Why Africans Don’t Read, And Why That’s OK! It’s preferable to have illiterate africans than to expose them to literature that weakens their personality and make them black people with a white ghost in the mind. Keep them poor, keep them thinking being rich denies you Heaven. truth be told majority of people who are victims of capitalism if that shit is wrong are black in clour not white. 98% of the content and narrative about Africans and Africa is created by Europeans and their descendants. Most of that content is racist, bigot, poorly written and eurocentric. Young people who have been overly exposed to the biased, often racist and eurocentric literature finish to develop a self-hate and a complex of inferiority toward europeans. Did you ask, why Africans don’t like to Read? The right question is why would they spend their time reading books that insult them and portray them with the most degrading images, and stories? Pfff… It’s often that I heard from many sources “Africans don’t read” or “the best way to hide something from Africans is to put it in a book”. And, for long time, I’ve heartwarmingly agreed with these statements and have spent time to “shame” my friends and connections into reading. So, the question is Why aren’t african writing books for themselves? First, because of history. When Europeans invaded Africa they applied the 4 basic principles of any occupant forces: 1. First, Kill the strong and loot the place 2. Second, Breed the weak, they already know the concept of God tell them rich is evil to eliminate competition and promote hard lbor so they work for you. 3. Third, Deport or Exile the smartest and the skilled ones 4. Fourth, Impose the golden colonial rule “My way or the Highway”. The colonizer understand well that “he who controls literature, controls the people mind”, and therefore the French and the British become surprisingly the biggest sponsors of African literature and books edition. Through various instruments, from scholarships to novel contests, most of the books produced and promoted in Africa today are still done through the control of the past and present colonial powers. Unfortunately most of the contents created through the above channels are like the Black man writing with the White man in mind. In the end those books interest more european audiences than Africans. Additionally, when you take the French, British and American cultural centers in developing world, less than 5% of the books are scientific books. Because, the mission of those governmental organizations is not the education of the Africans, but rightfully the spread of their culture and diplomacy. lol think what you know or learned from any book its their shit, they let it published to mislead you. They do the thinking for ya. With less than 2% of the narrative on Africa written by africans for Africans, everywhere I turn, I see a huge demand for local content. Africans want content created by africans for Africans, without the validation by some foreign experts or juges. Why do you think Biko titled his book I write what i like why do you think Chika Onyeani titled his book Capitalist Nigger, read Petals of Blood Ngũgĩ wa Thiongo, read Malcolm X instead of lot of rubbish. why do you think they kill our voices who were awakening us. This is not to say hate, require land that you cant do shit with, just dont put down the gun of capitalism until they do while its talks and talks think like Jews think, think money, like Arabs, coz if you do in generation to come your fmly will send their kids to private skul. so when they go to their university no one mark their essays like marking a second language speaker to their language so you can outsmart them.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:56:19 +0000
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