12,445 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

“It is sad to think that there are some Africans, especially among those who have enjoyed the advantages of foreign training, who are blind enough to the radical facts of humanity as to say, ‘Let us do away with the sentiment of race. Let us do away with our African personality and be lost, if possible, in another race.’ This is as wise or philosophical as to say, let us do away with gravitation, with heat and cold and sunshine and rain. Of course the other race in which these persons would be absorbed is the dominant race, before which, in cringing self-surrender and ignoble self-suppression, they lie in prostrate admiration. Some are really in earnest, honestly thinking that by such means they will rise to the cloudless elevation of olympus or reach the sublime heights of parnassus, but the verdict of spectators is that they qualify themselves for Bedlam. There is, only then, one fatal influence against all this teaching, and that is the whole course of nature. Preach this doctrine as much as you like, no one will do it, for no one can do it, for when you have done away with your personality, you have done away with yourselves. Your places have been assigned you in the Universe as Africans, and there is no room for you as anything else.” – Nana Edward Wilmot Blyden 3 years ago ·