“One of the reason why my grandfather just stayed away from all this modern transformation was because he was worried about the Whitemans elders. Because violence from an indigenous point of view, comes from the fact that somebody was not blessed, and when you’re not blessed, in fact, you carry a silent curse within you. And because everybody is entitled to one or the other, and more often than not when blessing is not explicitly expressed, then curse takes the space of blessing. So the problem we’re dealing with, at least anything that I came to understand as far as colonialism is concerned, was that the African continent underwent what it did simply because someone was either cursed or not blessed.

The other thing I came to understand is that a person who is cursed always goes to the house of a person who is blessed to wage war on that person. This is because the unblessed smell the presence of blessing somewhere and that smell reminds him of the curse that he is now carrying because someone was not there to bless him, which is the reason why when we talk about the elders having the capacity to bless, we all have to understand that the term cannot be taken lightly. Because when this job is not done, it does not leave just an empty spot in the psyche of the person, it creates a chemical situation because the person has, or each one of us have within ourselves a space where blessing is supposed to sit. To sit there like a car engine or alternator the part that gives the energy or the electricity to make the engine run, and when the blessing does not come to be installed in there what happens is that the entire engine for lack of proper operations begins to rot. This what I like to refer to as a chemical reaction because beyond a certain point where blessing is needed than something else kicks and becomes a counter motor.”

Malidoma Some

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