Sankara Byaruhanga, University of Nevada - Reno

our next speaker is Sanara Sara is Sara is a call a call to Mandela sangara the floor is yours remember to be taking our time keeper there thank you thank you thank you thank you ladies and gentlemen but let's start it the Africa way and Ali you I'm going to need you uh meeting the comrades for the first time but I need us to go Wooh ha let's do that one more time ear please let's go for that please please please please please we are doing it the Africa way and uh please Ali please please please uh-huh uh I I want yes let's go let's go let's go one time let's go Wooh Wooh Wooh Wooh Wooh Wooh Wooh guys yeah bab perhaps you're going to go for Viva Africa hello africaa and my guys from South Africa and mastered it and they say amand no it doesn't go well without raising your hand and so [Applause] amand thank you thank you very much that day as they buried Papa BBA Mandela it was a call to whole Africa nation that actually Legacy can be left and so the question would be to you fellows if you had one opportunity one chance to call those that left us the revolutionary leaders of Africa who would you actually call yes you actually got that right and again the question goes who would you actually call that is going to be Mandela and if I had that call and that opportunity I'd go like hello Papa Madiba Mandela greetings greetings to Mama Winnie Mandela and greetings to Sankara Thomas the upright man that turned upper Vault into Bina Faso the land of upright man I'll tell him Papa Sankara was killed three years just before you left the prison and while the news was out we remembered his statements that well many more years later more SAS are going to be born and that message reached a young man Magi in chenda in East Africa and that young man named his child Sankara but that was only only after two names were dropped on the table on two papers and it was Mandela versus Sankara and Magi chose Sankara and Sankara is here to talk to you papa on a call I am Sankara banga from Uganda Papa I come to you with names of Sankara the Revolutionary names like amadu Abdul like Amar Kamara like kibamba T alimi all those names Papa are here with me on a call we are here to inform you papa that after a year you had gone another young man from America the president another of your origin started a program and named it after you the Mandela Washington Fellowship Hussein Barack Obama did that and the last 11 years that has actually changed a lot over 7,000 young people have gone through that and from east west south all these Central have actually done way way much now Papa I remember before you left power before you left office when they asked you why you're resigning yet you're actually already in your retirement you said you're retiring from your retirement and you sounded The Vibes of the biblical Simeon who said I can finally die because Jesus Christ has been born and you tended to say you can finally go because you're sure that many more African leaders were born and papa on this call I inform you that they are here they are listening to you and you're now on the loudspeaker I want you to hear from them Papa ladies and gentlemen the young leaders of Africa is it true that you are fired up and ready to go talk to Mandela are you fired up and ready to go fired up fired up ready to go are you ready to go thank you and now Papa Mandela your legacy lives when you are in prison you told us that fighting for your belief was an ideal you are prepared to die I I cannot assure Papa that any of us is actually prepared to die for their passion but I can tell you that the ideal we are pushing is that that for which we are prepared to remain passionate and Papa this is a promise we've been to America we have lived it everyone says Africa is the future of the world and this has given us an opportunity we've been at the Mountaintop we've seen Africa as the promised land as we go back with we know where to touch and thank you thank you for your words Mandela thank you Obama for this and we're going to end it this way God Bless America but the most important of all God bless Africa thank you thank you very much