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What a gwan family, all d best for 2021 & beyond. More health, strength, wealth, wisdom & discernment. 👊🏿👌🏿🖤👸🏿🤴🏿

I was just thinking on the year of return & the enormous amount of our people from the diaspora been visiting & moving to the continent recently. Based on the views of those who just visited and those who have moved, there are some who have had some bad experiences & the transition has not been very smooth & there are those who had little to no problems. In light of recent events that I’ve been observing with some youtubers, there has been some serious clashes with diasporan Afrikans & continental Afrikans & even clashes between diasporans & themselves. It’s really a toxic behavior regardless even if it’s for show for views, shares, likes & subscribers. This is why our mental health wellness is very important because many of us are not well especially mentally. We are deeply ridden with trauma & it’s sad to see us tear each other a part by re-traumatizing each other every day. We use each other’s traumas as weapons against each other at times to tear each other down & to collect d bag 💰& to inflate our egos. It’s really a self hate thing smh.

However I was somewhat inspired by a video with some Jamaicans who own a nice lot of land on the continent away from the cities and taking their time in transitioning into the Afrikan culture, this video gave me this idea. Because regardless we have similar skin colors, hair type and genetic make up and can directly trace our ancestry to a certain group on the continent, diasporans & continental Afrikans are very different because of our horrific separation for so many years, our cultures & traditions resemble each other but are distinctly different in many ways & because of that we will run into culture & tradition clashes from time to time which can cause huge problems. In the same way Afrikans in the Caribbean & North America may resemble but also are distinctively different.

I’m not saying there should be a total separation when persons move to the continent but for a peaceful life & mental wellness and for us to heal properly at our own pace and limited clashes somewhat. Countries in Afrika who are open to accepting those of us from the diaspora should be able to reserve certain sections & areas for diasporans only for easy transition & blending back into the Afrikan culture without having to be forced in and to adjust immediately. We have to bare in mind there will be a large amount of us in the diaspora that will need to detox, debriefed & given as long as we need to delete the western mindset, which isn’t done easily or quickly but must be done in order for us to be in our right state of mind to operate in a healthy, efficient and constructive way.

I maybe thinking too much about this but I’m just looking on a solution here as to solve many of the problems we’ve been having since a mass migration has been happening & the clashes between us both. Afrika is big enough for Jamaicans to have a sections for themselves and also Haitians, Bajans, North American diasporans, Black British etc 🤷🏿‍♂️ And still be all Afrikans just the same. All these places will be like half way houses for our people who have just made the move to the continent & they can settle in, get themselves together & get the proper healing appropriate to their needs based on where they were held as captives for years. This isn’t for everyone tho because many others of us may have known how to heal and are well, so it’s only for those of us who are still struggling and have underline post-traumatic enslaved syndrome or inter-generational traumas that we are still working through. I am curious to know what my Abibitumi family thinks on this? Also another question can one be healed in the same environment and space they got hurt or abused and suffered trauma? Ur comments and suggestions are very important as we need to help each other heal properly and appropriately.