Before the Maafa (the African enslavement process), us Africans were practicing our OWN INDIGENOUS spiritual systems. We created names for the Creator such as KATONDA (Uganda) ASHE , MUSIKI (Zimbabwe) ASHE , NZAMBI MPUNGU (Angola) ASHE, MWIN (Burkina Faso)ASHE, AUSAR, AUSET, DJEHUTY, PTAH, MAAT, etc.(ancient Kemet(egypt)) ASHE, ULIMWENGU (Swahili term)ASHE, RANGE (Kenya)ASHE, CHUKWU (Nuer people)ASHE, OLUDUMARE, OLORUN (Ifa (Yoruba tradition))ASHE, KLE (Bambara)... ASHE the list goes on ad infinitum. Before the Maafa, we had rituals, ceremonies, holy days which gave reverence to these Creative forces as well as to the ancestral realm and those yet to be born. We were/are a holistic people. Then the savage, barbaric, brutish, hateful, bad-smellin, non-spiritual caucasoids/europeans came and destroyed our NATURAL way of life and continued to do what the hateful arabs had done--continued to give us FOREIGN, ALIEN GODS. And they also laughed at and eventually made US laugh at and hate our Creator, in our image, venerated OUR WAY. WE MUST RETURN TO OUR ORIGINAL WAYS OF VENERATION IF THE POWERS OF THE UNIVERSE ARE EVER TO BE IN OUR FAVOR AGAIN!!! The traditions of our Ancestors WILL once again be lifted up and we will shout their names aloud as we liberate ourselves and our future so those before us can look upon us and SMILE!!! AKERA!!! Oppression REQUIRES the dissociation of the oppressed from themselves; that they deny themselves, in service to their oppressors; that they avoid identifying with their ORIGINAL PERSONALITY and perceive identification with it as detrimental to their survival. The rejection of their authentic selves on the part of the oppressed is a necessary preparatory step to their replacement by artificial, manipulable selves socially manufactured by their oppressors (Excerpt from Amos Wilsons book The Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness pg. 133)
Posted on: Wed, 28 May 2014 00:25:21 +0000