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NET./S—— LIKO V After realising v/hat a pile of information and interesting new material Ec1 sent Bince he left the United States in raid«Ii*y, I thought it might be useful to e out a second newsletter before the rest of the Mondlane family leaves for Africa in July© So whet follows lo part summary and part direct quotation** I hope $rou!ll on. the inside story«~and pardon the homespun errors of a homespun wife J Eduardo glided through ^urope and North .Africa before he attended the conference in Addis Ababa in the last port of May* In retroppect he said, tt**pthe Conference the Heads of State was auperbj The most important agreement reached was the pledge to support our efforts for independence* They set up a nine nation committee which will be headquartered in Dar to coordinate the efforts of all African states in aiding our cause© Some countries ouch as Guinea, Algeria, Uganda, Tanganyika, etc*, have pledged one per cent of their annual budget to the Cause*a••The accompanying social twirl which v/as going en at the same time, the politicking which was going on in the passage ways of the conference building, the dinners, the atate dinner, the friendly ohctB, etc* etc0 etc„* I will also toll y.u about the activities of such characters as Paul Gumane, 3avid liabunda, (two people who broke with FRELIMO) v;ho were present under UDENAMOfS revised membership and doing everything to undermine my personal influence^ but failing miserably, and in fact, managing only to expose their own immaturity and inconpetance«»*aMabunda is more honestly opposed to me, even though hoB too, lacks sufficient guts to challenge me openly* They both concentrated on innuendos and whisperings about my supposed being an agent of American imperialism^ which by the end of the conference, after seeing how the llaosere, Ben Delas and Rkrumahs were very warm to me personally, I wao beginning to be labelled a stooge of the comnunuitts****It8s alot of news which I cannot put in this miserable little airletter* I then returned to Dar in the presidential plane, with Nyerere and Cbote0fl if if >;* >•; if if if if if if if; % if. In Addis "*0*I stayed with my friend Aboolom Vilakazi, while the rest of the pec were housed in hotels* Addis was able to provide hotel rooms for more than 2^500 people* They must have built at least four new hotels this year**#.The conference began on Larch 22 in the morning* It was opened with pomp and pagentry* The Emperor gave the opening opeechp which wao superb* He presented a well—reasoned argument for a pragmatic approach to African unity which captured the imagination of moot people* He insisted that if Africa is going to bo united it has to be approached from a realistic assessment of all the elements of power now extant, and from there a sci be developed which will gradually lead us into the United States of Africa* His appr was fitting both as a representative of the oldest empire in Africa as well as the oldest member of the heads of state* The highlights of this phase of the conference were certainly the e::pororfo speech, which represented the moet hopeful line of acti Mr* Balewa*o, which represented the moat conservative approach ever; Mr* Kwame I which represented the most forward-looking and moot intellectually consistent and challenging viewpoint, albeit moat unlikely to be acceptable to most statesmen pre ijr* Leopold Senghor*a, represented the most poetic^ mrast boatrtiful expression of the problem of unity in Africa; Mr0 Sekou Touro*ss a compromise between a French approach and Anglo-Saxon pragmatism; finally, i.r* Nyerere's, which was the most pragmatic v evero The rc3t of the statesmen hit somewhere between Balewafs conservative point of view and Mr* Nkruuah's very progressive approach to the question of African unity© Right in the middle of these two extremes was Nyerere9a* He insisted that it would be unrealistic to expect that a United States of Africa be formed right here and now, and that on the other hand, the conference must not close without some for ly being established which would encompass those elements of African life about which tl wao common agreement* Consequently*, he insisted that an agreement be signed to establish 10 an organisation which would be responsible for the collection of funds, weapons, and equipment for strengthening the effornt of the freedom fighters for the speedy elimination of colonialism in southern Africa j 2) a committee to ctudy economic cooperation amongst African states; 5) "the first University of Africa, supported by fi-nds collected from African states, and a pledge to refrain from interfering in the internal affaire of other independent African States* Th Lly accepted, and the agreement signed folloed these same general line
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Title | CENPA-202~01 |
Filename | CENPA-202~01.tiff |
Full text | NET./S—— LIKO V After realising v/hat a pile of information and interesting new material Ec1 sent Bince he left the United States in raid«Ii*y, I thought it might be useful to e out a second newsletter before the rest of the Mondlane family leaves for Africa in July© So whet follows lo part summary and part direct quotation** I hope $rou!ll on. the inside story«~and pardon the homespun errors of a homespun wife J Eduardo glided through ^urope and North .Africa before he attended the conference in Addis Ababa in the last port of May* In retroppect he said, tt**pthe Conference the Heads of State was auperbj The most important agreement reached was the pledge to support our efforts for independence* They set up a nine nation committee which will be headquartered in Dar to coordinate the efforts of all African states in aiding our cause© Some countries ouch as Guinea, Algeria, Uganda, Tanganyika, etc*, have pledged one per cent of their annual budget to the Cause*a••The accompanying social twirl which v/as going en at the same time, the politicking which was going on in the passage ways of the conference building, the dinners, the atate dinner, the friendly ohctB, etc* etc0 etc„* I will also toll y.u about the activities of such characters as Paul Gumane, 3avid liabunda, (two people who broke with FRELIMO) v;ho were present under UDENAMOfS revised membership and doing everything to undermine my personal influence^ but failing miserably, and in fact, managing only to expose their own immaturity and inconpetance«»*aMabunda is more honestly opposed to me, even though hoB too, lacks sufficient guts to challenge me openly* They both concentrated on innuendos and whisperings about my supposed being an agent of American imperialism^ which by the end of the conference, after seeing how the llaosere, Ben Delas and Rkrumahs were very warm to me personally, I wao beginning to be labelled a stooge of the comnunuitts****It8s alot of news which I cannot put in this miserable little airletter* I then returned to Dar in the presidential plane, with Nyerere and Cbote0fl if if >;* >•; if if if if if if if; % if. In Addis "*0*I stayed with my friend Aboolom Vilakazi, while the rest of the pec were housed in hotels* Addis was able to provide hotel rooms for more than 2^500 people* They must have built at least four new hotels this year**#.The conference began on Larch 22 in the morning* It was opened with pomp and pagentry* The Emperor gave the opening opeechp which wao superb* He presented a well—reasoned argument for a pragmatic approach to African unity which captured the imagination of moot people* He insisted that if Africa is going to bo united it has to be approached from a realistic assessment of all the elements of power now extant, and from there a sci be developed which will gradually lead us into the United States of Africa* His appr was fitting both as a representative of the oldest empire in Africa as well as the oldest member of the heads of state* The highlights of this phase of the conference were certainly the e::pororfo speech, which represented the moet hopeful line of acti Mr* Balewa*o, which represented the moat conservative approach ever; Mr* Kwame I which represented the most forward-looking and moot intellectually consistent and challenging viewpoint, albeit moat unlikely to be acceptable to most statesmen pre ijr* Leopold Senghor*a, represented the most poetic^ mrast boatrtiful expression of the problem of unity in Africa; Mr0 Sekou Touro*ss a compromise between a French approach and Anglo-Saxon pragmatism; finally, i.r* Nyerere's, which was the most pragmatic v evero The rc3t of the statesmen hit somewhere between Balewafs conservative point of view and Mr* Nkruuah's very progressive approach to the question of African unity© Right in the middle of these two extremes was Nyerere9a* He insisted that it would be unrealistic to expect that a United States of Africa be formed right here and now, and that on the other hand, the conference must not close without some for ly being established which would encompass those elements of African life about which tl wao common agreement* Consequently*, he insisted that an agreement be signed to establish 10 an organisation which would be responsible for the collection of funds, weapons, and equipment for strengthening the effornt of the freedom fighters for the speedy elimination of colonialism in southern Africa j 2) a committee to ctudy economic cooperation amongst African states; 5) "the first University of Africa, supported by fi-nds collected from African states, and a pledge to refrain from interfering in the internal affaire of other independent African States* Th Lly accepted, and the agreement signed folloed these same general line |
Archival file | Volume14/CENPA-202~01.tiff |