[News] Haiti Action - "An Open Letter to William Ruto, " president of Kenya from distinguished Kenyan author

[Anti-Imperialist News]

/Haiti Action Committee is honored to share "An Open Letter to William 
Ruto," first published in PM News Nigeria 
<https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/05/30/an-open-letter-to-william-ruto/>. 
Written to William Ruto, president of Kenya, from distinguished Kenyan 
author, playwright and social activist Ngugi wa Thiong'o, the letter 
criticizes Ruto's recent visit to the White House and Kenya's 
collaboration with the US-headed military invasion and continued foreign 
occupation of Haiti. /

An Open Letter to William Ruto 
<https://pmnewsnigeria.com/2024/05/30/an-open-letter-to-william-ruto/>

Dear William Ruto,

The images of your recent State visit to the USA were very disturbing to 
me and to every patriotic Kenyan.

Ngugi-Wa-Thiongo.jpg

/Pictured above is Ngugi wa Thiong'o, revered Kenyan author and social 
activist/

I saw you seated on a chair, grinning, while Biden stood behind you, his 
face beaming with satisfaction. Why not? He had just announced that you 
had signed off our beloved Kenya to make it a non-member ally of NATO. 
In other words you had agreed to become Nato’s errand boy in America’s 
struggle with Russia and China for access to resources of the continent.

Ruto, do you know that NATO murdered Muammar Gaddafi so that Libyan 
oil-fields, which Kaddafi had nationalized, would revert to the West? 
Kaddafi was once the chairman of the African Union of which Kenya was a 
founding member.

But this other picture was no less disturbing. While you were inside the 
White House, Haitians were in the streets demonstrating, calling you a 
slave. Do you know the history of Haiti? Please read The Black Jacobins 
the book written by a once Jomo Kenyatta Pan African ally, C L R James.

Haiti, now a Black people’s State, used to be a slave colony of France. 
But led by Toussaint Louverture, Haiti, the richest colony of its time, 
fought French slavery and in 1804 it seized its independence. In USA 
slavery was then in full bloom. America did not want its African slaves 
to emulate Haiti, and it has never forgiven Haiti for that, and thus 
begun the story of America’s destabilization of Haiti.

Ruto do you see the irony of your actions? The USA, was originally a 
settler colony taking over the land that belonged to Native Americans. 
In 1776 The White settlers declared their independence from their 
English King. But the colonized Native Americans remained colonized. 
Kenya was equally a British settler colony. The white settlers wanted to 
have a similar kind of Independence. But the Mau Mau led by Dedan 
Kĩmathi stopped them.

Years later, Algeria, Rhodesia and South Africa would follow the example 
of Kenya. Thus the country you now lead, was the first to stop the 
historical trend of white settlers claiming themselves independent as in 
America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Ruto, you have chosen to betray that history of Pride.

Ruto, you have chosen to become an agent of the West?

Ruto, you have chosen to sell your country cheap.

Why, oh, Why?

Atlanta, Georgia

May 28, 2024


-- 
Haiti Action Committee
PO Box 2040
Berkeley,CA 94702
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33 years of solidarity with the anti-colonial grassroots struggle for 
dignity, democracy and self-determination of the Haitian people!

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