AFRICANS KEEP YOUR CULTURE

Africans, Keep Your Culture, and Your Culture Will Keep You

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Unknown to so many people, China was colonised. What is known to many is the fact that India was also colonised. But they kept their language until today. They changed the names of their towns back to original precolonial names. They kept their culture. Now, that culture is making them greater than their colonisers. Africa must learn this fact.

The truth remains that those who forgot their CULTURE will eat leftovers like a VULTURE. Africans have left their culture. And not only have we forgotten our cultures, we are proud of them. An African can travel to Dubai for a week and return with an American accent. Such is the miraculous power of the average African.

We should now stop being proud of the English and French accents. As I said earlier, China and India were colonised, and yet they resisted English. Today, Mandarin and Hindi are Earth's most popular languages.

Knowledge of a Black African knowing and speaking only English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hindu or any other European language is not a function of intelligence, no matter how well he speaks it. Learn your native African language. Speak it. Teach it to your children. Bear your African name. Patiently teach it to your European friends. If they pretend not to be able to pronounce it, remind them that they can pronounce Arnold Schwarzenegger!

And more of that.

Never do you go to Europe or perhaps America and decide to change your African name to a Western name because they say it sounds weird. Correct them. Say, 'My name is exotic and superb, not weird.' These same people can pronounce a Chinese name without vowels because China has money! Some of the Chinese names are...

Gina Lollobrigida

Kepa Arrizabalaga

Cesar Azpilicueta

Bastian Schweinsteiger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sokratis Papastathopoulos

Saoirse Ronan

Mia Wasikowska

Zach Galifianakis

The really very hard-to-pronounce names are those Chinese names listed above. Your African name is not nearly as hard to pronounce as these names. If they pronounce them, they can pronounce yours. Keep it in mind.

The late Patrick Ityohegh, former director general of the NTA, who, while schooling in the US, refused pressures to change his surname. He would teach his White colleagues to pronounce ITYOHEGH as "eat your head" with the 'd' being silent. Be proud of your African name!

African governments must stop the mental enslavement of young Africans to feel inferior, starting from nursery school.

'A' is for Amala, Akpu, or Acha, not apple.

Mungo Park did NOT discover the source of the River Niger; an anonymous African did!

Nigeria did not GAIN independence from England. Nigeria TOOK independence from Britain.

They don't need to learn about Humpty Dumpty. We have many African nursery rhymes about crafty tortoises and brave lions.

The extent of our brainwashing as a people is that many Africans view masquerades as evil, yet these same people love and cherish Santa Claus/Father Christmas.

African masquerades are not tied to idol worship, as many of our people have been led to believe. Historically, African masquerades are linked to age-grade societies. The reason why women and children were often driven away when the masquerades were dressed is not because of juju. It is because the aged grade societies did not want the public to know which member is wearing the masquerade.

The rationale behind this is that the masquerade will often flog immoral persons in the community. If you know who is wearing the mask, you will know who to hold responsible later on. It is the same concept behind the hangman. The face of the person who hangs criminals is always masked.

A typical superstitious African who has never researched this will swear (we tend to be flippant) that masquerades are evil. But the truth is that age grades used them to entertain and teach morals in society.

Meanwhile, neither Santa Claus nor Christmas is scriptural! There is nothing Christian about either Christmas or Father Christmas. Christmas used to be the celebration of a pagan deity. The Catholic Church converted it to a holiday allegedly to celebrate Christ's birth. The origin for both is in the Roman Catholic Church, not holy scripture. None of Christ's disciples celebrated Christmas. As a matter of fact, for the first 340 years of Christianity, there was nothing like Christmas or Santa Claus.

Take Nigeria as an example. Named by a Latin-speaking white girlfriend of Frederick Lugard (we still annoyingly use Lord Lugard for that common mercenary). Yes, he was a mercenary. He killed Black people for money! 106 years later, Nigeria still bears a name Flora Shaw claimed meant 'Niger Area'. 'Niger' is the Latin word for 'Black', from which 'Nigger' comes. In Flora Shaw's mind, Nigeria could have meant Ngger Area!

The town of Port Harcourt in Nigeria is an example of our colonial stupidity. First of all, Lord Harcourt notoriously did not like Black people. But more importantly, he was a known, confirmed paedophile. Please research it. This is the man Port Harcourt is named after!

Mumbai in India was renamed Bombay by the colonialists. After they kicked colonialists out, India changed the name back to Mumbai. They did this to many other Indian cities. Ghana used to be known as the Slave Coast. They wisely rejected that for Ghana.

I once tweeted that the largest human-made Earth structure ever built was the ancient Benin Walls and moat. Believe it or not, Nigerians, and even Bini people, accused me of lying. With perhaps the exception of Ethiopia, colonialism has messed with the Black man's mind!

On the issue of colonialism and the Black man, let me end with this fact. At the current rate of dispersion, MOST of the languages spoken on the West African coast will die out in 50 years or less. Without a language, a people have no taproot!

Cultural erosion is happening at the fastest rate in Africa. If I were to counsel African leaders, I would say, 'Start preserving your culture or start deserving your torture.' One day at the UN, a young European will laugh at us as a less cultured people.

Africa is losing her culture, and it is affecting our youth. Look at the epidemic of rape we are having, for instance. It is because we have abandoned our culture. Premarital sex was not part of our culture. It was a taboo. But now we have rejected that culture. And so youths now have sex before marriage. The day they don't see meat to eat, they will wrongly steal from the pot.

In his book, Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe said, "Unless the penis dies young, it will surely eat bearded meat." I urge our young men to read and understand Achebe. Rape is in Africa. Be patient. You will eat bearded meat when you marry.

Do not awaken your sexual urge before it is time. Apart from rape, premarital sex is destroying the moral fabric of African nations. The sheer number of abortions in Nigeria (more than a million annually) is a testament to this. One of the most dangerous places for an African child to be is in the womb of its mother.

And it is not just abortion. Africa disproportionately suffers from paternity fraud when compared to other continents. In Nigeria, the US Embassy now brings in armed guards when it reads out the results of the DNA tests of visa applicants who apply with their children. That is how alarming it has got.

We must return to our African values. Yes, there were some repugnant practices in our custom, such as the killing of twins, the osu caste system in Igboland, and the disinheritance of female children. But shorn of those, our traditions can be a lighthouse for us.

The West also has its repugnant customs. It is repugnant to man, God and common sense for a man to marry a man or a woman to marry a woman, but they practise it in the West. It is legal. As a matter of fact, Pete Buttigieg, the gay mayor of South Bend, almost became the Democratic presidential candidate. He is another man's wife!

All societies have some repugnant aspect of their culture (only God is perfect). So we should not see our culture as lower than Western culture. Africans, keep your culture!

If Africa keeps her culture, our culture will also keep us.

Too many times, Africans allow Westerners to tell them they had no written culture – not true. We carved our history in wood and metal in such intricate detail that you can recall centuries after the carving. And unlike paper or papyrus, these carvings are more durable. In any case, the 1, 2, and 3 you use today are not Western. It is Arabic. Other cultures contributed to our modern-day civilisation, and our African culture is perhaps the foundation of all civilisations.

Reno's Nuggets

Very handsome

Very talented

Very spiritual

Very proud of Africa.

Very proud of Nigeria.

Very devoted to your craft.

Very passionate

This writing is from wapday25.

Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Avid traveller. Hollywood Magazine Film Festival Humanitarian of the Year, 2019.