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ChakaBars on The Global Importance of Ghana as a Homeland for Black Unity and Empowerment · Earn Your Leisure

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  Speaker 2: But we're going to talk about Ghana as far as
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  Speaker 2: investing in business and all this. But I do think
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  Speaker 2: that it's important to highlight the historical importance of us
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  Speaker 2: specifically because it does play a tremendous role as far
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  Speaker 2: as Black people in America and black people in just
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  Speaker 2: the Western hemisphere in general. Right because we talk about
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  Speaker 2: the slave dungeons, then we talk about Kwame and Kuma,
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  Speaker 2: who was actually I think he was educated in Lincoln University.
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  Speaker 2: Lincoln University which is the first HBCU. My sister actually
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  Speaker 2: went to Lincoln. So there's a lot of cross connections
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  Speaker 2: between Ghana and America. So give us some history, police.
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  Speaker 3: Peace and blessings.
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  Speaker 2: Family.
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  Speaker 3: I think that this is of important significance because it
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  Speaker 3: is a closing of a circle that was broken because Africans,
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  Speaker 3: indigenous people had always traded amongst each other and always traveled.
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  Speaker 3: Mansu Musa everybody's familiar with Mansu Musa, but Abukari the
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  Speaker 3: Second had sent two thousand ships over to America before
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  Speaker 3: Columbus had even got there. He was I think it
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  Speaker 3: was Mansu Musa's uncle, and that trade had always happened.
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  Speaker 3: We saw that that trade had been going on for
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  Speaker 3: thousands of years. When you look at Ramesu or rameses
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  Speaker 3: the Second, they did a test on his on his
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  Speaker 3: tissue because they had his his body, and they found
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  Speaker 3: that he had cocaine in his body because of the
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  Speaker 3: cocoa leaf that the Bolivians the Peruvians used to choose.
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  Speaker 3: So there's always been this this back and forth. But
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  Speaker 3: I think the Kingdom of Ghana, the Empire of Ghana
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  Speaker 3: was essentially for the Europeans. When they arrived there, it
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  Speaker 3: became this this bread basket, and then they renamed it
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  Speaker 3: the Gold Coast. So until nineteen fifty seven, it was
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  Speaker 3: called the Gold Coast until Kwamian Cruma actually took the
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  Speaker 3: country back. And during that period of time while it
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  Speaker 3: was the Gold Coast, what had happened was Europeans were
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  Speaker 3: taken as much out of Gharana as possible in terms
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  Speaker 3: of gold. They had the gold mines that they were
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  Speaker 3: basically rubbing for many many years. But before that, when
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  Speaker 3: they first were colonizing there, they were robbing people. And
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  Speaker 3: a lot of our ancestors came from Gharana, and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people they they had this idea that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people now have this idea because we want
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  Speaker 3: to we want to follow success. They have this idea
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  Speaker 3: that people always came from the Americas. But it's like
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of people in North America, in Brazil,
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  Speaker 3: in the Caribbean who look like our brothers and sisters
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  Speaker 3: from Gharana. They look like our brothers and sisters from Cameroon,
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  Speaker 3: from Congo, from Angola, et cetera, et cetera. And because
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  Speaker 3: there is this idea that what happened in Africa, the
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  Speaker 3: enslavement of Africans, the colonization is something that is not successful.
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  Speaker 3: People don't want to look at actually Africa as a
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  Speaker 3: place to go and invest, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: are now trying to pretend like they never came from
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  Speaker 3: Africa or they never had any connection with Africa, and
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  Speaker 3: that just doesn't make good business sense, let alone any
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  Speaker 3: kind of spiritual sense, because everybody who is educated and
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  Speaker 3: everybody who wants to have economic mobility around the world
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  Speaker 3: would always trade with equal partners in different spaces. And
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  Speaker 3: if you look at anywhere along that coastline of Ghana,
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  Speaker 3: you can find castles where enslaved people who were essentially
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  Speaker 3: prisoners of war because there were different rival ethnic groups
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  Speaker 3: who were fighting each other, and when they would win
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  Speaker 3: that battle, they would take people as essentially indentured servants,
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  Speaker 3: indentured labors, and indentured laborers to mine gold for them
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  Speaker 3: to clean their house, concubines, et cetera, et cetera. The
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  Speaker 3: Europeans saw that as an opportunity to exploit this relationship
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  Speaker 3: that we've always had, this indentured servitude, indentured laborer, indentured
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  Speaker 3: laborers and slavery in Africa. But then Europeans said, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to take these people. We're going to take
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  Speaker 3: them across the water and they're never going to come back.
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  Speaker 3: And that is how my ancestors were harvesting sugarcane. Your
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  Speaker 3: ancestors were harvesting cotton. People in Brazil who were harvesting gold, copper, tin,
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  Speaker 3: et cetera. And that was going on for hundreds of years.
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  Speaker 3: So the Year of Return in Ghana was basically an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to reconnect the dspora with the motherland. Because it
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  Speaker 3: was sixteen nineteen, I think the first eighteen enslaved Africans
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  Speaker 3: arrived in Jamestown, and then it was twenty nine nineteen
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  Speaker 3: we had this government of Ghana calling for their people
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  Speaker 3: to come home. But just to give you some context,
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  Speaker 3: there was an empress in Ethiopia called Empress Zewiditu I
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  Speaker 3: think that's how I say her name, z Ewditu, who
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  Speaker 3: in around nineteen twenty was writing letters too African Americans,
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  Speaker 3: Afro Brazilians, Afro Caribbeans and saying, hey, come home to Ethiopia.
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  Speaker 3: This was the first time that any African, she was
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  Speaker 3: an empress, any African leader had said to the dspora
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  Speaker 3: come back home. That actually inspired Marcus Garvey to create
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  Speaker 3: the UNIA, the United Negro Improvement Association, and Marcus Garvey
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  Speaker 3: was actually speaking with her back and forth. And Marcus
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  Speaker 3: Garvey created this huge community, many chapters and business the
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  Speaker 3: Black Star Liner to try and bring Africans home and
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  Speaker 3: bring resources from Africa. So Marcus Garvey was actually the
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  Speaker 3: inspiration for Kwame and Krumer to have the Black Star
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  Speaker 3: in the flag of Ghana and many other African countries.
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  Speaker 3: Marcus Garvey was a Pan African, he was a Jamaican
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  Speaker 3: and in Rasta he's hailed as one of the greatest
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  Speaker 3: leaders within the community of Rastafari. Who's one of the
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  Speaker 3: first Pan Africans And where you have Kwame and Kruman
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  Speaker 3: now who's inspired by Marcus Garvey and then in nineteen
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  Speaker 3: fifty seven leads a revolution to decolonize Ghana. Ghana was
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  Speaker 3: the first country in Africa to decolonize Little Ghana. The
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  Speaker 3: time was very way smaller than it is now. Deep
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  Speaker 3: was the first to fight and say no, no more,
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  Speaker 3: and we're kicking Europeans out. And now we're in an
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  Speaker 3: amazing space where people are starting to want to come
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  Speaker 3: home and they're starting to want to see where they're from.
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  Speaker 3: In twenty nineteen, I had the pleasure of being part
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  Speaker 3: of a delegation to bring the Prime Minie of Barbados
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  Speaker 3: to Ghana, and we brought the bones and some remains
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  Speaker 3: of ancestors from Barbados and buried them because I was
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  Speaker 3: born in Barbados, and buried them back in Ghana. And
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  Speaker 3: at the same time we created a bilateral trade agreement
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  Speaker 3: between Barbados and Ghana. But this should exist for all
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  Speaker 3: African countries and all of its dspora. And so now
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  Speaker 3: I think we're in a position where if we want
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  Speaker 3: people to come home, not only do we have to
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  Speaker 3: invite them, but we also have to provide them with homes,
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  Speaker 3: we have to provide them with economic opportunity, we have
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  Speaker 3: to provide them with legality and citizenship. And actually next
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  Speaker 3: week I'm part of a citizenship which I'm very proud
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  Speaker 3: of because being born in Barbados and having family from
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  Speaker 3: Barbados and Jamaica. Now I actually get to go home.
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  Speaker 3: Because when our ancestors were being stolen and being taken
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  Speaker 3: across the ocean, they weren't trying to be American, they
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  Speaker 3: weren't trying to be Brazilian, they weren't trying to be Jamaican.
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  Speaker 3: They were trying to get back home. And so now
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  Speaker 3: we can truly say that we are our ancestors wild
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  Speaker 3: as dreams, because now our ancestors have called us forward,
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  Speaker 3: and our family and Ghana has called us forward. And
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  Speaker 3: now we can move home. We can get passports, we
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  Speaker 3: can get houses, and we can finally not have to
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  Speaker 3: deal with any of the other problems that are existing
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  Speaker 3: in the West. So I hope I've provided some context,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like now is the perfect time. Ghana
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  Speaker 3: is the perfect place. We have the opportunities that God
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  Speaker 3: has provided for us, and the government has provided for us,
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  Speaker 3: and our own entrepreneurial tenacity has provided for us. So
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  Speaker 3: now it's just time to put that bridge back together
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  Speaker 3: and live in the spirit of Marcus Garvi, Malcolm X, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: sent to our nanty of the Maroons and all of
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  Speaker 3: these greats that came before us. Because know what else
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  Speaker 3: anybody else is doing?
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  Speaker 2: But I don't.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just got somebody elected and I don't know about him.
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  Speaker 3: Where are We're gonna go ahead and do it by him?
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  Speaker 3: It's time to go home.
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