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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points Afrocentric cultural rediscovery and uncompromising reaffirmation at the source of Africa unity and renaissance?
“Wood may remain in water for ten years, but will never become crocodile” (Asante, 2009)
“One thing that happens to a people who lose their god, is that they lose their institutions, their reasons for being, and their language, and you cannot find the proper strength to build institutions until you rediscover your cultural centre.”
‘As KingLobenguela puzzled over the Scottish missionaries interest in bringing their god to the Ndebele, he said to Moffat, “we have our own god, Nkulunkulu, and you have yours. Why do you want us to have yours?” Of course, Samuel Huntington said that the European world was not smartest or brightest but most “willing to use violence to bring about its political will.” King Lobenguela’s time was short; soon he had a flood of whites in his kingdom teaching ” servants to be obedient to your masters.”
‘You cannot have an African building a church in the heart of Ivory Coast that is larger than St Peter’s in Rome without wondering what do we Africans think of our own ancestors? A one hundred or two hundred million dollar shrine to an African deity might have changed forever the religious respect for Africa. But a people who do not respect their own gods should not ever expect respect from anyone.”
Reference
Dr. Molefi Kete Asante (2009). Afrocentricoty: Toward a New Understanding of African Thought in the World.
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points Thank you for your remark. I have many friends, black Africans from the continent and the diaspora and of black African descent. Most of them gave me the impression sadly to feel unable to find any relevance whatsoever in anything associated with indigenous African cultures, African indigenous ways of apprehending reality and african indigenous ways of identifying the world, in today’s modern and advanced world of information. Most of them seem to consider those African cultural values as obsolete.
So I asked myself the following questions
In Sovereign independent Germany, German people call their country Deutschland and the black people from the black continent, “Afrikanisch”.
In Sovereign independent France, French people call Deutschland, “Allemagne” and the black people from the black continent, “Africain”.
In Sovereign independent England, English people call Deutschland, ” Germany” and the black people from the black continent, “African”.
In Sovereign independent Portugal, Portuguese people call Deutschland, “Alemanha” and the black people from the black continent, “Africano”.
In Sovereign independent Namibia, what name do Namibian people call Deutschland and the black people of the black continent?
In Sovereign independent Senegal, what name do Senegalese people call Deutschland and the black people from the black continent?
In Sovereign independent Ghana, what name do Ghanaian people call Deutschland and the black people from the black continent?
In Sovereign independent Angola, what name do Angolan people call Deutschland and the black people from the black continent?
It may not seem important for some to rename according to one’s own cultural identity but it did to the former colonizers they tend to look up to. I wonder why?
