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482, A leader should be none of those, only a rep of the peo Posted by brokenchains79, Fri Jul-30-04 07:12 PM
************************************************ ...debate, debate, debate; debate for the sake of debate, and never do a thing that is screaming to be done, especially if the voices of the West disapprove." Chinweizu
How can we as intelligent beings submit to the self-imprisonment of a “saline consciousness" which insist that, contrary to all historic evidence, Africa stops wherever salt water licks the shores? Or that, conversely, all that is bound by salt water on the African continent is necessarily African. What other race, and especially on the African continent, has lost 200 million of its people through forcible uprooting? Elementary curiosity justifies that we seek out those who survived of that number and inquire in what forms have they survived? What have they achieved? What have they contributed to their new environments? What lessons, if any, have their specific genius evolved for those who were left behind. The African habit of celebration, which is an act of recollection, assessment and rededication validates this impulse. Wole Soyinka
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