Reparations or confiscation overdue
By: V. I. Umenyiora.
Publisher: V. I. Umenyiora
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
Subjects: Africans -- Europe.; Africans -- United States.; Race discrimination -- United States.; Race discrimination -- Europe.; United States -- Race relations.; Europe -- Race relations.
Description: If Africans have not developed to the standards in Europe in the mean time, it is because the Europeans extracted and plundered the African wealth and human resources and then refused to give back Reparations in return to the Africans and the Caribbeans. As already stated, a considerable number of ex-colonial officials on their visits to the now Independent nations in both Africa and the Caribbean find it astonishing and amazing whey they see the progress and the standards achieved by the people after the unduly extensive and inexorable exploitative colonial occupation (the drawbacks and the impediments for Self Rule not withstanding) since the incident of the infamous act of the Atlantic Slave Trade concerning the regions and the people. <p>We have seen the progress in the Gulf Region and also the development in the Indian Sub-Region, the scale of which, it was never possible within the speck of time by the West Europeans and the U.S.A. So, progress is up to us, and in reality it is a matter of time because "What will be will surely be". We can only hold each other down for a while and not for ever. This is one reason why we should temper our policies and our approach to our fellow human beings with serenity.</p><p>We see Dr. Nelson Mandela in South Africa, the Daniel of our time, (Dan. 6.); his survival cannot be y anything other than through Providence. He and Rev. Dr. Desmond Tutu have not only shown Agape but they have also demonstrated Agape in all that they are doing for human nature.</p><p>The race for the occupation of the Moon and the other heavenly bodies by U.S.A. and Russia cannot be the way out of the ecological, political and social problems. We read it all from H.G. Wells' prognosis, didn't we - The coming of the Martians, and we forget rather intuitively that his work was fiction. The UFOs have even remained as mirages/illusive to all sighting Stations and Observatories. In his little book it is emphasised that we have all our needs on this earth, and therefore all that is required of those in authority is to be cautious, remorseful where necessary and then ready to look for amicable ways to solve our problems - see Prince Charles' criticism; wish he has some words (salutary) for the Space Scientists also. </p>
Notes: To digress a little, folks; For those intending to study the political history of America vis-à-vis the reparations  claim for Africans also, must look into how and when Amerigo Vespucci and Lucas Vasquez Ayllow arrived at the coast of Peedee River, South Caroline with the Blacks from Sao Tome, the Principie and the Congo Basin 1452, 1501 and up to 1526. Mark you, the name America is said to have derived from this man’s name, folks! Also to consider the dates States in America passed the laws that changed the status of the Blacks to slaves and the British Monarch and the Church looked on  - it is part of the reasons for the Bishop of Canterbury’s apologies for the event   - he has copy of my book on the quest for reparations; -  1641  Massachusetts;  1650  Connecticut;  1652  Rhodes Island;  1665  New York;  1682  South  Carolina;   1712  Delaware;  1714  New Hampshire;  1715  North Carolina;  1749   Georgia. It was commonplace that both the Whites and Blacks owned slaves, which incidentally were made up of the poor Whites and Blacks at the period. But to engender the supremacist theory    - to clinch both the economic and administrative power in the Union, a line had to be drawn between the two races hence the declarations in the States mentioned here! This order soon became accepted universally in the Union and the Blacks gradually lost fate   - they had nobody or group as organized and strong economically to stand their grounds! You must read about the man Booker T. Washington   - the part he played in the history of the Blacks in America and the stiff opposition he had from men like Dr. Du Bois and his Associates about the fate of Blacks in America! I wonder how many of our so-called leaders know about this chequered history, folks? Now, consider Haiti’s predicament all these years after Independence (1804/5) like Liberia, has nothing to show as an organized economy and we talk about fairness and leadership in DEMOCRACY for Africans, folks!
Table of contents: label: (i)
title: The Obectives
pagenum: i; label: (ii)
title: Introduction
pagenum: iii; label: (iii)
title: Forward
pagenum: ix; label: (iv)
title: Reparations or Confiscation
pagenum: xix; label: (v)
title: A not about the BBC's World News comment on 1/8/97
pagenum: xxiii; label: 1
title: The First Contact of Europeans and Black Africans
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: The Type of Groups Sent to The Americans
pagenum: 9; label: 3
title: State of Affairs in England and Europe at the time of the Atlantic Slavery
pagenum: 17; label: 4
title: The Position of The Blacks
pagenum: 21; label: 5
title: White Chauvinism
pagenum: 23; label: 6
title: The Caribbean Experience
pagenum: 25; label: 7
title: Blacks under British Colonies
pagenum: 27; label: 8
title: Barbadian Experience after 1865
pagenum: 35; label: 9
title: African Colonisation
pagenum: 45; label: 10
title: Post War Effect to Africa
pagenum: 55; label: 11
title: Replicated Agricultural Policies in Africa
pagenum: 61; label: 12
title: The Churches
pagenum: 65; label: 13
title: The Opinion of the people about Slavery atrocities
pagenum: 69; label: 14
title: Blacks contributions
pagenum: 83; label: 15
title: Reparations Claims for the Blacks
pagenum: 91; label: 16
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 103; title: See also his thinking about Lewinsky's Saga/Affairs in the US and the dates, very significant.
pagenum: 113; title: Again, his thinking about Kosovo vis-a-vis Claire Short's reactions on page xxii - part of the purpose of this book; note the dates.
pagenum: 115; title: Epilogue
pagenum: 116; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 117