South Sudan and the problem of Arab racism in Black Africa-- an introduction
By Chinweizu
A presentation to the Nigeria-South Sudan Friendship Association (NISSFA), in Lagos, 26MAR 2008


Sudan is the microcosm of Black Africa’s unacknowledged Arab problem, a problem of racism, colonialism, enslavement and an Arab agenda of cultural, political and territorial expansion at the expense of Black Africa. It would take a fat book to adequately explain these matters; however, the brief answers to the 11 questions below attempt to throw preliminary light on the situation of the Afro-Sudanese.

Q1: What is the basic problem in Sudan?

In Sudan, Black Africans (The Afro-Sudanese in South Sudan, Darfur, Nubia, etc) are fighting against an Arab settler minority regime, ruling from Khartoum. They are fighting against a racist, Arab supremacist rule that is worse, much worse, than Apartheid. The Sudan situation has many of the features of Apartheid and, to make things worse, the raiding of black African villages by Arabs who sell black captives into slavery in Northern Sudan and other parts of the Arab world, is still going on there today in the 21st century. Slave raiding was not even part of the loathsome evils of Apartheid.
The South Sudanese, after a 50years war of liberation (1955-2005)—the longest war in Africa-- finally got Khartoum to sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, CPA, in 2005. The CPA has the backing of the International Community. It grants the South Sudanese limited autonomy through the Government of South Sudan, and provides for a Self-Determination referendum in 2011. The referendum will give the people of South Sudan the chance to decide whether South Sudan will remain within Sudan or secede and become independent.
In a replay of how Khartoum unilaterally abrogated the 1972 Addis Ababa peace accord that ended the Anya-Anya phase of the Afro-Arab race war in Sudan, [an accord that, like the CPA, also granted regional autonomy to South Sudan], Khartoum is determined to kill the CPA, and is maneuvering to resume war on South Sudan and prevent the referendum.
South Sudan urgently needs brotherly Pan African help to ensure full enforcement of the CPA by the international community as the way to a lasting and just peace.

Q2: What kinds of war has Khartoum been waging, since 1955, on the Afro-Sudanese peoples of South Sudan, Darfur, etc.?

Khartoum claims that its war on the Afro-Darfurians is just a counter-insurgency operation, and that its war on South Sudan is a jihad, a religious war to Islamize the Christians and polytheists of South Sudan.
Vice-President Taha has recently (2007) called on the Muslims in the South to take up arms as he ‘was ready to put the oil revenue in Sudan to support the war in South Sudan to liberate the South from the infidels backed by the Israelites’.
He declared that time had come for the people of Sudan to unite against the ‘infidels’. He remarked that the war in South Sudan took 21 years but that the new crusade to liberate the South would only take 21 days.

Q3: What are Khartoum’s real war aims?

Khartoum’s real objectives, under cover of Jihad against the ‘infidels’ in South Sudan and of counter-insurgency in Darfur, is Arab expansionism, with Arab colonialism, enslavement and Arabization for the conquered black Africans. As we shall see, when Khartoum wants to conquer and take land from the non-Muslim Africans, it claims its war is jihad; and when it wants to conquer and take land from Muslim Africans, it claims its war is a counterinsurgency.
Sudan, it has been noted is “a front of a fresh wave of Arab conquest and Arabization of Black Africa”— [Nyaba, Peter Adwok “The Afro-Arab conflict in the 21st century”, Tinabantu, May 2002, p. 28]
This is borne out by such statements as the following by Sudan’s Arab leaders:

“Sudan is the basis of the Arab thrust into the heart of black Africa, the Arab civilizing mission” –President Nimeiry, 1969 [quoted in Agyeman, Opoku “Pan Africanism vs. Pan Arabism”, Black Renaissance, 1994, p.39]

In 1994, when his troops seemed about to defeat the SPLA, President Omer el-Bashir declared he was going to say his evening prayers in a Kampala Mosque twenty-four hours after his troops captured Nimule from the SPLA.—[Nyaba, Peter Adwok “The Afro-Arab conflict in the 21st century”, Tinabantu, May 2002, p. 31]
Thus even before conquering South Sudan, Khartoum, in its Arab expansionist thrust into the heart of black Africa, has had its greedy eyes on Uganda and beyond!!

Q4: Is the Khartoum regime Arab? But they look black?

They are Arabs, black Arabs! They are culturally Arabized blacks and, however pitch black they may be, they consider themselves Arab and their allegiance is to white Arabia not to black Africa.
As Sudanese Prime Minister, Mahgoub, proclaimed in 1968:

Sudan is geographically in Africa but is Arab in its aspirations and destiny. We consider ourselves the Arab spearhead in Africa, linking the Arab world to the African continent”—[quoted in Agyeman, Opoku “Pan Africanism vs. Pan Arabism”, Black Renaissance, 1994, p.38]

Q5: But who are these strange “Arabs” in Sudan, located so deep inside black Africa?

They are the Jellaba Arabs, the part-African descendants of Arab slave procurers of earlier centuries. This handful of three riverine tribes-- the Shaigiya, the Jallayeen and the Danagala-- inherited state power from the British at independence in 1956 and have monopolized it ever since and used it to oppress and literally enslave the Afro-Sudanese. In Arab society, the half-Arab hybrid is called hajin and ranks lower than the full Arab. And the part-black hajins (to whom “blackness had passed from their mothers”) rank lowest in social status in Arab society. In Sudan one is classified as an Arab if one is Muslim and speaks Arabic, and especially if one has the light (red) skin of the part-black hajin. Most of these Sudanese Arabs are actually Nubian-Arab mixed breeds (hajins) who are culturally Arabized. For being part-African, these hajins from Sudan are held in contempt by the true Arabs. These despised black wannabe Arabs are so desperate to earn acceptance by the white and true Arabs that they have become fanatical agents for Arab expansionism into black Africa. The white Arabs, for their part, though despising these wannabe Arabs, gladly use them as monkey’s paw to advance Arab expansionism. Arab minority rule in Sudan is as if the Cape Coloreds of South Africa had inherited power in 1948, proclaimed themselves Europeans, and then proceeded to inflict apartheid, racism, war and genocide on the black South Africans as the first stage in a racist mission to repopulate all of black Africa with Europeans.

Q6: What is Khartoum’s project in Sudan?

Khartoum’s project is the Arabization of Sudan. Khartoum is determined that Sudan will eventually become wholly an Arab land with all its diverse African peoples converted into Arabs. Sudan is Khartoum’s pilot project, backed by the Arab League, in the Islamisation and Arabisation of Black Africa.

It has been noted by Opoku Agyeman that Pan-Arabism, in its so-called ‘civilizing mission’ perceives Africa as a ‘cultural vacuum’ waiting to be filled by Arab culture “by all conceivable means” [Agyeman, Opoku “Pan Africanism vs. Pan Arabism”, Black Renaissance, 1994, p.39] including Islamisation, and the settlement of Arab populations on lands forcibly seized from Africans. The assumptions, objectives and methods of this project may be illustrated from the statements of its principal implementers in Sudan since the 1820s:

“You are aware that the end of all our efforts and this expense is to
procure Negroes. Please show zeal in carrying out our wishes in this
capital matter.”
--Muhammad Ali Pasha, Ruler of Egypt, 1825, in a letter to one of his generals in Sudan, quoted in [Nyaba, Peter Adwok “The Afro-Arab conflict in the 21st century”, Tinabantu, May 2002, p. 36]

In his 1955 book on the orbital scheme [the three circles at whose center he envisioned Egypt to be], President Nasser characterized Africa as

"the remotest depths of the jungle," and as merely a candidate for Egypt's "spread of enlightenment and civilization" via Islamisation-Arabisation.
--Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt, 1954, quoted in [Agyeman, Opoku “Pan Africanism vs. Pan Arabism”, Black Renaissance, 1994, p.34]

“We want to Islamise America and Arabise Africa”
– Dr Hassan El-Turabi, chief ideologue of Jellaba-Arab minority rule in Sudan, 1999, quoted in [Nyaba, Peter Adwok “The Afro-Arab conflict in the 21st century”, Tinabantu, May 2002, p. 27]
“the south [Sudan] will remain an inseparable part of the land of Islam, God willing, even if the war continued for decades.”
--Osama bin Laden, 2006, [from an edited translation of an audiotape attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, which was aired by Aljazeera on April 23, 2006]

This thrusting of Arab spears into the body and soul of Black Africa through deAfrikanisation campaigns of Islamisation-Arabisation was, of course, not confined to Sudan, but has been done wherever Arabs spotted an opportunity to exploit Afrikan weakness, such as Mauritania, Chad, Somalia, Eritrea, Uganda. In the past 40 years, Libya’s Gadhafi has been particularly active in sponsoring chaos, anarchy and civil wars in Chad, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire etc., and in trying to Islamise Uganda, Rwanda, the CAR etc. For example, in a live broadcast on Rwanda Radio on 17 May 1985, Gadhafi said:

First you must stick to your Islamic religion and insist that your children are taught the Islamic religion and you teach the Arabic language because without the Arabic language we could not understand Islam. . . You must teach that Islam is the religion of Africa. . . You must raise your voice high and declare that Allah is great because Africa must be Muslim. . . We must wage a holy war so that Islam may spread in Africa.
--quoted in [Bankie, F. and Mchombu, K. eds (2006) Pan Africanism, Windhoek: Gamsberg Macmillan, pp. 239-240]

Q7: What is the Arab project in Africa as a whole?

It is called “el Tawaja el Hadhariya”—the Arab civilizational project. Its classic formulation was in the Nasser Doctrine of the early 1950s:

“ We certainly cannot, under any conditions, relinquish our responsibility to help spread the light of knowledge and civilization to the very depth of the virgin jungles of the [African] continent . . .. Africa is now the scene of a strange and stirring turmoil . . . We cannot . . . stand as mere onlookers, deluding ourselves into believing that we are in no way concerned. . .”
—[Nasser in Philosophy of the Revolution, (1954), quoted in The Arabs & Africa, London: Croom Helm, 1985, p.91]

This Nasser doctrine of an Arab-Islamic civilizing mission in black Africa would be the altruistic-sounding, self-serving camouflage for the Arab expansionist ambition (1) to bring the entire Nile headwaters under Arab rule; (2) to conquer, enslave, Islamize and Arabize black Africans, as through the war on South Sudan; (3) to annex black African lands, as in Libya’s long campaign to annex Chad’s Auzou strip; and (4) to ethnic cleanse and change the demographic character of black African lands by importing Arab settlers, as in Darfur, Nubia and Mauritania today. Arabs would civilize black Africans by inflicting on them war, gang rape of boys and women, genocide, and land expropriation. This Nasser doctrine, like the White Man’s Burden of the Europeans, cloaked Arab imperialism “with a mantle of idealistic devotion to duty.” –[Stavrianos, The World Since 1500, p.591]

This Naasser doctrine is only a mask for the Arab project of territorial expansion in Africa.
Here is Gadhafi’s Lebensraum [Living space] statement at the Arab League meeting in Jordan in 2001:

“The third of the Arab community living outside Africa should move in with the two-thirds on the continent and join the African Union ‘which is the only space we have’”
--Col. Mouammar Gadhafi of Libya, at the Arab League, 2001

This statement should be taken seriously as a clue to Gadafi’s intentions and what he and his Arabs will set about doing to Black Africa once they have us in their USAfrica trap.

Where will Gadhafi settle his new 100million Arabs from outside Africa? How will he get land to give them? Here is an example of Arab land grab intentions. Back in 1962, as he flagged off his troops to the war front against the Black Africans in South Sudan, the Arab Sudanese General Hassan Beshir Nasr declared:

“We don’t want these black slaves . . . what we want is their land.”
--quoted in Peter Adwok Nyaba “Arab racism in the Sudan” p.152]

That is what the wars in South Sudan and Darfur have really been about: seizing land from black Africans. Darfur is an ongoing example of how Arabs seized 1/3 of our continent, and of how Gadhafi will grab the land to settle his 100million Arabs from outside Africa.

Q8: How is Darfur an example of this quest for Lebensraum?

To understand the Darfur crisis, we need to go back to its origins in the 1970s, to El-Turabi’s fatwa and to The Arab Congregation.

El-Turabi’s Fatwa

“ . . . several writers have wrongfully reduced the [Darfur] crisis to a matter of tribal feuds or scarcity of natural resources. But as opposition activist Suliman Hamid al-Haj emphasizes, ‘Darfur’s crisis is a fully fledged state conspiracy plotted by Hassan al-Turabi ([when he was] Secretary-General of the NIF party, the National Congress; Speaker of the state parliament, the National Council; and thus top guide of the NIF political bodies) and subsequently pursued by Arab militias in full collaboration with the Sudan government and its ruling party, the National Islamist Front’.

It is thus the government, to a much greater degree than the militias it established and systematically manipulated, that is squarely responsible for the crisis in Darfur and the heinous atrocities resulting from it.

According to Hamid’s documentary, . . . Hassan al-Turabi, at the height of his power with the NIF regime, issued a decree clearly stating the following : the Islamists of Negro tribes became hostile to the Islamic Movement. The Islamic Front aims to support the Arab tribes by these steps : forced displacement of the Fur from Jebel Merra to Wadi Salih, followed by complete disarming of the Fur people, for good: they are to be replaced with the Mehairiya, Itaifat, and Irayqat (Arab tribes ). Arms must never return to the Zaghawa, who must be moved from Kutum to Um Rwaba ( North Kordofan State); the Arab tribes should be armed and financed to act as the nucleus of the Islamic Arab Alliance.

This official fatwa is the basis of the state plot in Darfur. It has been literally executed, as revealed by current events in the region, even after al-Turabi was purged from the party.”
--[excerpt from El-Turabi plot and Khartoum’s orchestration of the ethnic cleansing in Darfur by Mahgoub El-Tigani, from page 3 of The Citizen of 3rd October 2007, Vol 2, Issue No 254, Published Khartoum/Juba, South Sudan
© Mahgoub El-Tigani 2007
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For how El-Turabi’s fatwa has been implemented in the last three decades, we must learn the story of
The Arab Congregation

“Al Tajamu Al Arabi, [is] loosely translated here as the Arab Congregation. Other translations are the Arab Coalition, Arab Gathering, Arab Alliance and Arab Congress.
The Arab Congregation was probably formed in early 1980s but gained momentum in latter years of the same decade. Darfur has been a major site of operation of the Arab Congregation. This basic fact disguises the broader aim and geographic spread of the organization. Within Sudan, the Arab Congregation aims at displacing/controlling indigenous populations of the entire [Sudan], though modestly starting with the six States of the western regions/provinces of Kordofan and Darfur.
At the broader regional level of Sub-Saharan Africa, tentacles of the Arab Congregation spread as far as Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Niger and possibly beyond. The geographical spread of the organization indicates that the Arab Congregation of Western Sudan is a mere small cog within a wider network of national and regional dimensions. At the national level, the Arab Congregation of Western Sudan is sponsored and operates as a conduit for Kayan Al Shamal and hence KASH or the Northern Entity in English (EL-Thom 2006). KASH was formed in 1976 when the government of dictator Nimeri was nearly toppled by a Kordofan army officer, who would in today’s language in Sudan be classified as ‘black’ and non-Arab. KASH was then formed to ensure that irrespective of the ideology behind the government of Khartoum, democratic, fascist, military, socialist, religious fanatic or otherwise, the leadership remains in the hands of the Northern Region. But KASH is an exclusive club, open only for three elite groups of the Northern Region. This is what various circles including the Arab Congregation refer to as Al Thalooth ie the Tripartite Coalition.. The Tripartite Coalition, which has been ruling the Sudan since independence, encompasses barely three ethnic groups; the Shaigiya ( Ex-President Sir Alkhatim, current Vice-President Taha ), the Jallayeen (President Al Bashir ) and the Danagala ( Ex-President Nimeri, Ex-Prime Minister Almahdi and Ex-Vice President Alzibair ). For the past forty years or so, KASH has spearheaded the project of Arab-Islamisation of the Sudan and in their pursuit of their project, they needed foot soldiers supplied by various bodies including the Arab Congregation. The hegemony of the Northern Region over Sudan is so clear-cut and requires no rerun in this article ( see JEM 2004, El- Tom 2003 and Ibrahim 2004 ).
The might of the geopolitical dimension of the Arab Congregation was chillingly demonstrated in Darfur in the early 1980s. Following the collapse of the Nimeri regime, Khartoum government connived with Gaddafi and his disastrous gamble in Chad to turn Darfur into one of their daring crusades to push the so-called Islamic belt into Black Africa. Having been kicked out of Chad Gaddafi proceeded to locate his Islamic Legion under the command of Acheikh Ibn Omar in the Massalitland in western Darfur. The Legion, whose recruits were sourced in Chad, Mali and Niger but equally as far away as Mauritania, devastated the area and its indigenous inhabitants. Settlers of the Islamic Legion in Darfur were later to play a prominent role as Janjaweed, effectively executing Musa Hilal’s call ‘ change the demography of Darfur and empty it of African tribes ‘ (Flint and De Waal 2005, see also Flint and De Waal). Attempts to change the demography of Darfur are still going on to this day. As recently as July 2007, Bloomfield accused the government of Sudan of ‘ cynically trying to change the demography of the whole region ‘. Monitoring the Chadian-Sudanese borders, Bloomfield wrote :-

An internal UN report, obtained by the Independent, shows that up to 30,000 Arabs have crossed the border in the past three months. Most arrived with all their belongings and large flocks. They were greeted by Sudanese Arabs who took them to empty villages cleared by the government and Janjaweed forces … further 45,000 Arabs from Niger have also crossed over ‘ ( Bloomfield 2007).

At least three conclusions can be drawn so far, each of which connects with a general misconception about the current conflict in Darfur. Firstly, Darfur conflict cannot be reduced to a strife that is internal to Darfur and as an outcome of environmentally generated scarcity of resources. Rather, the conflict is part and parcel of national and regional dynamics as well as aspirations.
Secondly, the Janjaweed are not a by-product of the present Darfur conflict. Their current involvement in the Darfur war is a mere culmination of decades of atrocities in the region as well as in other parts of the Sudan, such as Abeye in Southern Sudan.
Thirdly, the reading that Khartoum unleashed the Janjaweed following the rebellion in Darfur is factually incorrect. On the contrary, the Darfur rebellion took place due to several reasons including atrocities of the Janjaweed against indigenous Darfurians.”

--excerpt from THE ARAB CONGREGATION AND THE IDEOLOGY OF GENOCIDE IN DARFUR, SUDAN by Abdullahi Osman El-Tom, Ph D
Page 4 The Citizen 2nd September 2007
© Abdullahi Osman El-Tom 2007
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Meanwhile, amidst arguments about whether or not there is ethnic cleansing and genocide taking place in Darfur, and even behind the façade of an ineffective AU force, the Arab minority regime in Khartoum, with its Janjaweed agents, has been left unhindered to continue its project of land grabbing and Arabizing the demography of Darfur.
But since July 2007, when an internal UNHCR report was published by the Independent of London, disclosing how the Khartoum Government was brazenly importing Arabs from outside Sudan, giving them citizenship and settling them on the land and in the villages from where the Afro-Darfurians have been expelled, all the specious and obscurantist arguments of the last five years about whether Khartoum’s actions amounted to genocide/ethnic cleansing or to just counter-insurgency warfare have been overtaken and settled by events. The intent behind it all now stands revealed. The only ones who cannot see it are those who refuse to see: It was to drive out the indigenous black African population and repopulate their land with Arab settlers. Is that ethnic cleansing? Is that genocide? When you drive people off their land and give their land to others, have you not condemned them to slow death? Isn’t that genocide by indirect means?
El-Turabi’s fatwa and the project of the Arab Congregation reveal that Darfur is not a matter of counter-insurgency, but rather the first phase of an elaborate and determined scheme of Arab expansion and conquest westward to Dakar. They are evidence of the Arabs’ agenda of relentless territorial expansion at the expense of Black Africa.

It is an eternal shame on Mr. Obasanjo and his fellow black African presidents in the AU who let all that happen on their watch.

Q9: How are Darfur and South Sudan relevant to Gadafi’s USAfrica project?

In evaluating Gadafi’s USAfrica project of Afro-Arab unification under one continental government, Black Africans would be wise to study the prototypes of Afro-Arab unification in South Sudan, Darfur, and in Mauritania. History rarely provides pilot projects to guide us. But, luckily for Black Africans of today, it has done so in Sudan and Mauritania. We cannot say we had no examples to warn us against this Afro-Arab Continental Union Government.

Q10: What would Khartoum’s victory over South Sudan, or Gadafi’s USAfrica, enable the Arabs to do to Black Africa?

First of all, South Sudan is focal ground in the very heart of Africa. The Arabs see it, in the words of Sadiq el-Mahdi, a former Prime Minister of Sudan, as “a step board for Arab entry and Islamic influence into the heart of Africa”—[quoted in Peter Adwok Nyaba, “Arab racism in the Sudan” p. 160] If South Sudan falls to Khartoum, that would open the way for nomadic Arab tribes to infiltrate into Kenya, the CAR, Uganda and further east, west and south, all the way to Kinshasa, Luanda, Windhoek, Harare and Cape Town.
Secondly, Gadafi’s USAfrica would give the Arabs state power over all of black Africa, and literally turn all of Black Africa into a colony under an Arab-dominated continental government. If Gadafi’s USAfrica should ever come into being, the Arabs would replicate throughout Black Africa what the Arab minority has been doing to the majority Black Africans in the Sudan.
To appreciate what that would mean for us, we need to educate ourselves on the relationship between Islam, Jihad and enslavement. Here is a recent and authoritative statement of that relationship:

“Slavery is part of jihad, and jihad will remain as long as there is Islam.”
--from a 2003 lecture by Saudi Arabian religious leader Sheik Saleh Al-Fawzan

Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan's remark helps explain why the abolition of slavery is incompatible with Islam, and gives insight into the religious/ideological factors contributing to why the several ''abolitions'' in Mauritania have come to nothing. It also explains why, if Gadafi's USAfrica comes into being, the enslavement of Black Africans will expand beyond Sudan and Mauritania to all of Black Africa. As everywhere becomes a theatre for jihad, all of Black Africa will be subjected to what Khartoum has been subjecting the Darfurians and South Sudanese to for the past 50 years.

Q11: Why is it in black Africa’s interest to support South Sudan and defeat Khartoum?

South Sudan is focal ground, and it would be a disaster for Black Africa to lose it to the Arab aggressors. As the territory through which Arab tribes must pass to seize land in Central, East and Southern Africa, it is as vital to Black African collective security as the Suez Canal, Gibraltar, the Bosporus, the Persian Gulf, the Straits of Malacca, and the Panama Canal are in global politics and warfare. It is so vital a region that the Arabs are ready, according to Osama Bin Laden, to wage endless war to seize it.
South Sudan is on the tip of the Arab spear thrusting into the heart of Black Africa. If we want to blunt this Arab spear pushing along the Nile to Central and Southern Africa, we must help the South Sudanese to neutralize Khartoum and save the 2011 referendum. A full and internationally enforced implementation of the CPA is the only way to peace in Sudan, peace with African security and dignity, instead of a peace of the graveyard filled with Black African corpses.
In helping South Sudan, we will be helping ourselves to avoid conquest and enslavement and expropriation and worse by the Arabs.

If we allow South Sudan to be conquered by Khartoum, the Arabs will be emboldened to grab even more of our lands. Who’s next? Kenya, the CAR, Uganda, Ethiopia? And after that? Chad, Congo, Nigeria? And then all the way to Accra, Dakar, Harare and Cape Town?
If you do nothing to stop Khartoum and its Arab League masters today, it will, some day, sooner than later, be your turn to be raped, enslaved and ethnic cleansed by them, and you might find yourself lamenting and saying:

The Arabs came for the South Sudanese, and I did nothing to stop them because I wasn’t a South Sudanese;
Then the Arabs came for the black Africans in Darfur, and I did nothing to stop them because I wasn’t a black African in Darfur;
And then the Arabs came for my black African ass in Cape Town/Accra/Dakar, and by that time there were no black Africans left to stop them killing or enslaving me and taking my land.

Conclusion
South Sudan has, for over 50 years, and without our help, valiantly defended us against the Arab invaders, and fought them to a draw, as represented in the CPA. Isn’t it time we extended to them an appreciative and brotherly Pan Africanist hand and so help them to victory? This their war is our war. Our collective security is at stake. They are holding tenuously the current frontline in this long Afro-Arab race war. It is touch and go. The struggle can go either way. If they lose, we lose. In helping them we shall only be helping ourselves.
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Thanks for posting, the book isn't available on amazon.co.uk but theres quite a few on the american site;

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Thank you so much for putting the truth out there for all to see. Too may Black folk see the Arabs as our friends. Not so! Arabs have been trading us for thousands of years and are still doing so on the QT. Dr Ben Jochannan , a Black Historian and another great Black Historian and Scholar, Dr. John Henrick Clarke. Have also stated that the followers of Islam only went into Africa to exploit and not for good. The Ararbs have much blood on their hands.....much Black African blood that is!

The above seems like so much non-sense and zionist influenced propaganda. At best, we can say that Brother Chinweisu is an expert on Nigeria which does not say much considering that Nigeria is one of Africa's most pathetic former dictatorships. He does not seem to have a clue about any other part of Africa, least of all Sudan. So to be fair to the author, I did a goofglesearch on him. Among other things, I found that "Chinweizu was reported in March 2008 by the Nigerian tabloid The Sun still to be single and never married in his 70s." (Chinweizu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia). Maybe this helps to explain his hatred of Sudan: ash-Sharia is not known to be overly friendly towards homosexuality. Indeed, his hatred of Sudan is consistent with the hatred of the gay and zionist movements with all things African.

Fortunately, we have evidence to balance the above non-sense. It follows below...

For the past several years the US and British governments have been asserting that the Sudanese government is perpetrating genocide in the western province of Darfur. In 2002 the US Congress passed the “Sudan Peace Act” which formally allowed for US intervention in “areas of Sudan not controlled by the Government of Sudan.” Hostilities in Darfur erupted soon after, in the year 2003. Since then western media, which for all practical purposes is “global” media, has been propagating the official genocide line faithfully. Is the civil war in Sudan really genocide? According to the UN, WHO and the French NGO Medicins sans Frontieres the fighting in Darfur is not genocide. The Sudanese government vehemently denies charges of genocide. Why then is the US-British coalition so vociferously pursuing the “genocide” line? What is the Darfur problem and why is the US so keenly interested in it, the same US which has, according to a recent survey, killed over 1.2 million Iraqis since 2003, wounding another one million and rendering about four million homeless? This is in addition to one and a half million Iraqis, including 500,000 children, killed between the first Gulf War and 2003 as a result of US backed embargo on medicine and other items.

Sudan is Africa’s largest country area wise. It has an area of 9,67,500 square miles which is 3.2 times the size of Pakistan. However Sudan has a population of only 35 million, just under a fifth of Pakistan’s population. Seventy percent of Sudanese are Muslims, 25 percent animist and five percent Christians. The Darfur region is located in the West of Sudan bordering Chad. The Darfur province is about a fifth of Sudan’s total area, approximately the size of France, but has a population estimated variously between 6 to 7 million only.

The people of Darfur are ethnically the same as the bulk of Sudanese population. They speak Arabic and, like the mainstream Sudanese population, are Sunni Muslims. A Congressional Research Service brief (updated September 2004) prepared for the US Congress by Ted Dagne states “Darfur is home to an estimated 7 million people and has more than 30 ethnic groups, although these groups fall into two major categories: African and Arab. Both communities are Muslim and years of intermarriage has made racial distinction impossible”. This lack of racial distinction, acknowledged in an official US document, is sufficient to destroy the argument of genocide in Darfur. The South of Sudan on the other hand is populated by tribes that are predominantly Christian or animistic in their beliefs. Many of these do not speak Arabic.

Sudan is rich in natural resources. It has rich oil and gas reserves. Sudan has huge uranium deposits and the fourth largest deposits of copper in the world. It was found some years ago that the Darfur region has enormous untapped oil reserves that are comparable to those of Saudi Arabia if not more. Excluding the Darfur reserves, Saudi Arabia possesses 25% of the known global oil deposits. In a world that is heading fast towards oil depletion this is news of the highest importance. And the world’s largest consumer of oil is, by far, the United States of America. It is therefore no surprise that the US is so keenly interested in Darfur. To quote John Bart Gerald “If the nations of the world agreed that a verifiable genocide were occurring, it would allow US to occupy Sudan and gain its assets. There is profit for the US in deciding that Sudan’s government has committed genocide.”

Darfur and the entire region has had a serious water problem that has, for generations, been a source of unending conflict among various sections of the Darfur population. In particular the settled and nomadic tribes have fought over water for a long time. In November 2004 Brian Smith wrote “Water is strategically important, given that the blue Nile and white Nile meet in Sudan and constitute the lifeline of Egypt immediately north.

Recent pressure from Anglo-American interests led Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to question the old Nile treaties with Egypt, which has extensive interests in Sudan.” The discovery this year of a mega-lake under northern Darfur has made the Darfur region even more valuable. A “1000 wells for Darfur” initiative was recently agreed upon between President al-Bashir and Egyptian born remote sensing expert Farouk El-Baz who works in Boston University. However it remains to be seen how this project develops, if at all, and how the US will exploit this find.

Oil was discovered in Sudan in 1978. In 1983 rebellion in Southern Sudan broke out. The rebellion was led by John Garang who, to quote Jay Janson, received “military training at the infamous Fort Benning, Georgia”, also known as “School of Assassins”. According to the Federation of American Scientists, “The US government decided, in 1996, to send nearly 20 million dollars of military equipment through the front-line states of Ethiopia, Eriteria and Uganda to help the Sudanese opposition overthrow the Khartoum regime”. John Garang led a so called Sudanese Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) and while the US continuously decried the abuse of human rights by the Khartoum regime, it kept mum about the abuses committed by John Garang in the areas that he controlled. According to a BBC report “John Garang did not tolerate dissent and anyone who disagreed him was either imprisoned or killed.” John Garang was involved in training the rebels of Darfur.

In June 2006 Sarah Flounders wrote “US imperialism is heavily involved in the entire region. Chad, which is directly west of Darfur, last year participated in a US-organized military exercise that, according to US Defense Department, was the largest in Africa since World War II. Chad is a former French colony and both French and US forces are heavily involved in funding, training and equipping the army of its military ruler, Idriss Deby, who has supported rebel groups in Darfur”.

According to a Jerusalem Post report of April 27, 2006 US Jews are actively involved in planning rallies on the Darfur issue. A host of other organizations allied with Zioinsts, particulary those related to Evangelical Christians, are also involved. The prominent coverage given by US media to a rally (held April 30, 2006) that involved only 5000-7000 people contrasts with the meager coverage given by the same media to anti-war rallies involving hundreds of thousands of US citizens. This in itself indicates backing of the US establishment in mobilizing public opinion against the Khartoum regime. In fact in November 1999 President Clinton signed a Bill authorizing funds to John Garang’s army. Israel’s Mossad has also been involved in supplying arms to rebels. Apart from oil Israel has an interest in using the waters of Nile to quench its thirst, of course at the expense of Africans and Muslims. Sudan stands in the way.

In 2005, hemmed in from three sides by proxies encouraged, trained and funded by US, the Khartoum regime signed a peace deal with the South allowing the US proxy John Garang to become first Vice President of Sudan. Garang died soon afterwards in a plane crash. This agreement gave concessions to the South allowing it to reclaim land and sell oil from that land. It is therefore clear that the conflict with the South had nothing to do with religion – it had to do with oil. This is equally true of the Darfur conflict.

Currently China has agreements with Sudan and is the major importer of Sudanese oil. The US companies are essentially unable to do oil business with Sudan due to sanctions imposed by the US government. The US has been relentlessly pressuring Sudan for accepting a UN force. However the Sudanese government is well aware that the UN will just be a cover for landing US and British troops on Sudanese soil with the object of overthrowing the Khartoum regime. It has therefore resisted. In fact when US and UK forced a resolution through the UN Security Council in 2006 allowing for UN troops in Sudan, the Khartoum regime openly declared that it will attack any forces that attempted to land in Sudan. Instead the Sudanese government has allowed the African Union forces to be stationed there.

John Bart Gerald states “Over four million Sudanese became displaced according to a 1999 estimate and the subsequent diminished figures suggest the accounts are juggled. In the South of Sudan alone two million have died from war and starvation brought about by a rebellion and guerilla war.” This immense tragedy has been brought about by corporate US. As Michael Ruppert puts it the CIA “will find those parts of a culture or society which inspire distrust and conflict and they will take a pinhole and widen it into an eight-lane highway which is constantly maintained and improved”. He also points out that the relocation of US and NATO forces has occurred in regions which are rich in oil and gas or which lie along routes from where oil and gas has to pass to reach the West. By capturing all major oil and gas fields in the world the US will not only fulfill its energy requirements, it will, by denying these to its imagined enemies, cripple them completely. Therein lies the significance of the Darfur problem, the Afghan and Iraq wars and the expected Iran war.

The author is a former Dean Faculty of Science, University of the Punjab

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The sad thing is that the Janjaweed in Sudan are in fact black Africans.

Alabamagirl,

The collaborators who are naive ultimately suffer the same fate as their victims.


But the irony in all this, is the Arab who postures as some pure "race".
Metaphorically speaking, a mule that despises a Black Stallion must have inherited the trait of the other parent... the donkey.

When you have some melanin-deficient albino mutant with recessive genes-- a degeneration of the human race posturing to be superior, you finanlly get out of his *******s some of them posturing as superior.

Exactly. The conflict in Western Sudan is not about "race" or ethnicity or religion. It is mainly about a scarcity of resources, especially water in an arid environment. So, if we truely care about what is happening there, we would be attempting to improve availability of water for all Africans, as a sacarcity of water is amajor problem all over Africa (africanfront.com (AUF)) This is clear when we use legitimate African sources for our information.

This is why my work is centered primaarily around developing new ways to bring better access to water to Africa. I do not call on the Bush Gang to attack Sudan. Instead, I want to see how we can desalinate seawater to stimulate agriculture. I have posted some of these ideas in this forum. And, I invite all who are sincere in their concern about Sudan to come and help us. Here is my email: unification_front@yahoo.com.

What happens when a certain people want to control that water supply to the detriment of others?

Respect someone who is trying to make a change but you can't go about it blind. What part do other North African nations play in the matter, where do they get their water from and why isn't it being shared with other nations if its such a problem?

The article posted by abdurratln is full of mistakes and inaacurate data, that is laughable at best. If this is the modern version of Journalism without checking the facts than Mankind is in deep trouble. The article at best sounds like American Political Advertisement that totally distorts the facts about an opponent. I did not go through all the documents due to Time Constraints but from briefly glossing at this, I need to make the following corrections.

(1) The article mentioned that Dr. John Garang was trained in the US at Fort Bening Georgia at the US Infantry school which is true. But the article failed to mentioned that Dr. Garang was send to Fort Bening as a member of the Government of Sudan armed Forces and he was sent with several of his colleagues by the Sudanese Government. After going back to Sudan, Garang who was colonel by that time defected several years later to form the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army when he was sent by the Government of Sudan to crush a rebellion in the South by troops who were resisting orders to be transferred to the North of the Country. Rather than crush the rebellious troops as he was instructed, Garang decided to join the mutineers and went on to encourage more Army Garisons to rebel.


(2) Concerning the issue of the Nile Waters the Author who is an Arab Apologist at best assumes that Egypt should have a right to the Nile water to the detriment of the African Countries. The Nile Water Agreement was an unfair Agreement signed in the early 1920s-30s between Egypt and Britain. At that time, not single African Country was independent, so Egypt proposed to give Britain full access to the Suez Canal and in exchange the British Would sign the rights to the Nile Waters over to Egypt on behalf of the Countries that Britain lorded and colonized. Today, the Egyptians are selling the Nile Water to Israel, while Nine (9) African Countries starve. It is tragedy that 80% of the Nile Waters come from Ethiopia, while Ethiopians continue to starve to death in the millions. The Nile water Agreement must be thrown into the trash can and each Country must use the Nile waters for its benefits of feeding the people. Southern Sudan has already made it clear that they intent to ignore these agreements and they will do with the Nile Water however and which ever way they wish to. It will be upto to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Eritrea and Ethiopia to follow suit or sit back like they have done for all these years. A new brand of young Africans are taking over and we will change the nature and course of how things are done in Africa and at the same time meet anyone who stands in our way head first.

(3) The Problems in Sudan had been ungoing since 1957, way before Oil was discovered some 30 years after in the 1980s. To suggest that troubles of Sudan started because of oil is ignorant of the facts at best and distortion of Journalism.


(4). I have been saying many time that the problems of Sudan cannot entirely be blamed at Western Imperialism and the bogey man Zionism, but that will be a gross overlooking of the facts. 90% of the problems in Sudan are caused by the Sudanese Regimes in power, nothing less and nothing more. If we reform the Centers of power in Sudan, we will entirely eliminate all of the problems including Darfur. You don't treat a Cancer Patient by blaming the disease on other factors, rather the doctor goes in and tries to remove the harmful cell, so as not to destroy the whole body. The cancer here is the Central Government with its policies of Exclusion.

There is no secret that VLK and I disagree on much pertaining to Sudan. But, I want to thank him for maintaining a positive and constructive tone in his disagreements with me.

The act of changing sides in a war can be contrued as treason. Where I come from, treason is usually punishable by death. However, in the case of traitor Garang, the current regime in Kharoum made him a vice president of the Republic. Maybe that was one of their biggest mistakes: rewarding rather than punishing triators.


Well, I think you are overstating your case somewhat. Egypt is a part of Africa. As Pan-Africanists, we must maintain the principle that every sguare inch of Africa must unite. Accordingly, we cannot exclude Egypt. Indeed, Egypt has historically played a central role in the unification process in Africa.

Egypt is about 90-95% arid, drylands, desert lands. And the waters of the Nile is currently its main source of water. Therefore, Egypt must maintain access to Nile waters in order to survive. By doing so does not necesssarily translate into a "detriment to African countries". Much of the waters of the Nile would otherwise simply run into the sea; thereby weakening Egypt and the whole of Africa because to weaken Egypt, one of Africa's major countries, is to weaken Africa.

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The Nile Water Agreement was an unfair Agreement signed in the early 1920s-30s between Egypt and Britain. At that time, not single African Country was independent, so Egypt proposed to give Britain full access to the Suez Canal and in exchange the British Would sign the rights to the Nile Waters over to Egypt on behalf of the Countries that Britain lorded and colonized. Today, the Egyptians are selling the Nile Water to Israel, while Nine (9) African Countries starve.

At first, I opposed the peace with Israel. But, with a cooler, colder more calculating mind, I see that Egypt fought Israel harder than any other country. And, the peace treaty brought Egypt many benefits. True, it would have been preferrable had Egypt been strong enough to hold out for a comprehensive settlement. And, I certainly do not like the closed border between Egypt and Gaza; the fact still remains that Egypt is fairly well compensated. And the people of Egypt are still solidly behind the Palestinians. So, Gaza will always have access to Egyptian resources to the extent that Egypt can play it both ways.

But, to sell water to Israel in times of war is not easy to accept. Nevertheless, from a pragmatic standpoint, we as the new generation of African leaders cannot afford to develop a reputation of not respecting the treaties of previous regimes. By respecting the treaty, we offer hope that the overall conflict will be solved someday. Peace is always preferable to war. And, the Jews, like the Arabs, are descendants of Africans. Thus, Pan-Africanism requires us to consider making reasonable accomodations to Jews as they have been oppressed by Europeans and Christians for thousands of years.

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It is tragedy that 80% of the Nile Waters come from Ethiopia, while Ethiopians continue to starve to death in the millions.

The new generation of Ethiopians seem to be prepared to learn from their mistakes. It was the stupid regime under Mengistu who did much of this damage. I seriously doubt that access to Nile waters is a major cause.

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The Nile water Agreement must be thrown into the trash can and each Country must use the Nile waters for its benefits of feeding the people. Southern Sudan has already made it clear that they intent to ignore these agreements and they will do with the Nile Water however and which ever way they wish to.

I doubt that will work. No one country can do as it pleases. The world is inter-related and co-dependent. That would mean chaos.

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It will be upto to Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Eritrea and Ethiopia to follow suit or sit back like they have done for all these years. A new brand of young Africans are taking over and we will change the nature and course of how things are done in Africa and at the same time meet anyone who stands in our way head first.

Africa is moving towards Continetal Unity. (http://www.africanfront.com/water_sheds.php)That makes much more sense.

I never said the problems started because of oil. I said a sacarcity of resources, including water, was at the root of the problems. I strongly suspect that the big oil companies are fueling the conflicts in Western Sudan and Chad. This has occurred in recent years as the oil companies have shown an unwillingness to pay fair market prices for their oil. They want it below market prices while they make record profits. And, they pay a few thugs and traitors to avoid paying taxes to the central governments. Even Chad had a run in with them.

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The current regime in Sudan is one of the best in memory. I know some people do not like ash-Sharia. But, it would seem to be a better constitution than was inherirted from the British. Certainly, it has led to a reasonable accomodation of the Christian Community.

But, what is needed for us Africans, all of us all over the world, is new institutions. By this, I mean such things as a financing mechanism for desalinating seawater. The shortage of water is not a problem limited to the drylands of the North and the Horn. Every African country has this problem in one form or another.

I recently talked to a diplomat at the Zimbabwe Embassy. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that while their economy is in deep trouble, they have a demand for beef to the Eureopean Union that they are not able to meet. They cannot meet this demand because they cannot produce enough beef because they do not have sufficient water resources.

I say again, we must develop means of getting more water into Africa, all of Africa, not just Sudan, not just Egypt.

Thursday, July 19, 2007
Vast Buried "Fossil Lake" Reported in Darfur

Vast Buried "Fossil Lake" Reported in Darfur
Dan Morrison in Cairo, Egypt for National Geographic News
July 19, 2007

Deep beneath the desert and scrub of northern Darfur, Sudan, lies a
vast hidden cache of water, experts said this week. The newfound
aquifer could turn the arid conflict zone into a broad oasis of farms
and watering holes, according to Farouk El-Baz, director of Boston
University's Center for Remote Sensing.
In April El-Baz's team had announced that they had found signs of a
huge ancient lake in Darfur. At that time they had speculated that the
long-gone lake's water may be lurking underground.
After further testing, El-Baz said, "we know there's water." However,
"we don't yet know how much," said El-Baz, an Egyptian-born pioneer of
using satellite imagery in geological and archaeological research. El-
Baz's team found the underground pool by analyzing infrared, radar,
and other images taken by satellites.


Slim Promise of Peace?


Desertification and competition for natural resources are among the
underlying causes of the recent Darfur conflict. More than 200,000
people have been killed and 2.5 million others chased from their homes
during the four-year strife.


So if there is enough water, "it could change the course of events in
that region," El-Baz said.
"You could have mechanized farms there to feed and provide training
and jobs to the people there." The Sahara desert's steady creep into
Sudan's western region could also be stopped, El-Baz said.


But a French researcher who has also scanned the region using
satellite imagery said the underground water is unlikely to be
significant. "I hope that they find water," said Alain Gachet of Radar
Technologies France. "But I am scientifically convinced that they
can't in this context." Ancient Lake El-Baz said that the ancient lake
once covered much of the state of North Darfur and was about the size
of Massachusetts.


While that lake is now dry, much of its water likely seeped into
deposits of sandstone located hundreds of feet under the Earth's
surface, he said, and could be pumped to the surface for wells and
irrigation.


But Gachet countered that, while there may be isolated patches of
water-rich sandstone in North Darfur, they are not enough to produce
the quantities of water that El-Baz is predicting.
"I am very skeptical of the potential of this lake," Gachet said.


Gachet has mapped most of Darfur's freshwater resources as part of a
relief project sponsored by the U.S. State Department. In 2006 he
provided aid groups with a detailed atlas of rain-fed underground
streams that could be tapped for fresh water. Seventy-five wells have
been dug so far.


Using ground-penetrating radar, "we peeled Darfur like an onion,"
Gachet said. "There is enough fresh water to sustain three or four
million people." In just a few months El-Baz and Gachet will both have
a chance to see who's right. The Egyptian ministry of water and
irrigation has agreed to fund 20 initial test wells. The United
Nations Mission in the Sudan has agreed to drill four.


In time, as many as a thousand wells could be pulling water from
Darfur deserts, said El-Baz, who traveled to Sudan last month to
discuss the find with Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir.
Water Alone Won't Heal Today's Sahara, an arid abode of sand dunes and
fossils, was a much wetter environment 5,000 years ago. Desert cliff
drawings from that time depict giraffes, elephants, and hippos.
Much of the water that fed that ecosystem seeped through layers of
sandstone to form "fossil water"--nonrenewable aquifers dating from
5,000 to 10,000 years ago.


Agricultural projects harnessing fossil water have been successful in
several places. The world's biggest effort to reclaim such deposits,
for example, is the Great Man-Made River in Libya.
There, 1,500 wells pump as much as 1.7 billion gallons (6.5 million
cubic meters) of fresh water each day from the Sahara to cities on the
Mediterranean coast.


And 500 wells now provide fossil water to irrigate 100,000 acres
(40,470 hectares) of farmland in the former desert of Sharq el-Oweinat
in southwestern Egypt. North Darfur could become another Sharq el-
Oweinat, El-Baz said.


There are likely several more underground lakes to be found under the
deserts of North Africa, he added. "We are scanning the whole of the
eastern Sahara," he said. "There are several similar depressions we
haven't yet analyzed." But even if northern Darfur were to become rich
in water, many other factors are likely to prolong the violence there,
analysts said.


Since then, the three original main rebel alliances have cracked into
more than a dozen groups, further frustrating efforts to negotiate an
end to the conflict.
Much of the underground lake that El-Baz has described now lies in
rebel-held territory.
"What you see is not simply a competition for the scarce resources of
Darfur," Eric Reeves, a leading Darfur researcher and activist, told
the Boston Globe.


"If we want to look at the violence in Darfur, we don't look
underground, we look at the political realities that exist today.''


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