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Re: Africans, We Need To Wake Up!! by DKJaleel: 9:46pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
NativeBoy: the gospel and its other non-philosophical counterpart i believe is the main chain that's pegging us down as humans and as a race, simply cos it suppresses the true African in us. I believe we can rid it, if we are determined to, and it will go a long way in solving more than three-quarters of our problems. It will open up our senses of logic and reasoning, at least for a start, enabling us to understand ourselves and our roles better and not feeling inferior to any race. |
Re: Africans, We Need To Wake Up!! by DKJaleel: 9:49pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
PAGAN 9JA:Absolutely!! 1 Like |
Re: Africans, We Need To Wake Up!! by macof(m): 9:54pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
NativeBoy: The first records of Yoruba having the need to write was by the influence of Arabs who were big trade partners in the 15th century. In fact the Portuguese got to know about West Africa through the Arabs. You should also know now that the Latiums never actually had alphabets except using the Greek, The Romans developed the alphabets from Egypt- African What is formal education? Education is Education. even if taught by your father or uncle in your clan quarters Barbarian races you say? Barbarians who had superb architecture, strong weapons and well developed life style at least for the Scandinavians |
Re: Africans, We Need To Wake Up!! by macof(m): 9:57pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
NativeBoy: And what happened to these civilizations immediately they accepted foreign religion and Foreign Ideology of 'the right way to live'? |
Re: Africans, We Need To Wake Up!! by NativeBoy: 10:29pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
macof: You didn't answer my question and I suspect it is because you cannot find any evidence of we as Nigerians having a written language. Roman's didn't develop their language from Egypt. The written language that permeated through to Greece and then to Rome was based on the Phoenician written language. Phoenicians are Mediterranean not African. Yes the Egyptians had the hieroglyphics and the Sumerians had cuneiform but other African peoples didn't have a written language. None of this though is what this thread is about so we shouldn't waste time arguing about it. |
Re: Africans, We Need To Wake Up!! by NativeBoy: 10:31pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
macof: Which societies and foreign ideologies are you referring to? |
Re: Africans, We Need To Wake Up!! by NativeBoy: 10:37pm On Jan 10, 2014 |
DK Jaleel: Please provide specifics to your argument. I don't see where the gospel tells you to not use logic or reasoning. It is not because of religion that the black people feel inferior wherever we go. Our feelings of inferiority are not only to whites, what about Asians? Have we accomplished what they have? Is it because of religion? After all, they didn't bring their religion to us. |
Re: Africans, We Need To Wake Up!! by musicwriter(m): 12:13am On Apr 27, 2016 |
DKJaleel: Neither of the above is the solution. And this reminds me of the time I read the book ''how Europe underdeveloped Africa''. The writer, towards the end of the book was wondering the one thing we need do to break away from western control. It was awkward to me because I expected such a well versed man to have a good answer to that. That's by the way. The worst attack on Africa by the colonialists was the destruction of our natural languages, which then destroyed our original system of knowledge acquisition- Education. Why?. Language is like a seed. Within a seed contains all what the seed needs to become a tree. If you plant a seed it would grow and have every other thing it needs. It would have stem, branch, leaves, roots, fruits, e.t.c. That's how language is!!. If you destroy a seed, you've also inadvertently destroyed a tree!. You've destroyed stems, branches, barks, leaves, roots, fruits, e.t.c. Therefore, if you destroy a language you've destroyed everything about those who own the language!!. If you destroy the language of a people, you'll also destroy their culture, religion, ideals, heritage, history, point of view, tradition, e.t.c, e.t.c. That's exactly what the slave masters and colonialists did. They made sure they destroy our languages by banning it while putting their languages as our official language and forcing us to acquire knowledge with it. Acquiring knowledge in their language was the second worst disaster. Because, that means we can no longer challenge their views as over time we have grown to become ''educated fools''. That's why they literally told us they're saints and we believed it!. Adolf Hitler said ''let me control the textbooks and I'll control the mind of the nation''. What we need do is uproot the brainwashing education we inherited from Britain and France and return to learning in our natural languages- Igbo, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Ibibio, Tiv, Ijaw, Zulu, Zona, Swahili, Nupe, e.t.c, e.t.c. Each African tribe should return back to studyng in their native languages. Africa cannot develop until we return to speaking and writing in our native languages in school. We must be masters of our various languages by using them in schools to acquire knowledge. It would naturally lead us back to ourselves over time. Religion that the writer blamed for our backwardness is just like a branch of tree, not the seed, not even the root. Because, knowledge about the bible and koran was acquired via brainwashing western education!. Worshiping of foreign gods is just one of the hundreds of symptoms of what's wrong with the African mind. So, why cutting the branches?. Why not uproot the brainwashing education itself?. It's such a pity we no longer remember what we have today is not true education but an indoctrination fed us by the British and French. Why even blame religion?. Is religion the principal way white people control Africa?. Of course, not!. White people control us in all areas.!. White people also control YOU African Atheists or Pagans. If you studied Chemistry in school, it's white man's point of view about Chemistry. If you studied Biology, it's white man's thoughts about Biology. If you studied Economics, it's white man's knowledge of Economics. If you studied Geography, it's white man's model of Geography. e.t.c, e.t.c. So, no matter what you studied in school as an African, it's always white man's point of view about that branch of knowledge. So, stop hiding your head in sand like the Ostrich. Remove the plank in your eyes before removing the speck in your brother's eye. The intellectual superiority white people exert over us is so big that a white man boasted to me recently saying " Everything around you. Your career, weather engineering, Social Sciences, Arts, Medicine, Your Car, House, Clothes, phone. Everything, I mean everything is a product of white man's Ingenuity". He had the audacity to say such to me because he understands we're being fooled with what they fed us as education during colonialism. He understands that knowledge is only knowledge, if they say so. He understands they create knowledge and that all we can do in Africa is copy and paste. Yet, the saddest part is that while white people understands the damage and how western education mess up our minds, but the so called educated Africans don't!. Until African nations re-invent education and eschew from what Fela Anikulapokuti called ''follow follow'' we'll remain in this situation of looking up to white people as a standard for knowledge creation. You all must swallow your prides and drop your egos, then, come to the realization the supposed education you have is no better than the white man's religion. Your education is also a product of the white man's deceit, therefore, you're also as brainwashed as any bible or koran believing African. A reason the Emir of Kano, Sanusi Muhammad II, said ''every African is a victim of colonialism''. We all has been fooled!!. In fact, Lord Kwame Nkrumah, the father of African independence, after schooling in three US universities and earning lots of degrees, came back to Africa with all his degrees and he shed tears saying ''western education is a fraud''. He feared that education in Africa would create what Bob Marley called ''educated fools''. I've researched the problem with education in Africa and I know exactly what the problem is. In order for Africa to be COMPLETELY free, in order for Africa to develop we must create a model of education that’s grounded in African philosophy, ideals, point of view, history, culture, e.t.c. A model of education without colonial hangovers. The same model of education the Japanese have used to acquire knowledge to build technological wonders and went to the moon without western influence. I’m talking about a model of education that will work for Africa!. Join me let's re-invent education in Africa. For details see this link http://www.africason.com/2015/10/intellectual-slavery-most-dangerous.html |
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