May 4th 1956 – August 9th 2009
It’s with sincere sadness and regret that I announce the passing of one of our contributors here at AfroSpear, Brother Iskandar Langalibalele.
What saddens and frustrates me most, is that I only became aware of this event a couple days ago, almost 7 months after his death! This is one of the primary disadvantages of cyber relationships. We communicated sporatically by email and via facebook, and the last time was in June, when he informed me that he had been very busy and although he hadn’t posted an article here or on his own blog(s) in a few weeks, he would be dropping something soon. His last post here was on the 28th of July 2009: “Police State Economic”. 12 days later he died.
I sensed something was wrong as I hadn’t heard from him in quite a while, especially after I had left him a greeting on facebook in December. A couple days ago I visited his blogs and facebook page and noticed no new postings by him since last year. I however noticed that the recent comments by his friends on facebook were more like tributes and farewells and I started expecting the worst. I googled his name and that how I found out that he had passed on. Wow! I must admit I was somewhat devastated and pissed at myself.
Brother Iskandar had contacted me exactly a year ago, commending us on our blog and offering to submit articles. He expressed his commitment to our vision and I gladly welcomed him as a contributor. His articles were always educational, hard-hitting, thought-provoking and challenged us to question our perspectives and beliefs. We were fortunate to be blessed by his intellect and passion. I considered him a friend.
Here are the links to his blogs to read some of his work: Mbantunyankompong and Kilombo Republic.
A tribute from his facebook wall:
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Rest in Peace!
shocking!He has subscribed to my Blog,but I didn’t know him personally but I read often his Blog.
Rest in peace!
This is awful news. I am really shocked and condolences to his family.
I am so sorry to hear this. My condolences to his family.
R.I.P. brother.
I’m truly sorry to hear this.
Peace to all his family and friends.
RIP
Iskandar is pissed. He is pissed that a negro puppet or puppet negro of this great pimperialistic world power has waged war on Egypt, Libia, the Middle East, and continues to do the devil’s work in Afganistan and Iraq.
I know because Iskandar is my brother, his blood is my blood, his anger is my anger.
Obama has maintained the wars on people of this world that he and started new wars on people since taking office. I once debated, unsuccessfully that is, with Iskandar about how Obama has the potential to correct problems created by past administrations. Skan told me, that it would never happen, that Obama had little to no loyalty to the common people of the world and that time would tell. He warned me. I chose to remain naive and hopeful. See to understand Skan, you gotta know him. You gotta know that he did not hold back. He served his informed opinion raw and cold.
He would not consider Obama a house negro. Even house negroes dreampt of running away. No, Obama is no house negro. He’s only a negro because of his skin, remember he’s Cheney’s kkkin.
The Egyptian people and the Lybian people were sick and tired of not having rights and opportunities and staged an upsrising to get rid of those tyrants.
You seemed to have forgotten that their leaders did not have the consent of the people.
Let us not confuse things here.I could not help feeling sorry for Gadaffi because I am human and do not believe in killing anyone, but after being in power for over 40 years, Gadaffi obvioulsy belived he was immortal. and above humanity and should have seen it coming.
I was shocked to see Lybian rebels lining up black Africans ready to shoot them.I would advise all black Africans living in Arab nations to go back home to their countries and build them up .
You will not find any solidarity in a Arab Muslim country despite being Muslim.
Religion has never united people who are different culturally.
Frankly I believe the Hague was the only venue to try Saddam Hussein, Gadaffi, Mubarak and the leader of Tunisia, who although being a coward, had enough sense to run fast like a lion was chasing after him.
The U.S. had no business invading Iraq.Hopefully American troops can come home soon, despite the fact that Iraq has been destabilized with this unfortunate invasion.
The Iraqis should restore order there and continue with their nation building.
The president inherits the former president’s foreign policy and cannot just start pulling soldiers out like that.
Read up a bit on Afghanistan before you start speaking. That country requires help in nation building. Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in this world.The Soviets had no business invading them and leaving them in shambles, opening them up wide for degenerates like members of Al Qaeda to run shop over there.
Afghanistan is run by chief clans and warlords.It is their business how they run their country, but often these countries are difficult to run and are used to conflict among clans, this is why terrorists where able to build a base there.
Hopefully the Muslim world or what you call the Middle East will be able to work and make their societies governeable for the good of the majority of its people.
We should ask ourselves why are so many Muslims countries some of the most backward ones in the world?
I am still praying for the Somalis to get it together. Children are starving and the warlords are confiscating Food aid donated by foreign nations.
Obama is not God, he cannot correct a whole lot of problems. I do not believe this country is even powerful anymore, they just have not received the news as yet or even noticed it because Americans are too narcissistic.
What some of you black men are supposed to do is stop whining and get together and fix the black and African communities and stop meddling in the Middle East’s problems.
Soon the Arab world is going to create a confederation of nations among themselves ; the only thing is, black people , African Muslims are not going to be part of it or even be welcomed .
We have already seen the hostility many Arabs are showing towards Africans since the upsrising.
Africa needs help, black America needs shelp. Start there. Leave the Middle East to the Arabs. None of you have shown any sympathy toward Africa.I wish the Arabs the best of luck but that is about it.
It is time for black people now to start their own nation building economically and politically.No one is stopping anyone. if the Arabs have shown spunk, my question to the black man and woman is : Where the hell is your spunk?
Marcus Garvey said a nation without commerce is one without respect.