EDITORIAL
Abuy Nfubea *
Dr-Malik Zulu Sabhazz has informed us that President Hassan Nzingha (second in the middle of the photo), is ill. In October 2013, Nzingha replaced Malik Zulu Shabazz as NBPP’s National chairman. On June 26th 2019 after going to the emergency room to get treatment for stomach pains, he was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer.
In order to save his life, he was rushed into emergency surgery the following day, removing tumors from his colon. As typical African, he has an extended family that love him too much and the last few months have been extremely difficult for his family. The brother is true servant of the people and the people's love was translated into medical support: collecting more cash donations on social media for costly medical expenses related to. I knew that the commander was ill but not so seriously with terminal cancer. I am very aware with this information. The confirmation of this news has hurt me a lot. As my mother used to say that we all have to die and that only the facts and the intensity of his spirit, love and memories remain. For this reason and from the strictest humility, I wanted to share these words of love and, for the first time, together with a political analysis. Perhaps as a thank you to those of us who one day passed through and formed in the game current leader of the New Black Panther Party. from love but from the way I personally experienced it, which is not the perfect one and not even the most true but it is mine as a humble leader of the Spanish section of NBPP.
NZINGHA IN SPAIN
The first thing to say is that the Black Panthers in Spain were a youth organization and that their origin and evolution came as a consequence of the split within the Free Mandela movement due to the impunity of the Nazi skin terrorist attacks and the influence from the ideas of Omowale Malcolm x through radical hip-hop, and that was when the Public Ememy Fan Club merged with the NBPP Spansih branch and its headquarters were occupied by the community insurgency. So I have wonderful memories of Nzingha who was older than us who were barely less than 18-year-olds I was part of this action with a group of brothers and sisters who frequented the stones nightclub and the campus of the Alcala labor university founded the NBPP in 1990. I became a young militant of Spanish branch of NBPP. Thouse days the skinhead Nazis kept the black community in Spain under terror from the deaths, fear and attacks against black businesses and students in places like Valencia, Mostoles, Barcelona, Alcalá, Torrejon and Fuelabrada the brothers run away. Until in 1992 the Nazis killed Dominican sister Lucrecia Perez. We believed that we were superior just because at 17 we had read Malcolm's autobigraphy 3 or 4 times and there was a lot of demand for Revolutionary Vanguard discipline. We started our activities with a different approach than other African NGO groups of our time. We decided to concentrate our activities on the black community, reegae root parties, direct action and African internationalism, not on intellectual integration to the white world as was usual at the time in African high schools.
NATION TIME
Although my level of English was still very mediocre, we had two newspapers to inform me "Nation Time" that Baba Herman Ferguson and his wife published in Queens Jamaica and Burning spear launcher from Florida by Chimurenga and chairman Omali My mother paid me to subscribe to this 2 media and we received it every month and I read it at night with a dictionary underlining the words. It was the only time I read the entire ads. I met Nzingha during the Jasper Texas crime the respond of the party was strong and Holliwood made movie because of our brave efforts and fighting, with law enforcement and chasing down the ku klux klan at a white power rally, after he murdered and arrested with a rope and truck to Brother James Byrd on June 7, 1998. A movie made was called Jasper Texas. Like so many other young African students who must choose between being eternal scholars and accumulating during those years of the harshest police repression, Nzingha joined the NBPP guided by the feeling of doing something for the black people and bring back black power. His first actions have a propaganda character, the uprising of Rodney King, but the arrests of Students cadres of the organization and especially the actions with total impunity of the KKK in Texas, soon led him to join as student leadership that Khalid Mohammed represented within the Black Panther party at the time, where he combines his work on the afrocentric cultural and the building of a military fronts. It was a very special context 1995-97, a huge determining reference for the revolution of the Black Power Kwame Toure, Aldridge Cleaver, Dr. Betty Sabhazzy and Dr. Basilisa Mangue Nfubea had died. People who had been pillars in the definition, concretion and development of Black Power, many of these people had known them personally. A new generation of leaders emerged in the world Hamilton Borges in Brazil, Mbolo Luis in Colombia, Malema in South Africa, Sista Esther Stanford in UK, Sista Affiong in Ghana Nigeria, Senfo in Cameroon, Sista Andreia and Lio Nzumbi in Salvador de Bahia, brother Alcides Mendes in Lisbon, Yonas in Germany and brother Nzingha in Us
AFRICAN COUNCUINCE
These black groups were awakening all over the globe. In Colombia, Mbolo Etofli Luis Alarcon and Dra Rosalba Castillo Launch in the Cali ghettos, the Garveyista study groups that gave rise to the current FVGEV Foundation. In Chile, in the midst of Pinochet's fascist Euroracist regime, blacks had been able to hold a congress where the term Afro-descendant came out. In Gabon, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea Obiang had succeeded in destroying the CPDS and was infiltrated the popular union of Andres Moises Mba Ada, Justino Mba Nsue, Angel Masie and Domingo Abuy Elo Nchama. In Nigeria with Abiola and Abansajo the multiparty system emerged. In London I was received by Dr Lester Lewis and I witnessed the first steps of brother Mbandaka launching his movement or the efforts of chairman Omali to bring the Uhuru ASI to Europe. All this people was very influenced by Marcus Garvey. In the Latin world, France, Lisbon and Spain were more difficult due to the neocolonial elitist character of the black intellectuals. It was where these groups were most necessary due to the spiritual character of the Spanish and Portuguese Catholic colonization, the black people of these latitudes or speak, we are very colonized, but in 1996 in France there were many African groups and organizations with the discourse of the Francophonie CFA (except Hip- Hop groups)
HIP-HOP
I connected with many of the artists come from impoverished ghettos on the periphery or banlieues of Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Nantes, Lille, Strasbourg, Caen, Le Havre, Rouen, Toulouse, Grenoble and Nice, among them Rapper Dapper Snapper and BA Crew, DJ Dee Nasty made his first appearances. They were heavily influenced by Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmixer DST, Fab 5 Freddy, Mr Freeze and the Rock Steady Crew. This was the case of Ministère AMER, NTM's and Lunatic. Since Mandela's release from prison, music has grown to become the inspirational and political catalyst for one of the most popular genres in France. In 1997, IAM released "L'école du Micro d'Argent", an album that sold more than a million copies. NTM sold more than 700,000 copies of their album "Supreme NTM". The gap between the most commercial artists and the militant or independent artists grew, others like Casey, Rocé, Médine and Youssoupha represented a mixture between the hardcore or the purist rap of Schooly D and Paris. The strategy was always the same, we went to the disco or a jam session after connecting with a DJ and there we selected the most awake and active grassroots leading sisters with whom we shared our faith and ideas and laments for police brutality or lack of opportunities. And I always proposed organizing them as well as the need to stop complaining and create the NBPP.
I always say that A Million Men March started a revolution that was already underway with movies like Spike Lee's Malcolm x. That is why this revolution could be worldwide and jumped the borders of the United States. They had more impact on young people like me and others who were in search with a blind faith in victory and obsessed with the unity and liberation of the African people, the blacks through the rap of Public Enemy we declared independence unilaterally and we would convene our organizations. The motto in those days was "Armed people, respected people." That at the same time was an awakening of the black struggle in the streets and high schools to the detriment of the universities but where it grew instigated by the Malcolm x reference was above all the hip-hop movement was decisive to launch a pan-Africanist black global movement. In Africa, Gaddafi gave his turn from pan-Arabism to pan-Africanism and the peoples, students and women were very hopeful, they resisted against the Uncle Toms regimes that through French neocolonialism impoverishes us, oppresses us, represses us and persecutes all over the globe and steals our wealth. like coltan for the development of the aerospace and telecommunications industry and not for the mere fact of being black but for our wealth. Discovering that for me was very important because I understood the migratory phenomenon, because they force us to emigrate in boats where we lose our lives at sea.
PUBLIC ENEMY
I want to thank my beloved bro professor Grist the minister of information of Public Ememy Because he and his work and Master P . Professor Grif and I, we began a very early friendship in 1992 when the Public Enemy band in Leganes came to Spain to play for the 1st time, and was involved in all the black revolutionary movements that were emerging at that time. Being Grift who connected me with Aroon Michael the great the leader of NBPP in thouse days. As our boss in the party Aroon Michael sent us to the University of the Basque Country at northern of Spain to give protection to the 2 NAPO militants and professors at Georgia State University (Dr. Makungha and Dr. Akinyele ) who were going to be on tour in Spain denouncing the situation of Us political prisoners such as Sundiata Acoli, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal or Motulu Shakur
AFRICAN STUDIES
Hassaim Nzingah studied at DeVry University where he learn concepts like African-American culture, African philosophy, African Renaissance, Black orientalism, Pan Africanism, Black supremacy, Ethnocentrism, Négritude, Nuwaubian Nation, Race and ethnicity, Black Power, political prisioner. He read and knew a lot about Afrocentric authors like Marimba Ani, Molefi Kete Asante, professor, author: Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change; The Afrocentric Idea; Jacob Carruthers, Cheikh Anta Diop, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Jones Gayl. Runoko Rashidi, J.A. Rogers, Omali Yeshitela, Ivan van Sertima, Théophile Obenga, Asa Hilliard III. Nzhinga was trained as a university Kemitic student leader until he became head of the NBPP staff; He had formally joined with his militia and the youth organization Hip-hop Nation, antecedent to the current Black Life Matter movement. He was born in 1966, he first became affiliated with the group in 1994, when he met one of its then-prominent leaders, Khalid Abdul Muhammad, serving initially as Muhammad's personal assistant and later as his chief of staff. He told me that after finishing that course on "Thematic Unit and Structure of Black Consciousness and Thought" he took his African name from Nzingha Mbande, the queen who led the Mbundu-Ndongo kingdom and defeated Portuguese-Spanish imperialism in northern Angola. In 1993, he began to establish relationships with students, black intellectuals and anti-terrorist militant representatives. His culture, his fondness for reading and writing and his ability to listen and debate soon attracted the trust of many university brothers in different areas in which he consolidates African studies groups in different cities and campuses where he analyzes the consequences of black oppression and the need, changes to a new organizational model.
KHALID MOHAMMED
The back from Guinea of Kwame Toure coincidet with the victory of the return to Black Power by NBPP, where
the tactics and strategy for the coming years are determined with the
reflections on the armed confrontation with the white police terrorism and white power in general and their squatting
police forces as well as critical reading of Dr Huey P Newton, the behavior of the
black oligarchy that emerged from the struggle for rights civilians, as well as
the concept of Black Power. After the internal split in the NOI between
Farrakhan and Khalid in 1995, and the expulsion of the latter, Nzinga vision it also includes
the extensive contribution of the Black Panthers and BLA in the 60s, in which he
analyzes the organizational model, the need for an armed revolutionary Black Party and his insertion in mass activity of hip-hop generation.
We met again in Atlanta Georgia, two years lether in an Akinyele Umoja act when Geronimo Gi jaga got out of prison and even David Hilliard and Chokwe Lumumba went to wait for him out. As one of the founder of the New Black Panther Party chapter in Spain in 1988 or as the international staff, during A Million Youth March my job was to visit almost 30 cities promoting the event among the Latino and black communities. I spoke in churches, universities, community center, dance halls and institutes etc ... he was my boss. When I returned to Philadelphia, Nzinghga was there with Pastor Kwasi Ubenga. I told him that I needed a phone (then there were no mobiles, no facebook or wasap) because I was very worried because the police had raided the Malcolm X Center in Decatur Goergia and arrested Sista Aminata Umoja and I had to call Atlanta and Algorta Basque Country to communicate with Dr. Carlos Aznares of whose media Resumen Latinomericano, that I was a correspondent in New York. Nzingha not only provided me with the phone but appointed Sister Dra Wasitu as my assistant and personal security. After the demonstration and the world congress of black youth that unified all the militias, after several hours of the first moment, I humbly contributed in the presentation of the document "Black Power as popular unity Movement " that here in Spain supposed the merger between Black Panthers and EFA School of African Philosophy in Barcelone: As a result, i wrote several articles in the Argentinean magazine Resumen Latinomericano.
SALT & PAPER
The last
time we spoke on the phone, I saw that he was clinging to life and happy spirit... we talked
about Africa (he knew a lot on African history) we spoke about our children and the evolution of Trap music and
good funk like Earth win and fire, the Rap of Gearl Master flash and Inspector Thécnic
... how not to em Rap by Philly two life crew and Salt and paper. We were both
classic Hip-hop purists but what he liked best was 15th-16th century African
history. The brother knew a lot. We avoided talking about the problems with the
Huey P Newton Foundation in California of which I was a fellow at the time. The
last time we saw each other was that cold day in the Brooklyn church on
security duties during the funeral of Dr. Khalid.
WE STILL LOVING YOU
I love and respect this Man. I
so appreciate his inspirational messages to me to keep me focus. Low-life
people ain't going nowhere and don't want you to go anywhere. That's why they
attack ... When I think of Hassin, so many sisters and brothers come to mind
who gave them their all, a life of black or comfortable uncles and Tom and they
chose to be at the forefront of the storm, they decided to get involved by
facing those who participated in the death of Amadow Diallo. it had been a long
time (years) that his stomach ached ... in short I remember him not only as my
boss at the time when I was responsible for the international apparatus for the
Hispanic world but as a guy very involved in freedoms. One more casualty of
these people who fight hand to hand against the macabre terror of the terrorist
savagery that took George Floyd's life. I've always wondered about the value of people
like him or Pam Africa; when I talk to her, I realize that we are dealing with
exceptional beings. We have a debt and it is to know how to support and respond
to the courageous spirit of people who like Marissa her daughter, are the living
expression to prevent hatred from socializing fear and taking over voices other
than that of the Maroons. They will always try to bring you down to their level
because they lack what it takes to rise up to yours.
BLACK LIFE MATTER
Perhaps when I finishes writing or reading these humble words, Nzingah will have already left us to meet with the ancestors, and we will remember him as someone honest but bravely dedicated to the tasks of the party that Kwame Toure, Erika Huiguins, Aroon Michael had before him. Kahalid Mohamed or Maleek. We bid him farewell between kisses, hugs, raised fists, food, the best reggae music, cheers and applause. His revolutionary humility, discipline, commitment and an inexhaustible sense of humor deserved him, a smile that he brought out in the hardest moments was his secret weapon, the best to disarm the enemy and seduce the new sectors that were incorporated into our project. The virtual book of condolences exposed in our hearts so far will be infinite, with this we not only pay tribute to the historical leader of the Panthers. On the street, hundreds of friends, trying to respect a safe distance as best as possible, we crowded together to pay tribute to the one who was and is a great human being and a friend of a maroon. We can never understand the rise of black Life matter without attending to the process of the NBPP and the figure of Nzingha. He has been one of the key figures in the reorganization and representation of Black Power and the emergence of Black Life Matter. There will be masses in different parts of Atlanta and Texas where Hassim was in her one of his brothers who is a pastor will have to say that Obama did not bring freedom he took advantage of the symbolic and mobilizing capital of the NBPP to call a black life matter strike in favor of "total amnesty" of political prisoners of the panthers who are in prison for 50 years with major diseases pretending that those who have given their lives for the conquests of democracy and popular freedoms remain in prison. I had enormous appreciation and respect for him.
AFRICAN INTERNATIONALISM
Nzingha received me as only the great leaders know how to receive the new generations that are incorporated into the process of liberation from African internationalism: with great affection and great personal and political humility. With him and others we learned that humility is what made them true giants in not only political but human terms. As he himself claimed, thanks to police terrorism, all attempts by the mainstream media to delink the NPPB with the legacy of Bobby Seal and Eleine Brown, have failed because the people are neither stupid nor stupid. The African people continue to face the same racist, institutional and neolcolonial terrorism that extrajudicially executed Malcolm x, Medgar Evers, Martin Luther, Bobby Hutton, Patrice Lumumba or Thomas Sakhara and they know perfectly well that if the panthers had not armed patrol the streets, the police and the KKK, would have killed and executed more and more unarmed blacks with total impunity
Nzingha is great and we love you bro, because even sick you always tried and you has been and is a historical continuation of the legacy of the very honorable Dr Huey P Newton, after party re-founder Aroon Michael, Assata Shakhur, Kwasi Balagoon, Dr Kalhid Mohamed and Maleek Dr-Malik Zulu Sabhazz. On the anniversary of Dr. Arcelin's departure, but above all as a humble friend; I send my prayers for him and his family and as the song says, death is not the end that Changó and Orulá have in their being for all the sacrifice, deeds carried out, love dispensed and the enormous efforts to the liberation of the African people as well as the enormous and moving memories ... We, in fang people in the central Africa, we said: "ening daá aman awuu!!" death is not the end.
A lutta continuia
Uhuru ya Etofili!
Te queremos
hermano, Thank you very much Abui Akiba!! ❤️💞🔥💯
* Former founder of the New Black Panther Party chapter in Spain 1988-2000
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