African Existence

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.