What future for Africa and the black race?

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'To overcome oppression and liberate the black race, we first need to look deeply inward and into our own capacity to understand and realise what ails us, and how we can overcome ourselves.' BlackRace Africa BLM

but bemusement, as to why it remains an issue in the twenty-first century. We have the tragic death of George Floyd as a terrible reminder that race is still alive and kicking in the United States, in the whole of North America and Europe, and all across the globe. This needless death is also the signifier of the connection between Africa and the African diaspora that gives the black race its unique but damaged coherence.

From the collective intellectual recuperation of the Ibadan School of History, the literary reimagination of the African Writers Series, and the individual scholarship of intellectuals—from Claude Ake to Molefi Kete Asante, Africans have attempted to turn around the many centuries of racial abuse and stereotypes which literally and metaphorically depict the blacks as sub-humans, and subsequently consigned them to the fringe of humanity.

The modernisation theorists also propounded the trickle-down theory as an economic counterpart of the entrepreneurial theory of acceptance: Africa will become modern if it abandoned its traditional past and embrace the European modernity. When we say “something is wrong with the black race,” what do we intend to communicate to the resolution of the problem? It is basically that Africa is its own problem. And its own solution.

The illustrious history of the black race tells a different and most significant story that narrates our deep capabilities. The withering of our own belief in our own humanity simply means the black race is the problem of the black race. Racism and neocolonial oppression have been able to undermine our humanity because we do not have a foothold in the dynamics of who we are. The pan-Africa ideology is even forced to mediate the fragmentation of personality between the homeland and the diaspora.

 

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