World summit on reparation for Africa

THE EDITOR: Please be informed that the African Renaissance Party (ARP) of Nigeria is organising a World Summit on Reparation for Africa slated for Kingston, Jamaica from February 23 to 28,  2004, and that  John Kufour the Ghanaian President has been projected to declare the summit open. President Robert Mugabe is expected to be chairman of the opening ceremony while the President of Senegal Abdoulaye Wade has been invited to give the keynote address.

Truly, a lot has been said and written on this issue of reparation to Africa and the African diaspora for the forceful subjugation to centuries of slavery, colonisation, economic and social dislocation by western and other powers. But despite all these, the issue of the reparations has been at a standstill. Most agitators have lost steam, while African governments hooked on the apron strings of neocolonialism, have abandoned the struggle. The February 2004 Summit is designed not only to re-awaken and give added impetus to the whole issue of Reparation to Africa but to more specifically articulate and enunciate a pragmatic and progressive action plan for positively advancing the cause.

Judicial Action — The Way Forward: We are persuaded that judicial action has been the missing link. In the New World Order of the 21st century, judicial action is the appropriate means to bring the age-long struggle to its logical conclusion. The planned summit will amongst other things:
(1) Delve into the archives to fish out specific cases of illegalities and injustices committed against Africa and Africans for litigation in western, international and African courts of law.
(2) Create a legal platform for the programme’s actualisation of the goals of the reparation struggle.
(3) Provide further background information for the realisation of the goals of the reparation struggle.
(4) Provide a corporate analysis of successful reparation struggles in world history viz-a-viz that of Africa.
(5) Establish a “Reparation judicial Action Fund” to cater for the legal and other attendant costs of the judicial action.
(6) Demonstrate that reparations due to African nations are at least a thousand times the value of the foreign debts crippling African Economies. Long live Africa.

ALH. YAHAYA EGK NDU
National Chairman / Founder,
African Renaissance
Party  Nigeria.