22/08/2017
Dear Forefathers,
With all due respect, allow a curious young NeoAfricanist to inquire on your legacy bestowed upon the Africa we inherit from you. To paint a picture without subsequent pointing of fingers, allow us to recapitulate on where we stand.
The Africa we witness today is one where young people are sacrificing lives and future to attempt dangerous voyages across deserts and oceans. The Africa today is one where all the despicable diseases of this world are believed to originate from. One where the only media campaigns are directed at petty aid to be increased and given to your competent corruption schemes. One where women are accessory to the exploitation and violences done against young girls. One where it is impossible for a young professional to prevail. One where governments are the principal reason why we cannot access to basic needs such as Education or sanitation. One where there are so many flaws that a single mind cannot attempt interpreting without the risk of leaving out some important details.
So I inquire: Are we, young Africans, to follow your footsteps and carry on the shame of such a paradoxical continent.
Are we to fear western men like you were made to bow down to colonial cultures?
Are we to subject our sisters to the same exploitation our mothers have faced?
Are we to ignore the basic needs of generations that will come after us by giving up on our seeds spread across the globe?
Are we to be so easily manipulatable that foreign countries can justify conducting their military drills on our soils, whilst using our people as baits?
Are we doomed to forever beg the world for our subsistence when such fertile lands border our rivers.
Are we to be the only part of the world that has no tangible references but submissions to the light of a queen or a nation built by human beings like us, like you.
These are questions that I will never have the courage to ask out loud for fear of insanity. But I think them evermore, I live the shame of being of the color associated to evil and darkness.
I seek for consolation in the eyes of newborns who are so innocent but are unknowingly coming to a world where their destiny is that of being born in the land of the first men, yet shall live a life of shame and percussion from the men who had the courage to model their environment to suit the evolution of men.
Religion bans me from quoting Darwin, but is it sound to ignore the survival of the fittest?
NeoAfricanism shall be fit. Let's we begin by questioning our heritage
