WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO INSTALL AFRIKAN POWER IN A...

WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO INSTALL AFRIKAN POWER IN A EUROCENTRIC WORLD?

We, Africans, shall have to hunger for knowledge. We need to know who we were before the slave trade, colonialism and racism. What did our forebears achieve? The first and indisputable fact that we must know is that the first human civilisation on this planet was created by black people – Africans. The first renaissance in this world was African Renaissance. My book ‘African Renaissance Saved Christianity’ deals with this matter.

There are some European people and their cousins who claim that they came to Africa to ‘civilise’ Africans! How do you ‘civilise’ people through slavery, colonialism and racism? Some people called Africa the ‘Dark Continent.’ How come the ‘Dark Continent’ saved Moses’ life under Pharaoh Seti I? This was through this Pharaoh’s daughter Princess Thermuthis. It is Africa that educated Moses in the highest institutions of learning; made a leader out of him and gave him his wife Zipporah, a daughter of an African priest. Her name means beautiful.

How come that the ‘Dark Continent’ gave refuge to Jesus Christ when Herod conspired to kill him? How come the ‘Dark Continent’ gave Moslems asylum at the beginning of their religion when they were persecuted for their beliefs? How come that the fundamentals of the Christian faith were laid by African theologians such as Tertullian and Augustine? Augustine is reputed to have spoken Latin, the ‘English’ of those days ‘in an African accent?’

There is archaeological evidence that Africans mined minerals such as gold, iron and copper 200,000 years before European colonial forces invaded and underdeveloped Africa. These mines existed in African countries such as Zimbabwe, Nubia, Kush, Egypt, Azania and Mozambique. The Azanian Civilisation itself stretched from East Africa to the country colonialists called ‘South Africa’ on the 20 September 1909. As late as 1626 AD, the ‘Indian Ocean’ was called the Azanian Sea. The Atlantic Ocean was known as the Ethiopian Sea.…

Is this the image of an uncivilised African head of a pre-colonial state? On the contrary, it was this African King of the Basotho who accused the European invaders of his country of barbarism. Writing to Boshof, a colonial leader of the Boer Trekkers who had in 1858 invaded part of his country, which the invaders later called ‘Orange Free State,’ King Moshoeshoe said: ‘No....The captains of your commandos are no Christians, for I shall never believe that Christianity consists in carrying away women and children into captivity; and in shooting down old and sick people.’

When provoked by colonial aggressors to war in 1838, King Dingane of the Zulus spared the lives of European missionaries. They were doing religious work in his country. These included the Rev. Francis Owen. This was despite the King’s order, ‘Bulalani abathakathi!’ (Kill the wizards!)…
Motsoko Pheko