[Music] a big hand for honorable guest professor lumumba my brother i've always been telling you that you have a lot of disciples in tanzania now you see for yourself how parked in kumaho is and i want to assure you if it weren't for the university examinations that are going on at the moment maybe we'll be struggling for space in this hall and this is to welcome you very warmly to the university of daslam professor rumba does not need introduction because he's been here before and we all know him in different ways we've been following him in all the different speeches that he's been giving all over africa but let me introduce him a little bit so that we get to know who professor lumumba is professor um he is the director and chief executive officer of the kenya school of law he's a professor of public law and founding dean of the cabaret university school of law he has lectured law at the university of nairobi the united states international university of africa widner university in usa in nairobi summer school he's an advocate of the high courts of kenya and tanzania he holds bachelor of laws and master of laws in degrees from the university of nairobi and lrd from the university of ghent belgium he is also a hoarder of the degree of doctor of letters honoris causa from the university of cape coast in ghana he is a certified public secretary cps k and a member of the kenya institute of management he has been trained on human rights at the institute of advanced legal studies university of london in england humanitarian law at the raoul wallenberg institute of the university of london in sweden and on international humanitarian law in geneva switzerland he's a renowned legal practitioner he has written several books including criminal procedure in kenya and outland of judicial review in kenya kenya's long search for a constitution they postponed promise and judicial review and administrative law he has published numerous articles in refereed journals and several book chapters he has co-authored the constitution of kenya 2010 an introductory commentary with dr luis francesc he has also co-authored several books on ethics his non-legal books include swearing by kenya a call for political hygiene in kenya politics and from raw deal to real deal he has also co-authored 27 other books on integrity as school series he has recently ventured into fiction with his book stolen moments he is a former secretary of the constitution of kenya review commission and former director of the defunct kenya anti-corruption commission he is the founding trustee of the african institute for leaders and leadership and founding chairman of the association of the citizens against corruption he has been named and recognized by the international commission of justice kenya and the law society of kenya for his exemplary contribution to the legal profession he was recognized by the kenya usa association for the martin luther king jr leadership award in 1996 and was the recipient of the 2008 martin luther king africa salute to greatness award by the martin luther king jr africa foundation he has also been included in the marquis who's who in the world and is the distinguished lecturer for 2014. he was the 11th common crew my lecturer at the university of cape coast in ghana in 2016. ladies and gentlemen these are just some of professor lumumba's achievements and as you are all aware professor lumumba has a deep deep passion for discussing the faith and direction of our continent it is indeed our great privilege and honor to once again have him speak here today at incruma hall my brother i with great honor and pleasure presents you to the university of arizona thank you very much let me start by recognizing the vice chancellor of the university of dar salam permit me also to recognize the deputy vice chancellor and to recognize professor paninam lama and in the audience permit me to recognize they were your lord i recognize you i also take this opportunity to recognize the other academics who are present here the students who are here and members of the press i'm so very happy to be invited once again to be present with you to celebrate and commemorate the life and times of mualimu julius campbell i first came to tanzania as a student on the ninth day of december 1984 when i was a student leader at the university of nairobi and the then president of kenya invited me among other students to accompany him and that is when i met mualimu i then 10 years later in 1900 1994 visited at the invitation of professor haru bothman on the occasion of 40 years of celebration of leadership in africa and that is when i formally was introduced to malimu julius campbell and his foundation it therefore gladdens my heart that i am in the country of a man who might admire and in a hall named after and in a hall that is named after another great african dosage for dr kwame nukuruma the subject that has preoccupied us in the last few days is one that is as topical as it is relevant the rise or fall of africa on account of the african politician and in order to do justice to that subject and to remain faithful to my chosen subject which is a call for hygiene in african politics there is a sense in which one must take a historical journey if only to appreciate the factors that animated africans to seek to regain their independence from the colonial masters historians will remind us that we were fast enslaved that africans who are taken and this we seldom say the first civilization to take africans out of this continent was the arabs and they took africans from the eastern coast and he said that in that part of the world there are not many africans who remained because it was in the business of the arab enslaver to castrate africans we never say that but we must say it because it is historically significant then the europeans came the portuguese came the spaniards came the germans came the french came the belgians came africa became the hunting ground for the european colonizers and we were the sport we built our ancestors built the united states of america our ancestors built europe and when slavery had lost its shine and shin the europeans abolished it but they replaced it with yet another pernicious enterprise the colonization of africa the europeans sat in berlin in germany in 1884 and they looked at the map of africa and parceled it out the british had their share the germans had their share and tanzania or tanganyika was their share as was rwanda and rooney the spaniards were johnny come lately is in the arena and they got little equatorial guinea and southwest africa the french who are the portuguese were here and we were colonized this time round they did not take us away they came here and they controlled us and they told us not in so many words that we were children of a lesser god and we were treated as if we are children of a lesser god in fact they told us that on the day of creation we were merely heroes of wood and drawers of water and if anybody were to doubt it in 1948 it was more blatant when henrikh for foot instituted the appetite regime in south africa but yet there is a sense in which the god that we worship never sleeps the colonial enterprise ran its course and the european tribes the europeans never called themselves tribes they called them nations were engaged in a war first in 1918 the european tribes fought and they had something called the league of nations which died then they fought again in 1945 and what is unique about the european nations is that when they are engaged in tribal wars they call them wild wars so there was another war between 1945 1939 and 1945 and after that a new kid on the block the united states of america took the lead in saying that colonialism was something that was undesirable but at that time africans were never quiet those who had been taken out had already started agitating many of us here will remember marcus garvey of whom bob marley says gavi was about fellow soldier in the heart of america and many of us will remember w.
e. b dubois many of us will remember that they started agitating that africans must regain their dignity and their independence and indeed in 1847 in liberia a small group of africans were brought back in monrovia and liberia became the first independent black nation in the continent of africa so soon thereafter in sierra leone they also created yet another colony but africa was colonized except ethiopia which they tried to take in 1938 and exiled professor doctor of hail selassie and unfortunately they were defeated as you remember in the battle over there africa can defeat european tribes this history is necessary that we are able to appreciate the freedom that we gained so that gavi came w. b dubois came but there was another crop after the 1940s who had had the advantage of european education and there are people in europe also who are beginning to recognize that indeed equality was necessary and this was not anything new in 1776 in the united states of america the american state sitting in philadelphia in the united states of america declared unto themselves that all men are born equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain alienable rights that among those are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness a few years later in france after the revolution they also recognized that we were to be equal so that the colonized nations which had now taken africans thought that they were safe they had taken leopold cedar single from senegal to paris and they thought that they were creating a little french man literally they know that they were creating somebody who would want to overthrow them they took felix sue februany from cote d'ivoire and they thought that they were creating somebody who would be subservient to them they took ahmed sekhar to rey and modivocate and they thought they were safe literally they know that they were creating the future leaders and agitators against french colonization and he did not stop there the portuguese also took agostino nato and the milka cabral and the dwardamond lane to lisbon little did they know that those individuals would be the catalyst that would be necessary in the process of decolonization the british also had their fair share they took others they took mualimu hastings kamuzubanda kenneth david kaunda and many others to the united kingdom jomo kenyatta little did they know that those would be the individuals who sometimes later and in ghana of course they took the usagi for kwame nukuruma and in nigeria they took dr namdi azikiwe abu bakr there is a sense in therefore in which these individuals started recognizing that having been enslaved having been colonized we now had to liberate ourselves and the agitation started and kwame nuku ruma and his ghana acquired independence in 1957 and i still can hear kwame nuku rumor through the vicissitudes of time saying in accra ghana that ghana is free and will never be colonized again but the freedom of ghana means nothing if the rest of africa is not free i can hear i can hear that is prepared to delay the independence of tanganyika so that tanganyika kenya uganda would become independent at one time malimu could see the future with the exactitude of a jewish prophet jomo kenyatta and obote could not and therefore we gained independence as separate states and the story will be told shortly so what do we see the agitation the demand by the people that we must be decolonized and why is it that we were asking that we must be decolonized why is it that we were demanding that we must regain our independence because throughout the ages it was always the divine plan that men must be masters of their destiny and when we gained our independence the leaders of the day were eloquent as they were clear that the reason why we were asking to be independent is because we wanted to take charge of our affairs we wanted to be the governors we wanted to have our young men and women acquire education we wanted to control the production of our food through agriculture we wanted to build our infrastructure we wanted to improve improve the quality of the lives of our people by improving their health we wanted to eliminate poverty we were clear on what we wanted and this message was as clear in west africa as it was clear in east africa as it was clear in central africa as it was clear in northern africa so that if you listen to kwame nuku roma it's as if you would listen to augustine or nato and if you listen to nato it's as if you would listen to some oramosus michelle and if you listen to hermet ben bella in the maghreb is as if you listen to patrice emery lumumba there is a sense in which there was unanimity that this was the only way and we attained independence and i remember saw very vividly in 1957 in casablanca morocco was it in 1960 when the then eight independent african countries met on the osagia for kwame nuku rumah was clear that we must ensure that everybody else regains their independence and that we must remember that the colonial master is not asleep and that if we don't unite he'll come under other guises through the neo-colonial project but they listen to kwame nuku room or not and even before they assembled in 1963 in the month of may now this supper by ethiopia no sooner had countries started attaining independence that the colonial pro neo-colonial project started taking root and in 1960 the first coup d'etat and assassination took place in togo when sylvanus olympia was eliminated one year later patrice emery lumumba was eliminated so that in 1963 in the month of may when 32 heads of states and government assembled in discover by ethiopia there were several speeches but three speeches turned out kwame nukuruma's speech speech and emperor hail selassie's speech hail silasi was the host and he's in all in on inimitable style he reminded the congregation who are present in africa hall in addis ababa ethiopia that that was a momentous occasion under the long term health of africa not only required but demanded that africa must pull in the same direction hail silasi said and waleemu took the baton from hail silas and repeated the same words celebrating the fact that we were independent that we had the opportunity of determining in our affairs but the greatest of the speeches was the heart of the usagi for coming had a sense of urgency which everybody else did not have he said not in so many words but in effect that if we want to immunize ourselves from the diabolical machinations of the artwork colonial master now turned neocolonizer we have to move here as one africa with the united states of africa with one army with one currency with one central bank and with one nation but they listened to him not they had started getting used to the trappings of power so what they came out with on that day in the month of may 1963 was a weak organization of african unity the oau which many commentators were quick to describe in many ways and many times as the toothless bulldog it was never a dog it did not have teeth but the effect of it is that he did not do very much some say it was a talking shop zewarioba who was then active in political life and in other sectors will attest to that yet later we were to create another body the african union and we'll have something to say about that so we come out of addis ababa ethiopia in 1963 clear as to what we want to do the african politician begins to emerge we have them in different parts but they begin to show characters that are totally totally inimical to expectations you of the swahili say mask [Applause] they started getting used to the trappings of power and we started having countries which we thought would liberate us and i'm talking about the hygiene of the politics it started disappearing many of these individuals now thought that they were demigods suffering from what i call the messiah complex thinking that they had been brought to africa to liberate her and that they suffered from two major diseases one of them is the mata syndrome and the other one is the messiah complex they think that they their countries owed them africa started producing leaders that one cannot recognize how many of you will forget jia bedel bokassa of central african republic that man who murdered little children in the streets because they did not buy uniform from his wife that job better because how many of you will will forget mobutu says ambang who changed his country's name and presided over a kleptocratic regime the democratic republic of congo is the richest resource country on earth conservatively decide that under her belly she has minerals which is equivalent to 34.
