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♚❤♚ MJ
…and JJ Rawlings
-Remembering Brother Malcolm May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965.
“Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.”
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Hieroglyphics inscription of the word Khem-t, which means “Black” in the Egyptian language, referrers to themselves as a Black African people. The ancient Egyptians were fond of the play on words. Black not only referred to the skin of the people it also referred to the rich black soil deposited by the Nile River. European scholars deny that the Egyptians referred to themselves as Black, despite the fact that most of them were charcoal black.As a white privileged person, it never occurred to me once during my formal education that Egyptians were Black. It never occurred to me why that famous pharaoh statue was missing its nose, and what that missing piece might have signified. This is just one of the thousand insidious ways we whitewash history to erase any mark of greatness that came from People of Color, especially Black people. It outrages me that I was never told the whole truth during my education, and that people will still vehemently deny Black societies the praises they deserve today.
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Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty
Who was Samora Machel?
A dedicated military man and socialist revolutionary, Samora Moises Machel (1933-1986) presided over the independence of Mozambique from Portugal in 1975 and became its first president.
Samora Moises Machel Born into a poor family Machel never completed his secondary education in a village in the District of Gaza in the south of Mozambique. Like the great majority of Mozambicans of his generation, he grew up in an agricultural village and attended mission elementary school. Machel completed the fourth class - the prerequisite certificate for any higher education. Most youngsters aspired to complete elementary school and perhaps learn a skill, but most found it difficult. Machel’s hopes for higher education were frustrated by Catholic missionaries who refused to grant him a scholarship. Without financial assistance it was difficult for most Africans to pay school fees, room, and board. Many families needed the income earned by all family members just to survive.
Machel hoped to train as a nurse - one of the few professions which had been open to blacks, albeit on a subordinate basis, since the early 20th century. Unable to secure the fees to complete formal training at the Miguel Bombarda Hospital in Lourenco Marques (today Maputo), he got a job working as an aide in the hospital and earned enough to continue his education at night school. He worked at the hospital until he left the country to join the nationalist struggle.
The Progress of a Revolutionary
Machel, like so many others, suffered under colonial rule. He saw the fertile lands of his farming community on the Limpopo river appropriated by white settlers. His family worked unprofitable and arduous cotton plots to comply with the colonial government’s cotton cultivation scheme, and they lost loved ones to work accidents and illness resulting from the unsafe and unhealthy work conditions prevailing in the mines, farms, and construction companies which employed thousands of Mozambicans. As an educated black working in the capital city in the heyday of colonialism, Machel faced the arrogance and racism despised black workers throughout the country.
In 1963 he joined the main anti-Portuguese nationalist movement, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO) and rapidly became one of its main guerrilla commanders after receiving military training in Algeria. Following the death of Eduardo Mondlane he led FRELIMO in bringing an end to Portuguese colonialism. At independence in 1975 he became Mozambique’s first state President.
Initially he declared Mozambique to be a Marxist state aligned to the Soviet Union but this position was subsequently substantially modified. The country remained extremely vulnerable to the military and economic strength of South Africa and in 1984 Machel signed the Nkomati Accord with the Pretoria regime and agreed to deny the ANC bases in return for a cessation of South African support for Mozambican dissidents.
In 1986 he was killed when his plane crashed in the eastern Transvaal in circumstances which have never been adequately explained.
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