Reciprocity
The nature of the links that tie together Africans from the motherland with Africans from the post-slavery diaspora must cause us to make a stop in order to get the maximum of lessons from it.
Let us say first that, for the Africans from the diaspora, Africa is the motherland, the roots and origin. Africans from the continent are the bros and sis who stayed behind, the family that ain’t been captured. But what with the Africans that remained in the motherland? What do Africans from the diaspora mean to them? Now, here’s where things start a-getting… let’s say what… funky? Yes let’s try that. At this point that we believe to be kind of “funky”; so at this “funky” point, things become interesting and open maybe unexpected perspectives. It is true that Africans from the West Indies, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, Canada, Portugal, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, the United States, Peru, Honduras, Panama, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, etc, are children of Africa, the family stolen to Africa. All right.
Now if brothers and sisters from the diaspora are sons and daughters of Africa, in another side it means they represent today the deported ancestors ; in other words, they are the ancestors had done been taken far far away centuries ago, with changed names no doubt, them names that the enslavers threw on Africans in order to make them their properties for ever. It is true We do not call them Toure, Ajovi, Mavumbu, Doumbe, Diallo, Nono, Cisse, Mojo, Conte, Keïta, Ngono, Amon, Kofi, Ela, Muto, Mba, Sango, Nany, Mandla, Olatunji, Wassi, Kabongo, Ada, Ruwenzi, Mengistu, Kaba no more, still it is them and nobody else. And it must be known that many among them, bless their souls, have found their way back to Kwame Toure, Ama Mazama, Molefi Asante, Kwesi Mfume, Sekou Odinga, Runoko Rashidi, Marimba Ani, clap your hands and stomp your feet! So, them Africans from the diaspora are also the ancestors of them in the motherland today. It might seem absurd at first, but the more we look at it the more it makes sense.
So, if them done remained in Africa somehow represent the ancestors from Africa, them have done been deported too represent the ancestors that slaveships took far far away from Africa. This goes in both ways, and it is more than time Africans from both sides remember that.
Stevie Wonder
Let us say first that, for the Africans from the diaspora, Africa is the motherland, the roots and origin. Africans from the continent are the bros and sis who stayed behind, the family that ain’t been captured. But what with the Africans that remained in the motherland? What do Africans from the diaspora mean to them? Now, here’s where things start a-getting… let’s say what… funky? Yes let’s try that. At this point that we believe to be kind of “funky”; so at this “funky” point, things become interesting and open maybe unexpected perspectives. It is true that Africans from the West Indies, Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, Canada, Portugal, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, the United States, Peru, Honduras, Panama, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Denmark, Russia, etc, are children of Africa, the family stolen to Africa. All right.
Now if brothers and sisters from the diaspora are sons and daughters of Africa, in another side it means they represent today the deported ancestors ; in other words, they are the ancestors had done been taken far far away centuries ago, with changed names no doubt, them names that the enslavers threw on Africans in order to make them their properties for ever. It is true We do not call them Toure, Ajovi, Mavumbu, Doumbe, Diallo, Nono, Cisse, Mojo, Conte, Keïta, Ngono, Amon, Kofi, Ela, Muto, Mba, Sango, Nany, Mandla, Olatunji, Wassi, Kabongo, Ada, Ruwenzi, Mengistu, Kaba no more, still it is them and nobody else. And it must be known that many among them, bless their souls, have found their way back to Kwame Toure, Ama Mazama, Molefi Asante, Kwesi Mfume, Sekou Odinga, Runoko Rashidi, Marimba Ani, clap your hands and stomp your feet! So, them Africans from the diaspora are also the ancestors of them in the motherland today. It might seem absurd at first, but the more we look at it the more it makes sense.
So, if them done remained in Africa somehow represent the ancestors from Africa, them have done been deported too represent the ancestors that slaveships took far far away from Africa. This goes in both ways, and it is more than time Africans from both sides remember that.
Stevie Wonder