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...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