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Africa belongs to us, Africans.
Africa belongs to us who go by any name in Africa, except of course, those who are foreigners, invaders, colonizers, enemies. This is true despite their smiling beguiling faces lip service manipulations, placations and land occupation they think they own.
Africa belongs to us, Africans.
This is true no matter what name you go by outside of Africa. If you are in the bottom most disfavored group, and you know, you are most likely African. Africa belongs to you too.
When a black person is having negative thoughts about Africa, or any African tradition, it means the person has gone astray and is totally lost due to being disconnected from heritage.
That's what happens when you abandon, something that belongs to you, and then you go and take something that doesn't belong to you, for instance, religion. You will gradually get lost.
There is a saying that goes: You don't use your left finger to point at your house.
You are not valuing your home, your property.
In other words, never underrate or underestimate what belongs to you. That's what other folks are for. Don't do their job and then don't do your job.
Part of the problem is, many outside of Africa don't understand Africa is them and Africa is theirs.
When you are born, it takes a lot of small steps to become an adult. When you become old, it takes the same, but opposite sequence of steps to reach old age. In other words, in the same way we lost our memory of Africa in a series of small steps, is the same way in which we regain knowledge of self and all else. The same process that causes a person to mature in understanding is the same process that causes a person to become immature in understanding, even though physically an adult.
Even so, we Africans, we blacks, are very fortunate to have a lot of traditions in us.
We are very fortunate to have the brotherhood and sisterhood in us.
This is why, when we meet each other for the first time, anywhere on this planet, we quickly interact as though we've always known each other. This is not how it is when we interact with folks white and others. Part of the reason is because others always try to come in and manipulate and control.
A problem of ours is that we still base almost everything on what our enemies are telling us about ourselves, Africa, the world and ways of living.
No one can emancipate you from this kind of mental slavery. You have to do it yourself.
Perhaps the first step is to not underestimate, overestimate, underrate or overrate yourself or Africa. Do neither. Start in the middle. Then Sankofa, go back and fetch information from the beginning, from the origin.
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