Migrations, Sandouno (Urgences Panafricanistes): “Italians and Africans must fight together against globalism”

The main media have returned to talking in a bilious and emergency way about the migratory phenomenon, while L’Antidiplomatico has chosen to interview Farafin Sâa François Sandouno, a very young, tenacious and brilliant exponent of Pan-Africanism in the 21st century and of Multipolarism, Coordinator of the Italy section of NGO Urgences Panafricanistes founded by activist Kemi Seba in 2015, Collaborator of NOFI, the first newspaper on African culture.

Sandouno defines himself as “African born in Italy”. Because the globalist ideology would like us to be flat and without history, forgetful of all complexity, when instead the human being is complex, multifaceted with places and memories. We interviewed him to give readers a more lucid analysis of the migration phenomenon, between invasion hysteria and do-goodism (buonismo) that only causes damage to the African population and also to the Italian one, triggering a war between the poor favorable only to the elite.

THE INTERVIEW

Sandouno, what is pan-Africanism and how does it represent a vision in step with the times?

Pan-Africanism is a revolutionary ideology born in the twentieth century, which aspires to the union of the different forms of Africanity and which has always fought for the objective of continental sovereignty. Among the precursors we see Kwame Nkrumah, who later became president of Ghana, passing through Jomo Kenyatta and many other important theorists and exponents such as Marcus Garvey, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara (very important names who inspired the pan-African movement) up to Gaddafi. At the time it arose, the world was dominated and divided by two economic and civilizational models: communism in the east and capitalist Atlanticism in the west. Pan-Africanism played an important role during the decolonization of the 1960s, in fact in that historical period it found affinities of purpose with communism against the exploitation of workers, against racial discrimination around the world, in an anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist key. However, communism was defeated in the 1990s and capitalism transformed into neoliberal globalism on an economic and cultural level. Pan-Africanism therefore finds itself today confronted with liberalism and globalism, that is, with Western unipolarism. This is why Pan-Africanism currently wants to align itself with the emerging powers of the BRICS in a multipolar perspective.As regards the conception of Africa itself, it recognizes and values the cultural and religious differences between African states: it certainly does not want uniformity between African states, otherwise we would be faced with a disguised globalisation. A citizen of Guinea and an Ethiopian, for example, have different historical-social characteristics and peculiarities and pan-Africanism claims them, while hoping for synergy for a common goal, namely African sovereignty from neocolonialism and Western exploitation.

The High Representative for European Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell claims that the issue of migration could represent “a divisive force for the European Union”. European leaders pass the responsibility for the lack of reception onto each other – downstream – when instead everyone bears responsibility for those policies that push migration upstream. In short, can we say that in front of the cameras they pretend to disagree on “how many migrants to welcome” but do they all agree that immigration is the cost of an indispensable business?

Yes. The migration phenomenon is a complex and multifactorial fact and dragging it from one side of propaganda to another is a strategy to prevent the different populations in Europe from understanding the root of the problem, namely the plundering of the African continent and hence the political unrest and the diaspora towards Europe. European oligarchs operate in incestuous endogamy with many African leaders. I think that the different European chancelleries should stop blaming each other, because in their role they are all responsible for the African exodus, with the guilty complicity of the African oligarchs. We must focus on the causes and stop getting lost in the consequences, stop dwelling on the welcome, or on the rhetoric of “help at home”. The only way is to leave Africa free to assert its sovereignty, which goes from benefiting from its own resources (especially underground) to political and cultural self-determination.

Jihaidism is also a “rotten” fruit of neocolonialism. And it is both the cause and consequence of socio-political unrest, in a well-constructed vicious circle.

Through the assassination of the late Gaddafi, the destabilization of Libya, ideological armed groups of Islamic fundamentalism were fomented, with the aim of creating chaos in our lands. This control by the North of the world over Africa also occurs through the co-optation of our elites, guilty of very serious collaborationism, and often of criminal indifference towards this haemorrhage of people who end up dying at sea or victims of gangmastering. Africa is suffering an emptying of human value, of people who are intelligences, workforce, professionals. The control of the North of the world over Africa is therefore achieved with a military apparatus, through military bases in particular French, but also economic and financial with currency, especially the CFA franc (currency which in 1945 was the acronym for “French Colonies of Africa”). In controlling Africa, European leaders and partly the USA control Italian and European public opinion, in check in the ideological polarization between open and closed ports.

It is very difficult in our country to speak with those who accuse those who try to make this type of speech of racism or lack of sensitivity and unmask what is in all respects a form of modern slavery. What to do?

The answer was given by the great Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci: cultural hegemony. An invisible and powerful minority in terms of media capacity directs the thoughts of the population. We need to work for a cultural counter-hegemony, to stop the lobotomization of single thought. There are newspapers, movements and parties working hard to do this, but they must find a way to make themselves heard by citizens.

They tell us that we must “help Africa” when we should just leave this immense and rich land with its people, free to self-determine. We must think from a perspective contrary to what they tell us: it is African sovereignty that also guarantees the sovereignty of European national states.

Certainly, the sovereignty of other states also depends on the sovereignty of the African continent because it is the most asphyxiated, the most hindered, oppressed and it is in fact here that the globalist oligarchy has the most power. And if this continent manages to free itself from the American and globalist oligarchy, which also suffocates Europe, this could mean liberation for European nations too. Globalism is not a threat only to Africa, it attacks collective identity on the level of spirituality; the dogma is to believe only in money, as in a daneistocrazia that Ezra Pound spoke of (foundation of power on the possibility of lending money); on the family level this ideology promotes a mistreated vision of it, because the strength of the social community is generated from the family; from the point of view of love of land it incites nomadization, to make us all stateless without an anchor of identity. You can be born anywhere, but preserving the civilizational matrix: the globalist attack and its war that rages today is not between peoples, but for their disappearance: for this reason the objective must be to lead all peoples, Africans as well as Italians, to be bastions of resistance to globalism.

By Giulia Bertotto for the AntiDiplomatico

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