182 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

Rank: Unranked Obibini

WHAT WE CALL MMOPI, RAMASEDI, MODIMO, MOHLODI, RABOSAFELENG, SEKGELE, TLAHLAMACHOLO, QAMATA, UMVELINQANGI, MKHULU O’MKHULU ETC, IS NOT, AND CANNOT BE ONE AND THE SAME AS WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS GOD, BY THE NAME “JEHOVAH”, THE HATER OF OUR ANCESTOR COMMUNION…

AND THIS IS WHY (AND PLEASE REASON WITH ME, DON’T CATCH FEELINGS) :-

BY ThT. ITUMELENG MAKALE (INDEPENDENT AFRIKAN SOVEREIGNIST-RACE VINDICATIONIST SCHOLAR), 18 JULY 2021

A primary frame of reference to things connects them to concepts to which words, names and expressions used are doorways. Sometimes these concepts are hidden behind seemingly innocent sayings and the reader or listener would assume such are based on the conceptual framework to what foregrounds their knowledge and understanding, in some instances, beliefs. Understanding the paradigm within which concepts are cultivated and the orientation of their applicability is of critical importance in this discourse.

Against this backdrop your attention is brought to the expression “Modimo le Badimo”. One may ask; what is the functional basis of this distinguishing delineation about Modimo and Badimo? What is being emphasized here?

The reason why the above is interrogated is because the word ‘Badimo’ presupposes the inseparability and inextricabilty of Modimo and Badimo – for the word ‘Badimo’ which can be said to mean possessors or embodiers of ‘Dimo’ which the All-powerful and imponderable force behind all life that all life forms radiate and manifest, and thus making the distinguishing expression redundant. But there is more to this than just the redundancy of the expression.

Afrikan people who are (for lack of a better description) “dissonant spiritual double bands” who purportedly embrace their indigenous spirituality but simultaneously having their souls married to Abrahamic religions (Judeo-christian & Islamic), use this expression with the undertone of giving credence, in all their references to Modimo, to what we were made to conceive, by imposition and deceit, as Yahweh/Yah/Jah/Jehovah/Adonai/Hashem, god we are presented with from the pages of the Tanakh, the Torah & the Bible, and what is called (as a proper name) Allah we are presented with from the book called Al-Qur’an. These books are foreground in the spiritual paradigms that are at polar positions with the Afrikan indigenous spiritual paradigms. The “God” concepts are not in consonance with each other and the automated assumption, to these “spiritual hybrids” is that Badimo (Great Ones of our Ancestors) are with Jehovah and/or Allah. This is the colonial subversion and capture of our ‘Dimo’ concept. This capture had most Afrikans believe Jehovah/Allah/Jesus is whom their foremost Ancestors knew as the “Creator God” in their spiritual cosmologies, and that when the garb of flesh dissipates one transitions to be with these foreign deities. As such, through colonial fear-instilling indoctrination, cogno-spiritual dissonance in the Afrikan sets in to have them pledge their utmost “faith” to the “gods” of aliens and treat their ancestor communion as, by the church’s diplomatic tolerance, a secondary, peripheral, private and personal ‘by-the-way’. To them “Modimo le Badimo” means “Although I pay homage to Badimo, I also acknowledge there is “God””. And this god is Jehovah/Allah/Jesus.

Strange as it may sound! These foreign Abrahamic deities declare ancestor communion abominably forbidden. How does the “Modimo le Badimo” expression become the defector’s defence? How do they reconcile their sanity to this dissonant spiritual ambivalence?

In Deut 18:10-13, inquiring of the dead is among things declared abominable (meaning detested with extreme disgust), Leviticus 19:31, condemns consulting divination practitioners (Sangomas in our context) and further states that it makes one unclean to do so, Isaiah 8:19-20 clearly states that people who inquire of the dead have no light in them, Leviticus 20:27 calls for the killing of divination practitioners by stoning, In Leviticus 20:6, “the Creator” promises to set its face against a person who consults divination practitioners, and threatens to cut them off from among their people.

The key to cleansing ourselves from dislocating spirits as Afrikans is shedding away anything we don’t have in our native languages – as language is simply the intelligible form of spirit the speaker is foreground in. We invoke and chant what our spiritual DNA/geno-ancestral make-up is alive to.

A NOTE TO THE READER: “A Race Vindicationist is a person who upholds and stands for the natural capacity of their race for self-government and sovereign, anti-assimilationist socio-spirito-cultural existence. My conceptualization of the Afrikan-Centred worldview is underpinned by Afrikan Sovereignist-Race Vindicationism as the ideological foregrounding. Pan-Afrikanism/Black Consciousness/Black Nationalism devoid of this outlook, a non-starter”