AFRICAN LIBERATION MONTH

          A Monthly Pan African Brunch Meeting

        Saturday, May 5, 2012/12:00 Noon

“Special Report to our people on the new Challenges & Opportunities focusing on the African Union–

African Diaspora Summit in South Africa, May 25-26, 2012”

The “Intimate Café”

2001 Martin L. King Jr. Drive S.W. ATL,GA.

Call Empress Oyah – 770-912-7053 or

Dr. Akilah Chikuh at 404-564-6484

or www.myintimatecafe.com.

Free Admission/Freedom is Not Free!

The Pan African Brunch Meeting is to expand Pan African Think Tank Action (PATTA) Teams for the cultural, economic, and political work and struggles in the 21^st century.

Intimate Cafe, located inside the Atlanta Executive Suites office building, on 2001

M.L.K., Jr. SW (W/ plenty of free parking).

Date: 4/27/2012

Africans are Urged to Act During Africa Month Commemoration in May

Minister P.D. Menelik Harris/WADUPAM.ORG/718-523-3312

As we prepare for African Liberation Day on May 25, 2012, Africans across the African world are urged to intensify their work and struggle for Pan Africanism during the full month of May. The World African Diaspora Union (WADU) is especially urging all to focus on ways to support and influence a principled and successful outcome of the African Union African Diaspora Summit on May 25-26, 2012. The African Union Diaspora Summit in South Africa is an unprecedented attempt to fulfill a key goal of the mission of Pan Africanism - to reunify the African Diaspora with Africa.

The Summit in South Africa is intended to strengthen the relationships with African people worldwide for African cultural, economic and political renaissance. Numerous leaders from across Africa and the African Diaspora are been invited to attend. Some of the African Diaspora leaders from the northern Diaspora (U.S.A.) who may participate in this Summit are Dr. Julius Garvey (NY), Dr. Leonard Jeffries (NJ), Mel Foote (WDC), Ms. Vanessa Williams (GA), Dr. Georgina Falu (PR) and Omowale Clay (NY).   

The Summit comes at another threatening period in African history when global powers such as the USA, the European Union and now China are competing for African resources. Due to Africa’s continued vulnerable position, the Europeans have already launched strategic attacks on several African countries, particularly lethal, and destabilizing direct and indirect assaults on Libya, Ivory Coast, Mali, and yes the African Union. Most importantly, the meeting in South Africa comes at a time as Europe crumbles after centuries of feasting on the death and destruction of Africans. Now more ever, Africans in the Diaspora have a great opportunity to finally help in the rebuilding of their Motherland, after centuries of continuous destruction. The time to act is now for “Pan Africanism or Perish”!

In preparation for the South Africa Summit, WADU is urging all to organize major meetings on the AU and the African Diaspora agenda for unity culminating in Africa Day commemoration on May 25, 2012. In Atlanta, organizations such as the World African Diaspora Union (WADU), the Pan African Orthodox Christian Church (PAOCC), All African Peoples’ Revolutionary Party (AAPRP), the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)/African Communities League (UNIA/ACL) and other Pan African and Black activist organizations will organize African Liberation Day activities.

The gathering in Atlanta is both to support the ongoing struggles of African people worldwide and also as tribute to those recent Pan African ancestors like Dr. Ndugu T’Ofori-Atta, Dr. Dudley Thompson and Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis. To Africans in Georgia, Reverend Dr. Ndugu T’Ofori-Atta played a crucial role, with those like the late Dr. Asa Hilliard, to promote Africa and Pan Africanism across the Black South and the globe.

Additionally and as part of Africa Month commemoration, WADU is collaborating with global organizations such as the African Union (AU) and the African Union Diaspora Task Team (AUDITT) for a tribute for the late Pan African ‘Legend’ Ambassador Dudley Thompson on May 14, 2012. The tribute is to promote Baba Dudley’s vision and work for a Diaspora union with Africa, as the 6^th region of Africa. In April 2007, Baba Dudley Thompson committed to join Elombe Brath, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Nana Farika Birhane and Minister P.D. Menelik Harris to support the building an African Diaspora system “for the empowerment of Black people in the world.” By July 2007, WADU was given birth in Jamaica as a primary Diaspora instrument to work with the AU. WADU and Baba Dudley has been a persistent, principled and a powerful Pan African voice of the African Diaspora to unify with Africa

Africa Month in May was established by the WADU Summit in July 2007 in Jamaica to intensify Pan African related activities throughout the month of May, culminating in African Liberation Day on May 25, every year. Since May 25, 1963, Pan Africanists have used this as a pivotal political period to rally Africans across the world to support African liberation struggles against colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism and imperialism. WADU is now promoting Africa Month for the global political, cultural and economic renaissance and union of African people.

WADU is urging all Africans to dedicate themselves to resist neo-colonialism by advancing African Diaspora citizenship, businesses and representation in the AU. In Georgia, Pan African leaders will also convene on May 5, 2012 to promote a program of action for Pan African Diaspora leadership in the 21^st century. Please join us at the Pan African Brunch on May 5, 2012 (12:00/Noon) at “Our Intimate Café” on 2001 Martin L. King Jr. Drive S.W. For more information on the AU programs contact Baba Watusi Branch at 718-523-3312. For the Atlanta programs, call Empress Oyah at 770-912-7053 or Dr. Akilah at 404-564-6484 or www.myintimatecafe.com.

On January 20, 2012, His Excellency Dudley Thompson, President of the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) was called to join the ranks of great African Ancestors such as Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Honorable Marcus Garvey, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Fannie Lou Hamer, Minister Malcolm Omowale Shabazz, Dr. WEB Dubois, Ella Baker, Walter Rodney, Kwame Touré, Sekou Touré, Asa Hilliard-Nana Amankwatia Baffour and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Dudley was in New York City celebrating his 95^th birthday and planning for the WADU Annual Executive Council Session in New Jersey when he made his transition. According to Dr. Leonard Jeffries “I was blessed to be with him as he took his last steps in his great and mighty Pan African walk.”

His Excellency Dudley Thompson has been an enduring and relentless servant of African people and humanity. A WWII veteran of the Royal Air Force (RAF), he was a participant of the famous 5^th Pan African Congress (PAC) of 1945 in England with leaders such as President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, Dr. WEB Dubois of the USA, Amy Garvey of Jamaica and George Padmore of Trinidad. He was also an attorney for Jomo Kenyatta during the famous Mau Mau revolution and a key supporter of the struggles for African independence.

He also gave initial support to Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, who at the time Ambassador Dudley was practicing law in what was then Tanganyika, helped Mwalimu Nyerere  in setting up an office and assisted him with the legalize of writing the constitution of what was to be come Tanzania. Born in Panama, he became a Foreign Minister under the Honorable Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica, ambassador from Jamaica to numerous countries, especially in Africa (Ghana, Namibia, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe) and an advisor to the late President-elect MKO Abiola of Nigeria. Thompson played an effective role in the independence movement of both Belize and Bahamas. He was a Member of both the Senate of Jamaica and the Leader of Government Business in the House and later a Member of the House of Representatives.

In 2007, we elected Dudley Thompson as the first President of WADU. Dr. Dudley Thompson’s work as the President of WADU has been extremely successful beyond expectations as a senior elder. Before his election as President of WADU, the Pan African Movement was in a vulnerable state entering the 21^st century due to the death and illnesses of many veteran Pan Africanists. Ever cognizant of this weakness, Baba Dudley decided to work with steel zeal to rebuild the Pan African Movement to play a decisive role in the world, as it did in the 20^th century. Almost instantaneously after taking leadership with other great Pan Africanists over WADU, the African world responded positively and with great expectations under the robust and unified leadership of WADU. Thereafter, WADU has attracted other diverse powerful leaders bent on sharing WADU successes and more importantly to support WADU push toward Pan African victory.

From the very beginning, Baba Dudley moved with resolute and unprecedented speed to formally established WADU as a powerful force in the African world. The initial plan crafted by Baba Dudley called for WADU to establish a leadership council with some of the most distinguished, dedicated, and diverse veteran Pan Africanists in the world. Second, with WADU unified Diaspora leadership, Baba Dudley pressed decisively to influence the African Union to hasten the unfulfilled objectives for African Diaspora representation, repatriation, citizenship, and sustainable development. Finally and most importantly, Baba Dudley provided the African Diaspora with a 21^st century model for a comprehensive economic, political, and cultural plan for the African Diaspora, to accomplish the Pan African mission, with an integrated Africa.

During his service in WADU, he consistently called for us to “establish a new global order of justice and equality for all and for African empowerment for the accomplishment of the African Renaissance.”In 2011, he stressed “military intervention is not an option…” “Africa’s glorious history and civilizations were disrupted by foreign influence, military interventions and genocidal warfare against the people of Africa.”

In 2010, he announced, “Our work in Ethiopia is to hasten the long struggle and work for the re-integration of African people captured and dispersed from Africa for centuries, to now build new enterprises to restore dignity, pride and power of African people in the world.” Also in 2010, he supported the quest of Senegalese President Abdoulye Wade for Pan African unity and was one of the prominent guests when the Senegalese president unveiled the magnificent Renaissance monument in Dakar, Senegal.

In 2009, Baba stated “My message of thanks to you includes my personal appeal as a veteran Pan Africanist to teach our youth of today their past history of yesterday and their potential of today that their days after tomorrow can be better if they take their responsibility into their own hands and acknowledge their duty to a united Africa, as our real Motherland.”

In 2008, he warned, “The price of Justice is Eternal Vigilance.At a time when we are challenged by so many downturns and difficulties in our daily lives, we have now the clear duty and opportunity to save the next generation. ”In 2007, when the Ambassador took leadership of WADU, he proclaimed to the world “The result of the Summit is historic and a great leap forward for the full integration of the Africans of the Diaspora as a powerful family partner for the rebuilding of our Motherland, Africa.” Finally, on January 20, 2012, minutes before his death, Baba Dudley impressed upon Dr. Leonard Jeffries that “Dr. John Henrik Clarke was right, we must work for Pan Africanism or Perish.”  

Indeed, Baba Dudley was preparing to complete his final year as the President of WADU and to be elevated as the venerated WADU Chair of the High Council Elders. The global WADU family with sadness expresses peace with love to the “Living Legend” His Excellency “Burning Spear” Dudley Thompson. We especially send our condolences to Ambassador Dudley’s wife Cecile, his children, grandchildren, great-grand-children and the other members of his family. The official funeral will take place Friday, February 10^th at 2:00 p.m. at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Jamaica. Ambassador Thompson’s burial will be with full military honors at Up Park Camp Cemetery, immediately after the service.

The WADU leadership is extremely thankful to his eternal contributions and remains steadfast to his vision for a much brighter day for African people in the world. If attending, you can join our new WADU President Dr. Leonard Jeffries in a delegation to the funeral in Jamaica. Also, you can participate in global tributes and in the WADU 5-year campaign on behalf of our beloved leader for the union of African people. Please send all cards and condolences to Afrikan Poetry Theatre, 176-03 Jamaica Ave., Jamaica, N.Y. 11432-5503. We now close with the daily sacred words of Baba Dudley “PEACE AND LOVE.”

Prime Minister saddened by death of Ambassador Dudley Thompson

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Ambassador Dudley Thompson

Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has expressed deep sadness at the passing of Ambassador Dudley Joseph Thompson. Ambassador Thompson died Friday morning, one day after his 95th birthday. Mrs. Simpson Miller said she was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mr. Thompson, an outstanding Jamaican politician, diplomat and statesman, and a personal and dear friend for more than four decades.

Mrs. Simpson-Miller said Ambassador Thompson’s passing is exceptionally painful for her, as it was only recently after her electoral victory, that he called with a most heart-warming congratulation. She further described Mr. Thompson as a man of firm convictions, articulate, sharp on his feet and witty, who loved his country with a passion and served it with honour and distinction.The Prime Minister also expressed profound condolences to his widow Cecile, children, grandchildren, and great grandchild.
   
Born in Panama on January 19, 1917 to Daniel and Ruby Thompson, Dudley Thompson was a life member of the People’s National Party, and was elected Chairman of the PNP in 1979. He was a PNP Senator during the years 1962- 1978, and was leader of Government Business in the House of Representatives in 1978. He served as Member of Parliament for St. Andrew Western in 1978 to 1983; Minister of National Security in 1978; Minister of Mining and Natural Resources from 1977 to 1978 and Minister of State, with the responsibility for Foreign Affairs from 1972-1975.  

Dudley Thompson was Jamaica’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Namibia.
He was also Jamaica’s chief representative in the conference on the Law of the Sea and played a leading role in securing Jamaica as the permanent headquarters for the International Seabed Authority. He also introduced the Office of the Ombudsman to Jamaica. Ambassador Thompson practised law in Jamaica, East Africa, Dominica, the Bahamas, and Bermuda, and served as president of the Jamaican Bar Association.

He received his early education at the Mico Teacher Training College, was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University in 1947, and later called to the bar at Gray’s Inn (London). A freedom fighter and Pan Africanist, he was a leading member of the team of lawyers who represented the former leader of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, in the 1950s. At the time of his death, Ambassador Thompson was the President of the World Africa Diaspora Union.

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Pan-African Jamaican statesman Dudley Thompson has died at 95

Ambassador Dudley Thompson, a historic figure in Jamaica and the Pan-African global movement, died Friday, a day after his 95th birthday, Jacqueline Charles of The Miami Herald reports.

He was a historical figure in the politics of Jamaica and in the larger global struggle to unite people of African descent. Hard to miss with his cheerful disposition, intellect and passionate conversations, Ambassador Dudley Thompson drew crowds no matter where he went. A former Jamaican cabinet minister who served as a minister of national security, justice and foreign affairs, Thompson died Friday morning in New York, the day after he turned 95. He was scheduled to celebrate the next week in New Jersey. He lived in Weston.

“We will miss his intellect, his stature,” said Jamaica’s Miami Consul General Sandra A. Grant Griffiths, whose office confirmed the death. “He was all over the place.” Griffiths last saw Thompson in December when he attended a holiday gathering at her residence. There, like elsewhere, he drew crowds to his side as he discussed Jamaica, and Africa, the continent where he served as an envoy in several countries including Nigeria, Namibia and Ghana, and practiced law as a young man. It was while defending the late Jomo Kenyatta during his Mau Mau rebellion trial in Kenya that Thompson became well-known across Africa.

Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller described Thompson as “a man of firm convictions, articulate, sharp on his feet and witty. Dudley Thompson loved his country with a passion and served it with honor and distinction.” Thompson was up with the times. He blogged and had his own website. www.DudleyThompson.4t.com. His dream was to see a united Africa and was president of the World African Diaspora Union.

According to his website, he was born in Panama and raised in Jamaica. He served in Britain’s Royal Air Force during World War II, and he was a Rhodes scholar. In the early 1950s, he practiced law in Tanzania and Kenya, and became involved in the nationalists struggles in both countries. In October, Thompson made history when the African Union made him the first person to become a citizen of the continent and gave him a passport. Dozens of African presidents attended the ceremony, said Djibril Diallo, senior advisor to the executive director of the UNAIDS and advisor to the President of Senegal on Diaspora Affairs.

Diallo said Thompson left him a voice mail on his cell phone just days ago telling him to call because he had some suggestions on their ongoing collaboration to promote Africa. “I was working on getting him an honorary ambassadorship for the entire African continent,” said Diallo, whose relationship with Thompson dates back more than 20 years. “He’s amazing as a Pan-Africanist, and has worked to the last hour just preaching Africa and the diaspora.’’

For the original report go to http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/01/20/2599977/pan-african-and-jamaican-statesman.html

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Pan African “Living Saint”, MLK Fellow, Transitioned

WADU High Council of Elders Chair, The Most Reverend Dr. Ndugu T’Ofori-Atta transitioned into the spiritual world on January 11, 2012 at 11:15 a.m. For most of his life, Dr. Atta served humanity foremost as a Pan African Priest, founder and leader of the Religious Heritage of the African World (RHAW), and a former professor of the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC). He was also instructor and member of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows, a founding member and leader of the Concerned Black Clergy of Atlanta and most importantly a ‘peoples’ pastor’. Over the decades, Dr. Atta worked with major leaders across the African world for the freedom and liberation of African people resulting in the building of major Pan African institutions in Africa and the African Diaspora.

Born on July 11, 1924 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Atta is an activist priest who has consistently served African people with the utmost grace, humility, and conviction. His work for Black freedom follows the path of great Pan African priestly leaders such as Rev. Henry H. Garnett, Rev. Dr. Edward Blyden, Rev. Dr. Martin Delaney, M.D., Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa. These ministers have transformed the religious, political, and social landscape of history.

As a child, Dr. Atta felt a passion to help overcome the problems of the world. While serving during WW11 as an assistant Chaplain in the Pacific, Dr. Atta made his life commitment to serve Black people, especially those challenges affecting his Homeland, Africa. Upon completion of his military service, he immediately enrolled at Lincoln University and then attended graduate studies at Boston University with other African American leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Atta remembered Boston University as a “hotbed for raising one’s spiritual and political conscience to transform a world dominated by racism, imperialism and colonialism.” 

Upon graduation from Boston University in 1951, Dr. Atta taught briefly at Livingstone College in North Carolina and then proceeded with his wife Farrel ‘Nanasewa’ Thomas to work in the Congo. While in the Congo, he taught and promoted African liberation theology. He also participated in activities that led to the forming of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) in 1961. The AACC is a Pan African faith organization that gave support to the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963. Both the AACC and the OAU committed themselves in principle to support the unification and liberation of African people.

In 1965, Dr, Atta returned to the United States and established the Religious Heritage of the Black World (RHBW) at Livingstone College as an organization to re-educate Africans in the Diaspora on African culture, spirituality and to participate in the African freedom struggles of African people. In 1969, the RHBW moved to the ITC in Atlanta, Georgia and collaborated with Dr. Vincent Harding (former speechwriter for Dr. M.L. King, Jr.) of the Institute of the Black World (IBW) on numerous projects.

In the 1970’s, the RHAW also became the beacon of light for African spiritual reawakening attracting many pastors and community leaders to accept and confirm African traditional worldview as vital to the dignity, humanity and divinity of African people. It officially changed its name from RHBW to RHAW to send a clear and uncompromising message that we are Africans. Dr. Atta also collaborated with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows Doctoral Project at Colgate University as a faculty leader and member teaching prominent faith leaders on the significance of African religious experiences in South America, the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast of the United States as critical links to African spiritual legacy. Additionally, while at ITC, Baba Atta educated thousands of young ministers to dedicate their work to restore and promote African history, spirituality and African liberation, everywhere.

Dr. Atta also used the RHAW as a catalyst to provide direct support for African liberation struggles in Africa and throughout the Diaspora. The RHAW has especially collaborated with the AACC, the National Council of Churches (NCC,USA), the World Council of Churches (WCC), Congress of National Black Churches (CNBC) on a number of Africa initiatives to promote the decolonization of Africa. Inspired by Dr. Atta, graduates of the MLK Fellows program such as The Reverend Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker and Canon Frederick Williams were able to organize other prominent ministers to serve as vital links to support the liberation and human rights struggles in Africa.

By the 1980’s, the RHAW initiated the Pan African Christian Church Conference (PACCC) to organize African faith leaders across the Diaspora to partner with the AACC to support the full liberation and reconstruction of Africa. With PACCC, the RHAW became the first successful effort in Black history to hold a major Pan African meeting of faith leaders representing African people from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. The work of PACCC inspired the founding the Religious Action Network (RAN) by Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, former Chief of Staff to Dr. King and former Chair of the National Action Network (NAN) under Rev. Al Sharpton. RAN became a powerful punch to American Committee on Africa, now Africa Action. Through RAN, Dr. Walker recruited former students of Dr. Atta such as Rev. Phyllis Byrd and Minister P.D. Menelik Harris into his leadership to galvanize religious organizations and leaders for African liberation, sustainable development, and human rights issues in Africa.

The RHAW opened the 21^st century by launching the RHAW Pan African Movement (PAM) initiative to unify the African Diaspora with Africa. The RHAWPAM initiative was inspired by the work of Bishop Henry McNeil Turner, a key convener and supporter of the 1900 First Pan African Congress (PAC) with WEB Dubois other leaders of Africa and the Diaspora in England calling for unified action to end colonialism and imperialism in Africa. The RHAWPAM initiative was also a response from the continuous call from the OAU, now African Union and the AACC for Africans in the Diaspora to become partners for the rebuilding of our Homeland, Africa.

Since 2004, the RHAW was able to rally wide support from major organizations and leaders across the African Diaspora to rebuild the Pan African Movement for the 21^st century and by 2007 established the World Afrikan Diaspora Union (WADU) as that instrument. WADU is now the central Pan African organization of the Diaspora unifying the African Diaspora with Africa. WADU leadership is now across the African Diaspora including Europe, the USA, the Caribbean and in South America. Dr. Atta initially served as its Chief Secretariat and then the Chair of WADU. WADU has been able to attract other exemplary Diaspora leaders such as His Excellency Baba Dr. Dudley Thompson, President; Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Vice President; Nana Dr. Niara Sudarkasa, Chief Elder; Nana Sybil Clarke (wife of Dr. John H. Clarke), Queen Mother; and Dr. Julius Garvey, Executive Support. 

As part of enduring work, the students and faculty of ITC (premier Black seminary) have pushed for a Sankofa curriculum as a model to promote African sacred heritage and history in the world. Indeed, Dr. Ndugu T’Ofori-Atta has passed on a great legacy to his immediate and extended family members across the world. Our beloved Baba Ndugu T’Ofori-Atta’s spirit is now watching over us as we mourn, celebrate and continue his sacred and ’saintly’ legacy. The funeral rite of passage ceremony into the Ancestral world will be on January 22, 2012. For more information, please contact wadupam@aol.com or call 404-527-7756.

Pan African “Living Saint” Transitioned

 WADU High Council of Elders Chair, The Most Reverend Dr. Ndugu T’Ofori-Atta, transitioned into the spiritual world yesterday at 11:15 a.m. Dr. Atta was a Pan African Priest, former Professor of the Interdenominational Theological Center, Instructor of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Fellows, founding member and leader of the Concerned Black Clergy of Atlanta, and a peoples’ pastor. Over the decades, Dr. Atta served and worked closely with major leaders for African freedom and liberation resulting in the building of major Pan African institutions in Africa and the African Diaspora. His Great Spirit is now watching over us as we mourn, celebrate and continue his sacred legacy. Dr. Atta’s funeral rite of passage ceremony into the Ancestral world will publicly be on January 22, 2012. For more information, please contact wadpam@aol.com.

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            World Afrikan Diaspora Union (WADU)             

Executive Session

Community Forum &

 Birthday Tribute

  Saturday, January 21, 2012/1:00 P.M.

                West Market St. and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.

Newark, New Jersey 07102

His Excellency Dudley Thompson

Dr. Leonard Jeffries,

Prof. James Small,

Dr. Andy Thompson

Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis

Baba John Watusi Branch,

More!

                                                      With

Pan Africanists, Activists, Scholars, Students…

Dr. Khalil, WADU Chair (NJ) Contact: Phone: 973-652-7132        

WADU Sixth Region Diaspora Office: 718-523-3312

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          The 21^st Century Belongs to the Youth!!!

        State of the Race Youth Conference

    Also With Global African Leaders –Ambassadors, Ministers, Activists, Intellectuals…

 Join us to Stop the New Scramble & Re-Colonization of our Homeland, Africa to

forge forward the Pan African “Decades for Development”.

Friday (Feb. 24) Tell Your Representatives to “Hands off Africa” for Peace, Jobs & Justice…  

  Saturday, February 25, 2012,

Howard University, Washington, D.C.

For more information contact Sister Iminah (sistah.iminah@gmail.com) –

She is the WADU Georgia Youth Commissioner. A recent graduate of Spelman College in Political Science, she is also a radio journalist and has represented WADUGA and WADU in a number of African Union Diaspora and other Diaspora meetings. 

Also you can contact WADU Diaspora Office in NYC –

718-523-3312/WADUPAM.ORG

& Birthday Tributes to 

Ambassador Dudley Thompson (95) &

Dr. Leonard Kweku Jeffries (75) 

        WADU Executive Conference 2012

                  January 20-22, 2012                          

             Newark, New Jersey                    

His Excellency Dudley Thompson, Dr. Leonard Kweku Jeffries, Baba John Watusi Branch, Prof. James Small, Ambassadors, Queen Mother Dorothy Lewis, Dr. Georgina Falu, Omowale Clay, Elected Officials, Students, Business leaders, Africa Activists, Faith Leaders, etc.… 

Coordinator: Dr. Akil K. Khalfani 

Contact Baba John Watusi Branch @

718-523-3312/WADUPAM.ORG

              Immediate Release     Date: 11/9/2011

WADU Unifies Diaspora Europe Region

John Watusi Branch-718-523-3312/Min. P.D. Menelik-WADUPAM.ORG

Atlanta, Ga. – During the World African Diaspora Union (WADU) 5^th Pan African Congress (PAC) anniversary conference in the Netherlands this October 28-29, 2011, African Diaspora leaders called for the re-Africanization of the African mind to successfully achieve the mission for a united states of Africa. Under the theme “The New African World Order”, Africans descended on Amsterdam from different parts of Africa, Europe, South America, North America, and the Caribbean to support a systematic Pan African agenda pushed by WADU for the scattered family members of Africa to organize as an economic, political and cultural power block in the world.

According to Dr. Leonard Jeffries, the keynote speaker of the WADU Europe event, “this successful and historic meeting in Europe was convened with the full support of WADU President His Excellency Dudley Thompson and in the spirit of our Ancestors such as those like Dr. John Henrik Clarke to promote Pan Africanism or perish.” During his address on the history, vision and foundation of Pan Africanism, Dr Jeffries impressed upon and charged the new WADU leaders of Europe to “agitate, educate and organize” in the spirit of Kwame Ture for the cultural, political and economic reintegration of African people as one powerful family.

The October meeting in the Netherlands came at a critical time in the 111^th anniversary year of the formal launching of the Pan African Movement when former colonial states of Europe have escalated their agenda to re-colonize and enslave Africa under the guise of United Nations humanitarian assistance to Africa. Orchestrated from European capitols, European leaders have destroyed Libya, supported the genocidal attack on Black Libyans in northern Africa, reinforced U.S. militarization of Africa with Africom and have expanded NATO operations across Africa. The vicious attacks on Africa also came almost immediately after the United Nations declared 2011 as the year for the people of African descent. 

The WADU 5^th PAC anniversary conference chaired by Dr. Amanda Uzor was focused on the importance of the Diaspora saving Africa; the dire need for WADU Europe immediately; Western interference in African affairs; the kinds of forces in place to destroy Africans in Europe; the importance of media to educate and empower African people, everywhere; and the European cultural conditioning of Black Children that has destroyed the black minds.

Other key speakers and facilitators in addition to Dr. Amanda Uzor, Chairwoman, Africa Media Practitioners in the Diaspora are Dr. Sharifa Saa-Atma Ma’at, Co-Chair, WADU Georgia and Founder of Sankofa Visions; Mr. Moses Biba Kaylade, Founder/Director of Action Contributive De La Diaspora PanaAfricanie; Mr. Leshley Buleson of Percepolis Management Developing Consult, Ltd; Mr. Elvis Iruh, Editor-in-Chief- The Voice and Mr. Emmanuel Semanou, Pan African Activist, Ivory Coast.

WADU was initiated in 2004 in Atlanta, Georgia with the full support of veteran Pan Africanist leaders such as Prof.  James Small, Elombe Brath, Rev. Dr. Ndugu T’Ofofori-Atta, Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Mother Sybil Clarke (wife of late Dr. John H. Clarke), Mama Anna Swanston (Secretary for  John H. Clarke), Baba Mukasa Dada Willie Ricks (Pan African Civil Rights leader) and was formalized with the election of Ambassador Dudley Thompson as its President in July 2007 in Kingston, Jamaica.

WADU is encouraging all to support the WADU Council of Europe during this terrible economic crisis that is threatening the lives of African people, in Africa and especially those living in Europe. You can also join us for WADU Kwanzaa forum in Europe this December with Dr. Sharifaa Ma’at. To participate in our “State of the Race” executive session and ingathering on January 21-22, 2011 in New Jersey, please contact Dr. Akil  K. Khalfani (WADUNJ Chair) at (973) 877-3219.

For additional information, to become a leader-servant in service of African people and humanity, please contact our Chief Secretariat Baba John Watusi Branch (jwatusi@aol.com) at (718) 523-3312 in NYC or kindly visit WADUPAM.ORG.

176-03 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica NY 11434 / 718-523-3312 (NYC)

HUJAMBO (Greetings) Family:

Peace and blessings during this season for African unity and power as we struggle to stop the new scramble to re-colonize and enslave African people. The World African Diaspora Union (WADU) more than ever is urging you to participate in its noble and sacred work to restore the humanity and dignity of African people this coming year and beyond. Therefore, WADU is inviting you to its 2012 Executive Session and State of the Race conference from January 21-22, 2012. Also, to effectively continue our work in 2012 and beyond, we are asking for your generous financial contributions to support our noble work to strengthen the African Diaspora as a powerful regional block to empower our people and our Motherland, Africa. 

2011, marking the 111^th anniversary of the formal launching of the Pan African Movement was very challenging for the African world. 2011 started with the January 2011 WADU Executive Council meeting and President’s birthday 94^th gathering in Florida. The WADU 2011 Executive report called for WADU focusing on all Africans to participate in the WADU Decade for Development agenda promoting Pan African Economics, Pan African education and strengthening the African Diaspora AU relationships. Also for WADU to continue working and partnering with other key Diaspora organizations to press the AU to have clear and credible consultations with established leaders of the Diaspora organizations for a comprehensive framework to expedite the unity and empowerment of African people.

The year also started with the economic crisis in the Euro-American world

leading to their barbarous attack on Ivory Coast with the UN support and then

followed by massive destruction of Libya. In both cases, WADU took

leadership and after consulting with other leaders, calling for decisive actions to

push back on the attack on Africa. WADU not only immediately urged

peaceful resolutions to the war on Africa, but also for the AU take clear,

decisive and robust steps in a 5-point-action plan to stop the re-colonization of

Africa. Throughout this siege on Africa, WADU demonstrated itself as one of

the most principled and a vanguard organization along with some other

organizations calling for actions to protect and promote a strong Africa

against a dangerously increasing and expanded attacks on our Motherland – A

Luta Continua!

Additionally, in 2011 WADU continued the pressure on the AU for better

representation of the African Diaspora in the AU after successfully helping to

spearhead the establishment of African Union Diaspora Task Team

(AUDITT) in NY (2010). To make AUDITT most relevant to our

people, WADU has requested the AUDITT  leaders to elect or appoint the

most prominent Pan Diaspora leaders to AUDITT leadership, to expand

representations across the Diaspora and for the AU to appoint Diaspora

leaders to ECOSOCC, with dual citizenship. The year is ending with our

successful mission to Europe as part of our agenda to unify, promote and

protect our people, everywhere. Indeed, other Diaspora key leaders are joining

the ranks of WADU. 

As we move forward with the agenda for African ‘second liberation’ and renaissance, WADU is urging you to make vigilance and resistance your motto for 2012. To continue our success, WADU needs your leadership, service and your generous financial contribution to continue the noble work of our Ancestors. Please send Checks or Money Order payable to WADU at the above address. We hope to see you at our January 2012 conference to celebrate the birthdays of our President Ambassador Dudley Thompson (95^th) and Vice President Dr. Leonard Jeffries (75^th) on January 21, 2012. For more information, contact us at 718-523-3312 or WADUPAM.ORG. Peace & Blessings - Kwaheri!

Baba John Watusi Branch, WADU Sixth Region Chief Secretariat Office

Ms. Eva Sedame Keith, Secretariat Director

Min. P.D. Menelik, Secretary General