AWARD FOR FIGTHING AGAINTS RACISM
abuy nfubea Dr. horis causa
Abuy Nfubea, African freedom fighter president of Pan-African Federation in Spain , was granted May 29 an Doctor honoris causa by Universidad indigena del tawansinsuyo in La Paz Bolivia by his great figthing against racism .
ABUY NFUBEA Dr. Honoris causa | By Rosalba Murillo ,
Abuy Nfubea Doctor Honoris Causa in Tawansinsuyu University Bolivia
Abuy Nfubea, born in Equatorial Guinea since young became African freedom fighter president of Pan-African Federation in Spain , was granted May 29 an Doctor honoris causa by Universidad indigena del tawansinsuyo in La Paz Bolivia . He was very happy to receive the award on behalf of all the Africa freedom fighter and the so call illegal immigrants and refugee , with whom he has worked for over 20 years in the vanguard of the anti racism, human right , right civil of African working class and for reparation . The ceremony was in El Alto La Paz in aimara and Kechua language. Attended by 450 students coming from all Over the campuses of Bolivia : majority of history faculties, sociology, politics, and humanities in the hall of university.
The Rector and all Board of the Tawansinsuyu University and the Dean and the history Faculty was the keynote speaker presence at the ceremony of awarding Tawansinsuyo University yesterday awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa. The investiture ceremony was held at the Lo Alto campus and aroused a great deal of expectation. The members of the university community and other guests at the event mingled with Mr. Abuy's followers from near and far who came to greet the activist.
The investiture ceremony began with the screening of video - Deconstructing - showing fragments of films by
Marcha por la reparacion de Africa Madrid 2006 , which was specially prepared for the occasion by the students association. aimara Music, too, had a prominent role, with old historians Jauregui member of la pesada revolutionary intellectual group and the Kechua musicians playing and dancing different version of the Tupac Amaru athem and some of Nkosi Nlkekele Africa in honors of the doctorand.
On commencement of the ceremony, Dr. German Chokwehanca, Founder of the University , read out the Board of Governors' agreement to confer the honoris causa degree on Abuy Nfubea for "having contributed an revolutionary freedom fighter for the human right of indigenous and African people in the world, which has benefited us all, and in recognition of his struggle as a whole which represents a bridge between afro centrism and indigenous resistant traditions: the American, African and immigrants in Europe".
Dr. Inca walker Chukiwanka, a lecturer in the UTA Department of Humanities, gave the laudatio address. The Dean, Dra. Hilda Calisalla, read the laudatio, paying tribute to Abuy Nfubea's qualities stand up fighting Eurocentric violence and with supremacy in Spain and Europe Union. In Aimara language, and those present were able to read the Spanish version included in the ceremony literature. Dr. Hugo Vega Plaza, who termed Abuy Nfubea a "people's philosopher" , stated that "as a university, we wish to acknowledge the fact that Mr. Abuy has made his mark in the field of sociology philosophies and also in contemporary culture of resistance as a whole, and has become a African cultural revolutionary icon, whether he likes it or not".
The most solemn moment of the ceremony was the actual investiture of the doctorand, when the rector Hilda Calisada presented Abuy with the UTA honoris causa medal, an original work by the AIMARA sculptor ATAWALPA Simatari , and the accompanying diploma and ancestral Aimara poncho. The investiture ended with the official fraternal embrace of the two rectors as a sign of Abuy Nfubea being accepted into the University's faculty of doctors. The new doctor was accompanied at all times by the leaders of African community in Bolivia Mrs. Marfa Inofuentes and Julia Salgado president of Movimient Saya afroboliviano and Dr. Jorge Medina president of afrobolivian center of CADIC the largest African organization in Bolivia.
Visibly gratified, Abuy Nfubea expressed his thanks at having been granted the UTA honoris causa doctorate, the 2nd in his career, during his speech titillated :withe power in Indian face, he remember Tcham Bissa "the great reference who teach me a great evidences"
He called the university to resist the strong tradition of colonial studies such meditation intercultural other studies base on racist ideas such Gaubbinau, Levy Brohl, Hegel etc..."
we must start the combat of racist from the academia" .
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In Spain in term of immigration and diversity policies we have been following this trivial discussion on Afrocentricity with amused contempt. To begin with, Afrocentricity is not only about claiming African origins of ancient civilization. One must understand Afrocentricity as an empowering counter hegemonic philosophy, which questions epistemological considerations which are based in European cultural realities (the whole notion of objectivity or cultural neutrality is moot in this argument because the episteme is based on a western positivistic tradition..."
Abuy won definely the auditorium when he uses fang language and Aimara to say several time:¡ jallaya Bolivia jallaya Africa! .
The member of forum of dialogue of Madrid city government added: "
you are the future of this nation a nation to try to get justice an epistemological consideration, we must to unite with Africans all over the world and attempts to shift, construct, critique, and challenge the way of knowing or discerning knowledge from an epistemology engendered within a European cultural construct to one which is engendered or "centered" within an African or probably more correctly an African cultural construct. Although the metaphors here of European and African are very much contested, however one can argue that there are hegemonic scholarly epistemologies born from a racist, bourgeois, and sexist ideology which in turn "scientifically" or "rhetorically" construct, justify, and perpetuate the exploitative articulation of race, class, and gender throughout the world. Anthropology historically and one can argue currently is an intimate part of this process, that way we said sociology study white people and anthropology black or Indians.
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You must be carefully with this so call interculturalidad, it just an assimilation consideration in terms of all we are equal but we with have the power. In Spain interculturality is used to disarticulated de Africans and all immigrants empowerment and control our families and community: that mean integration for some of this professor. Is the same they did in the past when they bring us Cristianism, anthropologist such Gaubbinaeu, explorators such as Cecil Rodes, then military forces with Herman Cortes, Pizarro or Brazza to teach your mother and your grandmothers inferiority. Today we dont have a missionarIES but we have NGO, we dont have slave market but we have concentration camp for immigrant in Italy , Canary Island . Today we don?t have a King Leopold or Charles the 3rd from Spain but we has a Berlusconi fascist policy "
Abuy gave the students several names of the great principles of resistance such Asante Molefe Kete, Bernal Martin, José Carlos Mariategui, Leonard Peltier, Diop Cheikh Anta, Omali Yeshitela, Fela Kuti, Bob Marley, Marcus Garvey and Malcolm x .
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What we saw in Sucre last week, is the same happen in El Ejido, Paris , Villaverde and this experience teach us that it is important brother and sisters to be cognizant of these simplified notions of both race and ethnicity. In Spain 10 year ago no body want to say nothing about racism, today every body are talking about racism. Racial inequality can not be neglected, nor reduced to the interpretations of texts, when every index of the quality of life place African at or near the bottom. The list of indices of racial oppression could fill pages and pages, but many social scientists do not want to deal with race as a socially constructed reality which permeates all sectors of our society. The reality of the social construction of race within our society needs to be understood more clearly.
Oftentimes, students and teachers alike blur race, ethnicity, heritage, nationality, and culture into one ethnic portrait of "the other" glued on to a multi-cultural collage without consideration of the specific structural, historical, and geographical power relations that play such an integral role in their formation. Brothers and sister race must be viewed dialectically or as the socially constructed reality, dynamically worked out through a history of contradictions. "
The board university and the student ask question on South Africa crisis against immigrants violence. Abuy sent the student to read Malcolm x on dialectical class contradiction and antagonism between houses nigger and field nigger. "
what we see in south Africa today its the expression of counterrevolution of the houses niggers or withes power in black face, the social condition of African working class is worst than in Apartheid era . Fight against Euro centrism means first to deal with their Negroes tools. In the last 20 years I denounce the Spanish institucional racism system and very time we gat organization they try to broke it and insolate it from every political forum. This is not for mine, just because what pan-African federation reperesents .
We represent the african grassroot , we never represent the black negro elite . In Spain and Europe we has a hundred of uncle toms houses nigger running in the university, this people never involve when skinhead killed Ndomble, Lucrecia Perez, Murab or Antonio fonseca . Governments love this king of Negros because: they tell government: boss we dont have racist problem, Abuy its a dangerous radical, if you make me your slave i can kill him. The same thing they did with Marcus Garvey, they used houses niggers. But we have a field niggers such Mbolo Etofili Luis Alarcon, Amtumi Toasije, Yast Nguema .Yes they represent the public enemy nº 1 because he refuse to crow back to the plantation as other africancolombian niggers made with SEGIB and other Institutions. Edwar Said teach us that we must to differences this kind of intellectual and the so call organically intellectuals"
After 2 hours Abuy eat the coca with the Aimara and Kechua ancestors as a symbol of respect and duality of Tawansinsuyu he apointed the words of Silo agreat humanist philosopher "we lost but we continuoS with stroogle" . Different authorities gave her personal congratulation to Mr. Abuy Nfubea by Universidad Indígena of Tawansinswyo Axlla including Bolivia education minister Magdalena Cejia, the ingenuous students association and the director of Bolivian information agency - ABI or the former president Evo Morales
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