After four days of contest, the United States 2020 election ends with the declaration of the 46th President-Elect, Joe Biden.
Joe Biden Victory Speech Courtesy of Joe Biden Campaign
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King Jr.
After four days of contest, the United States 2020 election ends with the declaration of the 46th President-Elect, Joe Biden.
Joe Biden Victory Speech Courtesy of Joe Biden Campaign
African President of the Week: Rwandan President Paul Kagame
In coordination with the American Mastodon Publication (AMP) and the release of The African Census 2020-2021, the AMP publishes a weekly honorary award to African Presidents, who've transcended the tumultuous pressure to capitalize and Occidentalize their national realms in the face of modernization. These contemporary figures exemplify the courage, understanding, vigilance, and sophisticated posturement, in the face of true orchestrated violence, pressing foreign interests, and the gravity of the present needs of their citizens, and the people of Africa. The African Presidents of the Week, are our Beacons of Progress into the African 21st Century and beyond.
Photo Courtesy of News Times Paul Kagame
It is a given, the international climate among nations has seen a significant rise in divisions based on race, religion, class, and political agendas. However, specifically, the politics of hatred is a deadly game. No where are the consequences of such a game of tribalism more evident than the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, where over 800,000 people were butchered and killed within 100 days. The experience would spark the Great African War (1994-2003) and destabilize the entire region. This is why President Paul Kagame is The American Mastodon Publication President of the Week. Out of the ashes of the horrific, the nation of Rwanda has managed to bring itself from genocide to model state. And this is no small feat, as the legacy of genocide lingers, the tears bring conversation. The healing and restoration of Rwanda is a symbol of perseverance, long suffering, and a recommitment to building humanity. We celebrate President Kagame and Rwanda for their testimony to Africans & the world!
Sources:
President Paul Kagame- Time Interviews
African President of the Week: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali
In coordination with the American Mastodon Publication (AMP) and the release of The African Census 2020-2021,
the AMP publishes a weekly honorary award to African Presidents, who've
transcended the tumultuous pressure to capitalize and Occidentalize
their national realms in the face of modernization. These contemporary
figures exemplify the courage, understanding, vigilance, and
sophisticated posturement, in the face of true orchestrated violence,
pressing foreign interests, and the gravity of the present needs of
their citizens, and the people of Africa. The African Presidents of the Week, are our Beacons of Progress into the African 21st Century and beyond.
The nation known to Ancient Kemetians as Athtiu-abu, was later called by the Greeks, Ethiopia, or the "land of the Burnt Face people." Earlier and more prosperous times the place was known as a region of Ancient Nubia and the land of the Kush. The Axum Kingdom wrote its scripts in Ge'ez and were a power of the Age. Abyssinia or Ethiopia, in modern times has continued to be a conglomeration of Ancient Clans, the faiths of Monotheism, and the crucible of compromise. As Ethiopia move towards development, out of the bloodstain past, famine, the Eritrean & Somalian Wars, and shadowy past of the overthrow of the Late Emperor, Haile Selassie, blessings can once again be bestowed on this ancient nation of people. The American Mastodon Publication calls to resist attempts to create a deep state by Ultra-Nationalists and Foreign Conspirators, who have benefited from chaos in Ethiopia. There has been obvious attempts to spark a civil war in the already war torn nation due to recent gains in peace & development. And special prayers for the Prime Minister and the 2019 Nobel Prize Laureate of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed Ali. He is the epitome of conviction, strength, and resillence in the face of orchestrated violence from the enemies of Ethiopians and Africans. Our African President of the Week is Abiy Ahmed Ali .
Sources:
Nobel Peace Prize 2019
Assassination Attempt; France 24; 2019
In coordination with the American Mastodon Publication (AMP) and the release of The African Census 2020-2021, the AMP publishes a weekly honorary award to African Presidents, who've transcended the tumultuous pressure to capitalize and Occidentalize their national realms in the face of modernization. These contemporary figures exemplify the courage, understanding, vigilance, and sophisticated posturement, in the face of true orchestrated violence, pressing foreign interests, and the gravity of the present needs of their citizens, and the people of Africa. The African Presidents of the Week, are our Beacons of Progress into the African 21st Century and beyond.
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Photo Courtesy of UN News Sept. 2019The resilience to address real orchestrated violence, which has held the people of his nation hostage for 25 years to violent Islamic Extremists & their Foreign Conspirators, is one of the many paramount reasons for this week's selection. The vigilance to reconstruction showing tangible progress in a once "Paradise," and "Holy Land," shows why His Excellency, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, President of Somalia, is Our African President of the Week. The life of this once American Bureaucrat, and former Somalian Prime Minister turned Somalian President, cannot fit within the sentences of this column. Nor has His sacrifice been abridged or brief. The people of Somalia are one of the most historical on Earth, and their suffering must end. There is no coincidence that the key to African continental sovereignty coincides with the security and well being of Somalia and its people. The AMP salutes President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, for his public work and continued sacrifice for the people of Somalia.
Sources:
Somalian President; UN News Sept. 26, 2019
Former Prime Minister Elected President; NY Times Feb. 2017
Renounce; Bloomberg Aug. 2019
UN Assembly Address; UN News Sept. 2019
To Be... Legacy in Stone
As a belief, to believe in simply Being, is sufficient enough to classify one's religion. Our religion is to Be. Nothing more and nothing less. However, religions change and disciplines fade save strict adherents to the tenets of one's belief. Thus, if one is to establish any institution worthy of succession then one should consider the lesson of the Three Little Pigs..
One may build a house of straw, but it will not suffice when the enemy comes to shake its foundation. One may build a house of sticks and wood, but it too will not suffice when the enemy comes to test its fortitude. The insect eats, the rodent festers, and the wood rots. There is one sure foundation upon which to build one's home, civilization, and future, and it is stone. In stone, you will find strength and longevity. The Ancient Kemetians, whose cornerstone laid the foundation for all following civilizations, remains even today, with belief in this rule. Be, here and remain...
Finally, this tenet is useful in discussing legacy and establishing long term realities. To Be, like stone is one reality. To Be, has infinite realities. For example, in discussing change, Be like Water, fluid and shapeless. The lesson here is the fourth rule, build in stone.