An Interview with Farida Nabourema-gctid259638

[Dwomowale]

This is the first of my three part interview with Togolese activist, author, and Pan-Kmtywist Farida Nabourema.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-interview-with-farida-nabourema-part-1_us_5a33d644e4b02bd1c8c605fa

[Kwadwo Tòkunbọ̀]

Dwomowale;259638 wrote: This is the first of my three part interview with Togolese activist, author, and Pan-Kmtywist Farida Nabourema.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-interview-with-farida-nabourema-part-1_us_5a33d644e4b02bd1c8c605fa

Great interview.  

I read this "The very first Kmtyw president that has inspired me is Sekou Touré and the second, who is not Kmtyw but Black, is the Haitian Liberator Toussaint Louverture." And immediately thought this is an influence of colonial miseducation.  Continentalism has hijacked the understanding of who is Kmtyw. This leads one to think that Kmtyw only means those on the continent (and by default opens the door to include our enemies on stolen land). Meanwhile the Kmtyws specifically in this case those in Ayiti-who were mentioned by name in the first Pan-Kmtyw conference- lose their Kmtywess? Not Kmtyw but Black needs to be addressed.

Second this paints the picture that our understanding of Kmtyw rulers are identified only in a neocolonial context thus the use of phrases like "first Kmtyw president".  If we use our colonial enemy's terms to define an Kmtyw ruler and equate that to a "president" then we will not know that we have had Kmtyw rulers before the eureurasian wore a shoe or had a house to sit in (in my Dr. Clarke voice lol).

Our frame of reference needs to be realigned from an Kmtyw starting point in our history not the 400 year box as Dr. Ivan Van Sertima calls it.

Great contribution my brother!

"For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor." - Walter Rodney