The odd of Strange Identity. One of the greatest evils perpetrated against the African child today, the greatest amongst all the evils is the deliberate brutalization of his identity. The African child’s identity as we have it today was not stolen as we may hurriedly come to conclude (On any intellectual enquiry), it is not evil killed (as it cannot be killed), and contrary to some school of thoughts the African (child’s) identity was not stolen, because if it was, the world would have seen it re-surfaced in certain societies and perhaps can be identified and traced back to its root like some artifacts of African Origin stolen by some European and Western elements in the wake of what they (Europeans) termed the ‘discovery of Africa’, an ideology I chose to call Africanization. The African (child’s) identity suffered first a deliberate rape, then brutalization and after which follows a malicious distortion of its (both) extrinsic and intrinsic nature all effected by the hands of Europeans, then loath first by our unsuspecting and naïve fore-fathers [permit me to excuse them quickly on this by saying, before ever the white man set foot on African soil, our fore-fathers led a peaceful, hospitable and honest life, oral history and some ancient writings lay valid and even solid proof to this conclusion that Africa as it where then was a society of the highest moral value, lies and deception might not be alien but trust and truth were more common]. Employing the tools of the gospel and a fine tuned ideology of one supreme and unified entity called God (Which Africans, know, believe in and worshipped) to this heinous end, they were able to buy (I would not say win) the piety of our then-fathers and to convince them that their traditions and cultures were simply barbaric and against God. Simply put; the white man knowing the high position which God occupied in the day-to-day living of Africans told the black man God “which you know and believe in and even worshipped does not like your identity”…in other words “To please God, you have to look differently, talk differently, pray differently, believe differently” and the promise of a paradise and hell fire in the hereafter (of which whether this claim is true or false is not the concern of this chapter nor of this book in general) finally nailed it home, particularly the fear of hell fire. Let me quickly say this; in life, whatever controls your mind, controls your life, and whatever controls your life determines your destiny. This was how; African’s destiny was sealed for doom. Generations and generations have passed, Africa is yet to recover. We abandoned our tongues for the foreigners’ we abandoned our dress code for the foreigners’, we abandoned our culture and traditions for the foreigners’ WE HATED AND ABONDONED OUR IDENTITY in the name of Christianization, Islamization and the worst name in humanity, colonization. I believe it was Al capon that said “you can get a lot more done with kind words and a gun than with kind words alone” This was what transpired between the Black man and his foreign visitors. The loyalty that the promise of Heaven could not buy, the fear of hell bought it. And from then till this day, African identity have undergone one of the most heinous attacks. One of the questions should be asking this age is this: “The fore-fathers who died without meeting the white man, what is their fate? Are they in heaven or hell Lifted from my book (For the African child-Beating the odds)
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