Who you are as African is where you are on your continent. And if you can’t be who you were on your continent then you will become a cannibal rather than a rescued continent.
To talk about some of the reasons why, Africans do not always actualise that which they would like, & why. There are a few things that maybe they haven’t quite gotten yet.
The first thing is that Africans seem to have some misconception about the true cause of their suffering. “Esho Funi” means there is no separation between myself & my environment.
The reason Africans suffer is because they do not live this principle. It is at the core of everything and if we are to actualise our full potential as a human being, we must get this concept by living it. It is not enough to understand it intellectually. It’s difficult because, as a human being, it feels like the most unnatural thing.
Kwame Nkrumah was the man who wanted to lead Africans to be who they are on their continent. The day Africans Nkrumah was overthrown was the day Africans got into difficulty with another, because the Western colonizers had hurt and divided them.
For any reason, the most natural thing is to withdraw ourselves, to separate yourselves from one another, yourselves instinctively in terms to protect yourselves from getting hurt. And then you look at that other African person getting angry, with very judgemental eyes as to what is wrong with them.
The bottom line comes down to, ‘I am suffering because you’re not acting right’ And so, in this view of ‘everything’s separate from ourselves’, you decide you do not want to suffer any more. You decide, ‘I’m going to fix me or fix me and my small family.’
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Indeed, for many decades now Africans have gone inside their heads & developed an elaborate strategy about how to ‘fix’ that person who hurt them not learning to fix themselves, and then engage the process all over again & again. And then finally, we get to the point of taking the most drastic of actions. We decide, ‘I’m out of here.’ I sell or give out whatever I have as natural resources to the man who hurt me and give him what he wants.
TSASI
Even as you did hat, the same movie starts of poverty played and played again and again in your lives.
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Why is the same movie of “Poverty, Anger and separation keeps playing over and over in the lives of Africans?
TSASI
To explains the reason the same movie keeps playing over & over in your lives is because Africans have a misunderstanding about the true relationship between themselves & their environment.
Life is filled with all sorts of struggles and sufferings our own illness or that of loved ones, death, financial hardship, relationship problems, the frustration of not being able to have what we want, and the list goes on. Problems are unavoidable. They are an inescapable reality of life.
At this moment in history, is African going to still walk in the darkness or turn to walk forward and choose a brighter future .
Although Africans have always had a tendency to give up, they felt the gravity of the situation. If they had any power over the outcome, they had to take it.
Ultimately, Africans have not come to realize that they are the screenwriters, the producers & the directors of their life & they created every moment with their thoughts & actions, & the drama that plays out here, they wrote it.
And if you don’t like it, you better change the words that you write & you change it from the inside first by thought, word & action.”
Have Africans gone to that same place in their hearts to take responsibility for what they did to give Kwame Nkrumah and many other African leaders up to be killed?
Irrespective of whether you thought it was fair. Because karma / actions are whatever movie is playing now. And if you are going to change it, you better accept it as the true reality in your life that keeps getting played over and over.
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When you are able to see the common thread with this & other situations in Africa where or for whatever reason the colonial masters tended to intimidate Africans who were ‘above’ them, they decided that they had to use this situation to change their lives once & for all, so that they no longer had to live life restricted by having golds and diamonds to back their economies.
That is they have lived their life being themselves. And they are ‘free to be them’ and at the same time, take responsibility for their people to be free to be themselves.
This is truly magnificent. Decide that you own Africa to have the most wonderful life a life in which you’re able to joyfully use everything to create undeniable joy & value, a life in which you take the responsibility to create precisely the kind of life that you want for yourself and your people.
A life where you no longer live reacting to where everybody else is but instead become the kind of people that sets the example for everything you want every African to be.
Our human revolution lies in having appreciation for the process. I know now that if you have a problem and there’s nothing you feel you can do, you can always go for advice. Because even unideal situations lead to something great.
Thank You TSASI
