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Slavery and Colonialism: The Worst Terrorism on Africa

by Mohamed A Eno and Omar Eno

African Renaissance , 2012

Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or ... more Humans need not justify terrorism of any kind, regardless of whether one is Muslim, Christian or Jew, because it is the axis of evil and devastation of mankind. However, the deliberate use of the term terrorism in recent decades was carefully selected, mainly, against a certain religion (Islam). The idea was then globally politicized by the Western world. Leaving that scholarly view in its own right, we disagree with the opinion raising terrorism as the devil’s just-born child of evil, when in reality Africans had been terrorized for centuries as slaves and human chattel. Hence the basis for the concept of this thesis: conceptualizing the episode of ‘terrorism’ and ‘terrorist’ from the broader perspective of its practice from the Middle Passage or the Atlantic Slave Trade. To portray that argument and broaden the scope of the debate over this critically sensitive subject, we divided the discussion into three sections: an examination of what constitutes terrorism and terrorist; history of terrorism and terrorists from an Africa perspective; and the ideological constraints within the subject of terrorism as practiced by the US and its Western allies.

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Whose Values Are Promoted in the African Union’s ‘Shared Values’ Project?

by Omar Eno and Mohamed A Eno

African Renaissance , 2011

Mohamed A. Eno, Omar A. Eno, Jamal M. Hagi, and Azzeddine Bencherab pose a thought-provoking ques... more Mohamed A. Eno, Omar A. Eno, Jamal M. Hagi, and Azzeddine Bencherab pose a thought-provoking question in their contribution, Whose Values Are Promoted in the African Union’s ‘Shared Values’ Project?, revealing a thought-provoking discussion and also highly-insightful answers to this timely question.

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Slavery, Identity, and Ethnicity: An Examination of the Social Contour of the Yoruba in Africa and in the Diaspora

by Mohamed A Eno and Omar Eno

In their contribution, Omar A. Eno & Mohamed A. Eno discuss how ethnic diversity played a signifi... more In their contribution, Omar A. Eno & Mohamed A. Eno discuss how ethnic diversity played a significant role in determining the nature of slaves exported overseas in some African countries, arguing that these slaves carried with them their cultural identities. They note that the “Yoruba exported as slaves to the Americas, to such destinations as Cuba, Brazil, the Caribbean and other parts of the world, carried with them and maintained in the Diaspora at least a considerable portion, if not most, of their African culture and tradition”. This seems to imply that different slaves carried with them different cultural identities, raising in turn the question of the role of these different identities, if any, on the worldview of the slaves.

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The African Diaspora within Africa and the Impact of Slavery and Stigma in the Islamic Society: A Case Study of Somalia

by Mohamed A Eno and Omar Eno

Journal of Somali Studies, 2014

Certain proponents of slavery in the Islamic world assert that slaves exported from East Africa t... more Certain proponents of slavery in the Islamic world assert that slaves exported from East Africa to the Arabian Peninsula or areas under Arabian domain within Africa were in fact acquired not for agricultural economic purposes but rather for domestic labor. According to some scholars, this facilitated the integration of former slaves more thoroughly into Islamic communities than into the Atlantic slaveholding communities. However, while the theory of integration may hold true, at least in part, historical evidence suggests this may not be true in the case of the Bantu/Jareer1 population in the Horn of Africa, the main focus of this paper. Therefore, using the Bantu/Jareer
population of southern Somalia as a case study, this paper explores the contradictions prevalent in integration theory, the impact of slavery as a social institution, and the economic functions the slaves performed in Islamic countries.

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Performance Poetry and Political Conscientization in the Horn of Africa: Examples From the Somali Bantu Jareer Community

by Mohamed A Eno and Omar Eno

Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 2014

Ever since the arrival of colonialism gained momentum in the country, Somali literature has been ... more Ever since the arrival of colonialism gained momentum in the country, Somali literature has been approached narrowly from the tutelage of the pastoral culture. Colonial as well as early Somali writers have taken the comfort of disdaining the study of anthological themes related to the non-nomadic cultures and literatures. That restricted notion of one culture, as purported by colonial writers and later politically enshrined by the state and a section of Somali scholars, has obscured the wealth of the various non-nomadic cultures in this Horn of Africa nation. Therefore, contrary to the notion of a homogenous Somali nation of the same nomadic culture, this essay aims to produce a non-nomadic version of Somali literature as practised by a section among the agrarian communities in Somalia; those known as Bantu or Jareer. Because the Bantu is an ethnically oppressed community, all what is related to their culture and literature in particular has been deemed valueless and, as a consequence, an institution unworthy studying. In particular, the essay argues that despite the degradation by the Somali state and neglect by Somalia scholarship often obsessed with the apocryphal ideology of a self-same Somalia, the agrarian wordsmith is bestowed with rich cultural and literary wisdom which makes him view his environment with sharp consciousness.

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Slavery and Colonialism: The Worst Terrorism on Africa

by Mohamed A Eno and Omar Eno

African Renaissance , 2012

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Whose Values Are Promoted in the African Union’s ‘Shared Values’ Project?

by Omar Eno and Mohamed A Eno

African Renaissance , 2011

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Slavery, Identity, and Ethnicity: An Examination of the Social Contour of the Yoruba in Africa and in the Diaspora

by Mohamed A Eno and Omar Eno

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