I CANT BREATH !!!

BLACK POWER IS GIVING THE POWER BACK TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOT HAD POWER OVER THEIR OWN LIVES .

We have all been guilty at one point or the other of , ignoring or silencing that voice in our head that said, "speak up" or "help that person "or that voice that said, "that is not right stop it from happening".

Maybe it was out of fear ,maybe we where too preoccupied with our own problems or in other cases , maybe we chose to mind our own business.

Well now more than ever we are all aware of it. We have seen what keeping quiet ,doing nothing, avoiding confrontation results in . 

It is a hard pill to swallow when you actually see how people with African decent / people of colour are treated.

Even here in our own country and continent . We see how the government and our own police forces treat us. Like the case of one Samuel Maina who was brutally  beaten by police and when he went to report the matter at the police station nothing was done. If we as Africans truly knew the greatness we come from we would not treat eachother the way we do. 

It is even harder to believe that so many people have been conditioned to think that black people are the problem.

That black people are not human.

To think that it is a norm that so many peoples lives suffer because of the colour of their skin is heart breaking and gut wrenching.

I have always believed that you should always treat people the way you want to be treated or even better. However at a time where our compliance has been taken for granted our silence has been taken for weakness it's just too much to bare.

My heart aches for the memory of George Floyd and all the countless number of people who have suffered because, they where taught that human rights where not written for anyone with African descent but only those of pale/ lighter skin.

I see the pain in all our eyes. The pain in all those protesters who are asking,

"How long will this go on?"

"Why do they hate us so much?"

The frustration as of not getting justice. The frustration that so many black lives get ruined because of racism but nothing is being done.

Do you really blame them for saying enough is enough!

The spirit within us is strong and over the years whatever they have done to us hasn't broken us. Right from the beginning of slavery, colonialism where theys stole our land , abused us , sold us tortured us, locked us up and dehumanized us .

They think we are inhuman because we can survive and have survived and continue to survive despite all they put us through and that is what threatens them. The fact that we continue fighting . The fact that we continue to rise .
They see the power within us and they know that's something they will never have.
#blackpower
#blacklivesmatter
#blackexcellence
#african

THE SPIRIT OF AFRICAN UNITY:OUR BORDERS ARE JUST LINES DRAWN BY OUR COLONIZERS

I AM NOT AFRICAN BECAUSE I WAS BORN IN AFRICA BUT BECAUSE AFRICA WAS BORN IN ME,AND THE POWERS THAT KEEP US UNITED ARE FAR GREATER THAN THE SUPERIMPOSED INFLUENCES THAT KEEP US APART.

Patrice  lumumba said,"These divisions which the colonial powers have always exploited to dominate us.Have played an important role and are still playing that role in the suicide of Africa."

Before we colonization we lived peacefully in unity growing and supporting each other with the occasional cattle raid lol . We then got colonized and although we attained Independence of our countries . It is evident that we never uncolonized our minds.

Watching what has happened in the past and continues to happen In Africa from the Rwandan genocide to Kenya's post election violence to South Africa's xenophobia. To nigeria SARS police brutality. To corrupt leaders leading countries to abject poverty  or to the increased hate towards dark skin and how we bleach our skin to be lighter to be less African .

We have been convinced that we are inferior that we want to eliminate everything that makes us unique.what we forget is that being African comes from within it . The African spirit is greater than anything that happens to us.we where slaves and we now celebrate black billionaires .They hated our music our fashion and now it's what is seen and heard around the world

We where forced to turn against each other as they divided and conquered Africa (I'm sure that phrase began in Africa) and they ensured that we were divided to ensure that they can take from us what is ours.Because they knew the value of what we had and where threatened by the power we would and could have if we came together to improve our continent.

We elect incompetent leaders to speak for us to rule our countries and instead of helping those who elected them all they do is drive us further apart, and have us murder each other while they sit in their luxurious homes and offices unbothered.

Kwame Nkuruma said,"it is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems and that this can only be found in African unity.Divided we are weak,United Africa could become one of the greasy forces for good in the world.

We have to remember that, Hatred paralyzes life. Love releases it.
Hatred confuses life.Love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens Life. Love luminates it.

History teaches us that unity is strength and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals to strike with all our combined strength for the path to true  African brotherhood is unity."Haile Selassie

We are a representation of what our future will look like. I love a quote by the late
Jommo Kenyatta that says."Our children may learn about heroes of the past,but our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.
If you think you are to small to make a difference clearly you haven't spent the night with a mosquito.
Anything you can do to make the world impacts a person at a time and before you know it you leave a legacy that impacts the lives of countless people.

Let me end this post with these two quotes. Nelson Mandela said,"I dream of an Africa which is in peace with its self ." I feel for us to reach that point we have to understand what the Dali lama meant when he said ," world peace begins with inner peace.

LOVE EVERYTHING THAT MAKES YOU AFRICAN

PART2 I AM MORE THAN JUST THE COLOUR OF MY SKIN
Sources Youtube video history of black hair by rEdward chime and Wiki story of Saartjie Baartman

african history from before bantu, cushite and nilote
 The topic of African hair in general, can be very controversial ,and after a friend of mine sent me a screenshot. Of a post that was asking people, to Google images of professional hair, and after you see the results Google images of unprofessional hair. The results of the first search shows that professional  hair is  Caucasian (wavy or straight) hair and unprofessional hair is African (kinky curly or locked) hair which didn’t come as a shock to me.

Let me give you a short history lesson ,on African hair .African hair is hair that is found on people
 with African decent it is either curly or kinky.

African’s throughout history. Were subjected to harsh treatment, because the white man did not understand black people and treated them as if they were just like animal’s. The sin’s of which, we pay for, this very day. We don’t see the colour of our skin as beauty! instead we opt to lighten our skin on this quest fo . What we perceive to be beauty . We don’t see the uniqueness of our hair as beauty ,  but instead are the largest consumers of human hair . The sources of which are highly questionable. (I would Urge you to research before you opt for human hair extensions.)We buy Caucasian hair which is straight or wavy. (but undergoes processing to get it to various looks and textures) yet we get offended, when we see posts like the unprofessional hair. Talk about double standards. Nobody will appreciate us until we learn to appreciate our selves. We have  fallen for all that we were told and we are comfortable with it.


 When Africans were sold as slaves they were put in
chains, stripped naked to demoralize them. Told that they where the lowest form of human .They were then  not allowed to communicate in their native language nor allowed to sing or perform rituals as they did back at home. In an effort to strip them of their culture and history .Which has worked perfectly African Americans barely know anything about their past before they were slaves. African women, were told to shave their hair and not to style it as they once did. They were then denied styling tools .
Which made their once beautifully styled hair become a real mess and the term dread locks came about because the hair looked dreadful .Little did they know that in Africa some tribes did their hair that way and unluckily people who put locks on their hair to this day are looked at as rebels forcing many people to cut them off when seeking formal employment.

Lupita Nyongo pulled off  this very hairstyle at the 2016 Metz gala, and the press claimed the hair was adapted from a famous designer where as  it was taken from the hair of Vernon Françoise .A style that women from central and western Africa wore.
 This is not the first or last time that African lifestyles ,ideas or ways of life have been used edited and stripped of the fact that they were African so as to look like they were or are western concepts. We as Africans are special we are the root of humanity and I think that is why for so long we have been oppressed so that we don’t see the power within us or utilize our resources from our continent.

The story of Saartjie Baartman is a story of a woman taken into slavery from Cape Town South Africa to France. Where she was displayed in various human zoo’s because of her curves which was considered abnormal and as a result of all her hardships later died a lonely death. Little did she know she would later inspire the stiffs worn under the garments of women in the Victorian Error and now the obsession of women having a “Big booty”.  The sad thing is just like various women in history whose hardships in life changed history and little is done to acknowledge them and the likes of Kim Kardashian take the Credit for making curves fashionable .Yet Africans have been living with it and people like Saatjie Baartman who were displayed in human  zoo’s because they were considered abnormal their lives go Untold and uncredited.