Heru
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Bora kujenga madaraja kuliko kuta.
“It is better to build bridges than walls.”
-Swahili proverb
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“The key to an understanding of Africa’s ruling elite today is the examination of its functional relationship to the two main sides of the colonial social structure : the African peasantry and the capitalist West. In that relationship the sacrifices are imposed on the former, the benefits are appropriated by the latter. The function of the…
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“The African people are poor, not because of primitivity, but because of robbery, piracy. The African people have been and are still being mugged. The mugger is the West. Robbery, says Cabral, is not incidental to the Western way of life: it is central. From the African point of view it is a perverted philosophy that calls the pirate civilized…
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“Against the minority of the African elite with enough intelligence and initiative to seek re-Africanization, the barriers are formidable. Among the strongest intellectual barriers is the Manichaean stigmatization of African values. It is impossible for anyone, African or foreigner, to co-operate harmoniously with Africans if that person has…
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