Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Inferiority complex

Recently I responded to a question of the inability of our people to stand as equals to all of humanity. As nearly the entire world has recently been under European domination I must state that most of the worlds' people are still in awe of the European world and especially the Americans. The armaments and scientific achievements and productivity capacity still intimidate many people but there is the added factor of Witchcraft. This along with mastery of aeronautics and the seas makes an intimidating force. When we analyze the components of their civilization, we must understand that when broken down, each component can be replicated by any organized body. The very power that our people fear is power that was taken from our ancestors. This current occupation of Africa by alien forces is a part of the invasion of the 1500's. There were invasions, starting 3,500 years ago by the Hyksos from western Asia and later Persians, Greeks Romans and Arabs. Each time that the aliens captured and maintained control over portions of our lands they were emboldened to push for more. During the time of the European Slave trade they had collectively forgotten the former greatness of our ancient past. You see from the time of Herodotus, Hippocrates, Thales etc. our lands were known as the lands of the gods, knowledge and scientific achievement. As masters of witchcraft the Europeans have promoted their culture/religion as the ultimate in human knowledge and challenged us as a people to accept it as the standard for the entire world. Correspondingly the Arabs have used their culture religion in the same manner. We as Africans have been under their spells almost completely since our indigenous culture were supplanted by way of witchcraft. Today’s' African, whether on the continent or the Diaspora accepts Europeans and Arabs as their superiors because when challenged our people have accepted aliens completely. When we look at both Islam and Christianity we realize that these twin forces steeped in Judaic myth are without question, reality to our people. We have been taken in, bamboozled, brainwashed and dry cleaned by the very forces that covet our land and resources. They have come to personify anything of value and maintain an unshakable sense of nationalism. They take themselves seriously and force the world to see them in that light. Of course there are exceptions and these are the ones that alien forces spend time undermining. Through belief in their systems and divinity we are vulnerable to strength Christianity/Islam. They have intruded on our space and we have collectively accepted that intrusion and invited more as we see them being our superiors. Not only has their culture put most of us under a spell many of them are under the impression that the spell is eternal. They imply that anything not validated by them is a lie and there are few challengers among our people to stand up to them. So as long as our people are under the spell of the Eurasian aliens we are all at their mercy. Once we go back to our Amadlozi (ancestors) we will break the spell and see clearly the encumbrances that have held us spellbound. I quote my ancestor..."do not believe in illusions". When approached by the British to accept Christianity, he stated ..."anyone who would want you to believe in that concept only wants to make you their slave". * Emperor Shaka the great, Dr. Mazisi Kunene. We must study all that is placed before us and understand the agenda of anyone who comes to us as missionary or friend. Let those with the ability to analyze, study well and teach the youth, because it will be those yet unborn that will completely break the shackles of ignorance and fear. The ways of the witchdoctors of Rome to Mecca utilize fear to control our people. Remember he who defines it controls it and as long as we accept some else’s reality we will be under their spell.

Mntwana, Bosia kaShaka Zulu (Mageba)

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Thursday, December 14, 2006

Ngibuye Unomphela


The N-word controversy and its effects:


Sanibona! Greetings


Words are values given to sound. People’s reactions to certain sounds are determined by their familiarity. As a person reacts emotionally to certain stimuli i.e.:
A Confederate flag, Red handkerchief, a traffic signal or the opposite sex, that reaction
lets one know their relationship to that entity. African people must first realize that this language is not ours and most of us are illiterate to our original languages. When our mutual ancestors were put into Maafa (Slavery) their languages were erased for the most part so that we would be completely at the mercy of our enslavers. As amazwe ethu (our people) were taken, variously by Arabs, Portuguese, Spaniards, and Dutch and British, and were identified by them as Neggars, Negroes, Kaffir, Abed
etc. As time passed, second generation Africans began to communicate in the Slave language only. The further away from Izwe Lethu (Our homeland) the less we spoke and understood our indigenous languages. We now find ourselves on both sides of Ulwandle (the ocean) speaking in lave/colonials languages. We must consciously communicate in our own languages as we learn of them. As in Tsotsi-Taal, Ebonics, Patios and Creole, there are elements of our collective indigenous languages but degradation of the original. Although many of our people take great pride in speaking the master’s language with a sprinkling of indigenous words we must eliminate the impurities that dehumanize us. WE
are not Kaffirs, N-----s, or Abid, we are self defined Abantu abansundu/abamnyama
and descendants of a great and mighty people. For those who don’t know their family language I suggest that you pick up a book and or consult with brothers and sisters who speak our home languages. KiSwahili is readily available as well as Yoruba, Twi, Lingala, Wolof, KimBundu, KiKongo,Igbo, Hausa and isiZulu. Take your interest in re-learning your language to the point of learning of your ancestors. The languages that I site are known to be areas that abantu baningi (many people) were taken from.
The Amadlozi (ancestors) called the leaving the homeland phesheya ulwandle (crossed the ocean) or crossing Katunga.

As most people are shocked at the change that this controversy has wrought, I am comforted to know that it has sparked positive reactions in the community. Just think of it, a European comedian insults Africans in public place where virtually anything goes. The resulting outrage ignites a heated discussion on whether we should continue to degrade ourselves with this type of language. Just as with smokers, alcoholics and drug addicts are in denial, we have generations of people addicted to this nomenclature. I personally have gone through that stage for a few years in my youth but altered my view at the time of Richard Pryor’s revelation. I fully expect there to be defenders of this degradation as with the "Kaffir" in South Africa and "Abid" among Arab followers. The idea that we glorify self degradation shows the level of consciousness within our community. The self degradation is not only confined to the Diaspora but wherever we were dominated by alien people. The solution to this problem is self-knowledge and evaluation. Leaders and teachers should be in the forefront of this battle because of its correlation to our lack of unity and power. Just a thing as minor as eliminating one negative term from your vocabulary can alter our entire world-view. Just as Collective Self-Interest is a term that promotes "Masihlangane" (let us work together) or "Harambee", there is no downside to being positive. Let us challenge ourselves to learn our ancestral languages and once we do, we will no longer have to communicate in E-----h.

Yimina uBosia kaShaka Zulu
“Mageba”