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MY AFRIKA
UBUNTU
OUR AFRIKAN HERITAGE OF
LOVE AND HUMANITY
eeing the shift and the many changes we have been
that have hit Afrika over the course of irresponsible with
the decades and how most Afrikans what we were given
are fast losing their connection to the
SAfrikan pathway of wisdom, makes me from time
think we have not been paying accurate atten- immemorial by our
tion to the truth about the original thoughts of the ancestors. We must
Afrikan ancients. I hear Afrikan scholars, media restore Ubuntu,
personalities, social media influencers or even it is our Afrikan
average Afrikans talk about going back to our
Afrikan heritage, which is a great thing, except heritage.i
that most of them see the return to the Afrikan
heritage only from the place of “freedom” from
the white man’s religion (Christianity), which they the Afrikan mind, can we at least start to put to
claim was the “chain” that was used to enslave work the very heritage that we still have from our
Afrikans. I understand their mind, for it is clear Afrikan forefathers and which we are already fast
from historical records and stories told, that losing if we don’t do something about? I speak
the white slavers were quite quick to show the of our heritage called Ubuntu. We can at least
black slaves the portions of the Bible that said begin the narrative of change from there.
slaves or servants must honor their masters, but
wouldn't show them from the same Bible that Hypocrites don’t make changes, they
God is love and thus all men must treat others like unending debates
with love just as they want to be treated. Or that We have become too professionalism conscious,
the Bible actually is about the equality of all men too technology conscious, too white man’s way
before God. I personally believe that Christianity
of life conscious, too anti-Christianity conscious,
as a religion (not as a pathway to truth and life
too self-hating that we have lost our Afrikan
which it was meant to be) was used by the white simplicity and humanity. No Afrikan needs a de-
man to subject and deceive the good-hearted gree in the white man’s University to treat others
Afrikans to slavery of the mind and the demoni- with love, kindness and compassion. No Afrikan
zation of the Afrikan way of life, which they called
needs to be "brain-washed" by “the white man’s
primitive. But I am not also stupid, so I must sub-
Christianity” to live a life of goodness, empathy
ject my mind to critical thinking and analyses of and brotherliness. We don’t need to shame the
the big picture playing out in our very lives. Some so called white man’s religion to make ours more
Afrikans now also claim that God and Jesus are appealing. For that will be nothing but living in
the creations of the white man’s thinking. I have
denial that we have been irresponsible with what
written about this in one of my articles titled Je-
we were given from time immemorial by our an-
sus in Afrika’s History, so I won’t really say much cestors. We must restore Ubuntu, it is our Afrikan
about that here. But my thought is this; while we heritage. Meaning that, if there is anything to be
are still debating on the issue of freedom from freed from first, it is to be freed from the mindset
the white man’s religion that created slavery of
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