A law against sedition is a colonial import; A racist law. Such infamous pieces of legislation were utilized effectively by cowardly colonial governments, whose authorities reconstructed themselves into victims of African savagery. Any form of African subversive language against the brutality, cruelty, expropriative and exploitative tendencies of colonial governments were labeled as sedition only to contain freedom of expression and association and therefore silence African dissidence. A good example is Nyasalands (colonial Malawi), Seditious Publication Ordinance of 1918, which was used to sentence one Lawrence Chiradzulu to 3 yrs hard labour for purportedly importing, into the country, seditious literature (Marcus Garveys works). The question is: What do we hope to achieve by employing such barbaric colonial imports to victimize our own in this era where we are professing civility, racial equality and humanness?
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 10:28:08 +0000
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