AFRIKAN POWER IN AN EUROCENTRIC WORLD To restore Afrikan power, Africans must reassert themselves. We have riches of all kinds. We must control our raw materials. We must acquire technology to process these raw materials in Africa and export them as finished goods. We must break free from exploitative relationships with The West. Before our country was invaded by colonialists from Europe three African seers foretold of their coming and warned about certain things that our ancestors were to avoid in dealing with them. These seers were Ntsikana, Mmantsopa and King Somhlolo. This African King warned that there was the coming of strange people whose hair resembles bushy ends of an ox-tail. They had the colour of red maize. They spoke an unknown language. They knew not the customs of the African people. When I went to school my primary teacher taught me that in English, a thing that is the colour of milk or snow is white. Later I was told that the people whose colour King Somhlolo had described as the colour of red maize were now called white people. I have always puzzled about this because I think the description King Somhlolo gave is correct. Personally, I have never come across white people. I do not know why these are called white people. They are not the colour of milk or snow that my English teacher taught me is white. Then I hear people talking about the West and Western Civilisation. I agree there might be Western Europe, even though I think this should be North because it is in North of Africa. It is not in West of Africa. I have also a problem when Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States of America, Tasmania, etc are regarded as part of this West even though they are in the opposite direction of Western Europe. I suppose even The Falklands, which the Argentine government calls Malvinas, is part of this mysterious West. Am I missing something here? Are some people playing games with Africa? Is this West geographical, political or ideological? Why are these people all calling themselves White? Are they really White? Why do they claim a colour that contradicts their external appearance? And why do many of them generally look down on a black colour in particular? I see that in courts and at university graduation ceremonies these red maize people wear black gowns. Their ministers of religion, too, wear black clothes. Their white farmers prefer black soil to non-black soils. Of course, the black soil is naturally more fertile than non-black soils. I am told that the English Queen is driven in royal state cars that are black in colour. In fact, even at Heathrow Airport in London most taxicabs have a black colour. But many of these self-appointed white people seem to have a big problem with the black colour if it is in human beings. They have therefore caused much suffering to black people through slavery, colonialism and racism. This mysterious white colour needs scientific research. It has created many problems in this world, particularly for people of other colours. Where are our Khoi people? Where are the San people? Where are the aborigines of Australia? Where are the indigenous people of America, Canada and New Zealand? Why are black people of so-called New South Africa who constitute 80 percent of the population allocated only 13 percent of resources in the land of their ancestors?
Posted on: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 08:26:04 +0000
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