A CALL FOR A PAN-AFRIKAN TRIBUTE FOR FIDEL CASTRO

Norman (Otis) Richmond
Producer/Host Saturday Morning Live
CKLN-FM 88.1
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This is a call for Afrikans at home and abroad to honour Fidel Castro and
the people of Cuba for their many sacrifices on behalf of Afrika.

Baffour Ankomah, editor of the London based New African magazine explained
why in the April edition.

Says Ankomah, “In the 1970s and 1980s ,Fidel Castro sent 350,000 Cuban
soldiers, civilians and doctors to support the African liberation
struggle, especially in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape
Verde , and Sao Tome & Principe… A good 2,077 Cubans died fighting in
Africa.”

Let the record reflects that the battle of Cuito Cuanavale in April 1988,
is where the Angolan army, the South West African Peoples Organization
(SWAPO) of Namibia and Cuban internationalist troops decisively defeated
Apartheid South and its allies. South Africans major ally the United
States made arrangements to transfer to South Africa--- racist, fascist
South Africa --- several atomic bombs, similar to those it exploded in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Elombe Brath, Professor Ron Wilkins and Abayomi Azikiwe have endorsed the
idea. Brath and Wilkins represent the Patrice Lumumba Coalition in New
York City and Los Angeles respectively and Azikiwe is the editor of the
Pan African News Wire.

This writer joins the trio in calling on Afrikans in the West to heed
Ankomah’s call by screening the BBC‘s film “Cuba! Africa! Revolution!”
on Sunday, May 25th the 45th anniversary of Afrikan Liberation Day.

Ankomah also suggests that people study Castro’s life. “Interestingly, in
his memoirs, Castro talks about Cuba’s love affair with Africa with such
gusto and passion that you might think it happened only yesterday.” Titled
“My Life, Fidel Castro” …. Every African must get a copy!”

Richmond can be contacted norman@ckln.fm

416 979-5252 ext 2372


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I salute Mr. Castro. A lot of AAs know about and love Castro and honor the Cubans for the sacrifices they made for their fellows Being and freedom.

They don't tell you about that in school though.