By Sicebise Msengana
I always see the self-hating attitudes towards Africa as coping mechanisms against the 500 year-old racist anti-African propaganda. People whose ancestors suffered slavery and social degradation developed certain survival traits to cope with their surroundings. The invention of races was one of the darkest moments in human history , W. E. B. Du Bois makes the following observation: “There came a new doctrine of universal labor: mankind were of two sorts—the superior and the inferior; the inferior toiled for the superior; and the superior were the real men, the inferior half men or less.”
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Showing posts with label African history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label African history. Show all posts
03 October 2016
08 September 2016
Freedom or Slavery?
Sicebise Msengana
“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary” –Malcolm X
It is very foolish of Africans to want freedom without any sacrifices. Africans have been sold criminal Gandhian philosophies “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”, in the name of “nonviolence.” It is
“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary” –Malcolm X
It is very foolish of Africans to want freedom without any sacrifices. Africans have been sold criminal Gandhian philosophies “An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”, in the name of “nonviolence.” It is
05 September 2016
No to Criminal Philosophies in The Name of Multiracialism
By Sicebise Msengana
“Sex is the principle around which the whole structure of [White Supremacy] . . . is organized.” Gunnar Myrdal
Being a “100% African”, in a sense of I don’t have any foreign, non-African blood in my veins, makes me want to continue my genetic and cultural lineage intact. It is also a privilege because Southern Africans carry the oldest gene and colour in the world. This year I've discovered something powerful and that is you cannot be against white supremacy/racism and still sleep with it. No cut all ties with those who maintain and support the system, in that way you're can fight white supremacy more effectively. Less noise and confusion.
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“Sex is the principle around which the whole structure of [White Supremacy] . . . is organized.” Gunnar Myrdal
Being a “100% African”, in a sense of I don’t have any foreign, non-African blood in my veins, makes me want to continue my genetic and cultural lineage intact. It is also a privilege because Southern Africans carry the oldest gene and colour in the world. This year I've discovered something powerful and that is you cannot be against white supremacy/racism and still sleep with it. No cut all ties with those who maintain and support the system, in that way you're can fight white supremacy more effectively. Less noise and confusion.
30 August 2016
Are You Really African as You Claim?
By Sicebise Msengana
How African are you?
*Your parents won’t give you privacy because its their house
*Your mother hits you and hits you harder if you keep on crying
*When you have uncles and aunts younger than you
*You drink tea even when its blazing hot outside
*When your parents yell at you for hurting yourself
How African are you?
*Your parents won’t give you privacy because its their house
*Your mother hits you and hits you harder if you keep on crying
*When you have uncles and aunts younger than you
*You drink tea even when its blazing hot outside
*When your parents yell at you for hurting yourself
24 August 2016
500 Years of Resentment and Anger Against Africans
By Sicebise Msengana
I won't speak for 'Hebrew Israelites' and 'Black Indians', let their advocates speak for them. I will only speak for Africans -- both continental Africans and Diaspora. I understand that these pseudo-identities our people have picked up are coping mechanisms in a white society that bashes anything that looks 'African.' The poor arguments are in contradiction to scientific and archeological evidence. The purpose of these ideologies are to serve as a group therapy for those affected by slavery.
I won't speak for 'Hebrew Israelites' and 'Black Indians', let their advocates speak for them. I will only speak for Africans -- both continental Africans and Diaspora. I understand that these pseudo-identities our people have picked up are coping mechanisms in a white society that bashes anything that looks 'African.' The poor arguments are in contradiction to scientific and archeological evidence. The purpose of these ideologies are to serve as a group therapy for those affected by slavery.
20 August 2016
Modern African Traditional Clothing
By Sicebise Msengana
The feelings of so-called civilisation are mixed. What may appear as 'civilisation' might be instincts.
"My own impression, from having divided my life between United States cities and New Guinea villages, is that the so-called blessings of civilization are mixed. For example, compared with hunter-gatherers, citizens of modern industrialized states enjoy better medical care, lower risk of death by homicide, and a longer life span, but receive much less social support from friendships and extended families. My motive for investigating these geographic differences in human societies
The feelings of so-called civilisation are mixed. What may appear as 'civilisation' might be instincts.
"My own impression, from having divided my life between United States cities and New Guinea villages, is that the so-called blessings of civilization are mixed. For example, compared with hunter-gatherers, citizens of modern industrialized states enjoy better medical care, lower risk of death by homicide, and a longer life span, but receive much less social support from friendships and extended families. My motive for investigating these geographic differences in human societies
19 August 2016
Religion Has Been a Stumbling Block of Progress
By Sicebise Msengana
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" when you do science, you have to put aside religion. You must exclude the divine from your theories about the world. Once you bring in the supernatural, you can explain anything, but none of your explanations can ever be confirmed, since you're using ideas that go beyond human sense"--Steven Weinberg
From its beginning religion has been a stumbling block against scientific developments. The claims made by religious fanatics are fallacious in many ways. Just because religious scientists did or still do scientific work has nothing to do with science. In fact, greatest scientists were and always irreligious and didn't bring science into religion (i.e. Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin).
18 August 2016
No One Has been Held Responsible For Apartheid
By Sicebise Msengana
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The white man likes to
dodges responsibility for his crimes against humanity like a psychopath -- absence of
guilt or remorse, "I wasn't there" or "I didn't support
apartheid." Yeah right. We all know that some whites were not born or were
little at that time. But the vast majority of white people supported or were complicit
with the system that offered them real benefits and privileges.
2002 Rome Statute of
the International Criminal Court described
apartheid as "committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or
groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime." The heinous
ideology that mimicked Nazism. Both ideologies – Apartheid and Nazism had common
roots Christian religio-nationalism, which led to the creation of segregation of
races. Along these lines and that of scientific racism, a racist white power
structure came in being. Apartheid would’ve a great experiment if races were segregated
but the
16 August 2016
Let's Not Cry A River For Africans
By Sicebise Msengana
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." --Mao
I will continue to say that there are no tears for people who fail to protect themselves. Therefore we should not cry for the African whose lands are in European hands because they're of hurting white people's feelings. Similarly, we should not wail and weep for our people in America who continue to march, sing and beg white people for basic human rights, while being gunned down by predatory vicious cops.
"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." --Mao
I will continue to say that there are no tears for people who fail to protect themselves. Therefore we should not cry for the African whose lands are in European hands because they're of hurting white people's feelings. Similarly, we should not wail and weep for our people in America who continue to march, sing and beg white people for basic human rights, while being gunned down by predatory vicious cops.
11 August 2016
White people: Join us or Leave us Alone
By Sicebise Msengana
White people say I’m a “hate teacher...racist.” Another white person said I should remove the “human rights activist” description on my online profile because I “hate” white people. To a certain point, I’m a hate teacher. I hate racism and racists. I don’t love a heinous ideology of systematic oppression. An ideology where white people are rewarded by white supremacy in it’s many forms for simply being white. I always say that white people should prove that they are against racism by their actions, not words. The same measure they put in their own freedoms should be the same measure they put in ours.
White people say I’m a “hate teacher...racist.” Another white person said I should remove the “human rights activist” description on my online profile because I “hate” white people. To a certain point, I’m a hate teacher. I hate racism and racists. I don’t love a heinous ideology of systematic oppression. An ideology where white people are rewarded by white supremacy in it’s many forms for simply being white. I always say that white people should prove that they are against racism by their actions, not words. The same measure they put in their own freedoms should be the same measure they put in ours.
31 July 2016
Great Freedom Fighters of The 21TH Century Part 2
By Sicebise Msengana
AmÃlcar Cabral ( 12 September 1924 – 20 January 1973), was born in Bafatá, Guinea. He was born to parents, Juvenal Cabral, a Cape Verdean elementary school teacher and Mrs. Iva Pinhel Évora, a shopkeeper. Guinea-Bissau, the small Portuguese colony suffered from exploitation imposed by the backward and despotic Portuguese colonial regime. Cabral later wrote:
Faced with the power of the main imperialist nations, one is forced to wonder how it was possible for Portugal, an underdeveloped and backward country, to retain its colonies in spite of the redistribution to which the world was subjected. Portuguese colonialism managed to survive despite the sharing-out of Africa made by the imperialist powers at the end of the 19th century because England supported the ambitions of Portugal which, since the treaty of Metwen in 1703 had become a semi-colony of England. England had every interest in using the Portuguese colonies, not only to exploit their economic resources, but also to occupy them as support bases on the route to the Orient, and thus to maintain absolute domination in the Indian Ocean. To counter the greed of the other colonialist powers and to defend its interests in the Portuguese colonies, England found the best solution: it defended the 'rights' of its semi-colony.
After the death of his godmother, Simoa, his father, Juvenal inherited a few tracts of land and moves in the island of Cape Verde with his family. In the 1940s, a severe drought causes widespread starvation, claiming more than 50,000 Cape Verdeans. Chicken bones describes the details of the boy’s life, “This is the atmosphere in which AmÃlcar Cabral spends his early childhood and adolescent years. If, on one hand, his father gives the example of public conscience and civic engagement, within the limits permitted by Salazar’s fascism, his mother, Iva Évora, on the other, is for young AmÃlcar an example of love and affection, of family protection and of dedication to her work. Iva labors all day on a sewing machine to help the family overcome, as well as possible, the many crises they have to face. Later in addition to her activities as a seamstress, she gets a job a in a fish-packing factory. AmÃlcar’s mother and her capacity for self-sacrifice will serve as an example which he will pass to the young militants of the PAIGC.”
He was educated at Mindelo, Cape Verde, and later at the Instituto Superior de Agronomia , in Lisbon, where he founded student movements promoting the cause of liberation for Portuguese colonies across Africa. Cabral completed his training as an agronomist in 1951 and returned to Africa in 1952.
Describing his yearning for Guinea, “This was done following a plan, an objective, based on the idea of doing something, of contributing to the betterment of the people, to fight against the Portuguese. That’s what I have done since the day I arrived in Guinea." Between 1953 and 1954, Cabral conducted an agricultural survey or census of the colony. The knowledge from the survey helped him better understand the problems facing his country. He and Aristides Pereira, Julio de Almeida, Elisée Turpin, Fernando Fortes, and Luiz Cabral (AmÃlcar Cabral's half-brother) founded the PAIGC (Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde) or African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde and Guinea (PAIGC). The party was responsible for radical change that swept through the country. In the late 50’s and 60’s, the PAIGC fought in a warfare for liberation. By 1969 the PAIGC had two-thirds of the country under its control. They established schools, medical clinics, and courts, as well as People's stores, in these areas.
Tragically, like all freedom fighters his life came to an end in January 20, 1973, at the hands of Portuguese colonial masters and its puppets. AmÃlcar is best remembered by his classmates and friends as a person of hard work ethic, a great sense of humour, and ability to make friends.
Writings:
Steve Biko(18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977), is remembered for his role in fighting apartheid. Best known for the “Black Conscious Movement” and slogans like “Black is beautiful.” The boy was born to parents Mzingayi Mathew and Alice 'Mamcete' Biko in Ginsberg Township , in the present-day Eastern Cape province of South Africa. He attended Brownlee Primary School and Charles Morgan Higher Primary School. Later attended the Lovedale High School in 1964, but was soon expelled for his political views. His brother, Khaya said concerning Biko ‘‘Steve was expelled for absolutely no reason at all. But in retrospect I welcome the South African government’s gesture of exposing a really good politician. I had unsuccessfully tried to get Steve interested in politics. The police were able to do in one day what had eluded me for years. This time the great giant was awakened.”
Biko was a bright student and passed with very great grades. He was admitted to Durban Medical School at the University of Natal Non European section (UNNE) in 1966. During that time he helped found the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), which later became the “Black Consciousness Movement.” The BCM aims of the organisation was to install a sense of self- determination through community-upliftment projects. In 1972, he was expelled for his political activity. The following year he was banned by the apartheid regime. In the following years he met Donald Woods , the editor of Daily Dispatch and became best friends. In 1975 Steve was arrested and detained for approximately 137 days. However, he was not charged or put on trial. Around 12 September 1977, Biko was reported dead. According to several accounts, he stripped naked and viciously beaten and sustained serious head injuries. South African History Online: “Lang did not object when police said they were driving Steve to Pretoria, 700km away. This they did, on 11 September, in the back of a van, with Steve still naked, frothing at the mouth, and unable to speak. In Pretoria, a district surgeon examined Steve and tended to him, but it was too late.”
Writings:
Steve Biko was one of the greatest anti-apartheid activists who was on a mission to liberate both the mind and body of an African. Yet, he ended up dead for simply resisting the Nazikaner government. We might have lost him, but his words and actions are still visible in our lives. After waging a hard and brutal battle. With this, we release Biko to rest.
References
1. ChickenBones: A Journal. “Amilcar Cabral.” http://www.nathanielturner.com/amilcarcabral.htm (last accessed 20 July 2016).
2. South African History Online. “Stephen Biko.”http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/stephen-bantu-biko ( last accessed 25 July 2016).
Great Freedom Fighters of The 21TH Century Part 2
By Sicebise Msengana
AmÃlcar Cabral ( 12 September 1924 – 20 January 1973), was born in Bafatá, Guinea. He was born to parents, Juvenal Cabral, a Cape Verdean elementary school teacher and Mrs. Iva Pinhel Évora, a shopkeeper. Guinea-Bissau, the small Portuguese colony suffered from exploitation imposed by the backward and despotic Portuguese colonial regime. Cabral later wrote:
25 July 2016
Make a Difference
By Sicebise Msengana
There are eternal optimists who will lie in your face and tell you what you want to hear. Modern humans first appeared around 200,000 years ago. Much time is spent on discussing ways to ‘help’ the world but no real help is ever sent. Minorities groups like Native Americans, atheists, pygmies, albinos, San, Australian aborigines, homosexuals, women and children ( mostly girls) are still oppressed. Religious and political leaders are given right to preach hate, intolerance and the need to rid the world of non-believers. Why there is no public outrage? Simply because we use different strokes for different people. Nation against nation fighting, each other for dominance—on land, air and sea. Tribe against tribe. Widespread terrorism, mass rape, massacres and wars raging all around the globe. We are the only species that boasts about taking man to the space. Yet we cannot living peace in earth.
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There are eternal optimists who will lie in your face and tell you what you want to hear. Modern humans first appeared around 200,000 years ago. Much time is spent on discussing ways to ‘help’ the world but no real help is ever sent. Minorities groups like Native Americans, atheists, pygmies, albinos, San, Australian aborigines, homosexuals, women and children ( mostly girls) are still oppressed. Religious and political leaders are given right to preach hate, intolerance and the need to rid the world of non-believers. Why there is no public outrage? Simply because we use different strokes for different people. Nation against nation fighting, each other for dominance—on land, air and sea. Tribe against tribe. Widespread terrorism, mass rape, massacres and wars raging all around the globe. We are the only species that boasts about taking man to the space. Yet we cannot living peace in earth.
13 July 2016
Remembering Nelson Mandela
By Sicebise Msengana
"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying." -Nelson Mandela
I admired him not only for success in his political career, but also because of his work ethic and courage.
Nelson Mandela was a man who dedicated himself in fighting apartheid. Things didn't have to be this way, but he sacrificed 67 years of his life in service to his people. After the so-called "peaceful" transition to a democratic South Africa, 20 years of power, and the majority of African South Africans are still poor, while whites have gained significantly from the deal we made with the devil.
"I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying." -Nelson Mandela
I admired him not only for success in his political career, but also because of his work ethic and courage.
Nelson Mandela was a man who dedicated himself in fighting apartheid. Things didn't have to be this way, but he sacrificed 67 years of his life in service to his people. After the so-called "peaceful" transition to a democratic South Africa, 20 years of power, and the majority of African South Africans are still poor, while whites have gained significantly from the deal we made with the devil.
01 July 2016
Confessions of Nat Turner
By Sicebise Msengana
THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, THE LEADER OF THE LATE INSURRECTION IN SOUTH HAMPTON, VA.
As fully and voluntarily made to
THOMAS R. GRAY In the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when read before the Court of Southampton; with the certificate, under seal of the Court convened at Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 1831, for his trial. ALSO, AN AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE WHOLE INSURRECTION, WITH LISTS OF THE WHITES WHO WERE MURDERED, AND OF THE NEGROES BROUGHT BEFORE THE COURT OF SOUTHHAMPTON, AND THERE SENTENCED, &c.
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16 June 2016
Declaration of Independence
By Sicebise Msengana
Because 1964 threatens to be a very explosive year on the racial front, and because I myself intend to be very active in every phase of the American Negro struggle for human rights , I have called this press conference this morning in order to clarify my own position in the struggle—especially in regard to politics and nonviolence.
I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam. I still believe that Mr. Muhammad’s analysis of the problem is the most realistic, and that his solution is the best one. This means that I too believe the best solution is complete separation, with our people going back home, to our own African homeland.
Because 1964 threatens to be a very explosive year on the racial front, and because I myself intend to be very active in every phase of the American Negro struggle for human rights , I have called this press conference this morning in order to clarify my own position in the struggle—especially in regard to politics and nonviolence.
I am and always will be a Muslim. My religion is Islam. I still believe that Mr. Muhammad’s analysis of the problem is the most realistic, and that his solution is the best one. This means that I too believe the best solution is complete separation, with our people going back home, to our own African homeland.
02 June 2016
The Mis-Education of The Negro
By Sicebise Msengana
PREFACE
The author does not support the once popular view that in matters of education Negroes are rightfully subjected to the will of others on the presumption that these poor people are not large taxpayers and must be content with charitable contributions to their uplift. The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. Such opportunity, too, should not be determined from without by forces set to direct the proscribed element in a way to redound solely to the good of others but should be determined by the make-up of the Negro himself and by what his environment requires of him.
PREFACE
The author does not support the once popular view that in matters of education Negroes are rightfully subjected to the will of others on the presumption that these poor people are not large taxpayers and must be content with charitable contributions to their uplift. The author takes the position that the consumer pays the tax, and as such every individual of the social order should be given unlimited opportunity to make the most of himself. Such opportunity, too, should not be determined from without by forces set to direct the proscribed element in a way to redound solely to the good of others but should be determined by the make-up of the Negro himself and by what his environment requires of him.
31 May 2016
National Liberation and Culture
By Sicebise Msengana
When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture being discussed, he brought out his revolver. That shows that the Nazis, who were and are the most tragic expression of imperialism and of its thirst for domination--even if they were all degenerates like Hitler, had a clear idea of the value of culture as a factor of resistance to foreign domination.
When Goebbels, the brain behind Nazi propaganda, heard culture being discussed, he brought out his revolver. That shows that the Nazis, who were and are the most tragic expression of imperialism and of its thirst for domination--even if they were all degenerates like Hitler, had a clear idea of the value of culture as a factor of resistance to foreign domination.
26 May 2016
The Message is Still 'Nonviolence and Forgiveness'?
By Sicebise Msengana
We live in a world in a shadow. Bad things happen everyday and there's nothing we can do about it. However, as we grow we see people doing bad things to other people. We see people discriminate, lynch, brutally beat and kill others. How can we make sense of these atrocious acts committed to innocent people? How do we go about this painful reality?
We live in a world in a shadow. Bad things happen everyday and there's nothing we can do about it. However, as we grow we see people doing bad things to other people. We see people discriminate, lynch, brutally beat and kill others. How can we make sense of these atrocious acts committed to innocent people? How do we go about this painful reality?
22 May 2016
I'm not a black, I'm an African
By Sicebise Msengana
Isidima nobukhosi base Afrika mabu buye. Translation: African dignity and royalty must be restored.
I remember there are people who complain about being called Africans. After all, no one would identify with a region filled with savages, cannibals and jungles( which is not supported by facts). Africa is a psychological chain of great shame for the African Diaspora.
Isidima nobukhosi base Afrika mabu buye. Translation: African dignity and royalty must be restored.
I remember there are people who complain about being called Africans. After all, no one would identify with a region filled with savages, cannibals and jungles( which is not supported by facts). Africa is a psychological chain of great shame for the African Diaspora.
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