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Victoria Dimandja

It has been dark times for Afrikan power in the Eurocentric world...

‘Without the arms of the natives, the gold mines of Johannesburg which have built up the prosperity of South Africa would cease to exist from one day to the next for it is the native arms which accomplish the entire manual labour in the extracting of gold. The white man’s role is that of organiser, the master, under whose watch must work the million arms of the native population.’ (‘Introduction To African Civilisation’, John G. Jackson. Page 311, Coro Publishing Group Edition 1977)

The Afrikan power was destroyed by the European gun, slave trade, colonialism and racism. Through the Berlin Treaty of 26 February 1885 African resources and labour were used to develop Europe and its satellites. To enthrone once again the Africentric view of the world, Africans must look at the history of Africa anew.

Many scholars have ventilated on this position. We must assimilate their warnings and wisdom. A well-read scholar, Patrick Henry, has said: ‘I know of no other way to foresee the future than the study of the past.’ Our own most prominent Pan-Africanist scholar in our country, Dr. Muziwakhe Lembede, has written: ‘One who wants to create a future must not forget the past.’

Why? A noted researcher on Africa, Amadou-Mahtar M’bow, who wrote the preface to the ‘UNESCO General History of Africa’ has drawn attention to the fact that: ‘The history of Africa needs re-writing....

Up until now it has been masked, faked, distorted by ‘force of circumstances’; for example, through ignorance or self-interest. Crushed by centuries of oppression, Africa has seen generations of travellers, missionaries, colonial governors and scholars of all kinds give out Africa’s image as one of nothing but poverty, barbarism...and chaos. This image has been projected in justification of both present and future....All evils that affect Africa today...are the result of countless forces that transmitted this faked history.’

Perhaps Africa’s renowned political martyr, Patrice Lumumba, had in mind this subject when as he was about to be barbarously killed and his body burned in a petrol drum with the connivance of the forces of Eurocentricity; he said, ‘History will one day have its say. It will not be a history written from the United Nations, Washington, Paris and Brussels...but the history taught in countries that have got rid themselves of colonialism and its puppets. Africa will write its own history. It shall be full of glory and dignity.’…
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