Who we are
The way the children of Africa perceive each other must be reflected in their language. So, the way they define themselves tells awareness they have of themselves as being separated entities or members of the same family. The Senegalese, the Malian, the native of Guadeloupe, the native from Benin, the Ghanaian, the Martinican, the Togolese, the Cameroonian, the Guyanese, the Jamaican, the Nigerian, the Gabonese, the Congolese for example are all children of Africa. What then follows is that we cannot talk of an "African" and a Martinican, of an "African" and a native from Guadeloupe like them two realities were opposite. To say for example "Africans" and "West indian" attended together a conference or a march would be meaning that a West indian is not an African, or that the West indian is not the African deported to the West Indies: is it the case ? Nooo.
We must acquire new automatisms. We individually will be able to evaluate our personal progress in the connection of Africa with herself when we naturally will recognize an African, a brave son of Africa, a noble daughter of Africa in every black person we see in a magazine, on television, whatever the country. We Africans are inside and outside today. I wanna make myself clear and loud if possible: since maafa, since yovoda (transatlantic slavery) we igbo, yoruba, mende, temne, kissi, wolof, serere, dioula, fulani, bambara, kissi, sonyinke, mande, asante, akan, agni, ewe, fon, bamileke, duala, fang, sango, kikongo, baluba, myene, basaa, bapunu, eshira, tikar, kpele, are now inside and outside Africa. This we always must remember.
When there is simply gonna be « black this », « black that »; « afro this », « afro that » ; black american, afro-american, afro-canadian, afro-caribbean, afro-peruvian, afro-colombian, afro-brazilian, black dutch, afro-german, black English no more, but Africans from the United States, from Canada, from the Caribbean, from Peru, from Colombia, from Brazil, from Holland, from Germany, from England; children of the first world, children of paradise, Africans, then we will have made a giant step towards the great unified african entity prophesized for so long, dreamed for so long, waited for so long. From there, it will be possible to talk of a global Africa. Only the effectiveness of the memory can lead to that level of consciousness, and only a well-planned educative policy can lead to the effectiveness of that memory. Time done come, come, come for us to do the right thing, thing, thing.
I think one of the major revolutions of the 21st century the self-recognition as Africans of all the children of Africa whatever their present location in the world. I foresee this self-recognition as the future great world revolution because unlike yesterday or even today, it will not fail to build solidarity networks, brotherhood and community networks between the real producers of the wealth of the world. The organized action of the parents of humanity, the producers of both the material and spiritual richness of the world can only shift the direction of civilization to the first world, the source, Africa, let us say paradise, the holy land where everything did begin. More than anybody else, my conviction is that the children of the first world, together and united, are the ones can give the world a suitable rhythm and beat, an orientation that can lead humanity to more life, more happiness, more safety, not to more chaos, more tensions, more frustrations nor more global threat.
New Orleans, U.S.A
We must acquire new automatisms. We individually will be able to evaluate our personal progress in the connection of Africa with herself when we naturally will recognize an African, a brave son of Africa, a noble daughter of Africa in every black person we see in a magazine, on television, whatever the country. We Africans are inside and outside today. I wanna make myself clear and loud if possible: since maafa, since yovoda (transatlantic slavery) we igbo, yoruba, mende, temne, kissi, wolof, serere, dioula, fulani, bambara, kissi, sonyinke, mande, asante, akan, agni, ewe, fon, bamileke, duala, fang, sango, kikongo, baluba, myene, basaa, bapunu, eshira, tikar, kpele, are now inside and outside Africa. This we always must remember.
When there is simply gonna be « black this », « black that »; « afro this », « afro that » ; black american, afro-american, afro-canadian, afro-caribbean, afro-peruvian, afro-colombian, afro-brazilian, black dutch, afro-german, black English no more, but Africans from the United States, from Canada, from the Caribbean, from Peru, from Colombia, from Brazil, from Holland, from Germany, from England; children of the first world, children of paradise, Africans, then we will have made a giant step towards the great unified african entity prophesized for so long, dreamed for so long, waited for so long. From there, it will be possible to talk of a global Africa. Only the effectiveness of the memory can lead to that level of consciousness, and only a well-planned educative policy can lead to the effectiveness of that memory. Time done come, come, come for us to do the right thing, thing, thing.
I think one of the major revolutions of the 21st century the self-recognition as Africans of all the children of Africa whatever their present location in the world. I foresee this self-recognition as the future great world revolution because unlike yesterday or even today, it will not fail to build solidarity networks, brotherhood and community networks between the real producers of the wealth of the world. The organized action of the parents of humanity, the producers of both the material and spiritual richness of the world can only shift the direction of civilization to the first world, the source, Africa, let us say paradise, the holy land where everything did begin. More than anybody else, my conviction is that the children of the first world, together and united, are the ones can give the world a suitable rhythm and beat, an orientation that can lead humanity to more life, more happiness, more safety, not to more chaos, more tensions, more frustrations nor more global threat.
New Orleans, U.S.A