Call for African Liberation Day 2022

„If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress. If you pull it all the way out, that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven’t pulled the knife out, much less healed the wound. They won’t even admit the knife is there.“ – Malcolm X
 
Germany perpetrated the first, racist genocide of the 20th century against the Ovaherero and Nama. To this day, they refuse to seriously acknowledge the violence and its consequences, to end neocolonialism, and to make reparations to the affected communities. 
We have no reason and no interest to seek justice for the genocides in  
Namibia today, for Africa and the Black Diaspora. It is ours and we will fight for it no matter where we are. All the power and wealth of German, European and Western imperialism is based on the enslavement, colonization and murder of our ancestors.
We will gather on African Liberation Day (ALD), the day for African Liberation in Berlin, the city where the colonial powers divided the African continent among themselves in 1884/1885.
Because reparations do not only mean the end and the processing of the crimes, but also the creation of a new world in which such mass murders, exploitation and oppression can never happen again. 
Therefore, we fight for African Unity, the end of imposed division, for self-determination, for healing, for solidarity between the Black Diaspora and our mother continent Africa. 
 
United against racism and neo-colonialism! 
Reparations now!
 
„If you are to free yourselves you must break the chains of oppression yourselves. Only then can we express our dignity, only when we have liberated ourselves can we cooperate with other groups. Any acceptance of humiliation, indignity or insult is acceptane of inferiority.“ – Nomzamo „Winnie“ Madikizela-Mandela