From Wise The Dome TV, with Dwayne Wong (Omowale) as the guest
On Pan-Africanism, Queen Charlotte, and Togo
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Dwayne Wong (Omowale), an author and Pan-African activist, is interviewed on Wise The Dome TV. He argues Pan-Africanism is not dead, only weakened by the assassinations of Malcolm X, Walter Rodney and Thomas Sankara, and that religion is a tool: Malcolm X was Muslim; Sam Sharpe, who led a mass slave rebellion in Jamaica, was Christian.
He revisits his essay on Queen Charlotte, arguing she was not Black in any meaningful sense, since she married into the British monarchy under King George III, who opposed ending slavery, and points instead to figures like Queen Nzinga. He also challenges claims that Africans are indigenous to the Americas, citing Vasco Balboa’s account of Black prisoners among Native people.
He describes his work since 2017 with Togolese activists against the Gnassingbé dictatorship, says Israel orchestrated the coup that brought Idi Amin to power, and previews a coming book, Eshu, Legba, and the Devil, on the African roots of the blues legend of the devil at the crossroads.
