One man
said that his existence depends on his thinking or of his ability to think or
his recognition of his ability to think. 'I am, therefore I exist'. For him the
object is cut from the subject, is it possible in the same person?
Another
said that his existence is a matter of fact, devoid of any dependency. His
existence is the proof. ‘We are, therefore I exist’. The object and
subject remain inseparable irrespective of disposition, circumstance and location. Then in a final
annihilation of isolation, the immutable person emerges with a name, attributes and
relationships.
'Individual'
is deleted making way for the collective hence, 'We are, therefore I exist'.
Now prodding it further gets to the destination that family comes first and
exists before the person from its smallest unit of nuclearity to the greatest
collection of organisms and self-organisation even in the face of regressive
positive laws.
Now
extending the rapture to natural datum places the person as a body functioning
on reason based on intellect, will and memory/understanding and their interpenetrative
operations. The insufficiency of the natural operation brings up a number of
issues especially the search for higher things by the person. At this point the
part of the person directing the search in conscience manifests in the soul.
The soul is the geography of the accident that grants it grace, receiving
virtue (prompts) and gifts of the Holy Spirit, of course nourished by their
operations.
In all
these skin pigmentation plays no part. A broad aggregation of persons on its
basis is purely social and an imposed/artificial construct. This implies that
parents especially mothers are duty-bound to lovingly tell their children to be
proud of their pigmentation, love their pigmentation and to revel in it without
condescending on other shades of human pigmentation. Accepted or not, bruised
or battered, healed or bled. Self-validation, self (cultural) awareness and
self-satisfaction is the script.
Without
such elegant disposition it doesn't matter if one or many are temporarily
rejected by one and all in one place or around the world. The rejected mustn't
reject oneself at least for self-preservation. The circle of existence rises
and falls over time i.e. thousands of years. A few hundreds of years are drops
in the ocean of time.
It is
said that if an African or Black person is to be deceived, the issue must be
hidden in books. The purpose of reading is beyond formal examinations. Those
who are disconnected from their history are lost hence repeat of strategic errors, moreso when disconnected from their mother tongue/languages. Behold the breast-milk of our mothers/wives running dry on our
children who are unversed in their mother tongues.
For
comprehensive historical treatment open these
following books at your convenience and to your children: Precolonial
Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop; Civilisation or Barbarism Authentic
Anthropology by Cheikh Anta Diop; Cultural Unity of Black Africa by
Cheikh Anta Diop; Early Christianity in North Africa by Francois Decret;
How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind by Thomas Oden; They Came before
Columbus by Ivan Van Sertima and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by
Walter Rodney. Cambridge History of Africa & General History of Africa
series are very helpful. You are the generation with the best potential to eradicate
African history. Behold your poor children!
Finally,
this piece is motivated in part by this content.
