Until the lion tells its own tale, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. A society that does not have those that documents its existence is as good as non-existing. A society that does chronicle its dealings, experiences will be unable to survive. Because there won’t be the past for the future generation to learn from. They will be unable to understand themselves. And the lion will never get to tell its own tale.



Examples abound for such great empires and civilization that didn’t go to elaborate length to tell their own story through their eyes. The civilizations of Saharan/ Sub-Saharan Africa and the Latin Americans, most pre-dating those of the West did not fare well at all because of this. Though evidence abound on the ones of Incas, Aztecs and others within the Latin American belt, much of it guess-work.



Compared to the ones of Egypt, India, China, roman, Greece, they are non-existing. These later ones have been so successful that its impact on its people can be seen. They know their history, can see clearly in the past no matter how opaque and can steer correctly away from blunders that may wipe them out. The present pre-occupation of successive American Presidents to build libraries after them is an attempt for history to judge them fairly in the years to come. It is also more importantly laying groundwork for future generations.



What we know of ourselves, our past and our environment is from the eyes of the West and Middle East. We have assimilated their various religions often abusing it to our detriment because we no affinity or subjective synthesis with them. These are foreign and we unconsciously treat it as such. They have taken over our mind, spirit and body. The ultimate slavery. Roman Empire has fallen apart and another “spiritual” empire has taken its place. A religion that did not in anyway within its holy Book condemned the atrocity that was visited on us. Slavery! Same applies to The Great Religion though the Arabs treated our brothers more humanely than the West.



We have accepted their faith, their ways without thought. Let’s look back and remember what they have done to us. Maybe we can come together once to thwart their purpose. It is loophole they have successfully exploited, let’s fill that hole. We must go back to our gods. We must respect and bring back the spirits of our ancestors. We must empower them with our presence and courage so they too can be free in the land of the dead. We must honor them so they can bless us. The spirits that inhabits the sacred grooves, streams and forest must be brought back. Our religions must be made to attune with modern concepts and times but we must observe them. Religion is beyond belief; it is your social philosophy too. The cultures that have successfully develop apart from the ones in the West,are the ones that have maintained their spiritual heritage. The Chinese, Japanese, Indians.



In schools, there is no curriculum that teaches the students what slavery did to us. Children do not know the contributions of the Black sportsmen and women, artists, leaders, intellectual thinkers, mathematicians, geniuses in different fields. There is no single theory that one can call our philosophy. We do not name streets after these giants to remind and inspire us. Instead we named them after criminals, traitors that have done much harm to the collective black psyche and condition that their name need to be wipe out completely from the annals of our history. Our mass media have been taken over by mindless preachers who have no idea of what they are talking about instead of educating the populace of the realities of our times and the past.



We do not teach about the uprising and the heroic courage/deeds of men who have dared to rise up and break the chains. Men like Nat Turner, and many others that paid the ultimate price. We do not punish those that have contributed to the raping of our mothers, daughters and sisters. We do not punish those that have pillage our land and sold us to the White Man either now or then. We have not been able to brink out the evidences of the fate of our brothers who lies sealed in their pain within the abyss of the rivers and oceans. The Jews have Auschwitz, we have nothing. We need to excavate at any cost those ships that sink and show the world what happened to us. We need to identify and punish our brothers that helped the Arabs, Portuguese, British, Americans, and Dutch to kidnaps and sold our forbearers. You know, when Captain Perry first came to Japan, the first thing he did was to present them with a black male as a slave to them. Of course, they refused, just as the Chinese did,  Think about what would have happen to Africa if the Asians too joined the trade. There would have been nobody left in Africa.


We need to come together. We need to understand who we are, where we are and what we want. We need to identify our enemies and name them. We need to make our children aware of what happen else it happens again.


The slavery has started again. This time it is taking the best out of Africa as it has done before. It is draining it of its life force. The young and capable. They have weakened us internally successfully with bad leadership and now they are taking us away as if we are the ones taking the decision. No, it is the same old game in new guise.  Recently, the Libyan Leader Kaddafi talked about his impatience with the African integration and his would-be subsequent move closer to the West if no hope is forthcoming. It is same frustration that I feel. You often hears about now much Africans in diaspora is sending back home, they hardly make any mention of how much the immigrants are generating for the economies of their host countries. Neither the devastation caused by exodus of the able and young. The broken homes, the children without their parents, the communities left without directions or hope.


If he eventually gave up on Africa, it will difficult to see who again will stand up and champion its cause. Let us remember who we are. We are the most beautiful people on Earth, if we eventually get to know that.

There is no reason why Africa cannot have one integrated defence force, one trade policy, one foreign policy,one embassy in any country outside the shores of Africa. This will call for toned-down version of what we call "sovereignty" of each nation but it is better that this leaders act as Regional Governors or Secretaries.

This pesky issue has been reiterated time with out number but we just dont know what to do about it. we all know that we have a very very big problem but our unwillingness to tackle it is what is really mind boggling. The white people are not our problem ,we are the problem the white people are just taking advantage of what we have made available to them and i don't really blame them much for their actions,if others can get it right i see no reason why we should'nt.