“The reawakening of our Afrikan selves is essential to our survival. Although culture is the battlefield and we do indeed face terminal cultural dissociation because of the theft and reassignment of our culture, we also face physical extinction. A people without a culture or without a means of holding on to their culture is threatened by their elimination from the face of the earth. It means nothing if phenotypically Afrikan people continue to exist physically if they have been separated from their own identities and culture. If we look at the plight of Afrikan people, on the Afrikan continent in in the Diaspora, trying to adapt to alien cultures and values systems, the danger of trying to be what we aren’t should become more obvious.”
-Burnett Kwadwo Gallman, To be Afrikan
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