-
npr.org
A new home for the African diaspora in Ghana stirs tensions
Ghana tried to create a haven for anyone from across the African diaspora. But for some Ghanaians, the project has become a source of bitterness.
NonMwenSe6 Comments-
But we don’t be having that same energy when invaders show up.
-
The tribalistic nature and characteristics that got us invaded, conquered, enslaved, and colonized is still with us today, in 2024.
Like the Great the Honorable Nana Amos Wilson once stated: We are still our ancestors. We have not escaped slavery. We have not escaped colonialism. We have not escaped from being invaded. We have not escape from being conquered. We are still our ancestors.
-
I think “tribalism” is for the most part a “western narrative”. Not only that, I think it’s inaccurate.
If “tribalism” meant looking out for your “tribe” only then why do we often see that rule only being applied when dealing with other Black People? Why is that same barrier not there for foreigners?
And we must also consider the times when we did unite. When we did acknowledge our commonality.
Not to mention the deliberate divide and conquer tactics that are often at play.
Of course, we must do better to overcome these challenges but I think the “tribalism” narrative lacks context.
And I disagree with that quote from Nana Amos Wilson. I don’t like how that was worded. We are not our Ancestors because we are still enslaved. We are our Ancestors because we are our Ancestors. The Black lineage is still alive period.
Our history doesn’t begin with the enslavement of our people.
-
@nonmwense-abibi
Respectfully, I agree to disagreeI totally agree 💯 % with Nana Amos Wilson when he says “We are our Ancestors. We have not escaped slavery. We have not escaped colonialism. We have not escaped being invaded. We have not escaped being conquered. We are our Ancestor.”
I am in 💯% in agreement with you that our glorious and proud history does not start with slavery and colonialism.
Black=Afrikan=Kmt history goes back millions, upon millions, upon millions years .
Yes, we are our Ancestors 5,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago, 100,000 years ago, 1,000,000 years ago.
But for the past 2,500 years or so, Kmt=Afrika=Abibiman had been a major disappointment for Kmtyw=Afrikans=Abibifo=Black people, and has been been taking major defeats, and major L’s and having major setbacks, after major setbacks, after major setbacks. Yes, we have won a few battles here and there and have walked with our heads up high a few times here and there with Wagadu ancient Mali and the Songhai empire, Zulu empire, Zimbabwe empire, Axum empire. But As a whole, we and our Ancestors have been getting invaded and conquered continuously for the past 2,500 years. Right now in 2024, Kmt=Afrika=Abibiman as a whole sucks and have sucked for a long time. We and our Ancestors have sucked for a long time, 2,500 years long. And, I don’t see our condition as the bottom of the global socioeconomic hierarchy changing anytime time soon.
Nana John Henrick Clarke once said:
“The 25 dynasty was our last walk in the Sun.”
Nobody wants to be associated with Kmt=Afrika=Abibiman, and Black=Afrikan people. Whenever someone even mention Afrika, everybody (especially, Afrikan=Black people) automatically thinks, “Africa is a poor retched place with no prospects” (that is why every Afrikan person=Black person wants to leave Afrika=Kmt the slightest chance he or she gets. Thousands of Afrikans die each year in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Seas, the Sahara Desert, because of the Afrikan desire to flee and run to ‘greener pastures’ in a white man’s land in europe or america.
The programmed propaganda all around the world is that Afrika=Kmt=Abibiman is filled with: poverty, starvation, disease, hunger, corruption, colonialism, neocolonialism, slavery, mud huts, cannibalism, bad luck, tribalism, tribes, materialism, dictators, military coups, witchcraft, nepotism, corrupt leaders, poor leadership, HIV/AIDS, wars, flies on children faces, famine, hard life, struggle life, instability( political, social, economic), inequality, euroasian interest only, inferiority complex, white savior complex, fake independence (dependent on Europe, America, China, Russia, to have anything done in Afrika). The propaganda has worked very well; too well that even majority of Afrikans=Black people believe it and has internalized it.
Even a poverty stricken country like India looks down and spit on us (there are multiple reports of Indians abusing, assaulting and harassing Black=Afrikan people in India).
China, a country that was once the laughingstock of the world a few decades ago is now an economic powerhouse that rivals the United States (the number 1 economic power in the world and China is number 2). China is now the sole manufacturing superpower in the world and the second largest economy in the world. This is a country in the 1980’s that was an after-thought and laughingstock in the socioeconomic global hierarchy in the world. But in 2024, you can’t push China around anymore like you did in the 1980’s. You can’t mistreat, harass, disrespect, assault, abuse Chinese people like you did in the 1980’s, because if you do the powerful Chinese government will be coming after you.
The arab Bedouin invaders are still on stolen lands in Afrika=Kmt=Abibman. And they are slowly moving south into the interior of Afrika by means of genocide and terrorizing Afrikan=Black people. The arab Bedouins have their Islamic State Al-Qaeda pan-Islamist militant organization all over Afrika=Kmt=Abibman wreaking havoc and destruction on the Afrikan continent=Kmt and on Afrikan people=Black people.
The Dutch invaders, the Boers, are still on stolen lands in South Africa. The Dutch invaders have becoming so bold that they are organizing themselves to fight and secede from South Africa and form their own independent nation state in southern Afrika=Kmt=Abibiman.
It’s been over 2,500 years, and we are still being push around. We are still the laughingstock of the world. We are still being invaded. We are still being conquered. We are still being colonized. We are still being enslaved (the Arabs slave trade is still going on in 2024 on the African continent=Kmt=Abibiman).
So, yes I definitely agree with the Great the Honorable Nana Amos Wilson.
We are still our Ancestors. We have not escaped slavery. We have not escaped colonialism. We have not escaped from being invaded. We have not escape from being conquered. We are still our Ancestors.
1-
I just disagree with how that quote harks back to the attacks against us as a framework in relation to our identity/Ancestors. We are still fighting the same fight that has escalated to a global level in the last 600 years. There is no doubt about that. And we gotta figure it out. I just wouldn’t speak of the Ancestors in that context. I am my Ancestors no matter the conditions. Once we overcome the Maafa, are we no longer our Ancestors? See what I’m saying?
1-
I understand. Medaase, for clarifying.
1
-
-
-
-
-
-
