manufactured or that are manufactured. Those who inhabit these tropical areas should develop the agricultural potential so that agricultural commodities can being in greater revenue. Two of the most important industries in the Caribbean and Africa are agriculture and tourism. These industries are also the most important in US states like California as well. California is the wealthiest state in the United States (per capita) because of these industries as well as 'light' industries like information technologies, electronics, aircraft manufacturing, banking, trade and commerce. The Caribbean, THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMOS OF AFRICA (ECOWAS), and other African/Pan-Negro regions also have the potential of becoming the most properly developed regions in the world, if these industries are well developed, well managed, expanded and made to bring in great financial results.
The Caribbean Region, Africa, African-American Southern US-California Communities, the South Pacific Melanesia, the northern part of South America called the Guianas, all have better soil for planting, a better climate and the potential to produce more and more better quality agricultural products than California present system of agriculture that is sometimes hampered by temperature and seasonal changes. Should that happen (use of the tropical advantage by Pan-African nations and weather-favorable Black-occupied regions of the US, use their ability to produce agricultural and other goods) and should the manufacturing and crafts industries be strengthened along with the tourism
industry (which can and has contributed to economic development in Africa, the Caribbean, South Pacific and Black America's historical cities and sites), be expanded and controled. these nations would soon join California (a state of the United States - California, among the top ten regions in wealth) as the wealthiest nations/regions on earth. Furthermore, unlike Japan and some small Asian nations with few resources, most Black nations (INCLUDING THOSE OF MELANESIA/SOUTH PACIFIC AND THE CARIBBEAN) have an abundance of resources that can be used, or pooled wikth those Black nations or regions where resources are scarce or lacking.
The need to accept any type of tricky 'development aid' or loans that keep nations in debt and poverty from the so-called 'developed' nations, can be lessened if 'susu' is properly utilized nad applied. Each nation can contribute money to a giant project that would benefit the whole region, such as a university system, regional government complexes, manufacturing of giant scientific projects such as space technology and exploration, and the proper management of the resources of the sea and projects that benefit the while region.
Much of the money that is used to buy European, Japanese, or the goods of other industrialized nations and regions can circulate in the Pan-African world and remain there as long as steps are taken to make products in the region and to make these products of the highest possible quality surpassing of all others.
New cities can be built (and African nations must revive ancient 'classical' traditional architecture - like those of Khemet, Nubia-Cush, Nok-Wagadu, Azania, Swahili and others ) Pan-Africans can enter into space exploration and high technology, fields necessary to solve problems such as drought, bad weather, desertification, deforestation and other dangerous natural disasters that have aused millions of African lives over the past decades. SUSU CAN ALSO BE USED IN HELPING FIND AND MANAGE UNDERGROUND WATER IN THE SAHEL REGION OF AFRICA, TO 'SEED' COULDS FOR CREATING RAIN, BUILD CANALS AND WATERWAYS (INCLUDING BUILDING THEM UNDERGROUND AND IN CANALS IN HOT, ARID AREAS (AS IS DONE IN CALIFORNIA'S HOT, ARID REGIONS).
Susu is the Pan-African economic system for the future. Susunomics is the economic philosophy, while susuism is the political ideology based on Black nationalism and Pan-Afrian self-preservation and advancement. The time has come for Pan-Africans to take a giant step forward in orde to stand equally or above with the top nations.
In retrospect, the time has come to apply this economic system and to use it for the advancement and the development of the Black world. Unity of all resources is the key to the improvement of the lives of Black people worldwide. Black control of Black resources is essentialto the advancement of the Black/Pan-African world. Pan-Africans/Blacks globally must pool our collective resources, whether it is technical, human, financial, or any other. Pan-Africans/Pan-Negroes/Blacks globally must create a powerful worldwide economic system that will benefit Pan-Africans/Pan-Negroes and Black people in general.
( See 'Susu Economics," (c) 1997; 2001: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_details.asp?isbn=0-595-18246-1
See more on this topic, "Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation," (c) 1997, 2001; pub. at
http://www.iuniverse.com/ also see http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-18246-1
The creation of Pan-African/Pan-Negro organizations is needed because of the lack of strength and power that many small nations suffer, due to colonialism. For example, West Africa has been fragmented into a number of states that are easy to exploit because they are small in population, have no large defense forces and lack money. Yet, these states of the ancient Nok-Wagadu, Ghana-Mali-Songhai-Forest Kingdoms (Benin, Igbo-Ikwu, Yoruba, Ashanti) were once united into two major civilizations/empires; The Ghana-Mali-Songhai empire states, and the Guinea/Mandinga-Benin-Yoruba-Cameroon civilizations. There were many kingdoms in the region, but the idea of regional union and Empire was alive and helped these states develop and become among the world's most powerful between 3000 BC to the 1800's.
Hence today, the need for the creation of larger states out of the smaller, fragmented nations of West Africa and all Africa is needed. The present global groupings of Pan-African/Pan-Negro people includes:
PAN-AFRICAN AND PAN-NEGRO NATIONS, STATES GLOBALLY
The African Union
http://www.africa-union.org/ (representing 1,200,000,000 Africans in Africa, and Africans in Europe
The Organization of Africans of the Americas (Representing about 300,000,000 people of African descent in all the Americas)
http://www.oaa.org/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6876/OAAen.htm
MELANESIAN/ABORIGINAL UNION (East Timor, Papua-New Guinea, Fiji, New Caledonia, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu - future Northern Territories Aboriginal Autonomus Region of Australia)
Representing 50,000,000 Negro-Melanesian and Negro-Australoid people in Melanesia and Australia.
Melanesian issues
http://rastafaritimes.com/rasnews/arc11-2001.html
http://www.cs.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=517
Article on Melanesians, who are part of the Afro-Asiatic, Pan-Negro/Pan-Africoid Family under racist oppression and Genocide in SE Asia/Melanesia, due to racist policies like the racist 'Asianization Policy' of displacement (West Papua). Yet, Melanesian, Oceanic Negroids, Negritoes and Negro-Australoids are the ORIGINAL RACE OF HUMANS IN ALL ASIA ( says Ben Tangghama, former Foreign Minister of Papua-New Guinea (Black Books Bulletin - 1970's -- See 'African Presence in Early Asia by Ivan Van Sertima; also see 'The Black Untouchables of India,' by VT Rajshekar, Runoko Rashidi, YN Kly, http://www.claritypress.com/
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html
PAN-AFRICANIST/ECONOMIC-CULTURAL UNIONS
1. United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa (begins with the ECOWAS nations). http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/eccas.htm
2. Organization of Africans in the Americas - OAA
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/6876/OAAen.htm
3. African Union
http://www.africa-union.org/
http://www.africanunion.net/
4. Melanesian (Union) States
http://www.cs.org/publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=517
http://www.house.gov/list/press/as00_faleomavaega/papuanewguinea.html
5. SADC (Southern African Development Committee)
http://www.sadc.int/member_states/index.php
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/sadc.htm
6. Sahel-Sahara States
http://www.cen-sad.org/
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/eac.htm
7. COMESA - Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/comesa.htm
8. EAC - East African Community
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/EAC.htm
9. ECCAS - Economic Community of Central African States
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/eccas.htm
10. ECOWAS - Economic Community of West African States (the new and unified super-state - THE UNITED STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA -
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/ecowas
11. IGAD - African Horn/East Africa
http://www.africa-union.org/root/AU/RECs/igad.htm
12. DALIT/INDO-NEGRO ORGANIZATION/BLACK TRIBALS (300,000,000 Dalits/Black Untouchables and about 300,000,000 Black Tribals live in India (Black due to having prehistoric African origins as well as features, similar cultures, genes, resemblances - and social status as being mistread by others EXACTLY BECAUSE OF THEIR AFRICAN/BLACK ORIGINS AND THIER ANCIENT STRUGGLE AGAINST NORTHERN INVADERS.
http://www.dalitstan.org/
UNITING NATIONS AND GROUPS TO CREATE STRENGTH
The bringing together of groups of at least ten nations for the purpose of development is one of the most effective ways to acquire the finances needed to undergo development projects if the susu method is properly applied. The development of the Black world after the 1960's has not taken place on the same type of level, nor has the Black world received the same amount of financial and technical help that nations of Asia received, or the nations of Europe after the Second World war, including European nations that provoked, began and implemented war and genocide on others. Africa and most Black regions and nations received very little help. What they received was more Christian missionaries, more of the rape of thier resources and more neocolonialism.
The fate of European nations after World War II, and ot Asian nations like Japan, Korea, Taiwan and others was very different from tat of the nations of the Black world. Over the past forty years, these nations have developed rapidly due to the help of other richer nations, such s the United States. Many of these nations, particularly those of Southeast and East Asia are not classified as members of the Newly Industrialized Countires, where at a level of development similar to that of Africa, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and parts of Latin America today. Many were under some form of colonialism. Today, however, many of these nations in Southeast Asia and East Asia, particularly Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, have surpassed most Black nations in their level of development, while Black nations have lagged behind, or have regressed in many areas and in some cases taken steps backward not seen during the 1900's.
The development and industrialization of Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and other nations of Asia, as well as those of Europe since the 1940's did not happen without outside help, particularly from the United States. Many of these nations had massive amounts of American investments in capital, industry and manpower. Others were delberately given industries and creations of groups like African-Americans ( see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ ), such as the hair-care industry pioneered by African-American inventors like Madame CJ Walker.
Thousands of the people of Asia and Europe received American technological training both in their home countries as well as in the technological institutions of the United States. Some of thse nations, inspire of their colonial past, continued to hold tightly on the good aspects of their culture such as Confucianism, Taoism, traditional family values, language, education, traditional religious beliefs they invented, (many rejected the notion of being happy and poor on earth, while hoping for a good 'hereafter',) industriousness and confidence.
These attributes are common in Africans (Pan-African people) as welland although they were kept in many areas, some were reject for 'Western' ideas that have done absolutely nothing to uplift Black people. Moreover, these attributes of the Asians did not contribute to the development of their industrial base all on their own. Money and help (including transfering some indigenous American inventions and manufacturing processes - see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ ) was the main factor and it poured ut of America. However, that money did not enter North Korea, China and Vietnam, and they remained poor, untill these nations took actioin to improve their economies (China and Vietnam).
There are many similarities between African cultures and that of the nations of East Asia. Both groups of cultures go back many thousands of years, with the African culture being much more ancient in every way. In both cultures, elders are respected. Both cultures have economic systems where financial and other resources are pooled together for the common good. In fact the Koreans in Los Angeles have a system of pooling money very similar to the 'susu' system that developed in West Africa thousands of years ago and was transferred to the Americas, then the US by Jamaicans/Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Americans ancestors. This system is partly responsible for the ability of some Koreans to buy businesses throughout the US. Hence, African-Americans should be using this system to enrich and build their economy nand it is not being used as much as it should. With the writing of these notes and the spread of Susu and Susunomics (http://www.iuniverse.com/ ) on the market, the situation can be changed for the best.
Both the African and Asian cultures place a high value on education and family values, with the Africans being more ancient and stronger in both respects. Both cultures place a high value on hard work and thrift, with the Africans being strong in these areas and having ancient civilizations, cultures and traditions that show this to be the case. Still, Africans and other Black nations lagged in development while Asians and Europeans prospered during the 1970's to the 2000's.
The reason why the Asians developed had nothing to do with any cultural values or traditions specifically, but with the massive amounts of help they received from the West/US. Both South Korea and Japan were flooded with American technology and money after World War II, with the Japanese having had that benefit since the late 1890's (and yet having a war with the US in the 1940's). Africa on the other hand was being stipped bare. In Congo and parts of North Africa as well as other areas, slavery, brutality and massive atrocities were taking place against Africans.
These evils were being practiced by the Europeans and Semites of course, and they continued the racist colonial policies till the 1960's (and some cases till today) until they were driven out through warfare, or were forced to grant independence. By then, they had destroyed and raped the African continent and its resources down to the bone. They had wiped out and enslaved tens of millions of Africa's best people and even after the so-called 'independence,' the Europeans and Semites continued a policy of neocolonialism, or occupation of settlers from Europe (and the Middle East). Today, many of the same people or their descendents control Africa's resources, as well as the resources of Black nations in the Caribbean Region, the South Pacific and South America. They have maintained thier control while contributing to the further underdevelopment of Black nations.
EXAMPLES OF HOW AND WHY NEOCOLONIALISTS HAVE CONTINUED THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF BLACK NATIONS WORLDWIDE
1. Many of the 'developed nations,' refuse to transfer or share advanced or any type of technology with Black/African nations, although they do so with nations like Japan and others. By keeping it all to themselves and their chosen cliche of friends and 'allies,' these developed nations place Black nations in the position of having to beg them for the expertise required to run mines, industrial plants and businesses.
2. These industrialized nations (some are infact 'RPN'S 'Resource Poor Nations,"), must of whom contribnuted to the underdevelopment of Black nations (most who are 'RRN'S ( 'Resource Rich Nations" ) have developed a system whereby they will loan money to Black nations, whlie calling it 'aid.' At the same time, this loan money to Black nations has to be repaid with interest and this repayment of such aid money contributes to the lack of, and underderdevelopment of Black nations. The loaner becomes wealthy on the backs of poor Black nations, since most industrialized nations already have their own capital and do not need to borrow as much as those who have no capital or limited capital. The borrower remains poor and indebted to the lender. Most of the money that the borrower could have used to develop their own nations must be put toward repaying the loans and interest.
These industrialized nations, encourage underdevelopment in Black nations by dumping their products on the international Black markets, while keeping their own markets closed to the products of Black nations. By doing so, they discourage local manufacturing of products, particularly in Black nations, and encourage the consumption and purchase of their goods. They keep the manufacturing industries of Black nations underdeveloped.
These are some of the reasons why Asian nations have developed rapidly today instead of African, Caribbean, South Pacific (except English-dominated New Zealand) and Black communities worldwide. The premise that Confucianism, Taoism or only hard work and determination or good cultural values ropelled the Asians so far ahead of Pan-African nations in the industrial and development fields is false. If that was the case , Asian nations like Vietnam, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, the Philipines and others with cultures somewhat similalr to that of Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and Honk Kong would hae developed in the same way. Nations such as North Korea, Mongolia and China would have made great strides early on and immediately since the end of the Korean War. The conclusion has to be made, therefore, that those who developed were lucky due to the massive infusion of American dollars. The same is true for the nations of Western Europe that were devastated by World War Two. Those who remained under the Western umbrella developed; those who turned tot he Eastern European political philosophy of rigid socialism, remained underdeveloped.
As far as the confucian work ethic is concerned, it came from mainland China, and was not destroyed during the advant of communism there, nor in North Korea or Mongolia. Yet, China is not as developed as Japan, neither is North Korea as advanced as Japan or Taiwan who follow the same Confucian work ethic and similar culture to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. China, North Korea, Vietnam did not develop economic alliances with the West on the same level as Japan developed its economic alliances with the US, because the access of these three communist nations to Western capital and technology was closed, until recently.
Today however, China is booming, due to massive amounts of Western/US investments and the transfer of US companies to China. Vietnam is also developing rapidly. North Korea on the other hand is still stagnant, but the possibility for its development is getting closer at hand - showing that indeed, iit is Western capital that will help North Korea reach a level of development similar to South Korea. IT IS THIS SAME CAPITAL AND HELP THAT COULD HAVE HELPED MANY AFRICAN NATIONS MOVE INTO THE 'DEVELOPED NATIONS,' and it is the unity of Africans to build their economies that will make it possible, if they receive no help from other regions.
The former communist East Asian nations as well as nations of Eastern Europe were considered as 'enemies' of the West. While these nations recrived no help because of their political and ideological differences with the Western nations, Pan-African and Black nations worldwide received no such help, strictly on the basis of race. Black people will be Black and no matter where in the WOrld Blacks live, those who control the world's economic and technological power will never do anything that will help Black people uplift themselves. For example take Australia and Papua New Guinea. Why isn't Papua New Guinea and Melanesia the African and 'Melanesian Lions,' comparable to 'Asian Tigers.'? Not one, yet.
The conclusion has to be made that those who benefited from the 'transfer of technology' and capital, such as Japan, Taiwan, Gremany, France, England, South Korea and others (before and after World War II) developed into today's economic powers. Those who followed a socialist ideology that hampered the growth of private industry and capital, or the people's initiative to produce, or were enemies of the rich Western helpers also did not make progress as much as those who were 'friends' of the West. Black (Pan-Negro) nations whose resources were plundered (as it seems some are trying to do today), and whose populations decimated (as some is doing by pitting one group of Africans/Blacks against another), or who were refused significant capital, or sharing of technology are still struggling today for the most part.
The fate of Black America was even worse. The sad irony is that Black Americans contributed very much to the industrial revolution in the United States by having great scientists, inventors and in some cases industrialists (like the early Black American car manufacturers, factory owners, inventors, businessmen), and by improving the industrial system in the nation. Still, Black America never developed a separate and powerful economic system, nor a strong sense of Black separatism and nationalism until the 1960's (and for a period during the 1920's). Every effort to build a separate national and economic system for Blacks in the US (self-help, Black economic, cultural, political unity and autonomy within the US) has been met with opposition from the majority (who urge Blacks to 'pull themselves by their bootstraps' on one side of their faces, then try to twart the effort on the other side) or dissent and 'Uncle Tomism' from hand-picked Black 'misleaders,' who do everything in their power to keep the Black race in a position of dependence by colaborating (the 'Toms) with those wo want to keep Black people in a state of backwardness and oppression (and since 'neo-slavery' is the only industry left in America, some of these 'Toms are being tricked again with the same old 'doubletalk.').
In order to improve the lives of Black people worldwide and to put the Black world on an equal or even superior level to the rest of the world in economics, technology and every other way possible, the Black world must pool its resources and money in a 'susu' type of economic system, or in a manner whereby, technology, scientific and agricultural knowledge, and economics will be strengthed. Organizations should be created so that those who are skilled in the various technologies can pool their knowledge together for the benefit of the Black world.
THE SUSU ECONOMIC SYSTEM CAN BE APPLIED ON THE PAN-AFRICAN (PAN-NEGRO) LEVEL IN THE FOLLOWING MANNER
(a) Black nations globally should take steps necessary to form regional economic blocks and to create larger, more powerful nations and federations. For example, in the Caribbean region, the formation of a Caribbean Federation of One Caribbean Union, or Association of Caribbean States is necessary for the future development of the region. The same is true for Melanesia where about 50,000,000 (and perhaps more) Melanesians are spread from Indonesia and East Timor, West Papua to New Caledonia.
Every island in the Caribbean (and Melanesian region and Australia's Nothern Territories) as well as nations like Belize, the Giuanas with basically a Caribbean culture should unify either as unitary states (in the case of the Caribbean), or unitary and cultural unions (as in the case of a Melanesian Union united with Aboriginal Australia's Northern Territories as a cultural union - since Northern Territories is part of Australia (the colony created by the British) but is still part of the old Melanesian-Aboriginal region that existed for tens of thousands of years before the arrival of the British and other foreign people.
Nations such as those who speak Spanish and French (in the Caribbean) should be encouraged to become part of a large and strong One Caribbean Union. Each island or nation would be allowed to maintain its culture, but all would unify as a single nation in order to be able to make progress in a world that is becoming more and more defined by economic blocks and large super-states. There are about 45 - 50 million people in the Caribbean islands and mainland Caribbean-cultural/nations area, a number about the same as the population of France. The agricultural and industrial potential of the Caribbean region is limitless. When half the world cannot grow crops because of cold weather, the Caribbean (as well as Africa, Melanesia, South India, the tropics ) can. Agriculture and tourism can contribute to the development of the Caribbean, Africa and Melanesia -- along with a strong industrial, technology and information-age technology base (which is the Japanese, Korea, Taiwanese, Hong-Kong, British model -- all small, island-type states - who have learned to use means (colonialism, exploitation, help from powerful 'friends,' ect. - it is no joke, not even in the case of Korea, see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ to become rich and powerful ).
Yet, Japan did suffer after World War II (and China suffered to a very high extent so did Congo and much of Africa - one third who are still languishing behind - TWO THIRDS OF AFRICAN NATIONS ARE DOING VERY WELL ECONOMICALLY) and SE Asia, East Asia had many poor nations, including Taiwan and Singapore. The Caribbean region has a greater advantage than these nations in that it has more access to the hightest of technology not merely through the U.S., but through Canada and the African-Amerian scientific and technological institutions, as well as that of the Caribbean.
In spite of the lack of some resources, a problem that does not stop Japan or Hong Kong, the Caribbean region can create or become part of an international or Pan-African economic system, where goods, capital and resources can be transferred from place to place for the benefit of all. And so, if a nation like Jamaica wants to start a ship-building industry (after all, a small nation called Korea has a ship-building industry, and the legacy of Jamaicans and their African ancestors building ships and travelling the seas is over 10,000 years old - beginning in the Sahara, in Africa), the Jamaicans can buy steel from guyana or from West Africa or North Eastern Brazil (particularly if and when NE Brazil (Afro-Brazil, the former 'Palmares' now Alagoas becomes independent of a Black-ruled autonomous region). Jamaicans can use their abundance of bauxite (aluminum ) to create metal alloys for building specialized boats and ships, without using metals like steel and iron.
A political system would have to be established whereby no large island with a large population would be able to dominate the smaller ones (or no large state in a 'UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA,'). All that is necessary would have to be done to unite the entire Caribbean people as one. The racist attitudes of some (still slaves of the old colonial 'divide and conquer' trickery) particularly some of the 'Hispanic' and very lightskinned miscegenated populations of nations like the Dominican Republic, must be cleansed from the minds of these unfortunate subjects of the old slave/colonial system and from the egion.
(b.) Nations such as those who comprise of West Africa (THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA) should put aside their petty 'differences,' such as 'Anglo-phone' (slaves of England/English culture), and 'Francophone' (slaves of French language and culture), BOTH FORMER COLONIALISTS WHO STILL TREAT AFRICANS IN ENGLAND AND FRANCE WITH RACISM, AND NATIONS LIKE ZIMBABWE WITH RACIST 'DOUBLE-STANDARD' TREATMENT.
These African nations must eliminate foreign economic, political and religious/cultural domination and unite into a single nation (as proposed, the UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA' - ALL THE NATIONS FROM SENEGAL TO CAMEROON AND FROM CAMEROON TO NORTHERN MALI.
There is a need for balance in the world today both militarily and economically, and West Africa is the major region in the Black world where the creation of a new superpower is very necessary. Such superpower would include all the nations of West Africa, including those what have been occupied by foreign people who maintain a foreign custom (slavery and racism against Africans), and who arrived in the region during the 1500's and later. These descendents of invaders would have to to be forced to give back what they stole from the PEOPLE OF WEST AFRICA. A 'UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS' OF Africa located in West Africa has the potential to become an economic, military and industrial superpower, if the West Africans put their souls into making such an accomplishment become real. Unification in this area would be to the benefit of the region, Africa and the Black world in general. At last, there would be a balance between Africa, Pan-African/Pan-Negro states and the other 'superpowers' of the world. Why should Africa, Melanesia, African-America, Negro-Australoid Australia, or any Black reigon remain poor and lacking when these nations and peoples are actually holding the powerful 'parasitic' nation upward. Where do these 'powerful' nations get their resources? They get it from the Pan-Negro world. Hence it is time the Pan-Negro/Black world gain the same knowledge and accumulate the same wealth and power as the 'resource-poor' First World 'parasite' (those who take and give nothing back except churches and birth control pills and tools of genocide) nations.
(c) FORMING BLACK UNIONS OF STATES AND COMMUNITIES IN THE AMERICAS, AFRICA, MELANESIA
Nations or unions of states or independent nations can form susu groups. For example, ten (or more) island states of the Caribbean (or Melanesia), or all the nations in the ECOWAS OR SADC groups, who have already joined into a political and economic union and intoi single nation-states, can have each member of the 'states' in the newly unified 'super-nation' composed of ten to twenty nations of the union, to each put an equal amount of money in a 'susu' pool every month or at some given period. Businesses from these nations, as well as governments of states can both use this method. Thus, the private and public financial sectors would both find ways to pool their resources in each and every member of the Association of States, or Union of States and create a regional susu economic system, that would stand side by side ith the regular 'development bank,' or private banking system.
The susu of island-states would be organized in the following manner. All the slands of the Caribbean and those Caribbean nations like Guyana, Surinam, French Guyana on the norther coast of the South American mainland would all be part of a single 'supernation." The same would benefit nations of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States - known as, THE UNITES STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA), (or all the island nations of THE MELANESIAN UNION).
The French colonies would be part of the Union of Caribbean states and their independence and move to become free states and part of the Caribbean Union would be a matter of justice. The Spanish-speaking nations who identify with African-Caribbean culture and recognize African-Caribbean people in their own nations (like Cuba and the Dominican Republic) can both help to develop a strong economy in the region. Hence the new single political and economic union would comprise of Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Dominica, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Surinam, Cayenne (French Guyana), Antigua, Saint Kitts/Nevis, Anguilla, Martinique, Guadalupe, Barbadose, Belize and all the territories that make up the geographical and cultural boundaries of the Caribbean-Islands and mainland community.
Every nation would have the opportunity to join into a single Pan-Caribbean 'susu' system and the formation of a Caribbean Federation with all the above nations would be much easier to accomplish and would make the entire region a new and powerful economic block.
(d) Susu banks would have to be established. One major bank for the entire region and a local bank for each island state or nation. These banks would function under the 'susu system' but would also follow other regular banking rules and laws which would be similar to the regional and banking laws of the Pan-Caribbeans States.
Each island-state or state would contribute an equal amount of money in the susu pool each month and would have to olpportunity to use what money is in the pool when each state's turn came to use it. Each state would continue to put money into the pool, including those who have recently benefited until all states have had the opportunity to use the money when their turn arrived.
(e) If a nation like Saint Lucia, West Indies wanted to build an automobile plant or construct a ship-building industry and the cost to begin would be one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000), each of the twenty nations in the association/group (twenty million is being used as a round number) put five million dollars in the pool. At the end of the month, a collection of one hundred million dollars would be acquired. Saint Lucia would have one hundred million dollars to start off the automobile or ship-building industry. After Saint Lucha had received the one hundred million dollars, they would continue to put in five million dollars each month until all the other members (of the Caribbean Federation or Union) had the opportunity to collect the one hundred million dollars to use on various types of development in their particular state or island. It would take one year and eight months for each of the twenty states to use the money in the pool before Saint Lucia's turn came again.
Of course, each nation can save one hundred million dollars on its own and wait till it has collected that amount to start its own projects,, which would take about the same amount of time if that nation put in a savings of at least five million dollars per month in its treasury or bank. Still, using the 'susu system' creates a solid, strong financial foundation and a place to receive financial help when it is lacking elsewhere.
The collection of large amounts of money for development can come from the export of agricultural products, processed goods from agricultural products, tourism, jewelry, electronics, information technology, arts and crafts and other industries including manufacturing. The establishment of susu can aid in the development of the Caribbean, Africa, Melanesia/South Pacific and any geographic area with Black nations or with a large population of Black people (like the US, Latin America, South India, Europe) who must create their own economic system in order to survive and thrive, without depending on others. The need for development or any types of 'aid' from the industrialized nations would be lessened if susu is properly applied and if each nation in the susu system began trading, manufacturing and banking, beginning with their own regional ara. The need for 'aid' would diminish if each nation of group of states made the atempt to take a high position in the international, commercial, industrial and financial markets of the world. That must be the goal of the Pan-Caribbean states, as well as the nations of Africa, the Black nations and regions of the Americas (US South, Caribbean, Brazil, Guianas, Northern Coastal South, Panama-Central America, Afro-Mexico, Black California, other areas) as well as Black nations in the Pacific region.
Agriculture has the greatest potential to build economies in many tropical and subtropical nations - along with the agricultural bi-products to be manufactured or that are manufactured. Those who inhabit these tropical areas should develop the agricultural potential so that agricultural commodities can being in greater revenue. Two of the most important industries in the Caribbean and Africa are agriculture and tourism. These industries are also the most important in US states like California as well. California is the wealthiest state in the United States (per capita) because of these industries as well as 'light' industries like information technologies, electronics, aircraft manufacturing, banking, trade and commerce. The Caribbean, THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMOS OF AFRICA (ECOWAS), and other African/Pan-Negro regions also have the potential of becoming the most properly developed regions in the world, if these industries are well developed, well managed, expanded and made to bring in great financial results.
The Caribbean Region, Africa, African-American Southern US-California Communities, the South Pacific Melanesia, the northern part of South America called the Guianas, all have better soil for planting, a better climate and the potential to produce more and more better quality agricultural products than California present system of agriculture that is sometimes hampered by temperature and seasonal changes. Should that happen (use of the tropical advantage by Pan-African nations and weather-favorable Black-occupied regions of the US, use their ability to produce agricultural and other goods) and should the manufacturing and crafts industries be strengthened along with the tourism
industry (which can and has contributed to economic development in Africa, the Caribbean, South Pacific and Black America's historical cities and sites), be expanded and controled. these nations would soon join California (a state of the United States - California, among the top ten regions in wealth) as the wealthiest nations/regions on earth. Furthermore, unlike Japan and some small Asian nations with few resources, most Black nations (INCLUDING THOSE OF MELANESIA/SOUTH PACIFIC AND THE CARIBBEAN) have an abundance of resources that can be used, or pooled wikth those Black nations or regions where resources are scarce or lacking.
The need to accept any type of tricky 'development aid' or loans that keep nations in debt and poverty from the so-called 'developed' nations, can be lessened if 'susu' is properly utilized nad applied. Each nation can contribute money to a giant project that would benefit the whole region, such as a university system, regional government complexes, manufacturing of giant scientific projects such as space technology and exploration, and the proper management of the resources of the sea and projects that benefit the while region.
Much of the money that is used to buy European, Japanese, or the goods of other industrialized nations and regions can circulate in the Pan-African world and remain there as long as steps are taken to make products in the region and to make these products of the highest possible quality surpassing of all others.
New cities can be built (and African nations must revive ancient 'classical' traditional architecture - like those of Khemet, Nubia-Cush, Nok-Wagadu, Azania, Swahili and others ) Pan-Africans can enter into space exploration and high technology, fields necessary to solve problems such as drought, bad weather, desertification, deforestation and other dangerous natural disasters that have aused millions of African lives over the past decades. SUSU CAN ALSO BE USED IN HELPING FIND AND MANAGE UNDERGROUND WATER IN THE SAHEL REGION OF AFRICA, TO 'SEED' COULDS FOR CREATING RAIN, BUILD CANALS AND WATERWAYS (INCLUDING BUILDING THEM UNDERGROUND AND IN CANALS IN HOT, ARID AREAS (AS IS DONE IN CALIFORNIA'S HOT, ARID REGIONS).
Susu is the Pan-African economic system for the future. Susunomics is the economic philosophy, while susuism is the political ideology based on Black nationalism and Pan-Afrian self-preservation and advancement. The time has come for Pan-Africans to take a giant step forward in orde to stand equally or above with the top nations.
In retrospect, the time has come to apply this economic system and to use it for the advancement and the development of the Black world. Unity of all resources is the key to the improvement of the lives of Black people worldwide. Black control of Black resources is essentialto the advancement of the Black/Pan-African world. Pan-Africans/Blacks globally must pool our collective resources, whether it is technical, human, financial, or any other. Pan-Africans/Pan-Negroes/Blacks globally must create a powerful worldwide economic system that will benefit Pan-Africans/Pan-Negroes and Black people in general.
( See 'Susu Economics," (c) 1997; 2001: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_details.asp?isbn=0-595-18246-1
See more on this topic, "Susu and Susunomics: The Theory and Practice of Pan-African Economic, Racial and Cultural Self-Preservation," (c) 1997, 2001; pub. at
http://www.iuniverse.com/ also see http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0-595-18246-1
INTERNATIONALIZING SUSUNOMICS: PAN-AFRICAN ECONOMIC/CULTURAL GLOBALISM
The expansion of "susunomics and susuism" must be carried out on an international scale throughout the Black/Pan-African world, including:
"THE UNITED STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA,"
(All the ECOWAS STATES, THEIR KINGDOMS AND THEIR DIASPORA IN THE AMERICAS AND EUROPE)
http://www.ecowas.int/
http://www.ecowas.int/
THE AFRICAN UNION STATES
ORGANIZATION OF AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS (representing 300,000,000 African-descent people from Canada/US to Brazil/Argentina), AFRO-EUROPE, THE North America (US, Canada)
Latin America (Spanish/Portugese Speaking)
http://whgbetc.om/mind/black-latin-america2.html
MELANESIAN UNION (Papua-New Guinea, Free West Papua, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Australian Aboriginals Northern Territories Autonomous Region,)
THE AFRO-INDIAN OCEAN STATES/COMMUNITIES, AND OTHERS. This can be done by forming 'susu federations' whereby groups of nations can pool theri financial resources
"THE UNITED STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA,"
(All the ECOWAS STATES, THEIR KINGDOMS AND THEIR DIASPORA IN THE AMERICAS AND EUROPE)
http://www.ecowas.int/
http://www.ecowas.int/
THE AFRICAN UNION STATES
ORGANIZATION OF AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS (representing 300,000,000 African-descent people from Canada/US to Brazil/Argentina), AFRO-EUROPE, THE North America (US, Canada)
Latin America (Spanish/Portugese Speaking)
http://whgbetc.om/mind/black-latin-america2.html
MELANESIAN UNION (Papua-New Guinea, Free West Papua, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji, Australian Aboriginals Northern Territories Autonomous Region,)
THE AFRO-INDIAN OCEAN STATES/COMMUNITIES, AND OTHERS. This can be done by forming 'susu federations' whereby groups of nations can pool theri financial resources
Sunday, December 9, 2007
THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA
THE HISTORY OF WEST AFRICA
The first empire and kingdom in West Africa was the Zingh Empire ruled by the God-King Tyru Afrik about 15,000 B.C. during the Aquatic Civilization.
West African civilization began in the Sahara, particularly the region between the coast of Senegal/Mauritania all the way to Dafur in Sudan. 'Susu Economics,' ( AuthorHouse.com) observes this note by James Wellard, 'The Sahara was one of the well-populated ares of the prehistoric world, as it has become the least populated within historical times. It seems to have been inhabited, moreover by a race of man (Black peoplle to be exact - see Wayne Chandler, "African Presence in Early Asia," Edt. by Ivan Van Sertima; 1995, pp. 376-377), whose domain extended from South Africa, for the rock paintings found in Spain, Eastern Spain, the Sahara Desert, and South Africa itself have strinking similarities almost as though they belong to the same school. Thus, they all dipict long-horned cattle in a similar style," (Wellard; 'The Great Sahara).
The prehistoric Sahara was one of the regions where the Black African race developed culturally (and people first developed culture and instruments like the bow and arrow, atlatl, boomerang, penis sheaf, clothing, ect) like the Australian Aborigines, Melanesians, Indo-Negroids, Black Negritoes of East Asia, Oceanic Negroes and others developed. It may become an archeologists paradise for that is where the ancient cities, towns, villages, roads, palaces, castles, rivers, lakes, grave sites of ancient kings and queens or common people, and possible ancient technologies that are part of the legends of many ancient and current African people may have began.
It should be no surprise if civilizations identical to that of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient India, or even Black Olmec Mexico, are buried beneath thousands of tons of sland which cover many parts of the Sahara. In fact, the ancient city of Kumbi Seleh of ancient Ghana as well as many ancient cities and towns of ancient Nubia were and still remain covered by desert sands to this day. We still are not certain about the history of human civilization before the Great Flood, yet we know that great civilizations and cultures existed, based on biblical information, particularly from Genesis; Chapter 6, verses 3-7."
('Susu Economics,' pub. by Authorhouse.com (c) 2000 by PAB.)
'The Sahara civilizations began turning to desert between 3000 to 2000 B.C. due to changes in the weather and climate, (from hot, wet and rainy, to hot, dry and arid). Many of the inhabitants who existed there continued a series of migrations which may have began as early as 20,000 to 30,000 BC. Between 4,000 to 3000 BC, waves of migrants from the drying Sahara settled into parts of West Africa, WHICH ALREADY HAD A THRIVING CIVILIZATION/CULTURE. These migrants brought with them remnants of the prehistoric Black civilizations and cultures which originated in the Sahara. Thus, cultures and civilizations like the Nok culture which produced magnificent works of stone, terracotta, bronze and gold were part of a widespread civilization which included parts of the Southern Sahara and West Africa."
HENCE, WEST AFRICA AND THE SOUTH-WEST/CENTRAL SAHARA HAS A PERIOD OF CIVILIZATION RANGING FROM ABOUT 20,000 BC TO THE PRESENT. In fact, today, nations like Niger and Chad are taking steps to stop the TAKING OF ANCIENT AND PREHISTORIC ARTEFACTS, CARVINGS AND TOOLS DATING BACK TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS. (See http://www.bbcnews.com/ )
Some of these Sahara Africans also sailed to the Americas, while others settled in Nigeria and later migrated (about 3000 - 5000 BC) to parts Congo and Southern Africa. About 30,000 to 60,000 years ago, many of these Africans also migrated to India, SE Asia, Australia, East Asia and the Americas.
CULTURES, HISTORY AND PEOPLES OF AFRICA
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html
The migration of Africans from the Sahara to Egypt and to West Africa, after the drying up of the prehistoric Zingh Empire, the drying of the large 'inland sea,' deforestation and desertification, was also accompanied by migrations of Africans of the Cushi language group from the Sudan and Ethiopia/Kenya region into Egypt about 10,000 to 5000 BC, after the Delta regions began to dry up.
HISTORICAL CIVILIZATIONS OF WEST AFRICA
The history of West Africa from about 400 BC to 1700 BC is known as a history of great culture and civilization. Culture and civilization means that the people had establishd over many thousands of years workable systems of governance, kingship, law, art, literature, religon, family ties, city-states, building and much of what that would be found in places like Rome, Greece, Egypt or Nubia. These ancient West African civilizations included: Prehistoric Ghana ruled by kings whose system was similar to that of ancient Egypt and Cush. Many of the same art, and style was transferred from Ghana/West Africa to places like Mexico to the Olmec Culture ( see http://www.raceandhistory.com/ (ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE AMERICAS) also http://originalblacksofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com/
http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/ (SEVEN AND MORE ANCIENT WONDERS OF AFRICA )
Ghana's kingdom existed as early as 3000 BC (most likely the homeland of Emperor Meci, the Mandinga Emperor who led a flotilla of 12 ships to Mexico and America in the year 3113 B.C. - A SACRED DAY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY), and it was a kingdom whose people made trips to Mexico and Central America, while trading with the Sahara.
http://geocities.com/olmec82000/kush1.htm
http://members.tripod.com/pointingbird/lostfeatherintl/id59.htm
http://geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8919/olmeckings.htm
http://www.mu-atlantis.com/
http://www.ipoaa.com/africans_in_americas.htm
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legnefef/ethnic/ethnic8.htm
http://www.hotep.org/
About 3000 BC to 1000 BC an earlier civilization existed in West Africa. These were Africans from West Africa and the Sahara/Sahel who began using iron ore about 2600 BC.
During the period from 3000 BC to 1000 AD, many of the cultures that became Igbo-Ikwu, Benin, Yoruba, Ashanti, and others were part of the Sahara/West African group of cultures. As one clearly sees with the genetic link between Yorubas and Hausas and Igbos and Zulus -- the separation of many African people into different 'dialects' and ethnic groups IS A RECENT PHENOMENA.
In ancient times, Africans from the Sahara to Angola were all of the Manding-Cush group and spoke similar languages.
AFRICA'S PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC CIVILIZATIONS FROM 20,000 BC TO 1800
The Zingh Empire was a great civilization that existed in what is today the entire region of West Africa and the Sahel, the Sahara all the way to Egypt. The Zingh Empire was the original home of all material culture on planet earth while the ICE AGE was taking place in Europe. Much of the culture found in Egypt between 17,000 to 1000 BC and afterwards, WAS FOUND IN THE ZINGH EMPIRE as early as 30,000 BC, when an early form of Neolithic culture existed in the Sahara. At that time, horticulture, arts, crafts, mummification, building, and a green environment with lakes, inland seas, boats and fishermen, towns and villages existed.
The 'mythical' Emperor of the Zingh Empire was called Tyru Afrik.
2. The pre-Ghana civilization was a group of ancient West African civilizations that were part of the old Zingh Empire. These cultures existed in what is today Nigerian, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Chad and the bulk of the region of West Africa. From about 15,000 BC to 3000 BC, these cultures developed. Some of their ancient traders and seafarers, like 'Emperor Meci,' sailed to Mexico (about 3113 B.C. and helped establish the 'Olmec' culture (Mandinga-Shi).
It is believed that the pre-Ghana cultures were based on agriculture as early as 10,000 BC and spoke the early Manding languages THAT WERE ALSO FOUND IN THE AMERICAS (AND STILL EXISTS IN SOME AMERICAN 'INDIAN' LANGUAGES).
3. PREHISTORIC GHANA, NOK-WAGADU, FOREST KINGDOMS
About 4000 - 3000 BC the Sahara began to dry up. West Africa's civilizations continued to flourish between 4000 BC to 1000 AD. However, about 2000 BC PEOPLE FROM CUSH/SUDAN and Khemet (South Egypt) migrated to West Africa (the Wolof are one example). Migrants from the Sahara and PEOPLE LIVING IN WEST AFRICA'S COASTAL REGIONS ESTABLISHED A SERIES OF KINGDOMS based on trade in salt and gold, ivory and other commodities, (see 'Susu Economics,' http://www.authorhouse.com/ ) These ancient Africans created magnificent works of art and built their houses in stone and mudbrick. They built great pyramidal tombs and huge walls and moats for their cities. The Benin, Nok, Igbo-Ikwu, are all remnants of these great ancient cultures.
The cultures/civilizations of West Africa traded across the Sahara and across the Atlantic. (See http://originalblacksofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com/ also see http://blackmalepowermovment.forumsland.com/ )
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES:
About 7000 BC to 1800 AD (known as the Manding Agricultural Complex), a number of kingdoms and empires rose in West Africa. Ancient Ghana (Nok-Wagadu) was one of the first, but it was the remnant of an earlier and larger empire (Zingh Empire - approx. 20,000 BC to 3000 BC). The (documented) Ghana Dynasty of Emperors began about 2000 B.C. However, this dynasties were as old as those of ancient Cush (which began as early as 10,000 BC) Most of these ancient emperors who established what was a great civilization in THE GHANA (WAGADU) EMPIRE were represented in solid stone. One of the great mystries of history is that some of these ancient Emperors also founded a DYNASTY (MANDINGA-SHI) IN Mexico called the Olmec Dynasty.
This dynasty was founded by Emperor Tehuti Mez (Meci) who arrived in Mexico in the Sacred Year of 3113 B.C. accompanied by 12 ships and hundreds of Africans. Many other trips were made to and from West Africa and many other Africans settled in Meso America, Central America and the Southern US.
Ghana (Wagadu) was one of the greatest and richest civilizations on earth. It is also one of the oldest.
The Forest Kingdoms of Igbo-Ikwu, Nok, Ife, Yoruba, Benin and others DEVELOPED IN THE FOREST AND COASTAL REGIONS OF WEST AFRICA FROM GUINEA TO CAMEROON. They were master seamen, master metalsmiths, workers of gold, agriculturists, scientists and practiced the scientific religion known as Orisha/Vadu and Ancestor Veneration (the most common religion among Africans of Africa and Africans of the Americas, with about ONE BILLION AND FIVE HUNDRED MILLION BLACK PRACTITIONERS IN AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS, AND 500 MILLION BLACK PRACTITIONERS IN SOUTH ASIA, MELANESIA AND AUSTRALIA.
The forest kingdoms also were masters in bronze, stone, clay, ivory, iron and gold working. They built houses in compounds of about four to seven per unit, along with places for animals and larger corals in the savana areas. Cloth was woven and weapons as well as armor were made out of iron, steel and coral.
10,000 YEAR OLD BOAT FOUND IN WEST AFRICA
The oldest boat hewn by humans was found in Nigeria, West Africa years ago. The ancient West Africans were also master seafarers and sailed the Atlantic and Mediterranean. They journied as far as the Americas and traded in the North African Mediterranean region. The ancient West Africans also traded in the great rivers of West Africa and Congo. In ancient times, during the 'wet' period of the Sahara, they traded and sailed the Sahara Inland sea trading with the Sahara (then fertile) and places far and wide.
RICE, SORGHUM, MILLET, YAMS CULTIVATED IN WEST AFRICA, SAHARA ABOUT 30,000 YEARS AGO
(WEST AFRICA'S PRE-CLASSICAL PERIOD) 20,000 BC - 5000 BC
The cultivation of rice, millet, sorghum, tropical yams and many fruits and vegetables began in West Africa, the Sahara and East Africa, DURING aFRICA'S pre-classical period over 30,000 years ago. In fact, Africans who settled Melanesia and SE Asia as well as Southern China brought rice, millet and sorghum to China between 10,000 to 2000 years ago. A banana trade between Papua New Guinea and Africa exosted about 7,000 years ago ( See Archeology Magazine).
The oldest farming and cultivation of sorghum, rice, millet, yams and other grains and food crops were cultivated in the Southwestern Sahara about 20,000 years ago. The prehistoric Sahara horticultural societies WERE THE PRE-AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS OF FOOD CULTIVATION -- that still exists in Melanesia, and was brought there by Africans about 30,000 years ago. Horticulture and the cultivation of food plants like yams, bananas and other crops found in Africa was also cultivated in Melanesia. About 7000 years ago, a banana trade between East Africa and Melanesia existed says Archeology Magazine.
The early system of horticulture, settlement and tending of crops contributed to the development of the world's most ancient civilization, THE ZINGH EMPIRE. It was in the SouthWestern Sahara that the Zingh Empire began due to the development of horticulture and agriculture there by the Mende-speaking people (who also settled the Americas in prehistoric times), and migrated to parts of India, Melanesia and the South Pacific in a series of migrations about 30,000 BC). (See "Susu Economics," and also 'A History of the African-Olmecs," pub. by http://www.authorhouse.com/ http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx
CLASSICAL WEST AFRICAN (Nok-Wagadu) CIVILIZATION
The period between 5000 BC to AD 1000 can be said to be the classical period of West African civilization. Documentation (The Popul Vuh, the Quiche Maya Book) discribes the Black 'Meci' OR Tehuti Mez, (of Mandinga-Kushi origins) entering Meso America exactly in the year 3113 B.C. - (see, "A History of the Afredan-Olmecs," http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx sacred date for Maya Indians in Mexico/Central America and also an important date for Africans and Mandinga-Cush-Congo peoples (i.e., Niger-Congo-Cush linguistic cultural groups ). This period saw the development of great art, carvings, textiles, steel manufacturing, building of boats, trade and commerce, exploration and travel, scientific-religion (such as Orisha or Shango, Vadu, others), medicine and health.
Clothing, hairstyles, ornaments, and artwork from the period of 1000 BC to 1000 AD show high quality and sophistication in most artwork and material artifacts from the West African cultures. These styles ramain to this day and can be seen in the clothing, textiles, artwork, alphabets, jewelry, weaponry, houses and architecture and other cultural contributions of groups like the Ashanti, Yoruba and those Africans in West Africa whose culture have not been 'colonized' and replaced by foreign invaders and occupiers.
WEST AFRICA'S POST-CLASSICAL PERIOD
The POST CLASSICAL PERIOD OF WEST AFRICAN CIVILIZATION IS THE PERIOD FROM ABOUT 1000 AD TO 1800 AD. This period saw the invasion of some West African kingdoms, the scattering of some of the people and the decline of some of the cultures. Added to this tragedy caused by invaders and others, slave traders and raiders from the Northern and North-Eastern parts of Africa, from Europe and elsewhere pounced on West Africa (and the rest of Africa). These groups along with local militarists brought about the decline in West African civilization (and all African civilization) that became unbearable during the 1700's to 1800's - THE 'DARK AGES' OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION.
Today, A NEW DAY IS DAWNING AND AFRICA IS GOING THROUGH A RENAISSANCE -- This RENAISSANCE WILL OCCUR WHEN ALL AFRICANS IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA UNITE ON THE TASK AHEAD.
This includes African and Pan-Africans taking measures to protect CREATIONS AND INVENTIONS BY AFRICANS.
Establishing a strong and powerful system of EDUCATION AND RESEARCH WITH THE STRONG AND POWERFUL 'AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND PAN-AFRICAN' COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.
'CREATING A SUPERIOR PAN-AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM'
(Susu and Susunomics," (c) 1997; pub. by iUniverse.com )
Education is the key to advancement. That is a philosophy that Black people have borne in their culture for tens of thousands of years (beginning with the 'Age-grade' system of proto-historic times). During the period when the Khemite and Kushite civilizations existed, Education was brought to a level of great prominence and continued throughout the African history of the great university cities of Jenne in Mali, Gao and Timbuktu, the continuation of the Age-grade systems (with their trades guild systems), where young males and females were taught various skills, the proliferation in the Americas of great Black institutions, and the attitude by Black people throughout the region that EDUCATION IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE.
As we sail into the 21st Century, what we as Black people in America and worldwide must strive for is to be the world's most and best educated people in all disciplines, and to use the education to match or to overtake all the major industrialized nations of the world in culture, science, industry and technology. We must aim to be above Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, China and every one of the industrial powers on earth. That must be our aim
The educational history of Black people worldwide is much older than all of the world's civilizations. We have at least three thousand years of advanced education (temple universities such as Ipet Isut (Karnak) dating to about 2000 to 4000 BC and earlier), before China, Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Korea, Japan, India or any nation that had an advanced culture in ancient times. The system of advanced African education organized under the Khemite Mystry Schools was in effect before the African (Khemite) calendar was established in the year 4241 B.C. ON THE SOLAR EQUANOX (The date the 'African New Year' celebrations are held worldwide -- WHILE HELD ON 'MARDIGRAS/CARNIVAL' in others.
'DEVELOPING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE BLACK WORLD"
(Copyright; 'Susu and Susunomics,' 1997)
The economic strength of the Black nations of the world must be increased. That can be accomplished by making susu international, in the same way that Western economic systems have become internationalk over the past 100 years. The first areas where an attempt must be made to create an international Black economic system that will benefit Blacks worldwide and improve the lives of Black people has to be the geographical areas of North America, the Caribbean, Afro-Latin America, Africa, Melanesia, South India and other lands where Blacks reside
At present the Black nations of the world have the potential of becoming the most powerful and effective economic block on earth, yet the pace at which the attempts are being made to achieve this goal s too slow. While many Black Pan-African nations are considering or taking slow steps towards unifying (like THE MELANESIAN UNION, 'ONE CARIBBEAN UNION,' EAST AFRICAN UNION, UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA and others, the Europeans who inhabit Europe have already accomplished this unity, while they continue to look to Africa, Latin America, Asia and the South Pacific as sources for their products and their manufactured goods.
One thing must never be forgotten when Black people compare their nations with that or Europe. In spite of the facination of some Blacks with what the Europeans have achieved in science, technology and manufacturing, it is only over the past two hundred years that the era of scientific development, technology and industrialization has been taking place. Blacks have contributed greately to this process through inventions and new ways of doing things in the agricultural, medicinal and metalsworking areas brought from Africa.
As late sa the sixteenth century, many Black nations were equal to many European and Asian nations in science, industry and technology. As for some African nations such as Mali, Ghana, Songhai and Ethiopia, these were in many instances more culturally, scientifically and industrially developed than most of Europe because like the rest of the Muslim nations and empires, scientific, economic and technological development with its roots in Black Egypt and Kush was carried through and was being practiced while Euripe was still in the Dark Ages.
The Industrial Revolution struck Europe during the time when much of Africa wsa occupied and colonized by Europeans. The Arabs, European and the American slave trade has devastated the continent and Africa took a giant step backward that hampered its ability to develop economically, technologically and scientifically. Most of Africa's great minds such as its inventors, metalurgists, builders, doctors/herbalists and those scholed in a tradition of thousands of years of manufacturing (like Meroe, Sudan; Nok-Wagadu Ghana) were hauled to the Americas as slaves.
The traffic in skilled Africans to the Americas contributed to the industrial and scientific and cultural as well as economic development of the United States and Americas in general, since it was some of these same Africans who invented and created sone of the machinery and tools, as well as the facinating inventions that propelle4d Europe and the United States and later Japan, into the Industrial Age.
STEPS THAT MUST BE TAKEN TO DEVELOP MODERN AND LOCAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN 'THE UNITED STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA.'
A. Science and Technology Must be Taught at the Early Age. The teaching of science and technology must be taught and begun as soon as students enter school beginning from the simplest concepts and growing as the ability to do mathematics and properly communicate improves.
B. Teachers who are able to teach science and technological subjects should be trained in the nation they are or recruited in the nations neighbors or where they can be found. This must be a priority since good teachers are essential to the passing on of valuable knowledge. Three should be no objection to recruiting teachers (or former technological workers from closed industries in the US, Japan or elsewhere in Africa who want to teach), or from any nations where technological and scientific progress has been made.
A worldwide organization of Pan-African teachers, industrialists and people learned in science and technology must be formed in order to find those who are willing to go around the Black World and teach other Blacks these subjects. Black teachers in nations like the United States where Blacks have a long history of contributing to the scientific and technological development of the United States and other nations, should create organizations to send teachers throughout the Black World to teach these valuable subjects.
C. Black nations worldwide must invest in science and technology in thier respective nations no matter how simple or complicated experiments to learn nd to discover new concepts may be. For example:
1. Various local and regional scientific concepts based on local tradition such as using plants for medicine and metaphysical sciences tht have dismissed by others as 'pagan' or 'voodoo' or 'witchcraft' should be scientifically examined. Ancient methods of making rain, tracking stars (making the study of Dogon Cosmogony part of Pan-African universities scientific studies), planting crops, making metal alloys and all the ancient and scientific knowledge that are the roots of 'Western' science should be re-examined and developed so that they can be improved and made useful in today's environments ( See 'American Scientists Study Voodoo Medicine," http://www.raceandhistory.com/ )
2. There should be special gifts, prizes and contests held to reward and encourage those gifted in the sciences. This helps to create an interest in science and technology.,
3. Missionaries to Africa or anywhere in the Black World should be scientific, economic and technological, sharing ideas and technology, and should not be 'religious' missionaries and propogators of religious beliefs, since Africa already has its own traditonal religions, , most of which are essential to the growth of scientific thought among the people, who regard science and religion to be one. This religious concept common in Asia is responsible for the great improvements that Asians have made in the scientific fields. (The idea of 'logic' and 'separation of church and state' has helped the 'West' to develop its science without hindrance. The long tradition of invention of the Chinese is based on the belief that science and religion are inseparable. African religions also believe that science and religion are inseparable and Africans have a tradition of science and invention that goes back over 100,000 years (beginning in the Sahara/East and West Africa - see "stone and bone tools, found along Semliki River, Zaire: "Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com/ )
"Missionaries" and propogators for the technological and scientific as well as industrial development of Africa should be the norm, and not religious missionaries who aim merely to turn Africans as followers of their particular religion and thus expand the foreigners' influence, culture, language and ideas under the guise of 'religion.' If technological missionaries could have gone to Japan and the Far East and helped to develop these areas, yet have little influence in converting the majority of Japanese or Chinese to their (the Europeans/foreign people) religion, then the same can be done in Africa. Africans already have a very ancient and practical system of religion that is based on MIND POWER and the ability to recognize and use elemental forces, as well as recognize the ancestors, while recognizing the 'One God,' idea. Africans do not need other people teaching them religion. What is needed in Africa and the Black world is the transfer of technological knowledge that originated in Africa and in part, among Africans-of-the-Americas.
D. Black nations worldwide must create organizations, or one massive global organization of scientists, technologists, information scientists, industrialists, manaufacturers, researchers and teachers whose goal must be to bring the Black world at an equal footing with the rest of humanityin the fields of science and technology. There is no reason why Black scientists from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean and Europe or Melanesian Union cannot create organizations that will help develop space technology, or use space for the betterment of life on earth.
Africa because of its geographic position and its constant droughts, famines and environmental destruction as well s desertification, needs to carve out its niche in outer space, study weather and geographical patterns and find out before hand what the future weather patterns will be, and do what is necessary to prevent disaster.
There are sufficent numbers of Black/African/African-American scientists and experts in the field of space exploration and space techology who can pool their collective knowledge together and work towards the improvement of life for Black/Pan-Africoid people on earth by creating organizations that would contribute to the exploration of space and perform other tasks such as sending satellites into space, studying weather patterns and performing in many other useful and critical areas.
The Black world must be involved in the scientific and technological race in all areas, whether it is building the best spacecraft ever built, or building the most effective and fastest computers and computer chips. Every aspect of science, technology, manufacturing and industrial development must be improved or made to rise to levels equal to the most advanced nations, or passing their level. What a people has been able to achieve in the past, can be achieved again.
THE SPIRIT MUST BE REKINDLED.
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CREATING SUSU NATIONS AND COMMUNITIES
The African-American population is about 45,000,000 to 50,000,000 people (people of African ancestry in the United States (including about 30 percent of White Americans) is about 116,000,000 (50 million African-Americans and about 66 million Euro-Americans have African ancestry dating back as recently (for the whites) as the past 100 years). About 14 percent of African-Americans have some European or American Indian ancestry. The African population is about 1,000,000,000 in Africa and Europe and about 300,000,000 in the Americas. There are about 600,000,000 Indo-Negroids and Melanesian/Oceanic Negroids in Asia and the Indian Ocean region. In all, there are about 2,000,000,000 - two billion Black/African descent people (excluding the 66 million American whites with African ancestors).
Hence, in the area of numbers and economic potential, the population of Blacks globally is quite large and the needs of that community is quite large as well. In building and creating 'Susu Nations' where the system of susu is applied on a global scale, the entire Black population on earth has to benefit, just as the entire European, Euro-American, Australian, Latin American and other Euro-dominated regions benefit from global capitalism.
The African-American population today (including all those who speak Spanish, or are of Afro-Caribbean and other African diaspora descent who are part of the African-American Black racial group) is about 50,000,000 people spread out in fifty states, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands. The Southern part of the US, the North-East coast, and California has the largest concentrations of Black People. Parts of the Midwest are also heavily populated by Blacks. These populations today seem to be under threat, but the solution is for Blacks to have more Black babies and to avoid all schemes of population control, abortion and family breakups.
The African-American (or rather African-Caribbean) population of the Caribbean area is also about 45,000,000 to 50,000,000 people spread over a vast area from the Northern coast of South America in the Guianas, to Belize and coastal Nicaragua in the west, to Cuba in the Northwest, to the West Indian archepelago in the Eastern Caribbean to the Bahamas.
All people of African descent, regardless of colonial language forced on them by the slavemasters are included. These African-descent people are African Black first, and no matter where we go or live in this world, that is what other people will see.
There are about 120,000,000 African descent/Black people in Brazil and about 80,000,000 in the whole of Latin America (including Brazil and Central America) http://whgbetc.com/mind/black-latin-america2.html
There are about 50 million African-Americans/Afro-Canadians and about 50 million Afro-Caribbeans. Hence, the total Black/African descent population of the Americas is about 300,000,000 (three hundred million) people. The Black African-Descent population also includes those Black African-Descent people in places like Brazil who have rejected their culture and their Black African identity to be fooled by terms of skin complexion that takes their African identity and dignity away. Fortunately, today, anyone who looks Black/African-Descent in Brazil is Black/African-Descent. This is a sensible policy because much of the Portugese who came to Brazil were already partly Black African from the ancient Black Moors who ruled that nation for about 800 years, or from the ancient Black Iberians who lived in the Iberian Peninsula.
Afro-Brazilians recognize that Black being the original humans and having the strong noticeable features, while having a variety of skin tones that are due to natural environment (like the Kong-San of South Africa and others with lighter skin ), that if one looks African/Black, one is African/Black. Moreover, since many Black Brazilians who are lightskinned may have African Black mothers, that makes them African/Black. Afro-Brazilians today is doing all it can to keep its distinct Black population intact and to prevent themselves from being submerged and blended out of existence, as happened to the Blacks of Argentina.
This paragraph is based on the creation of Black nations and communities in any region but it is essential that it is used in nations like Brazil and other parts of Latin America with large Black populations where the myth of integration has done nothing but keep Blacks poor, economically deprived and have created a mixed population that has lost their African culture, Soul and appearance. The Black race itself seem disappear slowly but surely, due to the uncontrolled mixing with others who do all in their power to keep themselves and their heritage intact, steal Black culture and heritage and declare it as their own or put some 'Latin' label on it.
BUILDING A 'SUSU NATION' IN THE US
Let's deal with building a susu nation in the United States with the 50,000,000 Black African-Americans. The major task is to bring together all 50,000,000 African-Americans into a national and later international susu system by beginning on the neighborhood level with about one hundred people. One hundred is not the minimum number that is required to begin a susu. One can be started with as little as two people, but the more people there are in a susu, the more money will be placed in the 'pot.'
One hundred people in a neighborhood of 400 people is good enough to represent that particular area. Take a large city like New York with at least two million Black African-Americans (and other Blacks) and many neighborhoods. Each neighborhood should be divided into 'susu neighborhoods.' Each should start with a street or block. One hundred people from a street gets together in a susu led by a 'susu sergeant' treasurer who must be appointed as an assistant in case the first one cannot perform.
The duty of the Susu Sergent will be to collect the funds and put it all into a bank and to keep all members aware of every activity that takes place during hte banking transaction. Otherwise a susu sergeant my work at a bank and may collect each individual's deposits for the susu pool, following susu and regular banking rules.
The Susu Sergeant must have an accountant as well as a bookkeeper to keep accurate records and account for all funds and how these funds were used or will be used. The Susu Sergeant of a group of one hundred people can coordinate the finances for the building of projects, investments and so on, or for the monthly allotment of those who put money into the pool.
The treasurer, accountants and bookkeepers, all consist of the financial body. A group of about five people out of the hundred in the susu must be elected for these positions based on thier experience and skill and they must look over the activities of the bookkeeper, accountant and treasurer.
A group of ten streets at one hundred people on each street would consist of a 'block.' They would be led by ten sergeants and one 'lieutenant' treasurer over the ten treasurers. The duty of the lieutenant treasurer is to be responsible for the gathering of funds for all ten susu blocks in the money is needed for a large neighborhood project like a community center, school, businesses or factories. The neighborhood where the susu would be effective would be the ten interconnected streets or susu group will have access to a bank, the individual susu member would deposit his own monthly amount in an account where the others ill also put their money.
The money would not have to pass through the hands of anyone else and cannot be withdrawn or used unles the other members approve, or unless the time to us e that money by an individual member has arrived. If that money i to be used for an ambitious project like building a factory and the money is a collective investment, all members must sign before the money can be withdrawn to begin the project. If a member cannot sign, somneone must do so on his or her behalf, including other members of the susu group or family.
A Lieutenant Treasurer, Lieutenant Account and Lieutenant Bookkeeper, would be responsible for overseeing the financial accounts and books of the one thousand people in the susu block of ten susu strets of one hundred people each (1000 people total). This level would be responsible for building larger projects such as stores, building community centers, churches, school parks and so on, as well as business and industrial enterprises.
A group of ten blocks at 10,000 people would be led by a 'Captain Treasurer.' He or she would be responsible for the finances of all ten thousand people in the susu groups, the 100 Susu Sergeants, ten lieutenants, captain accountant and captain bookkeeper. The treasurer, bookkeeper and accountant would coordinate the finances of all ten thousand people in the ten susu neighborhoods. These neighborhoods would be connected block by block and street by street.
The function of the Susu Captain is to coordinate the finances of these ten thousand people for large projects, investments and so on. The treasurer, accountants and bookkeepers all consist of the financial body. A group of about five people out of hte hundred will be elected to look over the activities of the treasurer, accountant and bookkeeper. Large projects such as factories for a neighborhood, stores, businesses, media/movie production companies, S&L companies, susu banks, gas stations, hotels and so on. The duty of the Captain Treasurer would be to build susu banks (similar to regular banks, but using the 'susu' system of pooling and investing, ect) to hold the funds, employ a Captain Treasurer, Captain Accountant, Captain Bookkeeper, and other professionals to coordinate the building of projects, the purchase of land or businesses, the investment of capital or the seeing to the monthly allotment of those whose turn it is to borrow or use what is available in the pot.
(See more on this process, "Susu and Susunomics," (c) 1997, 2001 by PAB; pp. 60 - 63l pub. by http://www.iuniverse.com/ ) also http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks
BUILDING A MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL PAN-AFRICAN INDUSTRIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND MANUFACTURING COMPLEX
Building a strong business, commerce and technology system
The creation and building of a massive international, Pan-African industrial, technological and manufacturing complex is essential to the development and advancement of the Black world. This is a task that no other people will do but Black people/Pan-Africans. Others will find such an ambitious goal threatening to their own economic power, for after the Black/Pan-African world has accomplished its goal of rising back to the top, it will not be business as usual. The technology, manufacturing and industrial power that those of the rich nations have kept to themselves and spread among their chosen friends will not remain only in their hands. Their political and economic domination will be more of sharing with the rising of Pan-Africans worldwide. Africans will produce goods for themselves and Japanese, European and other regions will find that there will be more competition on the global market. Yet, the rise of THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA, 'CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY/COMMON MARKET,' UNION OF EAST AFRICAN STATES, MELANESIAN UNION, ORGANIZATION OF AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS, SOUTH AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, CONGO-ANGOLA REGION - will help to create better economics.
In order to build this international complex of industry, technology and manufacturing, steps must be taken at the local level to accomplish the goals. The fifty million African-Americans in the United States is a very good starting point to begin the policy of GLOBAL PAN-AFRICAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT. It is in the Black communities of the US and Americas in general that mismanagement of financial capital as well as human capital is the most damaging.
African-Americans gross about $800,000,000,000 (eight hundred billion US dollars), making African-Americans the 9th wealthiest nation on earth. Yet, more than 90 percent of that money leaves the Black community and makes other people wealthy and well-off, while the rapid deterioration of the Black community continues. The percentage of Black American businesses to that of other nationalities and races in the US is quite low compared to the total number of Black African-American/African-Descent people in the US, when compared to other 'minority' groups. Yet, these other ethnic groups control most of the non-White businesses in the United States, including in the Black African-American communities. This is unnatural and many people claim it is purposeful and by design (see http://www.blackhairdvd.org/ )
In spite of the various contributions Blacks made to to the industrialization of the United States and other nations, there are still not enough Black African-American manufacturers of heavy industrial products in the United States, even when the opportunity to create such is at hand. For example, there is no reason why any part of Black America should be without automobile plants controlled by Bllacks, shipbuilders, tool and machinery manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, space and information technology manufacturers or any other type of manufacturing. This also includes the designing and manufacturing from space vehicles and cars to trains and boats. African-Americans and Africans should be creating all these industrial products because Africa has the resources, skills and personnel to do so. After all, many millions of Blacks are presently employed in these industries in the US and many have been laid off since the economic bust of the 1990's and the slow-down of manufacturing.( These unemployed African Americans or Blacks who were once employed in the automobile industry cannot organize to help develop such industries all over Africa where steel and other metals are plentiful.
It is foolhardy for African-Americans to continue not having a strong, separate and independent industrial base connected to that of Africa and other Pan-African regions who can supply both raw materials and can gain from African-American technological skills and education from African-America's highly skilled colleges and university system. No other people on earth are as exposed to or contribute so much to the industrial and technological development of their nation and the world and have not benefitted from such contributions for the development of thier ancestral motherland, as have Black people.
The time has come to change this trend mentioned above, and to work towards the industrializatioin and technological prodictivity of Black America, the Caribbean, Afro-Brazil, Afro-South America, Africa and the Black regions of the South Pacific/Melanesia (exploited for their minerals and resources, but in the case of Black/Melanesian nations like Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, not helped to develop as places like Singapore, South Korea, and others who have gained from American and European investments - including the direct inventions and creations of Black African-Americans - see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ )
The Black world and the new international Pan-African manufacturing, technological and industrial complex whose aim is the development of scientific, industrial, manufacturing and technological complexes in the Black world, begins in the United States African-American Nation, goes down through the Caribbean, passes through Trinidad and Tobago, through the Guianas, passes through North-Eastern Brazil and across the Atlantic through Africa, Southern India, to Papua New Guinea, Melanesia through the South Pacific and Australia (autonomous Black Aboriginal ruled 'Northern Territories." This region is already known as the 'ACP' group (African, Caribbean and Pacific) now expanded to be the African, African-Americas, Pacific-Melanesian group.
Black African-America has the opportunity to lead a scientific, industrial, manufacturing and technological renaissance in the Black World because of thier exposure to the needed technology, capital and education required to undergo such a task. Of course, much of the Black world is so endowned, but it is in Black America that the capital needed for such research and development is most at hand and in the hands of Black people. Three are some highly developed colleges, universities and technical institutions in the US, controlled by Blacks than can lead the research and training needed for the task.
To begin, we must regard Black African-America as a separate nation within a nation, that has a plan for its own development before it. That plan is going to be accomplished in ten to twenty years and upon its completion, the Black Pan-African world will be among the most powerful regions on earth in every way possible. But first, Blacks in the US and the rest of the Black world must take the following steps towrds rebuilding the Black world and Black America after at least five hundred years of deterioriation, destruction, depression, enslavement, racism and colonialism.
INDUSTRIAL AND TOURIST BASE
The industrial, agricultural and tourist based economy of a nation brings in most of its revenue in many cases. Lawyers, doctors and those involved in the non-industrial professions, except for those who teach are secondary to the direct industrial development of a nation or people, although as professsoinals, they are very important to any nation. When the task of nation-building, particularly the buiilding of an economic and industrial base is at hand, a nation or community benefits more it its people are trained in the technological, information and manufacturing fields. Those who engage in such areas must be pushed ahead in order for the nation to solidify its industrial base and create employment capital and development for its people.
The need for doctors, lawyers, teachers, policemen and other non-industrial professionals is very important to the running of any nation. The acquiring of degrees in various types of non-technological and non-industrial areas is not a bad ambition, yet no nation can feed itself, build industry or create a good life for its people, if that nation has nothing to sell, or manufactures nothing or does not contribute to the world's economy. No people or nation should depend only on servicing the needs of others as the primary way to earn a living.
At present in Black America, (and some nations in the Pan-African Diaspora/Africa), some of our people reject the technological and manufacturing trades and professions and want to get into being lawyers, doctors and high 'white collar' professionals, where salaries are guaranteed and risks are minimal particularly when working for some state or national agency. The same goes for the highly visible professions such as sportsmen and sportswomen, musicians and actors. Some people may not want to begin a small (or large 'susu-group of investors' ) manufacturing company to make products or to get into fields that create jobs, create products and bring in money into the communities. It seems that as soon as many of us leave college, all we care about is getting wealthy quickly.
Well, this type of attitude has contributed to the economic and social problems that some in Black America and the Black/African Diaspora and continent faces today must be changed. (This attitude of one-sided thinking on economic development can be added to the deliberate tricks of parasite nations and 'lenders' who purposely set out to impoverish and distroy the African/Black economies). Not everyone will be doctors or lawyers. Some must be industrialists, scientists, manufacturers, mechanics, engineers, auto manufacturers, technical people, electronics and information specialists, bakers and makers of everyday things. Trades and trade degrees and certificates must be held as important to the upliftment and the economic improvement of Black/Pan-African people worldwide. Such must be the case in the UNITED STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA. Pride must be bt in being involved in the manufacturing and technological fields, for it is these areas that contribute to the financial strength of most nations.
Agriculture is another area of concern in the region known as 'The United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa ( all the ECOWAS nations, and expanding to all the Central African to South African nations (the Niger-Congo language region) and the African-Americas) due to the bad attitude of some towards working the soil, an attitude that has to be washed away. We spent more than four hundred years (in the Americas) making the Europeans wealthy by working the soil for them by force and for free, loosing millions of African people in this barbaric process called slavery. Why not make our own people wealthy and powerful by working the soil (and developing a technological, manufacturing, industrial and scientific based-industries) and investing in agricultural research, technologhy and science, or by manufacturing agricultural products?
The buying of land, the plantnig of crops and the harvest and export of these crops would be a stable and solid source of income and employment for Black America and the Pan-African world.
The industrial and economic development of Black America and the 'United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa," to a level much higher than its present must be achieved, through proper planning and the proper management of both financial and human capital. Talking about making more than 800 billion dollars per year (the African-American GNP) AND POURING THAT MONEY IN THE HANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE IS A WASTE OF TIME, and exposes what can be considered to be poor planning on our part (Pan-Africans). In order to take our proper place in the world as African-Americans, Africans-of-the-Americas, Africans and Pan-Africoids (in South Asia, Melanesia, SE Asia, Australia), we must do the following things:
1. Students and workers must be properly trained through the trade schools, colleges and universities, apprentice/trade guilds and other institutions. They must be made prepared for the task of building the commercial, industrial and manufacturing complex vital to the development of the Black Nation. Technical skills must be regarded with the same importance as other skills and those who show promise must be encouraged to begin businesses to manufacture products, or enter the job market without the difficulty or hardships associated iwth gaining employment.
Black America and the 'United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa," should be in a position to create jobs for those of its peoople who are technically skilled and want to apply such skills for the development of the Black communities and the Black World. Factories and businesses should form partnerships with schools for hte training of apprentices, so that those involved in the trades will get on-the-job training that is needed to gain work experience. Certificates and diplomas or degrees from trade schools must be regarded as highly (with the same respect) as those from universities and colleges. The value of having people trained in the industrial and technological or trade fields is important to the development of any nation and contributes directly to the revenue and capital of that nation if products manufactured are sold and bring in capital.
2. Money and capital should be pooled from the community to the national level for the construction and creation of factories, businesses and jobs. The susu system is a creative way for communities to pool their resources so that they can begin industrial development.
3. Foreign investment, particularly from Black nations who want to do businesses with Black America (and the Unites States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa),
or other Black nations like the Caribbean Community, Afro-Brazil Nation, Africa or the South Pacific must be encouraged. This helps spread the industrial power of Black people over a wide region and compete on the international market.
There must be a system in place where the home community or nation has the opportunity to own a portioni of the investor's company and to buy out the company if they want to sell.
4. Everything possible must be done to acquire scientific, technological and indusrial knowledge and techniques from those who have it. The transfer of technology (or sharing of it) that the West so willingly handed to Japan, Korea and other nations of the Far East and Europe has never been handed to Black nations, even though some of this knowledge and technology handed to others are inventions and discoveries of Black Americans. It must be the duty of Black communities and natons to do all that is necessary to gain what has been stolen. Various policies to meet such goals must be put into effect.
5. Local businesses, enterprises and manufacturing must be encouraged by Black (Pan-African) organizatons and governments. Nothing should be too unimportant to manufacture, as long as the market has been researched and the demand for the product has been established. Products that has been previously manufactured for local consumption must be spread on the world market.
6. Engage in industries that do well on the world/global market, such as electronics, information technologies, computers, clothing, shoes, automobiles, and food processing. Nothing should be too complicated to manufacture, and if there are not enough skilled personnel to design and manufacture certain products in the immediate community, thos who were engaged in suchj work and were laid off, should be recruited. For example, if the community of Watts, California's Black community, wants to build an aircraft design and assembly plant (which is a reality in the city of Inglewood, California, which is west of Watts ) owned by the Black community of Watts, but there are not enough Black people to take on the jobs, they should organize to bring in Black professionals from the other neighborhoods who may have had similar jobs and were laid off. In other words, one company's 'laid off' Black worker is the gain of the Black community and Pan-African nations, who are on the verge of a new era of economic development and industrial development.
(Watt's has now been occupied by other people and is not predominantly Black -- one of the mistakes of Black men and women LISTENING TO THE GENOCIDISTS WHO PROMOTE ABORTION IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS GROUPS TO HAVE LOTS OF BABIES - see 'A History of Racism and Terrorism, Rebellion and Overcoming," http://www.publishamerica.com/ also see "Susu and Susunomics," http://www.iuniverse.com/ and 'Susu Economics,' http://www.authorhouse.com/ )
So, if a major aircraft company, or automobile company, or computer manufacturing company laid off a number of Black workers ( to hire cheap labor as is the case already, or to send the jobs to foreign nations who turn their backs on the senders), then these Blacks who have been laid off should do all that is possible to create their own company and continue practicing their technological and manufacturing skills. At present, there is are enough 'laid off' Black employees who worked for aircraft companies who can pool the collective capital of the Black community in Los Angeles, pool the technological knowledge of these former workers and create aircraft and other companies owned and ran by Blacks in the area.
7. Neighborhoods should be organized into 'industrial zones,' closely connected to the 'susu economic system.' Home manufacturing independently or connected to larger industries (as is done in Japan) must be encouraged and can take the place of large buildings or complexes that may not be on hand. Products can be manufactured by one group of workers and completed by others. Products can also be made in onre area and packaged to be shipped to other areas. Groups and organizations of home-manufacturers must be formed and labor and industrial rules and regulations must be recognized and followed.
THE SEVEN STEPS ABOVE CAN HELP IN THE CREATION NOT ONLY OF AN INDUSTRIAL BASE IN AFRICAN-AMERICA, BUT IN THE 'UNITES STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA' (All ECOWAS states, Niger-Congo speaking region of Africa, all Africans of the Americas and Africans in Europe). These are small steps that can be applied on the local level in each community and expanded on the international level.
See more of this essay, "Susu and Susunomics," http://www.iuniverse.com/ (c) 1997, 2001: by PAB.
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BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTS INDUSTRIES, LIGHT MANUFACTURING, INFORMATION AND ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES AND HEAVY INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING COMPLEXES
The talent as well as the knowledge required to begin small arts and crafts industries, information technologies (as the talking drums, talking harp, log drums used to send messages) and light manufacturing of goods is something that is deeply rooted in African culture. There are many examples of ancient manufacturing from paleolithic times to the slavery period in Africa and how highly developed and advanced such manufacturing had become after tens of thousands of years of evolution. The very first products manufactured and sold were what can be considered arts and crafts such as goldwork, baskets, hats, boats, weapons and thousands of other crafts.
These products do not require heavy machinery, sophisticated high tech tools and instruments or any of the expensive components that computers, space technology and vehicles, aircraft and nay highly industrial products require. Moreover, arts and crafts industries can contribute only to a steady source of capital but it can open the way for more highly technical and higly sophisticated manufacturing such as electronics and information technology devices to take place.
Nations like China, Japan, Taiwan, France, the Caribbean States, Nigeria and the United States have for many years developed their arts and crafts industries. We all know about Chinese pocerlain, clothing, ivory carving and a large number of handicrafts they have been making since ancient times. We know of African carvings, leather work, gold and brass works, paintins, basket-work, kente cloth weaving and lots of other arts and crafts. The basketwork of the Sea Islands of Georgia, Black music and other African-American arts and craftwork and various other types of things made are well known. Caribbean carvings, steel pans invented in Trinidad and Tobago and made popular throughout the Caribbean, reggae and other Caribbean music, Haitian paintings, shell work, basketwork, carvings, jewelry, barique and other type of fabric, clothing and hundreds of other arts and crafts contribute to the incomes of these nations.
A recent program on televison that showed Haitians building boats in preparation to sail Northward is a very good example of the arts and crafts talent of the people there. These same boats, had they been built to sell on the world market could have sold quite well, depending on their quality. An industry such as boatbuilding industry can work miracles for the economy of Haiti and many natons in the Caribbean and that industry should be continued, improved and expanded. (After all, South Korea, a small nation has a boatbuilding industry where huge boats are built).
Africans from Senegal to Angola (THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA - THE NIGER-CONGO ATLANTIC REGION (a proposed region with no borders and part of the Niger-Congo linguistic/cultural Zone and about 500,000,000 people), and African-Americans as well as Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans are position in coastal regions of the Americas and Africa. They should organize to create ship-building industries. African-Americans living in states like Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, or any of the states on the seaboard can begin ship-building industries and can find markets for their products on the global market. Industries can be developed where working for others is not necessary. Small companies of bronze casters, carvers, jewelers, porcelain art and utensil makers, furniture makers, metal workers, music and record makers, and all the industries that promduce many of hte necessities of life must be built in the Black nations of the world and the United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa. Some of these industries can be began by those who had the proper training in trade or technical schools and colleges, and who wold like to begin businesses. Others can form 'susus' to pool the finances necessary to begin such small manufacturing projects.
The arts and crafts tradition among African-Americans in the United States and other parts of the Amricas is a continuation of the same tradition that begun in African tens of thousands of years ago (dated to about 100,000 B.C. - See article abot Sophisticated Stone and Bone tools found at Semlike River Valley (Congo) dating to about 100,000 years old, "Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com/ ).
The industries such as carving, furniture-making, metal-working, jewelry-design and manufacturing and many of the crafts practiced in the US during slavery by African-Americans for the slave masters or plantations begun the earliest states of the industrial revolution in the Americas. After slavery as abolished, these same African who had been slaves along with thheir sons and daughters, contributed to many inventions which helped push the United States into the industrialized nations.
The African slaves and ex-slaves of the Americas made all types of ars and carafts before the overall industrialization of the U.S. in the nineteenth century and years before the Industrialization Revolution actually began. They made baskets, quilts, ironware and iron products, tools, invented machinery, carved wood, dyed cloth and carried on many of the industrial skills they had learned while they wer in Africa. Yet, after slavery, when these Africans left the plantation to work in the industrial North, some of these arts and crafts were used only for the benefit of the factory owner. However, some African-Americans built companies or continued on in the manufacturing tradition.
The time has come to begin rebuilding hte base of Black industrial entrepreneurship in the US and the Black Pan-African world, particularly the regional economic, cultural and African supernation, The United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa - based in all the ECOWAS nations and stretching down to Angola and in time to Kenya in East Africa. First, trade guilds and organizations can be started to organize practitioners of the various trades so that they can begin from a position of strength. Those trained in the arts and carfts should consider going into business as soon as they graduate from trade schools and colleges. Money needed to finance the building of factories and the purchase of material can begin, even with people who do not earn income through employment.
Susu blocks of one hundred people can be organized and money can be pooled together for the buying of tools, equipment, raw materials and the property needed to start small factories and businesses. The making of handicrafts and light industrial products such as pottery, carvings, china work, basket work, shoes, weaving and colthes manufacturing, tool making and other products can be started.
A susu block of one hundred people including poor women on welfare or public assistance who want to get off this slave-like system and want to contribute to the employment of their men and families can each pool $100.00 per month in a pool for the building of a factory that produces products that can be sold on the market. We all know that many fathers are unemployed and so sometimes their wives or women are encouraged to go on welfare and the man is thrown out of their families ( a racist scheme that distroys Black families). This trend can be brought to a halt if the Black woman in this situation pool their money together and the Black men do the same with their money as well, creating a large pool that can be sustained by those who work among them. At least one hundred dollars can be placed in the pool each month by each pool member. This money will allow both men and women to begin businesses so they can make and sell products, expand and bring employment back into the Black community and strengthen the Black family.
If one hundred families ant to begin a plant that manufacturers 'Olmec Dynasty heads," (1000 BC to 500 AD - Mexico/Central America/North America)
or other types of bronze castings and artwork out of bronze, each family on welfare can put in one hundred dollars in a pool per month and collect $10,000.00 dollars per month. In five months, there will be $50,000 dollars. In one year $120,000.00 dollars. That amount would be enought to buy a small warehouse, some equipment, tools and raw materialks to start out. A profit would be made after a market had been established and the finished products sold. Making things out of bronze may not bring in income as fast as having a bakery, baseball cap factory, or any goods that are in demand on the market but as an example it is proper.
One of the most important goals of the arts and crafts guilds and manufacturing establishment in any nation and in the Black communities of the U.S., the United States and Kingdoms of Africa, Brazil, Haiti and other nations with large Black populations would be to find and keep markets open worldwide for the buyingt and selling of products. One of our problems as Black people and business people here in the United States is to continue to think of the world market, particularly the Black World market, as unimportant to the economical development of Black America, the Black world and of Black business throughout the world. Such attitude is rather ironic when American, Japanese, European and other nations and their industrial and commercial establishments consider the worldwide Black market to be quite important. Furthermore, Black nations around the world are the backbone of many products from these industrialized nations because many Black nations and population groups do not manufacture anything (but that is changing rapidly and the objective of The United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa, USKDA is to establish a powerful supernation that is a top economic and manufacturing world power).
See "Susu and Susunomics" (c) 1997, 2001 pub. at AuthorHouse.com Inc., 5330 S 16th, Ste. 200, Lincoln, NE 68512 http://www.iuniverse.com/
If Pan-African craft-makers and manufacturers had to trade in products used only by Negroid or Australoid Blacks (in South India, Australia, South Asia), their products (like combs for their type of hair, sunglasses for their type of face, ect) would do well on the international market. There are about 2,000,000,000 (two billion Negroid, Australoid and Melan-Negroid people on planet earth who all belong to the greater Black Africoid race. They are concentrated all over the Southern Hemisphere and in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The combined economic power of this group of people is quite powerful indeed and the time has come for the Black world to take advantage of its own power.
(One third of the world's population are pure African Negroes/Blacks or related Negroid/Black people in Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australia/Melanesia -- who belong mainly to the Manding-Cush ethnic and linguistic groups, spread from Senegal all the way to Melanesia, far south to South Africa and South New Zealand and whose languages belong to the prehistoric Manding-Cushi language, and who existed in the Sahara in prehistoric times and practiced horticulture about 30,000 years ago in the Sahara and Papua New Guinea).
And so, the Black manufacturers of the United States, Pacific, India, Europe and other geographical areas would be able to do business profitably without ever having to depend on selling a single product to the northern 'non-tropical, resource-poor' nations.
The type of manufacturing covered in this essay deals with the traditional arts and crafts. Those things that Blacks worldwide have created and manufactured since the beginning of human history, the fifteen renaissances (see http://www.africanblackrenaissance.blogspot.com/ ) since the Zingh Empire, through Egypt and the Nubian-Cushi Empire, the Negau-Punt (later to become the Swahili ), the Nok-Wagadu (Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, others), Ghana Empire, the Maurites, Ethiopia's Sabeans and other classical Black African civilizations. (See more about them http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html
http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/ read also 'Susu Economics: The History of Pan-African Trade, Commerce, Money and Wealth," pub. by http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx
Many of the ancient arts and crafts of THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA WERE OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY IN ANCIENT TIMES (and still are today). These include the glorious and magnificent artworks, paintings, buildings and system of arts, sciences and culture of Egypt (Khemet), Nubia-Cush (Sudan), Ethiopia-Sabea (Modern Ethiopia). The magnificent works of stone, ivory, bronze and clay created by the Wagadu-Nok civilization, which also spread to Meso-America. ( The West African Area (present ECOWAS STATES, includes Forest Kingdoms, Benin, Igbo-Ikwu, Yoruba, Ghana, Mali, Songhai and others who are all related - 3000 BC to 1500's AD). Jade, gold, stone and ivory carving, the making and smelting of iron tools also occurred in the ancient Zimbabwe Kingdom 1000 BC to 1800 AD. The magnificent cities of many-storied buildings and over 85 cities built along the Swahili coasts from Mozambique to Somalia -- all have been created with the utmost skill. Hence despite the omission from some history books and the purposeful removal of African contrinbutions made in some nations that are now dominated by other groups of people, the preservation of thousands of African scrolls, books and methods of preserving the past history have helped to keep documentation of Africa's civilizations in Africa as well as the culture they brought to the Americas, Middle East, South Asia and East Asia.
Those things that Blacks worldwie have created and manufactured sine the beginning of human history to the present, without the help of high technology, but with advanced mathematics and machinery suitable for the time of creation have all been part of Africa's legacy of manufacturing. These products that are of much value in the lives of everyday people and do not cost too much on the market. These are products that can be manufactured by a single person (such as quilts and carpets) to those that require more help, such as making customized automobiles by hand, boats, furniture and metal products, electronic and information technological devices. Products such as these and thousands of others can be made or produced in an organized fashion without even having large factories, advanceed technology, spending millions of dollars or wasting large amounts of time and energy.
There are thousands upon thousands of everyday things that have been used in the Black world from time immemorial to the present time, yet, many of these inventions and products are made by everyday people who may not find finish, outward appearance and looks, or high quality, to be too important. For example, the maker of a balafon from a village community in Mozambique, many not regard a VERY HIGH QUALITY FINISHED WOODEN PRODUCT, BEAUTIFUL FINISH OR ESTHETIC QUALITY TO BE IMPORTANT, as long as the instruments works well. This attitude must be changed. We must regard inner beauty, outward appearance, finish, workability and perfect craftsmanship to be of the utmost importance. In other words, the maker of a balafon should not only care about the quality of the music produced, but of the beauty of the instrument and how it pleases the eye, its touch and how it feels. Making crude products or failing to improve the quality of handicrafts or art is detyrimental to the selling of these products. Quality and finish must be applied to the highest of degrees.
Small factories or craft centers can be built in the Black (Pan-African) communities and in depressed areas where traditional artworks, particularly traditional African-inspired (and both current and ancient African art) and everyday utencils and objects used or displayed for decoration, religious meaning or esthetic value. African musical instruments such as the mbira or thumb piano, the drums, talking drums, balafon or marimba, zither, horns, flutes, rattles, korad and many other instruments used to make music can be manufactured and sold on the world market.
Skilled crafts-people who will apply high quality finish and expert craftsmanship can revolutionize the manner in which these things are made by placing an emphasis on both the quality of performance and the quality of esthetics, and craftsmanship. Musical inventions such as the 'steel pans" which were invented by Black Trinidadian, Sir Winston Spree and other types of musical instruments can also be manufactured for th eworld market.
Traditional African weapons such as the Ashanti swords, spears, bows and arrows, shields, throwing knives, daggers, armor (like the coral armor of the Benin soldiers of ancient times - still used today), can be manufactured, connected to the many African martial arts still practiced in Africa (and the Americas, see http://www.myspace.com/africanmartialarts http://www.planetcapoeira.com/ http://groups.blackplanet.com/africanmartialarts ). These 'recreated' ancient weapons can also be used for decoration, in the same way that some Chinese and Japanese, European and Middle Eastern traditonal weapons are used for decoration and as historical display artworks.
Clothing, cloth, shoes, leatherwork, hats, belts, coats, robes and many easy-to-make products that are used daily, can be produced by unemployed people and sold on the global market. Africans must develop their own 'silkwork' process to make cloth out of silk as the ancient Khemites and Nubians, the Blacks of India and the ancient Black Shang of China did.
Traditional arts and crafts such as bronze casting must be reintroduced as an essential and important part of the Pan-African arts and crafts renaissance in manufacturing. Some of the most beautiful and technically superior brass castings and artworks were produced in West Africa between 1000 BC to 1600's AD. Some of these masterpieces are to be seen in art books and in museums in Nigeria and elsewhere around the world. Some have been stolen during 'expiditionary' invasions by colonizers and are in the museums of these colonizers today.
Carvings in jade, stone, serpentine, soapstone, quartz and other types of semi-precious stone can add to the expansion of the arts and crafts industries. Such industries can help create employment for Black males particularly in cities wehre unemployment among that group is not only too high, but contributes to the further destruction of the Black family and the Black race in general. It is well known that stone carving is one of the most ancient arts used by Africans (over 100,000 years old; read about 'Blombos Cave' - South Africa finds of geometric etchings on red ochre and prehistoric jewelry made of shells - see "Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx ). It is the carving of events in stone that has left historical records about the achievements of Blacks worldwide, and in places where they were not expected to have settled in very ancient times, such as the Americas, Southern China, India, Europe, and the Pacific Islands.
The value of art has increased drastically over the decades. Today, Shona art of Zimbabwe which developed from an artistic tradition that goes thousands of years before the Christian era, is among the most beautiful and most expensive and valuable stone art produced today. Such art costs tens of thousands of dollars when sold on the international market. The value of this art has more to do with the tradition, its use of abstract techniques and its use of the African pholosophy of regarding things created as an extension of the creator.
Among the most visually pleasing paintings of Africa in the present era are those of Zaire. The paintings of Haiti, Nigeria and other nations are also fo high quality and follow similar artistic style that seem quite similar. Haiti's 'Voodoo-themed' spiritual and religious art is so brilliant that it seem to come alive in inspiration and in color. Africans are indeed the world's first painters of naturalistic and abstract paintings and they left their mark in thousands of places all over Africa and Europe. The continuation of the African tradition of the visual arts must be carried out and in fact, it should be advanced to a higher level. African, Haitian, Caribbean and African-American visual arts must be proliferated and spread on the world market in the same manner that Black American and Caribbean music are appreciated worldwide and African music is appreciatred in many areas of the world, including nations like China.
Unemployed Black (African) males and females, whether in the US, Caribbean, South America, Brazil or anywhere else who cannot find employment in other fields must be encouraged to study the arts and crafts field and apply the skills and talent s necessary to create and produce products , markets to sell the products as well as providing employment.
AFRICANS AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS/PAN-AFRICANS ARE NOT NEW TO THE USE OF TRADITIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS TO CREATE PRODUCTIVE IINDUSTRIES THAT DO WELL, AND VERY WELL ON THE WORLD MARKETS, PARTICULARLY THE GLOBAL BLACK WORLD (NATIONS) MARKET. Hair-care products that are used by peole with kinky/frizzly hair from the US to Africa to Melanesia, is made by African-American beauty-products companies. It is only recently (since the early 1970's) that many of these products have been copied and Blacks have been hair care producers/manufacturer4s have had to compete and have been thrown out of their own market by parasitic practices ( see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ )
Yet, some of the biggest Black/African -American industries are makiang Black music, hair-care products, tourism, historical-cultural tourism, bookpublishing, food processing, clothing, jewelry, educational materials, international travel, resturanting, automobile/engine manufacturing, electronic goods, information-age products and many others. Some of these industries particularly music are direct transfers of culture from the base in Africa. For example, jazz and rhythm and blues musc have African roots, so does calypso, samba, Afro-Cuban(being stolen by others as is other forms of Black music (disguised with the "Latin' label) and many other types of music like 'Afro-Panamanian-Jamaican' reggae sang in Spanish, now' now ripped off and called 'reggaeton' by people who look like the descendents of white Spaniards, while the Black inventors are no where to be seen -- or the case of the rip-off of Afro-Cuban music now called 'salsa.'
(See "Americans and Their Idols" http://www.infinitypublishing.com/ )
also see , "Susu and Susunomics," pub. by iUniverse.com http://www.iuniverse.com/ also see http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks )
In the U.S., soul, R&B, Jazz and other types of Black music have brought in many millions of dollars from all over the world and such music have made not only Black people, but Whites and others quite wealthy. Reggae music, calypso and other types of Caribbean music do the same for the Caribbean region. So do African and Afro-Brazilian music. So, a part of Pan-African culture has neen spread worldwide and continues to be a source of income for those who propagate it. THE SAME MUST BE DONE IN EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF CREATIVITY.
The time has comoe to apply industrial growth and development to other African arts and crafts, technologies and creations as well. By so doing, we can create opportunities for those of us who are not employed in the businesses and industries of others. We can also sell our products worldwide. The markets are open and waiting. One way to begin a national system of businesses based onthe ancient arts and craft industries is to open schools that will teach, train and show members of the Pan-African commnity how to apply these arts and crafts to the market after production. An arts and crafts industry should be considered as an alternative as well as a branch of the general industrializatino of any nation, and an effective way to create employment and a capital base, as well as to begin and continue a tradition that is tens of thousands of years old.
Experts can be hired from nations in Africa to teach carving, African style painting, weaving and various other arts and crafts. To those who are unemployed and may want to begin small, light manufacturing businesses. The making of traditional products such as African-style carpets, waving cloth in kente style, making Fulani or Bsuto hats, sandals, Nigerian silk robes with excuisite emboidry, Benin bronze statues and busts, copper and bronze works patterned from thise that existed about 2000 BC to 1400 AD, GOLD AND SILVER JEWELRY AND COUNTLESS OTHER TYPES OF CRAFTWORK, MUST BE CARRIED OUT IN A MORE ADVANED MANNER THAN IS BEING DONE PRESENTLY. IT SHOULD BE CARRIED OVER A WIDE AREA.
This is a good example of using Black culure to create an industrial base and it has always been at the core of Black industrial development in the Americas and Africa. Before the industrial development in Europe and Asia, Africa was on an equal or superior level when it came to the manufacture of goods of all types. It was only after the invasion of Africa by Semites and Europeans, and the enslavemento of millions of Africans that the industrial revolution in Africa, which began with the iron and steel age (1500 BC to 1500 AD) , came to an abrupt halt. The indtoduction of superior weapons such as guns and gunowder also helped destroy Africa as it did to China, who was also going through a an industrial uplifting just before the Europeans arrived. Ironically, gunpowder has been used in Africa (Nigeria and Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Swahili Coasts) for thousands of years before it was brought to China (first used by the Nuchens in warfare during hte 1100's - see "Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com ) by Middle Easterners. In Egypt, the 'Khem-mystry' (magical arts of Egypt and other African ancient cultures) science of chemicals developed gunpowder to be used in religious rituals. IN ANCIENT NIGERIA/NOK-WAGADU, GUNPOWDER WAS USED FOR RELIGIOUS RITUALS AS WELL AS FOR HEALING AND FOR IGNITION.
It appears that China, who had been hidden from European influence for thousands of years, became as traumatized as Africa, who had experienced some Arab/Semite and European invasions. Africa had no choice but to fight these invaders and soundly defeat them in many cases (like the Mongols outside the gates of Egypt, by a force of Nubians and Mamelukes from Egypt).
The reintroduction of African traditional ars into Black America, Pan-Africa and the global Black community as well as the manufacture nd worldwide marketing and selling of such products, is essential to the building of a solkid and prosperous industrial base in Black America, the Caribbean, South America, or any region where Blacks/Pan-Africans/Africoids live in the world. The time has come to use all that can be used to gain a superior position in the world of industry, manufacturing, commerce, high technology and agriculture. The manufacture of heavy mnachinery, aircraft, boats, cars, trucks, weapons systems, trains and new inventions must be prepared for and carried out with much zeal. Pan-Africans, African-Americans, THE UNITED STATES OF WEST AFRICA, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA CAN NO LONGER WAIT FOR THE FRENCH, JAPANESE, EUROPEANS, ASIANS, NORTH AMERICANS AND OTHERS TO DO WHAT MUWE MUST DO FOR OURSELVES. EVERY STEP NECESSARY MUST BE TAKEN TO CREATE THESE INDUSTRIES MENTIONED ABOVE, TO DOMINATE PRODUCTIVITY, CREATE THE BEST PRODUCTS IN THE WORLD AND BECOME PART OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD MARKET. IT CAN BE DONE. (Susu and Susunomics," http://www.iuniverse.com (c) 1997, 2001 by PAB
DEVELOPING A STRONG SYSTEM OF DEFENSE.
BUILDING A PAN-AFRICAN GLOBAL MEDIA NETWORK
http://africanamericasworldnetworks.blogspot.com
DEVELOPING A STRONG MONETARY SYSTEM
DEVELOPING A UNITED PAN-NEGROID CONSCIOUSNESS TO INCLUDE BLACK/NEGROID PEOPLE IN AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, EUROPE, SOUTH ASIA, MELANESIA AND ELSEWHERE WHO IDENTIFY WITH AFRICAN PEOPLE.
DEVELOP AND REBUILD AFRICA'S CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURAL IN MODERN CITY AND TOWN-BUILDING.
(See more here 'Susu and Susunomics," pub. by http://www.iuniverse.com/
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NATIONS OF THE 'UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF WEST AFRICA.'
These nations are presently members of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) group:
Nigeria
Niger
Mali
Cape Verde
Senegal
Ghana
Gambia
Guinee
Guinea Bissau
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Burkina Faso
Ivory Coast
Togo
Benin
These are the present states/nations . Nations like Cameroon, Chad and 'Occupied African lands' may join later.
There are also THREE OTHER ECONOMIC UNIONS OF STATES IN AFRICA:
The East African Union (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda; hope that Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Cush (South Sudan), Puntland, Djibouti will one day join that union).
The Southern African Development Congress - South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique.
The Congo/Angola region states: Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic.
There is also a strong and united system of kingship in Africa that is thousands of years old and dates to the Zingh Empire (Senegal to Egypt) in what was once a wet and fertile Sahara and the original homeland of many African/Africoid people from Africa to Melanesia to the Americas.
MODERN AND ANCIENT AFRICAN KINGS, LORDS, QUEENS, KINGDOMS
Africa's system of kingship should be preserved and revived. Kings and queens contribute to preserving ancient arts, crafts, culture, traditions, lineages and the soul of a nation. The kings and queens of a nation or region can play the role of helping to bride the people and keep the nation strong and prospering. It is usually the kings and queens who are closer to the people than the high officials. Kings and queens may have to play 'ceremonial' roles, but they help in preserving the tradition of keeping ancient arts, costumes, styles, and many traditions alive.
http://neoncobra.blogspot.com/2006/12/african-kings.html
http://www.swagga.com/king.htm
http://www.swagga.com/queen.htm
AFRICAN ART
http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/blackmalepowermovement-about62.html
POPULATION POLICIES OF THE 'UNITES STATES AND KINGDOMS OF WEST AFRICA.'
The policy is POPULATION EXPANSION AND USE OF LARGE POPULATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT. The policy is the rejection of all forms of infanticide and population control.
INDUSTRY, ARTS, CRAFTS
AFRICAN MEDIA MOVIE PRODUCTION
NOLLYWOOD
http://www.naijarules.com/artman/publish/article_55.shtml
http://www.naijarules.com/
also see http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/
EDUCATION
LANGUAGES AND ALPHABETS
Yoruba, Mandinga and Ghanian
African alphabet
http://nubianem7.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album02&page=1
http://groups.blackplanet.com/africanhieroglyphicwriters
http://web.archive.org/web/200423121050/community-2.webtv.net/PAULNUBIAEMPIRE/AFRIKUANDIKA/THEPAN/index.html
http://www.ancientscripts.com/meroitic.html
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ndjuka.htm
ECONOMIC TRAPS AFRICANS MUST BE CAREFUL AND AWARE OF:
http://www.johnperkins.org/
http://www.economichitman.com/
MUSIC AND DANCE
http://www.afropop.com/
http://www.afropop.org/
AFRICAN MARTIAL ARTS
http://www.myspace.com/africanmartialarts
http://groups.blackplanet.com/africanmartialarts
http://www.planetcapoeira.com/
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
http://groups.blackplanet.com/voodooorishaweathercontrolrituals
http://groups.blackplanet.com/vaduorishamaat/africanreligionsunited
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/einstein.html
AFRICAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY - LIFE ON MARS??
http://web.archive.org/web/20040823121114/community-2.webtv.net/PAULNUBIAEMPIRE/BARTONSNUBIANEMPIRE/index.html
UNITED WEST AFRICAN CURRENCY
http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=550
AFRICAN DIASPORA - North America, Latin America, Caribbean, Europe, ASIA
http://www.blackelectorate.com/
http://www.yaaams.org/
AFRICANS OF LATIN AMERICA
http://whgbetc.com/mind/black-latin-america2.html
AFRICAN UNITY
http://www.africanunificationfront.om/calendar.php
AFRICA MUST BE CAREFUL ABOUT RECOLONIZATION BY FOREIGN NATIONS BRINGING 'GIFTS.'
http://nigeriaworld.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=2723
AFRICAN FUTURE AND RENAISSANCE
http://africanblackrenaissance.blogspot.com/
AFRICAN WOMEN PENPALS
http://www.asiangirls-personals.com/member66/36605.html
GREAT READING AND INFORMATION
'Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com/
http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks
http://blackmalepower.proboards106.com/
http://sexyloveromancepoems.blogstream.com/
MASS MEDIA; RADIO, TELEVISION, NEWS
http://africanamericasworldnetworks.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/afriamericonscioushiphop
http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/
http://www.raceandhistory.com/
TV ONE
http://www.tvoneschedule/
CHANNEL AFRICA
http://www.channelafrica.org/portals/site/m
BLACK/AFRICAN RADIO GUIDE
http://www.radioblack.com/books.html
AFRICAN HISTORY OF AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS; ANCIENT TRADE AND COMMERCE
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx
AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM and MEDIA
http://www.congressionalblackcaucus.net/
http://www.wolam.com/
http://www.joemadison.com/
The first empire and kingdom in West Africa was the Zingh Empire ruled by the God-King Tyru Afrik about 15,000 B.C. during the Aquatic Civilization.
West African civilization began in the Sahara, particularly the region between the coast of Senegal/Mauritania all the way to Dafur in Sudan. 'Susu Economics,' ( AuthorHouse.com) observes this note by James Wellard, 'The Sahara was one of the well-populated ares of the prehistoric world, as it has become the least populated within historical times. It seems to have been inhabited, moreover by a race of man (Black peoplle to be exact - see Wayne Chandler, "African Presence in Early Asia," Edt. by Ivan Van Sertima; 1995, pp. 376-377), whose domain extended from South Africa, for the rock paintings found in Spain, Eastern Spain, the Sahara Desert, and South Africa itself have strinking similarities almost as though they belong to the same school. Thus, they all dipict long-horned cattle in a similar style," (Wellard; 'The Great Sahara).
The prehistoric Sahara was one of the regions where the Black African race developed culturally (and people first developed culture and instruments like the bow and arrow, atlatl, boomerang, penis sheaf, clothing, ect) like the Australian Aborigines, Melanesians, Indo-Negroids, Black Negritoes of East Asia, Oceanic Negroes and others developed. It may become an archeologists paradise for that is where the ancient cities, towns, villages, roads, palaces, castles, rivers, lakes, grave sites of ancient kings and queens or common people, and possible ancient technologies that are part of the legends of many ancient and current African people may have began.
It should be no surprise if civilizations identical to that of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, ancient India, or even Black Olmec Mexico, are buried beneath thousands of tons of sland which cover many parts of the Sahara. In fact, the ancient city of Kumbi Seleh of ancient Ghana as well as many ancient cities and towns of ancient Nubia were and still remain covered by desert sands to this day. We still are not certain about the history of human civilization before the Great Flood, yet we know that great civilizations and cultures existed, based on biblical information, particularly from Genesis; Chapter 6, verses 3-7."
('Susu Economics,' pub. by Authorhouse.com (c) 2000 by PAB.)
'The Sahara civilizations began turning to desert between 3000 to 2000 B.C. due to changes in the weather and climate, (from hot, wet and rainy, to hot, dry and arid). Many of the inhabitants who existed there continued a series of migrations which may have began as early as 20,000 to 30,000 BC. Between 4,000 to 3000 BC, waves of migrants from the drying Sahara settled into parts of West Africa, WHICH ALREADY HAD A THRIVING CIVILIZATION/CULTURE. These migrants brought with them remnants of the prehistoric Black civilizations and cultures which originated in the Sahara. Thus, cultures and civilizations like the Nok culture which produced magnificent works of stone, terracotta, bronze and gold were part of a widespread civilization which included parts of the Southern Sahara and West Africa."
HENCE, WEST AFRICA AND THE SOUTH-WEST/CENTRAL SAHARA HAS A PERIOD OF CIVILIZATION RANGING FROM ABOUT 20,000 BC TO THE PRESENT. In fact, today, nations like Niger and Chad are taking steps to stop the TAKING OF ANCIENT AND PREHISTORIC ARTEFACTS, CARVINGS AND TOOLS DATING BACK TENS OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS. (See http://www.bbcnews.com/ )
Some of these Sahara Africans also sailed to the Americas, while others settled in Nigeria and later migrated (about 3000 - 5000 BC) to parts Congo and Southern Africa. About 30,000 to 60,000 years ago, many of these Africans also migrated to India, SE Asia, Australia, East Asia and the Americas.
CULTURES, HISTORY AND PEOPLES OF AFRICA
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html
The migration of Africans from the Sahara to Egypt and to West Africa, after the drying up of the prehistoric Zingh Empire, the drying of the large 'inland sea,' deforestation and desertification, was also accompanied by migrations of Africans of the Cushi language group from the Sudan and Ethiopia/Kenya region into Egypt about 10,000 to 5000 BC, after the Delta regions began to dry up.
HISTORICAL CIVILIZATIONS OF WEST AFRICA
The history of West Africa from about 400 BC to 1700 BC is known as a history of great culture and civilization. Culture and civilization means that the people had establishd over many thousands of years workable systems of governance, kingship, law, art, literature, religon, family ties, city-states, building and much of what that would be found in places like Rome, Greece, Egypt or Nubia. These ancient West African civilizations included: Prehistoric Ghana ruled by kings whose system was similar to that of ancient Egypt and Cush. Many of the same art, and style was transferred from Ghana/West Africa to places like Mexico to the Olmec Culture ( see http://www.raceandhistory.com/ (ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS OF THE AMERICAS) also http://originalblacksofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com/
http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/ (SEVEN AND MORE ANCIENT WONDERS OF AFRICA )
Ghana's kingdom existed as early as 3000 BC (most likely the homeland of Emperor Meci, the Mandinga Emperor who led a flotilla of 12 ships to Mexico and America in the year 3113 B.C. - A SACRED DAY IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY), and it was a kingdom whose people made trips to Mexico and Central America, while trading with the Sahara.
http://geocities.com/olmec82000/kush1.htm
http://members.tripod.com/pointingbird/lostfeatherintl/id59.htm
http://geocities.com/Athens/Academy/8919/olmeckings.htm
http://www.mu-atlantis.com/
http://www.ipoaa.com/africans_in_americas.htm
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~legnefef/ethnic/ethnic8.htm
http://www.hotep.org/
About 3000 BC to 1000 BC an earlier civilization existed in West Africa. These were Africans from West Africa and the Sahara/Sahel who began using iron ore about 2600 BC.
During the period from 3000 BC to 1000 AD, many of the cultures that became Igbo-Ikwu, Benin, Yoruba, Ashanti, and others were part of the Sahara/West African group of cultures. As one clearly sees with the genetic link between Yorubas and Hausas and Igbos and Zulus -- the separation of many African people into different 'dialects' and ethnic groups IS A RECENT PHENOMENA.
In ancient times, Africans from the Sahara to Angola were all of the Manding-Cush group and spoke similar languages.
AFRICA'S PREHISTORIC AND HISTORIC CIVILIZATIONS FROM 20,000 BC TO 1800
The Zingh Empire was a great civilization that existed in what is today the entire region of West Africa and the Sahel, the Sahara all the way to Egypt. The Zingh Empire was the original home of all material culture on planet earth while the ICE AGE was taking place in Europe. Much of the culture found in Egypt between 17,000 to 1000 BC and afterwards, WAS FOUND IN THE ZINGH EMPIRE as early as 30,000 BC, when an early form of Neolithic culture existed in the Sahara. At that time, horticulture, arts, crafts, mummification, building, and a green environment with lakes, inland seas, boats and fishermen, towns and villages existed.
The 'mythical' Emperor of the Zingh Empire was called Tyru Afrik.
2. The pre-Ghana civilization was a group of ancient West African civilizations that were part of the old Zingh Empire. These cultures existed in what is today Nigerian, Ghana, Mali, Mauritania, Chad and the bulk of the region of West Africa. From about 15,000 BC to 3000 BC, these cultures developed. Some of their ancient traders and seafarers, like 'Emperor Meci,' sailed to Mexico (about 3113 B.C. and helped establish the 'Olmec' culture (Mandinga-Shi).
It is believed that the pre-Ghana cultures were based on agriculture as early as 10,000 BC and spoke the early Manding languages THAT WERE ALSO FOUND IN THE AMERICAS (AND STILL EXISTS IN SOME AMERICAN 'INDIAN' LANGUAGES).
3. PREHISTORIC GHANA, NOK-WAGADU, FOREST KINGDOMS
About 4000 - 3000 BC the Sahara began to dry up. West Africa's civilizations continued to flourish between 4000 BC to 1000 AD. However, about 2000 BC PEOPLE FROM CUSH/SUDAN and Khemet (South Egypt) migrated to West Africa (the Wolof are one example). Migrants from the Sahara and PEOPLE LIVING IN WEST AFRICA'S COASTAL REGIONS ESTABLISHED A SERIES OF KINGDOMS based on trade in salt and gold, ivory and other commodities, (see 'Susu Economics,' http://www.authorhouse.com/ ) These ancient Africans created magnificent works of art and built their houses in stone and mudbrick. They built great pyramidal tombs and huge walls and moats for their cities. The Benin, Nok, Igbo-Ikwu, are all remnants of these great ancient cultures.
The cultures/civilizations of West Africa traded across the Sahara and across the Atlantic. (See http://originalblacksofamericabeforecolumbus.blogspot.com/ also see http://blackmalepowermovment.forumsland.com/ )
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS, KINGDOMS AND EMPIRES:
About 7000 BC to 1800 AD (known as the Manding Agricultural Complex), a number of kingdoms and empires rose in West Africa. Ancient Ghana (Nok-Wagadu) was one of the first, but it was the remnant of an earlier and larger empire (Zingh Empire - approx. 20,000 BC to 3000 BC). The (documented) Ghana Dynasty of Emperors began about 2000 B.C. However, this dynasties were as old as those of ancient Cush (which began as early as 10,000 BC) Most of these ancient emperors who established what was a great civilization in THE GHANA (WAGADU) EMPIRE were represented in solid stone. One of the great mystries of history is that some of these ancient Emperors also founded a DYNASTY (MANDINGA-SHI) IN Mexico called the Olmec Dynasty.
This dynasty was founded by Emperor Tehuti Mez (Meci) who arrived in Mexico in the Sacred Year of 3113 B.C. accompanied by 12 ships and hundreds of Africans. Many other trips were made to and from West Africa and many other Africans settled in Meso America, Central America and the Southern US.
Ghana (Wagadu) was one of the greatest and richest civilizations on earth. It is also one of the oldest.
The Forest Kingdoms of Igbo-Ikwu, Nok, Ife, Yoruba, Benin and others DEVELOPED IN THE FOREST AND COASTAL REGIONS OF WEST AFRICA FROM GUINEA TO CAMEROON. They were master seamen, master metalsmiths, workers of gold, agriculturists, scientists and practiced the scientific religion known as Orisha/Vadu and Ancestor Veneration (the most common religion among Africans of Africa and Africans of the Americas, with about ONE BILLION AND FIVE HUNDRED MILLION BLACK PRACTITIONERS IN AFRICA AND THE AMERICAS, AND 500 MILLION BLACK PRACTITIONERS IN SOUTH ASIA, MELANESIA AND AUSTRALIA.
The forest kingdoms also were masters in bronze, stone, clay, ivory, iron and gold working. They built houses in compounds of about four to seven per unit, along with places for animals and larger corals in the savana areas. Cloth was woven and weapons as well as armor were made out of iron, steel and coral.
10,000 YEAR OLD BOAT FOUND IN WEST AFRICA
The oldest boat hewn by humans was found in Nigeria, West Africa years ago. The ancient West Africans were also master seafarers and sailed the Atlantic and Mediterranean. They journied as far as the Americas and traded in the North African Mediterranean region. The ancient West Africans also traded in the great rivers of West Africa and Congo. In ancient times, during the 'wet' period of the Sahara, they traded and sailed the Sahara Inland sea trading with the Sahara (then fertile) and places far and wide.
RICE, SORGHUM, MILLET, YAMS CULTIVATED IN WEST AFRICA, SAHARA ABOUT 30,000 YEARS AGO
(WEST AFRICA'S PRE-CLASSICAL PERIOD) 20,000 BC - 5000 BC
The cultivation of rice, millet, sorghum, tropical yams and many fruits and vegetables began in West Africa, the Sahara and East Africa, DURING aFRICA'S pre-classical period over 30,000 years ago. In fact, Africans who settled Melanesia and SE Asia as well as Southern China brought rice, millet and sorghum to China between 10,000 to 2000 years ago. A banana trade between Papua New Guinea and Africa exosted about 7,000 years ago ( See Archeology Magazine).
The oldest farming and cultivation of sorghum, rice, millet, yams and other grains and food crops were cultivated in the Southwestern Sahara about 20,000 years ago. The prehistoric Sahara horticultural societies WERE THE PRE-AGRICULTURE SYSTEMS OF FOOD CULTIVATION -- that still exists in Melanesia, and was brought there by Africans about 30,000 years ago. Horticulture and the cultivation of food plants like yams, bananas and other crops found in Africa was also cultivated in Melanesia. About 7000 years ago, a banana trade between East Africa and Melanesia existed says Archeology Magazine.
The early system of horticulture, settlement and tending of crops contributed to the development of the world's most ancient civilization, THE ZINGH EMPIRE. It was in the SouthWestern Sahara that the Zingh Empire began due to the development of horticulture and agriculture there by the Mende-speaking people (who also settled the Americas in prehistoric times), and migrated to parts of India, Melanesia and the South Pacific in a series of migrations about 30,000 BC). (See "Susu Economics," and also 'A History of the African-Olmecs," pub. by http://www.authorhouse.com/ http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx
CLASSICAL WEST AFRICAN (Nok-Wagadu) CIVILIZATION
The period between 5000 BC to AD 1000 can be said to be the classical period of West African civilization. Documentation (The Popul Vuh, the Quiche Maya Book) discribes the Black 'Meci' OR Tehuti Mez, (of Mandinga-Kushi origins) entering Meso America exactly in the year 3113 B.C. - (see, "A History of the Afredan-Olmecs," http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx sacred date for Maya Indians in Mexico/Central America and also an important date for Africans and Mandinga-Cush-Congo peoples (i.e., Niger-Congo-Cush linguistic cultural groups ). This period saw the development of great art, carvings, textiles, steel manufacturing, building of boats, trade and commerce, exploration and travel, scientific-religion (such as Orisha or Shango, Vadu, others), medicine and health.
Clothing, hairstyles, ornaments, and artwork from the period of 1000 BC to 1000 AD show high quality and sophistication in most artwork and material artifacts from the West African cultures. These styles ramain to this day and can be seen in the clothing, textiles, artwork, alphabets, jewelry, weaponry, houses and architecture and other cultural contributions of groups like the Ashanti, Yoruba and those Africans in West Africa whose culture have not been 'colonized' and replaced by foreign invaders and occupiers.
WEST AFRICA'S POST-CLASSICAL PERIOD
The POST CLASSICAL PERIOD OF WEST AFRICAN CIVILIZATION IS THE PERIOD FROM ABOUT 1000 AD TO 1800 AD. This period saw the invasion of some West African kingdoms, the scattering of some of the people and the decline of some of the cultures. Added to this tragedy caused by invaders and others, slave traders and raiders from the Northern and North-Eastern parts of Africa, from Europe and elsewhere pounced on West Africa (and the rest of Africa). These groups along with local militarists brought about the decline in West African civilization (and all African civilization) that became unbearable during the 1700's to 1800's - THE 'DARK AGES' OF AFRICAN CIVILIZATION.
Today, A NEW DAY IS DAWNING AND AFRICA IS GOING THROUGH A RENAISSANCE -- This RENAISSANCE WILL OCCUR WHEN ALL AFRICANS IN AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA UNITE ON THE TASK AHEAD.
This includes African and Pan-Africans taking measures to protect CREATIONS AND INVENTIONS BY AFRICANS.
Establishing a strong and powerful system of EDUCATION AND RESEARCH WITH THE STRONG AND POWERFUL 'AFRICAN-AMERICAN AND PAN-AFRICAN' COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SYSTEM.
'CREATING A SUPERIOR PAN-AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM'
(Susu and Susunomics," (c) 1997; pub. by iUniverse.com )
Education is the key to advancement. That is a philosophy that Black people have borne in their culture for tens of thousands of years (beginning with the 'Age-grade' system of proto-historic times). During the period when the Khemite and Kushite civilizations existed, Education was brought to a level of great prominence and continued throughout the African history of the great university cities of Jenne in Mali, Gao and Timbuktu, the continuation of the Age-grade systems (with their trades guild systems), where young males and females were taught various skills, the proliferation in the Americas of great Black institutions, and the attitude by Black people throughout the region that EDUCATION IS OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE.
As we sail into the 21st Century, what we as Black people in America and worldwide must strive for is to be the world's most and best educated people in all disciplines, and to use the education to match or to overtake all the major industrialized nations of the world in culture, science, industry and technology. We must aim to be above Western Europe, Japan, Canada, Taiwan, Singapore, China and every one of the industrial powers on earth. That must be our aim
The educational history of Black people worldwide is much older than all of the world's civilizations. We have at least three thousand years of advanced education (temple universities such as Ipet Isut (Karnak) dating to about 2000 to 4000 BC and earlier), before China, Mesopotamia, Greece, India, Korea, Japan, India or any nation that had an advanced culture in ancient times. The system of advanced African education organized under the Khemite Mystry Schools was in effect before the African (Khemite) calendar was established in the year 4241 B.C. ON THE SOLAR EQUANOX (The date the 'African New Year' celebrations are held worldwide -- WHILE HELD ON 'MARDIGRAS/CARNIVAL' in others.
'DEVELOPING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGHOUT THE BLACK WORLD"
(Copyright; 'Susu and Susunomics,' 1997)
The economic strength of the Black nations of the world must be increased. That can be accomplished by making susu international, in the same way that Western economic systems have become internationalk over the past 100 years. The first areas where an attempt must be made to create an international Black economic system that will benefit Blacks worldwide and improve the lives of Black people has to be the geographical areas of North America, the Caribbean, Afro-Latin America, Africa, Melanesia, South India and other lands where Blacks reside
At present the Black nations of the world have the potential of becoming the most powerful and effective economic block on earth, yet the pace at which the attempts are being made to achieve this goal s too slow. While many Black Pan-African nations are considering or taking slow steps towards unifying (like THE MELANESIAN UNION, 'ONE CARIBBEAN UNION,' EAST AFRICAN UNION, UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA and others, the Europeans who inhabit Europe have already accomplished this unity, while they continue to look to Africa, Latin America, Asia and the South Pacific as sources for their products and their manufactured goods.
One thing must never be forgotten when Black people compare their nations with that or Europe. In spite of the facination of some Blacks with what the Europeans have achieved in science, technology and manufacturing, it is only over the past two hundred years that the era of scientific development, technology and industrialization has been taking place. Blacks have contributed greately to this process through inventions and new ways of doing things in the agricultural, medicinal and metalsworking areas brought from Africa.
As late sa the sixteenth century, many Black nations were equal to many European and Asian nations in science, industry and technology. As for some African nations such as Mali, Ghana, Songhai and Ethiopia, these were in many instances more culturally, scientifically and industrially developed than most of Europe because like the rest of the Muslim nations and empires, scientific, economic and technological development with its roots in Black Egypt and Kush was carried through and was being practiced while Euripe was still in the Dark Ages.
The Industrial Revolution struck Europe during the time when much of Africa wsa occupied and colonized by Europeans. The Arabs, European and the American slave trade has devastated the continent and Africa took a giant step backward that hampered its ability to develop economically, technologically and scientifically. Most of Africa's great minds such as its inventors, metalurgists, builders, doctors/herbalists and those scholed in a tradition of thousands of years of manufacturing (like Meroe, Sudan; Nok-Wagadu Ghana) were hauled to the Americas as slaves.
The traffic in skilled Africans to the Americas contributed to the industrial and scientific and cultural as well as economic development of the United States and Americas in general, since it was some of these same Africans who invented and created sone of the machinery and tools, as well as the facinating inventions that propelle4d Europe and the United States and later Japan, into the Industrial Age.
STEPS THAT MUST BE TAKEN TO DEVELOP MODERN AND LOCAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN 'THE UNITED STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA.'
A. Science and Technology Must be Taught at the Early Age. The teaching of science and technology must be taught and begun as soon as students enter school beginning from the simplest concepts and growing as the ability to do mathematics and properly communicate improves.
B. Teachers who are able to teach science and technological subjects should be trained in the nation they are or recruited in the nations neighbors or where they can be found. This must be a priority since good teachers are essential to the passing on of valuable knowledge. Three should be no objection to recruiting teachers (or former technological workers from closed industries in the US, Japan or elsewhere in Africa who want to teach), or from any nations where technological and scientific progress has been made.
A worldwide organization of Pan-African teachers, industrialists and people learned in science and technology must be formed in order to find those who are willing to go around the Black World and teach other Blacks these subjects. Black teachers in nations like the United States where Blacks have a long history of contributing to the scientific and technological development of the United States and other nations, should create organizations to send teachers throughout the Black World to teach these valuable subjects.
C. Black nations worldwide must invest in science and technology in thier respective nations no matter how simple or complicated experiments to learn nd to discover new concepts may be. For example:
1. Various local and regional scientific concepts based on local tradition such as using plants for medicine and metaphysical sciences tht have dismissed by others as 'pagan' or 'voodoo' or 'witchcraft' should be scientifically examined. Ancient methods of making rain, tracking stars (making the study of Dogon Cosmogony part of Pan-African universities scientific studies), planting crops, making metal alloys and all the ancient and scientific knowledge that are the roots of 'Western' science should be re-examined and developed so that they can be improved and made useful in today's environments ( See 'American Scientists Study Voodoo Medicine," http://www.raceandhistory.com/ )
2. There should be special gifts, prizes and contests held to reward and encourage those gifted in the sciences. This helps to create an interest in science and technology.,
3. Missionaries to Africa or anywhere in the Black World should be scientific, economic and technological, sharing ideas and technology, and should not be 'religious' missionaries and propogators of religious beliefs, since Africa already has its own traditonal religions, , most of which are essential to the growth of scientific thought among the people, who regard science and religion to be one. This religious concept common in Asia is responsible for the great improvements that Asians have made in the scientific fields. (The idea of 'logic' and 'separation of church and state' has helped the 'West' to develop its science without hindrance. The long tradition of invention of the Chinese is based on the belief that science and religion are inseparable. African religions also believe that science and religion are inseparable and Africans have a tradition of science and invention that goes back over 100,000 years (beginning in the Sahara/East and West Africa - see "stone and bone tools, found along Semliki River, Zaire: "Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com/ )
"Missionaries" and propogators for the technological and scientific as well as industrial development of Africa should be the norm, and not religious missionaries who aim merely to turn Africans as followers of their particular religion and thus expand the foreigners' influence, culture, language and ideas under the guise of 'religion.' If technological missionaries could have gone to Japan and the Far East and helped to develop these areas, yet have little influence in converting the majority of Japanese or Chinese to their (the Europeans/foreign people) religion, then the same can be done in Africa. Africans already have a very ancient and practical system of religion that is based on MIND POWER and the ability to recognize and use elemental forces, as well as recognize the ancestors, while recognizing the 'One God,' idea. Africans do not need other people teaching them religion. What is needed in Africa and the Black world is the transfer of technological knowledge that originated in Africa and in part, among Africans-of-the-Americas.
D. Black nations worldwide must create organizations, or one massive global organization of scientists, technologists, information scientists, industrialists, manaufacturers, researchers and teachers whose goal must be to bring the Black world at an equal footing with the rest of humanityin the fields of science and technology. There is no reason why Black scientists from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean and Europe or Melanesian Union cannot create organizations that will help develop space technology, or use space for the betterment of life on earth.
Africa because of its geographic position and its constant droughts, famines and environmental destruction as well s desertification, needs to carve out its niche in outer space, study weather and geographical patterns and find out before hand what the future weather patterns will be, and do what is necessary to prevent disaster.
There are sufficent numbers of Black/African/African-American scientists and experts in the field of space exploration and space techology who can pool their collective knowledge together and work towards the improvement of life for Black/Pan-Africoid people on earth by creating organizations that would contribute to the exploration of space and perform other tasks such as sending satellites into space, studying weather patterns and performing in many other useful and critical areas.
The Black world must be involved in the scientific and technological race in all areas, whether it is building the best spacecraft ever built, or building the most effective and fastest computers and computer chips. Every aspect of science, technology, manufacturing and industrial development must be improved or made to rise to levels equal to the most advanced nations, or passing their level. What a people has been able to achieve in the past, can be achieved again.
THE SPIRIT MUST BE REKINDLED.
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CREATING SUSU NATIONS AND COMMUNITIES
The African-American population is about 45,000,000 to 50,000,000 people (people of African ancestry in the United States (including about 30 percent of White Americans) is about 116,000,000 (50 million African-Americans and about 66 million Euro-Americans have African ancestry dating back as recently (for the whites) as the past 100 years). About 14 percent of African-Americans have some European or American Indian ancestry. The African population is about 1,000,000,000 in Africa and Europe and about 300,000,000 in the Americas. There are about 600,000,000 Indo-Negroids and Melanesian/Oceanic Negroids in Asia and the Indian Ocean region. In all, there are about 2,000,000,000 - two billion Black/African descent people (excluding the 66 million American whites with African ancestors).
Hence, in the area of numbers and economic potential, the population of Blacks globally is quite large and the needs of that community is quite large as well. In building and creating 'Susu Nations' where the system of susu is applied on a global scale, the entire Black population on earth has to benefit, just as the entire European, Euro-American, Australian, Latin American and other Euro-dominated regions benefit from global capitalism.
The African-American population today (including all those who speak Spanish, or are of Afro-Caribbean and other African diaspora descent who are part of the African-American Black racial group) is about 50,000,000 people spread out in fifty states, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands. The Southern part of the US, the North-East coast, and California has the largest concentrations of Black People. Parts of the Midwest are also heavily populated by Blacks. These populations today seem to be under threat, but the solution is for Blacks to have more Black babies and to avoid all schemes of population control, abortion and family breakups.
The African-American (or rather African-Caribbean) population of the Caribbean area is also about 45,000,000 to 50,000,000 people spread over a vast area from the Northern coast of South America in the Guianas, to Belize and coastal Nicaragua in the west, to Cuba in the Northwest, to the West Indian archepelago in the Eastern Caribbean to the Bahamas.
All people of African descent, regardless of colonial language forced on them by the slavemasters are included. These African-descent people are African Black first, and no matter where we go or live in this world, that is what other people will see.
There are about 120,000,000 African descent/Black people in Brazil and about 80,000,000 in the whole of Latin America (including Brazil and Central America) http://whgbetc.com/mind/black-latin-america2.html
There are about 50 million African-Americans/Afro-Canadians and about 50 million Afro-Caribbeans. Hence, the total Black/African descent population of the Americas is about 300,000,000 (three hundred million) people. The Black African-Descent population also includes those Black African-Descent people in places like Brazil who have rejected their culture and their Black African identity to be fooled by terms of skin complexion that takes their African identity and dignity away. Fortunately, today, anyone who looks Black/African-Descent in Brazil is Black/African-Descent. This is a sensible policy because much of the Portugese who came to Brazil were already partly Black African from the ancient Black Moors who ruled that nation for about 800 years, or from the ancient Black Iberians who lived in the Iberian Peninsula.
Afro-Brazilians recognize that Black being the original humans and having the strong noticeable features, while having a variety of skin tones that are due to natural environment (like the Kong-San of South Africa and others with lighter skin ), that if one looks African/Black, one is African/Black. Moreover, since many Black Brazilians who are lightskinned may have African Black mothers, that makes them African/Black. Afro-Brazilians today is doing all it can to keep its distinct Black population intact and to prevent themselves from being submerged and blended out of existence, as happened to the Blacks of Argentina.
This paragraph is based on the creation of Black nations and communities in any region but it is essential that it is used in nations like Brazil and other parts of Latin America with large Black populations where the myth of integration has done nothing but keep Blacks poor, economically deprived and have created a mixed population that has lost their African culture, Soul and appearance. The Black race itself seem disappear slowly but surely, due to the uncontrolled mixing with others who do all in their power to keep themselves and their heritage intact, steal Black culture and heritage and declare it as their own or put some 'Latin' label on it.
BUILDING A 'SUSU NATION' IN THE US
Let's deal with building a susu nation in the United States with the 50,000,000 Black African-Americans. The major task is to bring together all 50,000,000 African-Americans into a national and later international susu system by beginning on the neighborhood level with about one hundred people. One hundred is not the minimum number that is required to begin a susu. One can be started with as little as two people, but the more people there are in a susu, the more money will be placed in the 'pot.'
One hundred people in a neighborhood of 400 people is good enough to represent that particular area. Take a large city like New York with at least two million Black African-Americans (and other Blacks) and many neighborhoods. Each neighborhood should be divided into 'susu neighborhoods.' Each should start with a street or block. One hundred people from a street gets together in a susu led by a 'susu sergeant' treasurer who must be appointed as an assistant in case the first one cannot perform.
The duty of the Susu Sergent will be to collect the funds and put it all into a bank and to keep all members aware of every activity that takes place during hte banking transaction. Otherwise a susu sergeant my work at a bank and may collect each individual's deposits for the susu pool, following susu and regular banking rules.
The Susu Sergeant must have an accountant as well as a bookkeeper to keep accurate records and account for all funds and how these funds were used or will be used. The Susu Sergeant of a group of one hundred people can coordinate the finances for the building of projects, investments and so on, or for the monthly allotment of those who put money into the pool.
The treasurer, accountants and bookkeepers, all consist of the financial body. A group of about five people out of the hundred in the susu must be elected for these positions based on thier experience and skill and they must look over the activities of the bookkeeper, accountant and treasurer.
A group of ten streets at one hundred people on each street would consist of a 'block.' They would be led by ten sergeants and one 'lieutenant' treasurer over the ten treasurers. The duty of the lieutenant treasurer is to be responsible for the gathering of funds for all ten susu blocks in the money is needed for a large neighborhood project like a community center, school, businesses or factories. The neighborhood where the susu would be effective would be the ten interconnected streets or susu group will have access to a bank, the individual susu member would deposit his own monthly amount in an account where the others ill also put their money.
The money would not have to pass through the hands of anyone else and cannot be withdrawn or used unles the other members approve, or unless the time to us e that money by an individual member has arrived. If that money i to be used for an ambitious project like building a factory and the money is a collective investment, all members must sign before the money can be withdrawn to begin the project. If a member cannot sign, somneone must do so on his or her behalf, including other members of the susu group or family.
A Lieutenant Treasurer, Lieutenant Account and Lieutenant Bookkeeper, would be responsible for overseeing the financial accounts and books of the one thousand people in the susu block of ten susu strets of one hundred people each (1000 people total). This level would be responsible for building larger projects such as stores, building community centers, churches, school parks and so on, as well as business and industrial enterprises.
A group of ten blocks at 10,000 people would be led by a 'Captain Treasurer.' He or she would be responsible for the finances of all ten thousand people in the susu groups, the 100 Susu Sergeants, ten lieutenants, captain accountant and captain bookkeeper. The treasurer, bookkeeper and accountant would coordinate the finances of all ten thousand people in the ten susu neighborhoods. These neighborhoods would be connected block by block and street by street.
The function of the Susu Captain is to coordinate the finances of these ten thousand people for large projects, investments and so on. The treasurer, accountants and bookkeepers all consist of the financial body. A group of about five people out of hte hundred will be elected to look over the activities of the treasurer, accountant and bookkeeper. Large projects such as factories for a neighborhood, stores, businesses, media/movie production companies, S&L companies, susu banks, gas stations, hotels and so on. The duty of the Captain Treasurer would be to build susu banks (similar to regular banks, but using the 'susu' system of pooling and investing, ect) to hold the funds, employ a Captain Treasurer, Captain Accountant, Captain Bookkeeper, and other professionals to coordinate the building of projects, the purchase of land or businesses, the investment of capital or the seeing to the monthly allotment of those whose turn it is to borrow or use what is available in the pot.
(See more on this process, "Susu and Susunomics," (c) 1997, 2001 by PAB; pp. 60 - 63l pub. by http://www.iuniverse.com/ ) also http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks
BUILDING A MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL PAN-AFRICAN INDUSTRIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND MANUFACTURING COMPLEX
Building a strong business, commerce and technology system
The creation and building of a massive international, Pan-African industrial, technological and manufacturing complex is essential to the development and advancement of the Black world. This is a task that no other people will do but Black people/Pan-Africans. Others will find such an ambitious goal threatening to their own economic power, for after the Black/Pan-African world has accomplished its goal of rising back to the top, it will not be business as usual. The technology, manufacturing and industrial power that those of the rich nations have kept to themselves and spread among their chosen friends will not remain only in their hands. Their political and economic domination will be more of sharing with the rising of Pan-Africans worldwide. Africans will produce goods for themselves and Japanese, European and other regions will find that there will be more competition on the global market. Yet, the rise of THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA, 'CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY/COMMON MARKET,' UNION OF EAST AFRICAN STATES, MELANESIAN UNION, ORGANIZATION OF AFRICANS IN THE AMERICAS, SOUTH AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, CONGO-ANGOLA REGION - will help to create better economics.
In order to build this international complex of industry, technology and manufacturing, steps must be taken at the local level to accomplish the goals. The fifty million African-Americans in the United States is a very good starting point to begin the policy of GLOBAL PAN-AFRICAN ECONOMIC INTEGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT. It is in the Black communities of the US and Americas in general that mismanagement of financial capital as well as human capital is the most damaging.
African-Americans gross about $800,000,000,000 (eight hundred billion US dollars), making African-Americans the 9th wealthiest nation on earth. Yet, more than 90 percent of that money leaves the Black community and makes other people wealthy and well-off, while the rapid deterioration of the Black community continues. The percentage of Black American businesses to that of other nationalities and races in the US is quite low compared to the total number of Black African-American/African-Descent people in the US, when compared to other 'minority' groups. Yet, these other ethnic groups control most of the non-White businesses in the United States, including in the Black African-American communities. This is unnatural and many people claim it is purposeful and by design (see http://www.blackhairdvd.org/ )
In spite of the various contributions Blacks made to to the industrialization of the United States and other nations, there are still not enough Black African-American manufacturers of heavy industrial products in the United States, even when the opportunity to create such is at hand. For example, there is no reason why any part of Black America should be without automobile plants controlled by Bllacks, shipbuilders, tool and machinery manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, space and information technology manufacturers or any other type of manufacturing. This also includes the designing and manufacturing from space vehicles and cars to trains and boats. African-Americans and Africans should be creating all these industrial products because Africa has the resources, skills and personnel to do so. After all, many millions of Blacks are presently employed in these industries in the US and many have been laid off since the economic bust of the 1990's and the slow-down of manufacturing.( These unemployed African Americans or Blacks who were once employed in the automobile industry cannot organize to help develop such industries all over Africa where steel and other metals are plentiful.
It is foolhardy for African-Americans to continue not having a strong, separate and independent industrial base connected to that of Africa and other Pan-African regions who can supply both raw materials and can gain from African-American technological skills and education from African-America's highly skilled colleges and university system. No other people on earth are as exposed to or contribute so much to the industrial and technological development of their nation and the world and have not benefitted from such contributions for the development of thier ancestral motherland, as have Black people.
The time has come to change this trend mentioned above, and to work towards the industrializatioin and technological prodictivity of Black America, the Caribbean, Afro-Brazil, Afro-South America, Africa and the Black regions of the South Pacific/Melanesia (exploited for their minerals and resources, but in the case of Black/Melanesian nations like Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, not helped to develop as places like Singapore, South Korea, and others who have gained from American and European investments - including the direct inventions and creations of Black African-Americans - see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ )
The Black world and the new international Pan-African manufacturing, technological and industrial complex whose aim is the development of scientific, industrial, manufacturing and technological complexes in the Black world, begins in the United States African-American Nation, goes down through the Caribbean, passes through Trinidad and Tobago, through the Guianas, passes through North-Eastern Brazil and across the Atlantic through Africa, Southern India, to Papua New Guinea, Melanesia through the South Pacific and Australia (autonomous Black Aboriginal ruled 'Northern Territories." This region is already known as the 'ACP' group (African, Caribbean and Pacific) now expanded to be the African, African-Americas, Pacific-Melanesian group.
Black African-America has the opportunity to lead a scientific, industrial, manufacturing and technological renaissance in the Black World because of thier exposure to the needed technology, capital and education required to undergo such a task. Of course, much of the Black world is so endowned, but it is in Black America that the capital needed for such research and development is most at hand and in the hands of Black people. Three are some highly developed colleges, universities and technical institutions in the US, controlled by Blacks than can lead the research and training needed for the task.
To begin, we must regard Black African-America as a separate nation within a nation, that has a plan for its own development before it. That plan is going to be accomplished in ten to twenty years and upon its completion, the Black Pan-African world will be among the most powerful regions on earth in every way possible. But first, Blacks in the US and the rest of the Black world must take the following steps towrds rebuilding the Black world and Black America after at least five hundred years of deterioriation, destruction, depression, enslavement, racism and colonialism.
INDUSTRIAL AND TOURIST BASE
The industrial, agricultural and tourist based economy of a nation brings in most of its revenue in many cases. Lawyers, doctors and those involved in the non-industrial professions, except for those who teach are secondary to the direct industrial development of a nation or people, although as professsoinals, they are very important to any nation. When the task of nation-building, particularly the buiilding of an economic and industrial base is at hand, a nation or community benefits more it its people are trained in the technological, information and manufacturing fields. Those who engage in such areas must be pushed ahead in order for the nation to solidify its industrial base and create employment capital and development for its people.
The need for doctors, lawyers, teachers, policemen and other non-industrial professionals is very important to the running of any nation. The acquiring of degrees in various types of non-technological and non-industrial areas is not a bad ambition, yet no nation can feed itself, build industry or create a good life for its people, if that nation has nothing to sell, or manufactures nothing or does not contribute to the world's economy. No people or nation should depend only on servicing the needs of others as the primary way to earn a living.
At present in Black America, (and some nations in the Pan-African Diaspora/Africa), some of our people reject the technological and manufacturing trades and professions and want to get into being lawyers, doctors and high 'white collar' professionals, where salaries are guaranteed and risks are minimal particularly when working for some state or national agency. The same goes for the highly visible professions such as sportsmen and sportswomen, musicians and actors. Some people may not want to begin a small (or large 'susu-group of investors' ) manufacturing company to make products or to get into fields that create jobs, create products and bring in money into the communities. It seems that as soon as many of us leave college, all we care about is getting wealthy quickly.
Well, this type of attitude has contributed to the economic and social problems that some in Black America and the Black/African Diaspora and continent faces today must be changed. (This attitude of one-sided thinking on economic development can be added to the deliberate tricks of parasite nations and 'lenders' who purposely set out to impoverish and distroy the African/Black economies). Not everyone will be doctors or lawyers. Some must be industrialists, scientists, manufacturers, mechanics, engineers, auto manufacturers, technical people, electronics and information specialists, bakers and makers of everyday things. Trades and trade degrees and certificates must be held as important to the upliftment and the economic improvement of Black/Pan-African people worldwide. Such must be the case in the UNITED STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA. Pride must be bt in being involved in the manufacturing and technological fields, for it is these areas that contribute to the financial strength of most nations.
Agriculture is another area of concern in the region known as 'The United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa ( all the ECOWAS nations, and expanding to all the Central African to South African nations (the Niger-Congo language region) and the African-Americas) due to the bad attitude of some towards working the soil, an attitude that has to be washed away. We spent more than four hundred years (in the Americas) making the Europeans wealthy by working the soil for them by force and for free, loosing millions of African people in this barbaric process called slavery. Why not make our own people wealthy and powerful by working the soil (and developing a technological, manufacturing, industrial and scientific based-industries) and investing in agricultural research, technologhy and science, or by manufacturing agricultural products?
The buying of land, the plantnig of crops and the harvest and export of these crops would be a stable and solid source of income and employment for Black America and the Pan-African world.
The industrial and economic development of Black America and the 'United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa," to a level much higher than its present must be achieved, through proper planning and the proper management of both financial and human capital. Talking about making more than 800 billion dollars per year (the African-American GNP) AND POURING THAT MONEY IN THE HANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE IS A WASTE OF TIME, and exposes what can be considered to be poor planning on our part (Pan-Africans). In order to take our proper place in the world as African-Americans, Africans-of-the-Americas, Africans and Pan-Africoids (in South Asia, Melanesia, SE Asia, Australia), we must do the following things:
1. Students and workers must be properly trained through the trade schools, colleges and universities, apprentice/trade guilds and other institutions. They must be made prepared for the task of building the commercial, industrial and manufacturing complex vital to the development of the Black Nation. Technical skills must be regarded with the same importance as other skills and those who show promise must be encouraged to begin businesses to manufacture products, or enter the job market without the difficulty or hardships associated iwth gaining employment.
Black America and the 'United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa," should be in a position to create jobs for those of its peoople who are technically skilled and want to apply such skills for the development of the Black communities and the Black World. Factories and businesses should form partnerships with schools for hte training of apprentices, so that those involved in the trades will get on-the-job training that is needed to gain work experience. Certificates and diplomas or degrees from trade schools must be regarded as highly (with the same respect) as those from universities and colleges. The value of having people trained in the industrial and technological or trade fields is important to the development of any nation and contributes directly to the revenue and capital of that nation if products manufactured are sold and bring in capital.
2. Money and capital should be pooled from the community to the national level for the construction and creation of factories, businesses and jobs. The susu system is a creative way for communities to pool their resources so that they can begin industrial development.
3. Foreign investment, particularly from Black nations who want to do businesses with Black America (and the Unites States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa),
or other Black nations like the Caribbean Community, Afro-Brazil Nation, Africa or the South Pacific must be encouraged. This helps spread the industrial power of Black people over a wide region and compete on the international market.
There must be a system in place where the home community or nation has the opportunity to own a portioni of the investor's company and to buy out the company if they want to sell.
4. Everything possible must be done to acquire scientific, technological and indusrial knowledge and techniques from those who have it. The transfer of technology (or sharing of it) that the West so willingly handed to Japan, Korea and other nations of the Far East and Europe has never been handed to Black nations, even though some of this knowledge and technology handed to others are inventions and discoveries of Black Americans. It must be the duty of Black communities and natons to do all that is necessary to gain what has been stolen. Various policies to meet such goals must be put into effect.
5. Local businesses, enterprises and manufacturing must be encouraged by Black (Pan-African) organizatons and governments. Nothing should be too unimportant to manufacture, as long as the market has been researched and the demand for the product has been established. Products that has been previously manufactured for local consumption must be spread on the world market.
6. Engage in industries that do well on the world/global market, such as electronics, information technologies, computers, clothing, shoes, automobiles, and food processing. Nothing should be too complicated to manufacture, and if there are not enough skilled personnel to design and manufacture certain products in the immediate community, thos who were engaged in suchj work and were laid off, should be recruited. For example, if the community of Watts, California's Black community, wants to build an aircraft design and assembly plant (which is a reality in the city of Inglewood, California, which is west of Watts ) owned by the Black community of Watts, but there are not enough Black people to take on the jobs, they should organize to bring in Black professionals from the other neighborhoods who may have had similar jobs and were laid off. In other words, one company's 'laid off' Black worker is the gain of the Black community and Pan-African nations, who are on the verge of a new era of economic development and industrial development.
(Watt's has now been occupied by other people and is not predominantly Black -- one of the mistakes of Black men and women LISTENING TO THE GENOCIDISTS WHO PROMOTE ABORTION IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND ENCOURAGE OTHERS GROUPS TO HAVE LOTS OF BABIES - see 'A History of Racism and Terrorism, Rebellion and Overcoming," http://www.publishamerica.com/ also see "Susu and Susunomics," http://www.iuniverse.com/ and 'Susu Economics,' http://www.authorhouse.com/ )
So, if a major aircraft company, or automobile company, or computer manufacturing company laid off a number of Black workers ( to hire cheap labor as is the case already, or to send the jobs to foreign nations who turn their backs on the senders), then these Blacks who have been laid off should do all that is possible to create their own company and continue practicing their technological and manufacturing skills. At present, there is are enough 'laid off' Black employees who worked for aircraft companies who can pool the collective capital of the Black community in Los Angeles, pool the technological knowledge of these former workers and create aircraft and other companies owned and ran by Blacks in the area.
7. Neighborhoods should be organized into 'industrial zones,' closely connected to the 'susu economic system.' Home manufacturing independently or connected to larger industries (as is done in Japan) must be encouraged and can take the place of large buildings or complexes that may not be on hand. Products can be manufactured by one group of workers and completed by others. Products can also be made in onre area and packaged to be shipped to other areas. Groups and organizations of home-manufacturers must be formed and labor and industrial rules and regulations must be recognized and followed.
THE SEVEN STEPS ABOVE CAN HELP IN THE CREATION NOT ONLY OF AN INDUSTRIAL BASE IN AFRICAN-AMERICA, BUT IN THE 'UNITES STATES, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA' (All ECOWAS states, Niger-Congo speaking region of Africa, all Africans of the Americas and Africans in Europe). These are small steps that can be applied on the local level in each community and expanded on the international level.
See more of this essay, "Susu and Susunomics," http://www.iuniverse.com/ (c) 1997, 2001: by PAB.
More references, http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks
BUILDING ARTS AND CRAFTS INDUSTRIES, LIGHT MANUFACTURING, INFORMATION AND ELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES AND HEAVY INDUSTRIAL MANUFACTURING COMPLEXES
The talent as well as the knowledge required to begin small arts and crafts industries, information technologies (as the talking drums, talking harp, log drums used to send messages) and light manufacturing of goods is something that is deeply rooted in African culture. There are many examples of ancient manufacturing from paleolithic times to the slavery period in Africa and how highly developed and advanced such manufacturing had become after tens of thousands of years of evolution. The very first products manufactured and sold were what can be considered arts and crafts such as goldwork, baskets, hats, boats, weapons and thousands of other crafts.
These products do not require heavy machinery, sophisticated high tech tools and instruments or any of the expensive components that computers, space technology and vehicles, aircraft and nay highly industrial products require. Moreover, arts and crafts industries can contribute only to a steady source of capital but it can open the way for more highly technical and higly sophisticated manufacturing such as electronics and information technology devices to take place.
Nations like China, Japan, Taiwan, France, the Caribbean States, Nigeria and the United States have for many years developed their arts and crafts industries. We all know about Chinese pocerlain, clothing, ivory carving and a large number of handicrafts they have been making since ancient times. We know of African carvings, leather work, gold and brass works, paintins, basket-work, kente cloth weaving and lots of other arts and crafts. The basketwork of the Sea Islands of Georgia, Black music and other African-American arts and craftwork and various other types of things made are well known. Caribbean carvings, steel pans invented in Trinidad and Tobago and made popular throughout the Caribbean, reggae and other Caribbean music, Haitian paintings, shell work, basketwork, carvings, jewelry, barique and other type of fabric, clothing and hundreds of other arts and crafts contribute to the incomes of these nations.
A recent program on televison that showed Haitians building boats in preparation to sail Northward is a very good example of the arts and crafts talent of the people there. These same boats, had they been built to sell on the world market could have sold quite well, depending on their quality. An industry such as boatbuilding industry can work miracles for the economy of Haiti and many natons in the Caribbean and that industry should be continued, improved and expanded. (After all, South Korea, a small nation has a boatbuilding industry where huge boats are built).
Africans from Senegal to Angola (THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA - THE NIGER-CONGO ATLANTIC REGION (a proposed region with no borders and part of the Niger-Congo linguistic/cultural Zone and about 500,000,000 people), and African-Americans as well as Afro-Caribbeans and Afro-Latin Americans are position in coastal regions of the Americas and Africa. They should organize to create ship-building industries. African-Americans living in states like Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, or any of the states on the seaboard can begin ship-building industries and can find markets for their products on the global market. Industries can be developed where working for others is not necessary. Small companies of bronze casters, carvers, jewelers, porcelain art and utensil makers, furniture makers, metal workers, music and record makers, and all the industries that promduce many of hte necessities of life must be built in the Black nations of the world and the United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa. Some of these industries can be began by those who had the proper training in trade or technical schools and colleges, and who wold like to begin businesses. Others can form 'susus' to pool the finances necessary to begin such small manufacturing projects.
The arts and crafts tradition among African-Americans in the United States and other parts of the Amricas is a continuation of the same tradition that begun in African tens of thousands of years ago (dated to about 100,000 B.C. - See article abot Sophisticated Stone and Bone tools found at Semlike River Valley (Congo) dating to about 100,000 years old, "Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com/ ).
The industries such as carving, furniture-making, metal-working, jewelry-design and manufacturing and many of the crafts practiced in the US during slavery by African-Americans for the slave masters or plantations begun the earliest states of the industrial revolution in the Americas. After slavery as abolished, these same African who had been slaves along with thheir sons and daughters, contributed to many inventions which helped push the United States into the industrialized nations.
The African slaves and ex-slaves of the Americas made all types of ars and carafts before the overall industrialization of the U.S. in the nineteenth century and years before the Industrialization Revolution actually began. They made baskets, quilts, ironware and iron products, tools, invented machinery, carved wood, dyed cloth and carried on many of the industrial skills they had learned while they wer in Africa. Yet, after slavery, when these Africans left the plantation to work in the industrial North, some of these arts and crafts were used only for the benefit of the factory owner. However, some African-Americans built companies or continued on in the manufacturing tradition.
The time has come to begin rebuilding hte base of Black industrial entrepreneurship in the US and the Black Pan-African world, particularly the regional economic, cultural and African supernation, The United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa - based in all the ECOWAS nations and stretching down to Angola and in time to Kenya in East Africa. First, trade guilds and organizations can be started to organize practitioners of the various trades so that they can begin from a position of strength. Those trained in the arts and carfts should consider going into business as soon as they graduate from trade schools and colleges. Money needed to finance the building of factories and the purchase of material can begin, even with people who do not earn income through employment.
Susu blocks of one hundred people can be organized and money can be pooled together for the buying of tools, equipment, raw materials and the property needed to start small factories and businesses. The making of handicrafts and light industrial products such as pottery, carvings, china work, basket work, shoes, weaving and colthes manufacturing, tool making and other products can be started.
A susu block of one hundred people including poor women on welfare or public assistance who want to get off this slave-like system and want to contribute to the employment of their men and families can each pool $100.00 per month in a pool for the building of a factory that produces products that can be sold on the market. We all know that many fathers are unemployed and so sometimes their wives or women are encouraged to go on welfare and the man is thrown out of their families ( a racist scheme that distroys Black families). This trend can be brought to a halt if the Black woman in this situation pool their money together and the Black men do the same with their money as well, creating a large pool that can be sustained by those who work among them. At least one hundred dollars can be placed in the pool each month by each pool member. This money will allow both men and women to begin businesses so they can make and sell products, expand and bring employment back into the Black community and strengthen the Black family.
If one hundred families ant to begin a plant that manufacturers 'Olmec Dynasty heads," (1000 BC to 500 AD - Mexico/Central America/North America)
or other types of bronze castings and artwork out of bronze, each family on welfare can put in one hundred dollars in a pool per month and collect $10,000.00 dollars per month. In five months, there will be $50,000 dollars. In one year $120,000.00 dollars. That amount would be enought to buy a small warehouse, some equipment, tools and raw materialks to start out. A profit would be made after a market had been established and the finished products sold. Making things out of bronze may not bring in income as fast as having a bakery, baseball cap factory, or any goods that are in demand on the market but as an example it is proper.
One of the most important goals of the arts and crafts guilds and manufacturing establishment in any nation and in the Black communities of the U.S., the United States and Kingdoms of Africa, Brazil, Haiti and other nations with large Black populations would be to find and keep markets open worldwide for the buyingt and selling of products. One of our problems as Black people and business people here in the United States is to continue to think of the world market, particularly the Black World market, as unimportant to the economical development of Black America, the Black world and of Black business throughout the world. Such attitude is rather ironic when American, Japanese, European and other nations and their industrial and commercial establishments consider the worldwide Black market to be quite important. Furthermore, Black nations around the world are the backbone of many products from these industrialized nations because many Black nations and population groups do not manufacture anything (but that is changing rapidly and the objective of The United States, Kingdoms and Diaspora of Africa, USKDA is to establish a powerful supernation that is a top economic and manufacturing world power).
See "Susu and Susunomics" (c) 1997, 2001 pub. at AuthorHouse.com Inc., 5330 S 16th, Ste. 200, Lincoln, NE 68512 http://www.iuniverse.com/
If Pan-African craft-makers and manufacturers had to trade in products used only by Negroid or Australoid Blacks (in South India, Australia, South Asia), their products (like combs for their type of hair, sunglasses for their type of face, ect) would do well on the international market. There are about 2,000,000,000 (two billion Negroid, Australoid and Melan-Negroid people on planet earth who all belong to the greater Black Africoid race. They are concentrated all over the Southern Hemisphere and in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere. The combined economic power of this group of people is quite powerful indeed and the time has come for the Black world to take advantage of its own power.
(One third of the world's population are pure African Negroes/Blacks or related Negroid/Black people in Asia, the Indian Ocean, Australia/Melanesia -- who belong mainly to the Manding-Cush ethnic and linguistic groups, spread from Senegal all the way to Melanesia, far south to South Africa and South New Zealand and whose languages belong to the prehistoric Manding-Cushi language, and who existed in the Sahara in prehistoric times and practiced horticulture about 30,000 years ago in the Sahara and Papua New Guinea).
And so, the Black manufacturers of the United States, Pacific, India, Europe and other geographical areas would be able to do business profitably without ever having to depend on selling a single product to the northern 'non-tropical, resource-poor' nations.
The type of manufacturing covered in this essay deals with the traditional arts and crafts. Those things that Blacks worldwide have created and manufactured since the beginning of human history, the fifteen renaissances (see http://www.africanblackrenaissance.blogspot.com/ ) since the Zingh Empire, through Egypt and the Nubian-Cushi Empire, the Negau-Punt (later to become the Swahili ), the Nok-Wagadu (Nigeria, Ghana, Benin, others), Ghana Empire, the Maurites, Ethiopia's Sabeans and other classical Black African civilizations. (See more about them http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html
http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/ read also 'Susu Economics: The History of Pan-African Trade, Commerce, Money and Wealth," pub. by http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx
Many of the ancient arts and crafts of THE UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF AFRICA WERE OF THE HIGHEST QUALITY IN ANCIENT TIMES (and still are today). These include the glorious and magnificent artworks, paintings, buildings and system of arts, sciences and culture of Egypt (Khemet), Nubia-Cush (Sudan), Ethiopia-Sabea (Modern Ethiopia). The magnificent works of stone, ivory, bronze and clay created by the Wagadu-Nok civilization, which also spread to Meso-America. ( The West African Area (present ECOWAS STATES, includes Forest Kingdoms, Benin, Igbo-Ikwu, Yoruba, Ghana, Mali, Songhai and others who are all related - 3000 BC to 1500's AD). Jade, gold, stone and ivory carving, the making and smelting of iron tools also occurred in the ancient Zimbabwe Kingdom 1000 BC to 1800 AD. The magnificent cities of many-storied buildings and over 85 cities built along the Swahili coasts from Mozambique to Somalia -- all have been created with the utmost skill. Hence despite the omission from some history books and the purposeful removal of African contrinbutions made in some nations that are now dominated by other groups of people, the preservation of thousands of African scrolls, books and methods of preserving the past history have helped to keep documentation of Africa's civilizations in Africa as well as the culture they brought to the Americas, Middle East, South Asia and East Asia.
Those things that Blacks worldwie have created and manufactured sine the beginning of human history to the present, without the help of high technology, but with advanced mathematics and machinery suitable for the time of creation have all been part of Africa's legacy of manufacturing. These products that are of much value in the lives of everyday people and do not cost too much on the market. These are products that can be manufactured by a single person (such as quilts and carpets) to those that require more help, such as making customized automobiles by hand, boats, furniture and metal products, electronic and information technological devices. Products such as these and thousands of others can be made or produced in an organized fashion without even having large factories, advanceed technology, spending millions of dollars or wasting large amounts of time and energy.
There are thousands upon thousands of everyday things that have been used in the Black world from time immemorial to the present time, yet, many of these inventions and products are made by everyday people who may not find finish, outward appearance and looks, or high quality, to be too important. For example, the maker of a balafon from a village community in Mozambique, many not regard a VERY HIGH QUALITY FINISHED WOODEN PRODUCT, BEAUTIFUL FINISH OR ESTHETIC QUALITY TO BE IMPORTANT, as long as the instruments works well. This attitude must be changed. We must regard inner beauty, outward appearance, finish, workability and perfect craftsmanship to be of the utmost importance. In other words, the maker of a balafon should not only care about the quality of the music produced, but of the beauty of the instrument and how it pleases the eye, its touch and how it feels. Making crude products or failing to improve the quality of handicrafts or art is detyrimental to the selling of these products. Quality and finish must be applied to the highest of degrees.
Small factories or craft centers can be built in the Black (Pan-African) communities and in depressed areas where traditional artworks, particularly traditional African-inspired (and both current and ancient African art) and everyday utencils and objects used or displayed for decoration, religious meaning or esthetic value. African musical instruments such as the mbira or thumb piano, the drums, talking drums, balafon or marimba, zither, horns, flutes, rattles, korad and many other instruments used to make music can be manufactured and sold on the world market.
Skilled crafts-people who will apply high quality finish and expert craftsmanship can revolutionize the manner in which these things are made by placing an emphasis on both the quality of performance and the quality of esthetics, and craftsmanship. Musical inventions such as the 'steel pans" which were invented by Black Trinidadian, Sir Winston Spree and other types of musical instruments can also be manufactured for th eworld market.
Traditional African weapons such as the Ashanti swords, spears, bows and arrows, shields, throwing knives, daggers, armor (like the coral armor of the Benin soldiers of ancient times - still used today), can be manufactured, connected to the many African martial arts still practiced in Africa (and the Americas, see http://www.myspace.com/africanmartialarts http://www.planetcapoeira.com/ http://groups.blackplanet.com/africanmartialarts ). These 'recreated' ancient weapons can also be used for decoration, in the same way that some Chinese and Japanese, European and Middle Eastern traditonal weapons are used for decoration and as historical display artworks.
Clothing, cloth, shoes, leatherwork, hats, belts, coats, robes and many easy-to-make products that are used daily, can be produced by unemployed people and sold on the global market. Africans must develop their own 'silkwork' process to make cloth out of silk as the ancient Khemites and Nubians, the Blacks of India and the ancient Black Shang of China did.
Traditional arts and crafts such as bronze casting must be reintroduced as an essential and important part of the Pan-African arts and crafts renaissance in manufacturing. Some of the most beautiful and technically superior brass castings and artworks were produced in West Africa between 1000 BC to 1600's AD. Some of these masterpieces are to be seen in art books and in museums in Nigeria and elsewhere around the world. Some have been stolen during 'expiditionary' invasions by colonizers and are in the museums of these colonizers today.
Carvings in jade, stone, serpentine, soapstone, quartz and other types of semi-precious stone can add to the expansion of the arts and crafts industries. Such industries can help create employment for Black males particularly in cities wehre unemployment among that group is not only too high, but contributes to the further destruction of the Black family and the Black race in general. It is well known that stone carving is one of the most ancient arts used by Africans (over 100,000 years old; read about 'Blombos Cave' - South Africa finds of geometric etchings on red ochre and prehistoric jewelry made of shells - see "Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx ). It is the carving of events in stone that has left historical records about the achievements of Blacks worldwide, and in places where they were not expected to have settled in very ancient times, such as the Americas, Southern China, India, Europe, and the Pacific Islands.
The value of art has increased drastically over the decades. Today, Shona art of Zimbabwe which developed from an artistic tradition that goes thousands of years before the Christian era, is among the most beautiful and most expensive and valuable stone art produced today. Such art costs tens of thousands of dollars when sold on the international market. The value of this art has more to do with the tradition, its use of abstract techniques and its use of the African pholosophy of regarding things created as an extension of the creator.
Among the most visually pleasing paintings of Africa in the present era are those of Zaire. The paintings of Haiti, Nigeria and other nations are also fo high quality and follow similar artistic style that seem quite similar. Haiti's 'Voodoo-themed' spiritual and religious art is so brilliant that it seem to come alive in inspiration and in color. Africans are indeed the world's first painters of naturalistic and abstract paintings and they left their mark in thousands of places all over Africa and Europe. The continuation of the African tradition of the visual arts must be carried out and in fact, it should be advanced to a higher level. African, Haitian, Caribbean and African-American visual arts must be proliferated and spread on the world market in the same manner that Black American and Caribbean music are appreciated worldwide and African music is appreciatred in many areas of the world, including nations like China.
Unemployed Black (African) males and females, whether in the US, Caribbean, South America, Brazil or anywhere else who cannot find employment in other fields must be encouraged to study the arts and crafts field and apply the skills and talent s necessary to create and produce products , markets to sell the products as well as providing employment.
AFRICANS AND AFRICAN-AMERICANS/PAN-AFRICANS ARE NOT NEW TO THE USE OF TRADITIONAL ARTS AND CRAFTS TO CREATE PRODUCTIVE IINDUSTRIES THAT DO WELL, AND VERY WELL ON THE WORLD MARKETS, PARTICULARLY THE GLOBAL BLACK WORLD (NATIONS) MARKET. Hair-care products that are used by peole with kinky/frizzly hair from the US to Africa to Melanesia, is made by African-American beauty-products companies. It is only recently (since the early 1970's) that many of these products have been copied and Blacks have been hair care producers/manufacturer4s have had to compete and have been thrown out of their own market by parasitic practices ( see http://www.blackhairdvd.com/ )
Yet, some of the biggest Black/African -American industries are makiang Black music, hair-care products, tourism, historical-cultural tourism, bookpublishing, food processing, clothing, jewelry, educational materials, international travel, resturanting, automobile/engine manufacturing, electronic goods, information-age products and many others. Some of these industries particularly music are direct transfers of culture from the base in Africa. For example, jazz and rhythm and blues musc have African roots, so does calypso, samba, Afro-Cuban(being stolen by others as is other forms of Black music (disguised with the "Latin' label) and many other types of music like 'Afro-Panamanian-Jamaican' reggae sang in Spanish, now' now ripped off and called 'reggaeton' by people who look like the descendents of white Spaniards, while the Black inventors are no where to be seen -- or the case of the rip-off of Afro-Cuban music now called 'salsa.'
(See "Americans and Their Idols" http://www.infinitypublishing.com/ )
also see , "Susu and Susunomics," pub. by iUniverse.com http://www.iuniverse.com/ also see http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks )
In the U.S., soul, R&B, Jazz and other types of Black music have brought in many millions of dollars from all over the world and such music have made not only Black people, but Whites and others quite wealthy. Reggae music, calypso and other types of Caribbean music do the same for the Caribbean region. So do African and Afro-Brazilian music. So, a part of Pan-African culture has neen spread worldwide and continues to be a source of income for those who propagate it. THE SAME MUST BE DONE IN EVERY OTHER ASPECT OF CREATIVITY.
The time has comoe to apply industrial growth and development to other African arts and crafts, technologies and creations as well. By so doing, we can create opportunities for those of us who are not employed in the businesses and industries of others. We can also sell our products worldwide. The markets are open and waiting. One way to begin a national system of businesses based onthe ancient arts and craft industries is to open schools that will teach, train and show members of the Pan-African commnity how to apply these arts and crafts to the market after production. An arts and crafts industry should be considered as an alternative as well as a branch of the general industrializatino of any nation, and an effective way to create employment and a capital base, as well as to begin and continue a tradition that is tens of thousands of years old.
Experts can be hired from nations in Africa to teach carving, African style painting, weaving and various other arts and crafts. To those who are unemployed and may want to begin small, light manufacturing businesses. The making of traditional products such as African-style carpets, waving cloth in kente style, making Fulani or Bsuto hats, sandals, Nigerian silk robes with excuisite emboidry, Benin bronze statues and busts, copper and bronze works patterned from thise that existed about 2000 BC to 1400 AD, GOLD AND SILVER JEWELRY AND COUNTLESS OTHER TYPES OF CRAFTWORK, MUST BE CARRIED OUT IN A MORE ADVANED MANNER THAN IS BEING DONE PRESENTLY. IT SHOULD BE CARRIED OVER A WIDE AREA.
This is a good example of using Black culure to create an industrial base and it has always been at the core of Black industrial development in the Americas and Africa. Before the industrial development in Europe and Asia, Africa was on an equal or superior level when it came to the manufacture of goods of all types. It was only after the invasion of Africa by Semites and Europeans, and the enslavemento of millions of Africans that the industrial revolution in Africa, which began with the iron and steel age (1500 BC to 1500 AD) , came to an abrupt halt. The indtoduction of superior weapons such as guns and gunowder also helped destroy Africa as it did to China, who was also going through a an industrial uplifting just before the Europeans arrived. Ironically, gunpowder has been used in Africa (Nigeria and Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Swahili Coasts) for thousands of years before it was brought to China (first used by the Nuchens in warfare during hte 1100's - see "Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com ) by Middle Easterners. In Egypt, the 'Khem-mystry' (magical arts of Egypt and other African ancient cultures) science of chemicals developed gunpowder to be used in religious rituals. IN ANCIENT NIGERIA/NOK-WAGADU, GUNPOWDER WAS USED FOR RELIGIOUS RITUALS AS WELL AS FOR HEALING AND FOR IGNITION.
It appears that China, who had been hidden from European influence for thousands of years, became as traumatized as Africa, who had experienced some Arab/Semite and European invasions. Africa had no choice but to fight these invaders and soundly defeat them in many cases (like the Mongols outside the gates of Egypt, by a force of Nubians and Mamelukes from Egypt).
The reintroduction of African traditional ars into Black America, Pan-Africa and the global Black community as well as the manufacture nd worldwide marketing and selling of such products, is essential to the building of a solkid and prosperous industrial base in Black America, the Caribbean, South America, or any region where Blacks/Pan-Africans/Africoids live in the world. The time has come to use all that can be used to gain a superior position in the world of industry, manufacturing, commerce, high technology and agriculture. The manufacture of heavy mnachinery, aircraft, boats, cars, trucks, weapons systems, trains and new inventions must be prepared for and carried out with much zeal. Pan-Africans, African-Americans, THE UNITED STATES OF WEST AFRICA, KINGDOMS AND DIASPORA OF AFRICA CAN NO LONGER WAIT FOR THE FRENCH, JAPANESE, EUROPEANS, ASIANS, NORTH AMERICANS AND OTHERS TO DO WHAT MUWE MUST DO FOR OURSELVES. EVERY STEP NECESSARY MUST BE TAKEN TO CREATE THESE INDUSTRIES MENTIONED ABOVE, TO DOMINATE PRODUCTIVITY, CREATE THE BEST PRODUCTS IN THE WORLD AND BECOME PART OF THE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE WORLD MARKET. IT CAN BE DONE. (Susu and Susunomics," http://www.iuniverse.com (c) 1997, 2001 by PAB
DEVELOPING A STRONG SYSTEM OF DEFENSE.
BUILDING A PAN-AFRICAN GLOBAL MEDIA NETWORK
http://africanamericasworldnetworks.blogspot.com
DEVELOPING A STRONG MONETARY SYSTEM
DEVELOPING A UNITED PAN-NEGROID CONSCIOUSNESS TO INCLUDE BLACK/NEGROID PEOPLE IN AFRICA, THE AMERICAS, EUROPE, SOUTH ASIA, MELANESIA AND ELSEWHERE WHO IDENTIFY WITH AFRICAN PEOPLE.
DEVELOP AND REBUILD AFRICA'S CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURAL IN MODERN CITY AND TOWN-BUILDING.
(See more here 'Susu and Susunomics," pub. by http://www.iuniverse.com/
http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks
NATIONS OF THE 'UNITED STATES AND KINGDOMS OF WEST AFRICA.'
These nations are presently members of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) group:
Nigeria
Niger
Mali
Cape Verde
Senegal
Ghana
Gambia
Guinee
Guinea Bissau
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Burkina Faso
Ivory Coast
Togo
Benin
These are the present states/nations . Nations like Cameroon, Chad and 'Occupied African lands' may join later.
There are also THREE OTHER ECONOMIC UNIONS OF STATES IN AFRICA:
The East African Union (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda; hope that Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Cush (South Sudan), Puntland, Djibouti will one day join that union).
The Southern African Development Congress - South Africa, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, Botswana, Mozambique.
The Congo/Angola region states: Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic.
There is also a strong and united system of kingship in Africa that is thousands of years old and dates to the Zingh Empire (Senegal to Egypt) in what was once a wet and fertile Sahara and the original homeland of many African/Africoid people from Africa to Melanesia to the Americas.
MODERN AND ANCIENT AFRICAN KINGS, LORDS, QUEENS, KINGDOMS
Africa's system of kingship should be preserved and revived. Kings and queens contribute to preserving ancient arts, crafts, culture, traditions, lineages and the soul of a nation. The kings and queens of a nation or region can play the role of helping to bride the people and keep the nation strong and prospering. It is usually the kings and queens who are closer to the people than the high officials. Kings and queens may have to play 'ceremonial' roles, but they help in preserving the tradition of keeping ancient arts, costumes, styles, and many traditions alive.
http://neoncobra.blogspot.com/2006/12/african-kings.html
http://www.swagga.com/king.htm
http://www.swagga.com/queen.htm
AFRICAN ART
http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/blackmalepowermovement-about62.html
POPULATION POLICIES OF THE 'UNITES STATES AND KINGDOMS OF WEST AFRICA.'
The policy is POPULATION EXPANSION AND USE OF LARGE POPULATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT. The policy is the rejection of all forms of infanticide and population control.
INDUSTRY, ARTS, CRAFTS
AFRICAN MEDIA MOVIE PRODUCTION
NOLLYWOOD
http://www.naijarules.com/artman/publish/article_55.shtml
http://www.naijarules.com/
also see http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/
EDUCATION
LANGUAGES AND ALPHABETS
Yoruba, Mandinga and Ghanian
African alphabet
http://nubianem7.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album02&page=1
http://groups.blackplanet.com/africanhieroglyphicwriters
http://web.archive.org/web/200423121050/community-2.webtv.net/PAULNUBIAEMPIRE/AFRIKUANDIKA/THEPAN/index.html
http://www.ancientscripts.com/meroitic.html
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/ndjuka.htm
ECONOMIC TRAPS AFRICANS MUST BE CAREFUL AND AWARE OF:
http://www.johnperkins.org/
http://www.economichitman.com/
MUSIC AND DANCE
http://www.afropop.com/
http://www.afropop.org/
AFRICAN MARTIAL ARTS
http://www.myspace.com/africanmartialarts
http://groups.blackplanet.com/africanmartialarts
http://www.planetcapoeira.com/
RELIGION AND SCIENCE
http://groups.blackplanet.com/voodooorishaweathercontrolrituals
http://groups.blackplanet.com/vaduorishamaat/africanreligionsunited
http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/einstein.html
AFRICAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN SCIENCE, SPACE, AND TECHNOLOGY - LIFE ON MARS??
http://web.archive.org/web/20040823121114/community-2.webtv.net/PAULNUBIAEMPIRE/BARTONSNUBIANEMPIRE/index.html
UNITED WEST AFRICAN CURRENCY
http://www.blackelectorate.com/articles.asp?ID=550
AFRICAN DIASPORA - North America, Latin America, Caribbean, Europe, ASIA
http://www.blackelectorate.com/
http://www.yaaams.org/
AFRICANS OF LATIN AMERICA
http://whgbetc.com/mind/black-latin-america2.html
AFRICAN UNITY
http://www.africanunificationfront.om/calendar.php
AFRICA MUST BE CAREFUL ABOUT RECOLONIZATION BY FOREIGN NATIONS BRINGING 'GIFTS.'
http://nigeriaworld.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=2723
AFRICAN FUTURE AND RENAISSANCE
http://africanblackrenaissance.blogspot.com/
AFRICAN WOMEN PENPALS
http://www.asiangirls-personals.com/member66/36605.html
GREAT READING AND INFORMATION
'Susu Economics," http://www.authorhouse.com/
http://www.myspace.com/bestsellingbooks
http://blackmalepower.proboards106.com/
http://sexyloveromancepoems.blogstream.com/
MASS MEDIA; RADIO, TELEVISION, NEWS
http://africanamericasworldnetworks.blogspot.com/
http://www.myspace.com/afriamericonscioushiphop
http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/
http://www.raceandhistory.com/
TV ONE
http://www.tvoneschedule/
CHANNEL AFRICA
http://www.channelafrica.org/portals/site/m
BLACK/AFRICAN RADIO GUIDE
http://www.radioblack.com/books.html
AFRICAN HISTORY OF AMERICA BEFORE COLUMBUS; ANCIENT TRADE AND COMMERCE
http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~22046.aspx
AFRICAN-AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM and MEDIA
http://www.congressionalblackcaucus.net/
http://www.wolam.com/
http://www.joemadison.com/
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