RETURN TO THE LAND IN AFRICA: IMPERATIVE MISSION FOR BUILDING THE AFRICAN EMPIRE

Very often, among some political forces in Western countries, we hear about the need for remigration to Africa for African people.

REMIGRATION AS A DISCOURSE DEFENDED BY THE FAR RIGHT, ASSIMILATIONISM AS A DISCOURSE DEFENDED BY THE GLOBALIST LEFT

The term used by far-right political forces is “remigration”. For them, it is necessary for all Africans to return to Africa and stop fueling a so-called “invasion”. From the Afro-centric point of view, Europe is not in a position to criticize a presumed invasion of Africa, or a so-called ethnic substitution, since the first great invaders in the warlike and predatory sense were the European oligarchs through a pseudo-civilizing mission in Africa, the Americas, Oceania, Asia. It was this stateless and Europid oligarchy that carried out the first great ethnic substitution in the territories of the Melanoderms, accompanied by a millenary negrocidal and melanocidal war. Africa is the Matrix of Civilization and of all Continents, as amply demonstrated by Black authors such as Chancellor Williams, Runoko Rashidi, Cheikh Anta Diop, Asa Grant Hiliard III, Clyde Winters, Yosef Ben Jochannan, John Henrik Clarke, Martin Robinson Delany, Ivan Van Sertima, Cheikh Anta Diop, Théophile Obenga, Jean Charles Coovi Gomez, Amos Nelson Wilson, James Small, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, Nioussere Kalala Omotunde, and many others. We were not strangers to Civilization, on the contrary, it is the other Peoples who have been initiated into the greatness possessed by the Original People, the Black African.

Returning to the concept of remigration, Western oligarchs, and certain far-right political forces, should remember that if there must be remigration for some (Blacks and Melanoderms in general), there must be remigration for all (descendants of colonists and slavers settled everywhere). Although assimilationism (proposed by a neoliberal, globalist, anti-identitarian left at the antipodes of Black self-determination) in Western societies is not the solution for Africans and Afro-descendants, since it dilutes our Black Identity and distances us from our civilizational paradigm, we must be vigilant in the face of discourses from both the right/far right and the left/far left camps. Afro-descendants and Africans must organize themselves, according to their own discourses and needs.

RETURN TO THE LAND

Well before certain political forces in the West began to speak of “remigration”, the Black World had several Black theorists, militants, defenders of the return to the Land: Martin Robinson Delany (1812-1885), Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912), Benito Sylvain (1868-1915), Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), Stokely Carmichael Kwame Ture (1941-1998), Khalid Abdul Muhammad (1948-2001). The idea that united each was that there could be no salvation in the Western capitalist world: orienting oneself culturally, mentally and physically towards Africa was the necessity.

MARTIN DELANY: AFRICA FOR AFRICANS, WITH BLACK MEN LEADING IT

“Our policy must be Africa for the African Race, with Black Men leading it!” -Martin Robinson Delany

Martin Robinson Delany (1812-1885) was one of the precursors of Pan-Africanism. African-American Black Man (of Mandingo origin, his Ancestors were Royal Chiefs), abolitionist, anti-slavery, precursor of Black Nationalism, theoretician of the return of Afro-descendants to Africa and of a Homeland for Afro-descendants. He is responsible for the motto “Africa for Africans!” taken up by many Pan-Africanist movements to this day. Doctor, soldier, writer, journalist, Delany visited Africa from 1859 to 1861: he went to Liberia and Nigeria where he signed treaties with the local sovereigns to allow Afro-descendants to settle. Back in America, following the Civil War and the colonial advance in Africa, his project of the Great Return to the Land did not come true. Delany wrote about Ancient Egypt and Ancient Ethiopia, explaining that they represent the cradle of Civilization, science and religions. Marcus Garvey was inspired by him years later, and all the successors of the Black-Nationalist school. Today in the 21st century, Delany’s ideas are interesting in the Age of Globalism, for a necessary rooting to the Land, according to an Afro-centric barometer.

MARCUS GARVEY: AN EMPIRE FOR THE WORLD’S NEGROES

“It is possible that not all of us will have the opportunity to see in our lifetime the realization of an African Empire so strong, so powerful that it would command respect from humanity. But we can still, during our lifetime, work and commit ourselves to make this project a reality for another generation” -Marcus Mosiah Garvey

Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), was a very influential leader in the Black World of the first half of the twentieth century. Born in Saint Ann’s Bay (Jamaica), Garvey had the opportunity to travel extensively around the world; moved to the United States, in 1914 he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). The UNIA was the most powerful and influential black nationalist and pan-African organization in History that revolved around the idea of the Great Return to Africa, self-determination and total decolonization of the continent. A great preacher of the return to Africa of all Afro-descendants, Garvey affirmed that every people had its own Identity and that its purpose was to remain firm in its roots. In the 1920s, he was the first to speak of the Pan-African ideal and to imagine the birth of the United States of Africa (in an imperial key): Garvey, in fact, had understood that only a large united Pan-African block could resist exogenous colonialism and gain respect in the concert of Nations. In order for this to happen, Garvey managed – through the shipping company he owned, the Black Star Line – to transport many Afro-descendants to Liberia from 1919 to 1922. The project did not have a long life, since the colonists in Africa and the American government put spokes in its wheels, as happened with Delany. Furthermore, he insisted a lot on Pan-African nationalism to the point of becoming a threat to the interests of the US government in Liberia, which decided to deport him to Jamaica and to prevent him from continuing his work. However, his ideas did not die, because they were the essence of the Fifth Pan-African Congress of 1945, which saw the participation of the future “new leaders” of African nations, including Kwame Nkrumah, Ahmed Sékou Touré and Jomo Kenyatta, men who in life would lead Ghana, Guinea and Kenya as presidents.

RETURN TO THE LAND AND THE GLOBAL MELANOCENTRIC REVOLUTION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: WE MUST BUILD THE AFRICAN EMPIRE!

Afro-descendants and Africans must draw inspiration from the Black theories of the past proposed by Delany, Garvey, and others. The difference between the concept of “Return to the Land” (Pan-Africanism) and “Remigration” (Voices in the West), is that the former advocate the return in the perspective of self-determination, construction, preservation of Black Identity after centuries of Maafa (Black Holocaust), while the latter are locked in discourses of pseudo “racial purity” and pseudo-superiority, while being subjugated to the stateless neoliberal oligarchy that they never dare to attack. That’s the difference in size! Paradoxically, the same people who support remigration (in the Western sense) are the same people who will put a spoke in the wheels of those who support a mass return to the Land (as they did with Delany, Garvey, …), because they need controlled black labor to galvanize Capital. In short, their discourse is “fewer migrants! We need them but more controlled!” And the neoliberal globalist left, in turn not understanding the problems, fools the Blacks. In the end, as Chancellor Williams argued in his book “Destruction of the Black Civilization” (1971), all these political currents lead to a single will: Western domination over Africans. I think that for Africans and Afro-descendants living in the West there are 2 options:

•  Black Communitarianism: For those who cannot return, we need to organize ourselves in endosolidarity communities (under the concept of Revolutionary Black Nationalism and Benda -solidarity-) in the Diaspora, practice Black Power (in the footsteps of Elijah Muhammad, Kwame Ture, Amos Nelson Wilson, Khalid Abdul Muhammad), create a powerful economic system that will allow the Global Black Diaspora and Africa to benefit from it.

• Return to the Land to prepare the advent of the African Empire: We need to form a powerful black elite ideologically, mentally, culturally, spiritually to recompose the Black People in the image of the Netjer (Primordial Ancestor) Wauzar, recomposed by the Netjer Aseta. Then, we will talk about unity and immunity: internal union between Africa and the Black World (Narmer who unified the Two Lands) and protection/militia (Kilombo the royal army) from internal and external attacks.

But beware! All Blacks cannot return to Africa: The Back-to-Africa requires challenges and above all a large Black elite devoted to Africa to prepare the advent of the African Empire around what I call the “Global Melanocentric Revolution” (in the image of the African Empires of the Past). Not all Blacks can be saved! Africa instead needs a new circle, even if a minority (in the image of the great world revolutions carried out by a few people). Garvey himself was aware of this, who said “I have no desire to return all the Blacks to Africa. There are some who are of no use here and will be of no use there”.

In conclusion, it is time for Africans and Afro-descendants to stop letting others speak for them! They must organize themselves and for themselves!

The Empire will return!

Fara-Fin Sâa François Sandouno, African Man born in Italy originally from Guinea, Pan-African and Afrocentric thinker, Geopolitical speaker, Journalist.