131st anniversary of end of Berlin conference on Africa subjugation

(1. infamous gathering in session)

Today, 26th February 2016, marks the 131st anniversary of the end of the infamous 15 November 1884-26 February 1885 European leaders’ Berlin conference on Africa. The gathering was chaired by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to formalise the pan-European seizure, planned occupation, and irrepressible exploitation of the gargantuan riches of the African World. The following countries attended the meeting: Britain, France, Portugal, Holland, Belgium, Ottoman “empire”, Germany, Italy, Spain, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Czarist Russia, Sweden-Norway, United States. 

The catastrophic aftermath of this Berlin-assembly still prevails across Africa particularly with the emergence of genocide-states such as Nigeria (since its 29 May 1966 launch of the Igbo genocide, this foundational genocide of post-[European]conquest Africa, with total support from hitherto conqueror-state Britain), the Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in which the varied targeted peoples in these principalities must urgently rectify by freeing themselves if they have to survive. This freedom quest from the “Berlin-state” is the most pressing mission in contemporary Africa.

(2. infamous gathering in session: to formalise the pan-European seizure, planned occupation, and irrepressible exploitation of the gargantuan riches of the African World)

(Max Roach Sextet, “All Africa” [personnel: Roach, drums; Abbey Lincoln, vocals; Booker Little, trumpet; Michael Olatunji, congas, vocals; Raymond Mantilla, percussion; Tomas du Vall, percussion; recorded: Nola Penthouse Sound Studio, New York, US, 31 August/6 September 1960)

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