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@Qnie_Addiss
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#HopingAgainstHope: Panafricanism and the fight for Southern Rhodesia [Zimbabwe]

1/ Between 1970-73, the UK & US vetoed 5 resolutions against white minority dictatorship in S. Rhodesia. The proceedings of the UNSC meeting are eerily reminiscent of our current situation.
2/ In 1972, OAU held a meeting in Addis opened by HIM Hailesselassie to strategize further with regard to the situation in S. Rhodesia & the role of the UN. In 1973, a UNSC resolution was tabled by Kenya & Guinea calling for action against the illegal white minority gov't of SR.
3/ Odero-Jowi, representing Kenya gave a very elegant and moving speech against this debacle and rebuked the members of the UNSC[UN & UK] that consistently stop resolutions against the white minority govt of SR through what he aptly called "velvet vetoes."
4/ He also lambasted the @nytimes for publishing an article saying the priority of Africans should be hunger and Africans killing other africans. [The everdependable NYT!]
5/As expected, the resolution calling for equal rights to black Zimbabweans was vetoed by the UK & US while China and USSR voted in favor of it.
6/ The final words spoken by Odero-Jowi of Kenya, ring true today as much as they did in 1973. "What they [UK and US] are trying to work against, what they are opposing, is inevitable. These changes will take place and justice will PREVAIL....."

#panafricanismprevails
#NoMore
Dedicated to panafriacnists in name only who know nothing about the history of #panafricanism and all the Jane/John Blacks and Whites who want #Africans to accept the US, UK and co. as paragons of human rights.

#KnowThyHistory
#KnowMore

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