Marking 118th InIversary with Music and Message from the King of Kings on Disarmament

"The Lion of the Tribe of Judah has conquered! Haile Selassie I, Elect of God King of Kings of Ethiopia".

Afrika ni Moto by Mau Mau and Zingaro Percussion Band

Check out this rare filming

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs74_z0mWC4

A 5min odd rare footage of original African drums played by Zingaro Percussion Band, the lead Singer is called Mau Mau or just Mau "Puruguchu". He comes from a lineage of brave Warriors who fought for Kenya's independence from the English Imperialists in the 1950.

Mau Mau also crafts African jewellery and curves drums that he sells at the Masai Market every Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday.

This video is done with compliments from the Small axe Magazine; the first Rastafarian Magazine in East Africa, Kenya. Small axe Magazine Editor-in-chief can be reached at smallaxe.mag@gmail.com

BlakHillz.Media is the documentation wing of the Warriors a self help youth group based in Nairobi.BlakHillz.media can be contacted via email blakhillz.media@yahoo.com

Mau Mau can be gotten hold of by calling his cell number +254 734486069 or alternatively through any of the above contacts.

Enjoy the song "Afrika ni Moto" literally means Africa is Hot implying Afrika is fly and beautiful.

This video would like to acknowledge Top-A-Tings,Kijiji Culture House,Ghetto Echoes and All Rastamen and Women in Kenya.

LION PAW by Tarrus Riley

Lyrics by Rasuli
Photo by Rasuli Hands model William and Benjamin
Song by Tarrus Riley's Lion Paw from the Parables Album

Lion Paw by Tarrus Riley;Parables 2006
Reference:Tarrus Riley - Lion Paw(live) www.youtube.com

{Interlude}
He's so humble yeaaah
Can't touch the lion
Lion paw Tarrus Riley

I walk in this through valley of test
and I never been away caught in the wilderness
The power of Jah perserve I
Riding in all that I do
So trodding through the heights and the depth
We trample frustration and we conquer stress
the power of Jah perserve I
And right in all that I do

{chorus}
So all the evil that been leading me on
can go back where they came from
No demonic works performed shall prosper yeah
Me tell the oviah and the science smart car
cause they can't squeeze my lion paw
No demonic words performed shall prosper

Can't touch the lion {bridge}
no no no

The wage of blessing in everliving life
So I keep my meditation in a Haile I
I weather the storm and put up a fight
Cause we can do anything
Should you feel like giving up
Let the strength of your ancenstors fill your cup
The power of Jah Rastafari right in all I do

{chorus}

Selassie I Know
Say the more
Dem aile up
a dem more
dem taste the spoil up
And say dem more dem come wid science
nuh dem cyan break the heart of a lion
The more dem aile up
a dem more dem taste the spoil up
The power of Jah preserve I
and guide in all that I do

{chorusx2}

{Outerlude}

I,I,I,I,I He's so humble yeah yeah yeah
Higher I,I,I,I Selassie I,I,I yeah yeah

Founding Fathers of African Unity and Their Countries of Origin

We salute these Honorable men for their valorous deed in laying the foundation for a one-forged united Africa.

The list is ordered according to the alphabet, however an exception for Ethiopia exists because of Her Unconquerable nature to conquest and colonization since 200BC.

Ethiopia Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
H.M. HAILE SELLASEI I
the Emperor of ETHIOPIA

Algeria People's Democratic Republic of Algeria
H.E. BEN BELLA
President of Republic of ALGERIA

Angola Republic of Angola

Benin Republic of Benin
H.E. HUBERT MAGA
President of DAHOMEY Now Benin

Botswana Republic of Botswana

Burkina Faso
H.E. MAURICE YAMEOGO
President of UPPER VOLTA

Burundi Republic of Burundi
H.M. MWAMBUTSA IV
King of BURUNDI

Cameroon Republic of Cameroon
H.E. AMADU AHIDJO
President of Federation of CAMEROON

Cape Verde Republic of Cape Verde

Central African Republic Central African Republic
H.E. DAVID DACKO
President of CENTRAL AFRICAN Republic

Chad Republic of Chad
H.E. FRANCOIS TOMOLBAYE
President of Republic of CHAD

Comoros Union of the Comoros

Côte d'Ivoire Republic of Côte d'Ivoire
Dr. F. HOUPHOUET BOIGNY
President of IVORY COAST

Djibouti Republic of Djibouti

Egypt Arab Republic of Egypt
General ABDUL NASSER
First President of the Arab Republic of EGYPT

Equatorial Guinea Republic of Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea State of Eritrea

Gabon Gabonese Republic
H.E. LEON M'BA
President of the GABON Republic


Gambia Republic of The Gambia

Ghana Republic of Ghana
Dr. KWAME NKRUMAH
President of GHANA

Guinea Republic of Guinea
H.E. SEKU TOURE
President of the Republic of GUINEA

Guinea-Bissau Republic of Guinea-Bissau

Kenya Republic of Kenya
Hon. JOMO KENYATTA
First Prime Minister of KENYA

Lesotho Kingdom of Lesotho

Liberia Republic of Liberia
Dr. WILLIAM V.S. TUBMAN
President of the Republic of LIBERIA

Libya Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
H.M. KING IDRIS of LIBYA

Madagascar Republic of Madagascar
H.E. PHILBERT TSIRANANA
President of MALAGASY Republic.

Malawi Republic of Malawi
Dr. HASTINGS BANDA
First Prime Minister of NYASALAND Now Malawi


Mali Republic of Mali
H.E. U. MODIBO KEITA
President of Republic of MALI

Mauritania Islamic Republic of Mauritania
H.E. MOKHTAR OULD DADDAH
President of the Republic of MAURITANIA

Mauritius Republic of Mauritius

Morocco Kingdom of Morocco
H.M. KING HASSAN II of MOROCCO

Mozambique Republic of Mozambique

Namibia Republic of Namibia

Niger Republic of Niger
H.E HAMANI DIORI
President of Republic of NIGER

Nigeria Federal Republic of Nigeria
H.E. Dr. NNAMDI AZIKIWE
Governor- General and Commander -in- Chief of NIGERIA

Alhaj SIR ABUBAKA TAFAWA BALEWA
Prime Minister of NIGERIA.

Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo
H.E. FULBERT YOULOU
President of the Republic of the CONGO (Brazzaville)

H.E. JOSEPH KASAVUBU
President of the CONGO (Leopoldville)

Rwanda Republic of Rwanda

Sao Tome and Principe

Senegal Republic of Senegal
H.E. LEOPOLD SENGHOR
President of the Republic of SENEGAL

Seychelles Republic of Seychelles

Sierra Leone Republic of Sierra Leone
H.E. SIR HENRY BOSTON, G.CM.G.
Governor-General and Commander-Chief of SIERRA LEONE

SIR MILTON MARGAI, Kt., M.B.E.
The Prime Minister of SIERRA LEONE

Somalia Somali Republic
H.E. ABDIRASCID SCERMARCH
Premier Minister of Republic of SOMALI

South Africa Republic of South Africa

Sudan Republic of Sudan H.E.IBRAHIM ABBOUD
President of the Republic of the SUDAN


Swaziland Kingdom of Swaziland


Tanzania United Republic of Tanzania
H.E. JULIUS K. NYERERE
President of TANGANYIKA

Togo Togolese Republic
H.E. SYLVANUS OLYMPIO
President of TOGO

Tunisia Tunisian Republic
H.E. HABIB BOUGUIBA
President of TUNISIA

Uganda Republic of Uganda
H.E. APOLLO MILTON OBOTE
Prime Minister of UGANDA

Western Sahara Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

Zambia Republic of Zambia

Zimbabwe Republic of Zimbabwe

These additional territories are part of Africa according to the Wikipedia

Melilla
Reunion
Mayotte
Ceuta
Canary Islands
Madeira


References:

www.au.com/almanac of african unity
wikipedia

Lets Dance. No Daggering

Poem by Rasuli
photo originally by Smithsonian Photography Initiative

Sum a dubbling
Other shuffling
Sum ah bubbling
Sum ah muscling in

But nun uh daggering
ca dat no rhatid

The night brings man and wombman come a dance
Music take dem higher into a trance
And just irieness a flow
Nuh cut inna de creft
Nuh blow cleans one catty
Both dem a chant

Sum a twirling
Other gyrating
Sum ah swirling
Sum ah waltzing

Ital love we a deal wid
Bak way wid de nuclear

De water pumpie
De fire house rock
De Africa harvest dance
De Carribean step
Jazzy mellow blues
Any move will do
Just do it anyhow
No rules no vows

Sum a whirling
Others grooving
Sum ah swinging
Sum ah moving

If you a dagga
move uh wid your slacka

Granson to Granpops
Having some fun
Good vibes, good times
Ditter no romp wid daddy
It's paradise brought back to the poor people
DeeJay ball out nuh misnomer

Sum a dubbling
Other shuffling
Sum ah bubbling
Sum ah muscling in

What you see is what you get

The Time is now!

The past week has been witnessed, howbeit from an espying public eye of scrutiny, the trend in Africa today in regards to world's perceptive.

Africa is no longer the dark continent reeking with pestilence and wallowing in the vicious cycle of poverty and corruption. It is the El-Dorado of neo-capitalistic investors who have taken a renewed breath in food production and agro-economic strategies to increase their capital gains.

The past week has not eluded, not the conscious anyway, our most often divided attention and easily red herringed concentration. The riots to have hit the Nairobi's down town between irate garage-gangs allegedly plying their trade on a private property and the police agents, has no doubt left many people enraged.However, at the epicenter of this dispute is probably the cause for concern not only for the nearly 2,000 second hand auto spares dealers but the continent at large.

In 2008, the massive land sell out to foreign investors started in earnest. The most promising of these loaded financiers were the Arabs from the Arab worlds and the Middle East.Many African governments fell prey to major leaseholds of their arable lands to these corporates and individuals without proper acknowledgment of the rightful owners, who happen to the custodians of the land, the citizenry themselves. In a continent where land is abundantly found yet archaic farming techniques and funding constraints for implements and equipment affords close to 3 Billion people to go without a meal daily. These governments probably thought that they were doing their respective nations a huge favor. Besides, the money would go into far more pressing needs like Anti-Retro viral Drugs to keep the HIV/AIDS pandemic in check or buy weapons to wade away any insurrectionist resistance from the masses they rule with iron fists.

The Grogan riots were a reflection of this, a tip of the ice berg, come to think of it might as well be the whole of Antarctica by the looks of things that underline it. Brewing is xenophobia, and no one is to blame here,creeping among Kenyans who earlier on were swollen up with overoptimism and goodwill.Kenya is by fate and geographical convenience located within a region where conflict has been the main stay and continues to ravage the neighboring countries. This fact has brought about a staggering influx of aliens seeking asylum within it haven-like borders. These foreigners bring along their distinct and variegated culture and lifestyles.Recently the government passed to law the issuance of refugee Identity cards giving these people equal rights to own property, work and school in Kenya without any prejudice, coercion or hindrances means they enjoy subtle citizen privileges although they can't participate in any national electoral processes like the referendum, by or General elections. Apart from this technicality they are as Kenyan as the term has many definitions.

Of course, the international community has its part to play in safeguarding rights in cases of human conflict and reimbursement of the same since its only fair in return for the spoils of war.It sponsors these refugees heftily for them to make something out their lives in the countries of amnesty. These funds no doubt find their way into stable economies or at least stable in comparison, like Kenya's.The Grogan riots sparked to minds the extend by which one can take a mile from the given inch. The investor allegedly from the blues,twenty plus years showed up and claimed the source of livelihood of Kenyan already trying to pick up the pieces of a rough year since last. This would have been acceptable before the mechanics eyes were it that a Kenyan was claiming ownership although I doubt they would have let it go easily.You must have guessed it by now that a foreigner is the storm in the tea cup and his guise doesn't help much to quell the phobias that are inbound today.Many ordered out the premises claim to have earned advance right of ownership as stipulated in the Land laws and ordinances of Kenya. The alleged developer wants to build a mosque there and has even marshaled the Islamic leaders and organization to his side to make sure that his plans fulfills scenario is not unique to Kenya alone even though the Grogan land dispute seems to touch a nerve,despite a further 4000 hectares along the Tana river delta leased to Qatar for farming sugar cane last year.Uganda has sold enough to Egypt and Tanzania of all the African countries has heaved off tracks to the Chinese. Ethiopia has the Saudis to thank and Madagascar's controversial deal viewed as a tussled bone between South Korean company Daewoo, provided the best catalyst for the presidential take over that shocked the Indian ocean island only this year.Sudan has probably sold the most land to foreigners than the East African countries put together have.

Africans bear a natural bond with their land and only death can separate it from them actually walking on it and becoming part of it. Land is a very sensitive matter and touches a chord of many leaders who having come to power dish out tracks reserved for administrative purposes as appreciatory token to loyalists.This does not nonetheless underplay the the fact that due to this irregular allocations of lands, Africa stands at the vague of acute desertification due to dwindling water catchment areas and irregular rainfall. Consequently because of the trees coverage destructions Africa has 2% of forest cover remaining as we speak, this means two trees remain where were had a hundred.

Coupled with all these problems Africa cannot afford to lease land to capitalist corporations even if it is to revert the dangers of hunger and malnutrition while thinking of an utopia-like win win scenario as the world leading economies are seriously restructuring from fossil oils to bio-fuels at the same time reaching out to fill the own food baskets. Africa cannot just sit back and get re-colonized all over again!We have seen the re-emergence of more or less of the scramble for Africa of 1800s by the Arabs,The Chinese and the Europeans threatening to repeat itself echoing these prophetic words "Africa will never be free.." We are not advocating racial hatred, war neither nor any form of oppression.

But.

The question now at hand is; will we just stick it out and fight later on when our backs are against the wall?


References and links:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/land-grab-the-race-for-the-worlds-farmland-1677852.html

Photograph link:
www.spraguephoto.com

Albinism taking over the African wild

MyOpinion

The content of this post is my very opinion and should not be deemed to be that of the Smallaxe Magazine, newsletter, Blog or Association in whatever way.These is an OpEd article that tries to define an occurrence peculiar to the area of reference and should be treated as such.The writer wishes not to be held responsible for any slander,slur,injury both physical or financial to the right thinking members resultant of its publication.

Article by: Alex Kanyi

We have grown up knowing the existence of albino Zebras in the various game reserves squattered around the country. To some admirable extent these zebras are quite a spectacle to behold.

Recently I heard of an albino giraffe. Of course an exception to the case, but unlike the hazards likely to meet a zebra, a giraffe stands a chance from predators of the savanna. As if wonders never cease a lion story came up and now a buffalo is lacking melanin somewhere under the scorching heat of the African sun.

These if you haven't taken note by the way are among the big five; famous wildlife that are the main tourist attraction for many visitors.

Thus, it is no longer just a coincidence now we have a croc-albino. How it looks like, I do not know. But I would imagine, awashed and pale lime like a dead reptile, till you get near and have your hamstring bitten off.

Ancient Africans used to reckon accurately the times and tides by observing animal behaviors.Could this be something that the bustle of today's fast city living be eluding us? That we are at the blink of all becoming extinct or worse not black. I should be quoted correctly here, not being black does not mean you are white and being white on the other hand does not mean that is a bad thing either. What am saying is that albinism is the lack of melanin pigments in ones skin organ. White people at least have some form of pigment although not as their counterpart the African breed have. This is purely environmental although many African would again disagree with this sweeping statement by complaining that they are not chameleons.Given!White people are not so because of the cold now are they?I may not be well informed on this matter so I won't get into much of it for now.

Nevertheless the wild holds a lot of some truths hidden to man, his understanding and political correctness. What however remains to be seen now is the last drop of melanin to fall off a cheetah's back. Thenafter we should be very wary.Cause as it was written "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?".This will be the apocalyptic end of days for some and their way of life will not matter anymore,they will be lost forever into oblivion.


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