African Solidarity Quotes
The Negro World, Garvey’s Newspaper, was the country’s largest Black newspaper. The statement brought great distress to white Europe whose colonial interests were threatened.
While not all the indictments of the International Criminal Court were against Africans the majority were. Some African leaders thought that a double standard was being used against them. Banda’ observed that African unity was made extremely difficult as several heads of African states were indicted war criminals, and under the Rome Treaty which had been signed by most African nations obligated them to arrest indicted war criminals who were on their soil. So the African states could not hold a meeting of all African leaders without the host country being in the dilemma of whether or not to arrest them. In reality, in the decades leading up to this quotation, most of the worst atrocities did occur in Africa. The Presidents of the Sudan and Kenya were both indicted war criminals as well as some other officials and revolutionary group leaders. At the time the United States had not ratified the Treaty of Rome and this was not the best example for the Africans. However they had ratified it.
