About Us

The protest activities 'Stop the Excavations at St. Eustatius African Burial Ground' are organized by:

• Ubuntu Connected Front Caribbean 
• St. Eustatius Awareness and Development Movement (SEAD)
  

These organizations are African centered organizations of people of African descent from St. Eustatius. We are not affiliated with another group of people that is protesting against the excavations, the group of five 'concerned citizens'. 

We also work with allies that are experts in their field and are willing to advise us. Together we form the St. Eustatius African Burial Ground Alliance.

Ubuntu Connected Front (UCF) is a political party that won an absolute majority (50,8%) on St. Eustatius in the elections to the House of Representatives in the Netherlands in March 2021. It is also a grassroots community-based movement. Decolonization is on her Black Agenda as part of the party program calling for the decolonization and transformation within structures and systems in the Kingdom to combat systemic racism. Our 'Black Agenda' can be found in the "Manifest for NL Transformation" at the UCF website (Chapter 5).

We will post regularly on the latest developments as well as provide background information. 

Online petition: https://www.change.org/LeaveOurAncestorsInPeace

Overview of protest activities: Events Timeline 

 

 

 

On St. Eustatius and the Dutch Caribbean

Six islands in the Caribbean are part of the kingdom of the Netherlands: Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, St. Maarten, Saba and St. Eustatius. 

Aruba, Curaçao and St. Maarten are each a country within the kingdom. 

The three smaller islands, Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba, are public entities in the Netherlands. All three together they are sometimes referred to as Caribbean Netherlands or the BES islands. 

 

• Government takeover of St. Eustatius in 2018

• Dutch Caribbean islands - short introduction

Explanation of the spelling of Afrika

Why we UCF and other Afrikan grassroots' movement spell Afrika with a "k" instead of a "c" is based on the following insights: 

•  It is a Pan-Afrikan spelling which relates both to the Afrikan continent and to the Diaspora; 
•  It reflects the spelling of "Afrika" in all Afrikan languages; 
•  It includes the concept of "ka", the vital energy which both sustains and creates. 

Ka The Soul, There are three elements to the Egyptian concept of the soul: Ka, Ba and Akh.

• Ka is the life force or spiritual double of the person;
• The royal Ka symbolized a pharaoh's right to rule;
• A universal force that passed from one pharaoh to the next.

Contact

Kenneth Cuvalay, email cuvalay.kandidaat3/at/ubuntuconnectedfront.com

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