ANC and SACP leader Chris Hani with Nelson Mandela, the-then President of the African National Congress (ANC). Both have joined the ancestors., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Madiba in the eye of a Zikist
Written by Udo Udeogaranya
Nigerian Guardian
SIR: When Nelson Mandela was released after serving 27years in prison, one of his first ports of call, was to visit Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe in Nigeria, just like Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana did at the Eastern House of Assembly, Enugu, Nigeria, when Zik was Premier of Eastern Region, after Ghana won their independence.
That visit by Nelson Mandela underscores a profound recognition that the spirit behind the struggle for freedom, equal rights and justice as was championed by Pan-Africanist movement led by the Great Zik of Africa cannot be diminished by a life-time incarceration, needless to mention a mere 27 years in prison.
In the rightful steps of African tradition, a son is mandated to achieve more than the father and in the true spirit of this tradition, Nelson Mandela did, and did exceptionally well. Having achieved freedom for his nation of South-Africa, he went on to crystallize a common nationality to all the people of South-Africa regardless of race, creed, colour, tongues and all other sectional considerations within South-African nation and finally emerged on the world stage as a true world vanguard of all noble mission.
Nelson Mandela’s beacon of unquenchable light still radiates strong rays of hope to those who still struggle with burdens of human rights abuse, poverty and diseases.
I strongly counsel that the death of the world sage NELSON MANDELA, should appeal to the conscience of all African leaders, particularly the rebel and militia leaders in various African countries to embrace noble means of conflict resolution than picking arms and killing fellow brothers and sisters, enthroning poverty, diseases, rape, homelessness, causing chaos of all sort on a senseless mission.
Live on Nelson Mandela.
Udo Udeogaranya,
Coordinator, Zikist Movement,
Lagos.
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