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This video captures goodwill messages delivered during the historic MoU signing and unveiling of the Black Panther Party Cubs (BPPC) Ghana Community Embassy / Continental Liaison Office hosted at Abibitumi Headquarters in Akuapem Mampɔn, Ghana on Saturday, 24 January 2026.Nana Yirenkyi, Apɛsɛmakahene and representative of the Akuapem Mampɔn Traditional Council shared remarks pledging to engage traditional leadership to support and promote the Abibitumi agenda, and expressed gratitude on behalf of the people and traditional rulers. Other participants also offered goodwill messages in support of the initiative.Dr. Ɛfo Sela Adjei and D.O.O.R. partner Cashawn Myers of HABESHA Foundation speaker thanked Chairman Dr. Fred Hampton Jr. for joining and for taking the initiative to open an important new chapter for Black people in Ghana. They affirmed ongoing support “on the ground,” emphasizing the shared commitment to nurturing a new generation of Black founders and freedom fighters through principled unity and practical collaboration.Event context (for accurate reportage):• This program unveiled the BPPC Ghana Community Embassy at Abibitumi Headquarters.• This is a community embassy / continental liaison office — not a diplomatic embassy issuing state documents.• The focus is repatriation and structured pathways for diaspora-based Black people to reconnect and build in Ghana and beyond.Location: Abibitumi Headquarters, 1 Abibitumi Way, Akuapem Mampɔn, Ghana#abibitumi #blackpantherpartycubs #repatriation #ghana #AkuapemMampɔn #fredhampton #blackpowerranger https://www.decadeofourrepatriation.com

Sign and share the petition:https://www.change.org/ghanacitizenshipƆbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon joins Radio One’s Carl Nelson Show from Ghana to discuss the urgent petition to President John Dramani Mahama on reparative citizenship, representation, and inclusion for the Historic Diaspora.In this powerful interview, Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon explains why Ghana’s citizenship pathway for the Historic Diaspora must reflect repair, not exclusion. He discusses the GHS 25,000 citizenship application fee, DNA testing as an exclusionary barrier, short and unclear application windows, the need for constituency-mandated Historic Diaspora representation, and why Ghana’s “17th Region” language must be matched by real policy, real access, and real accountability.He also emphasizes that this petition is not a divide between Ghanaians and the Historic Diaspora. A huge swath of the signatories are Ghanaians born and raised in Ghana, showing that many Ghanaians are standing publicly with the Historic Diaspora in support of fair, transparent, accessible, and reparative citizenship reform.The interview connects the current petition to Ghana’s own history of Pan-Afrikan leadership, President Mahama’s 2016 restoration of citizenship to members of the Historic Diaspora, the Ghana Diaspora Engagement Policy, the Decade of Our Repatriation, and the broader principle that reparative citizenship must be treated as a matter of justice rather than ordinary immigration paperwork.As Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon states in the interview, this is not anti-Ghana and the absolute most vocal on this matter have been Ghanaians born and raised in Ghana. Indeed, this is a call for Ghana to live up to its own highest ideals. If Ghana gets this right, it can become a global model for repair, return, representation, and restored relationship between Ghana and the Historic Diaspora.Sign and share the petition:https://www.change.org/ghanacitizenshipLearn more about Decade of Our Repatriation:https://decadeofourrepatriation.comJoin The Black Agenda GH on Black platforms, beyond the algorithm & blues:Abibitumi Public Group:https://www.abibitumi.com/grou....ps/the-black-agenda- The Black Agenda GH:https://youtube.com/@blackagen....daghhttps://www.inst @blackagendaghRecorded and transcribed by Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon.The process must match the promise.#ghanacitizenship #reparativecitizenship #historicdiaspora #theblackagenda #decadeofourrepatriation #carlnelsonshow #radioone #ghana #panafrikan #reparativejustice #rightofreturn #abibifahodie

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In 1971, the United States cut the dollar loose from gold and gambled the entire global economy on a single question: what gives a piece of paper its value once the metal underneath is gone? The answer turned out to be oil — and the deal that made it happen was kept secret for forty-one years.

This is the story of the petrodollar: how a moment of weakness became the most durable instrument of power any nation has ever wielded. From the collapse of Bretton Woods and the Nixon Shock, to the 1973 oil embargo that quadrupled prices overnight, to the chain-smoking Wall Street bond trader who flew secretly into Saudi Arabia in 1974 to strike a deal that would anchor the dollar to the world's most essential commodity.

But this isn't just a story about American advantage. It's a story about a trap. We follow the petrodollars on their journey — from oil importers, into Gulf treasuries, through Western banks, and out as cheap dollar loans to the developing world. Then we watch Paul Volcker raise interest rates to nearly twenty percent and the bill reset overnight, triggering Latin America's "lost decade," sovereign defaults, and more than twenty million people pushed into extreme poverty.

We separate documented history from myth: the real secret Treasury bond arrangement versus the viral "single 1974 oil treaty" that never actually existed. We look honestly at the contested "petrodollar war theory" surrounding Iraq and Libya — what's proven, what's speculation, and why the truth refuses to be neat. And we examine whether the system is finally cracking, with the dollar's reserve share at a three-decade low, the rise of the petroyuan, and central banks quietly stacking gold.

How did America make the world buy oil in dollars? And who really got trapped in it?

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