The Glory of Africa Part 5
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The Glory of Africa Part 5 Once again, it's on. I envisioned writing about my people before the year 2000. Back in the 1990’s, I started to understand my glorious black cultural identity. My parents had books on black culture stretching back in the 1970’s. I am truly appreciative and happy about describing the wonderful legacy of my own people. Looking at 2012 and beyond has opened my eyes about new issues plus future horizons. The essence of the beauty of Africa is found in that great continent’s people, wildfire, its environment, and its glorious history. In real life, I know brothers and sisters from the States who went into Africa and they had an excellent time over there. Hopefully before I meet up with the ancestors & God, I will have chance to visit Africa. With all of the occurrences in the Universe, it’s time for us to be active in executing real solutions directly for our people. We live in profoundly interesting age that deals with economic, technological, and social issues. We are in a new phrase of the human rights movement. The world is ever complex with its cellphones, I-Pads, smartphones, and other computerized devices, but the GLORY OF AFRICA is never diminished. Africa is the black people's sovereign land. I am blessed to be black. I am black and I am beautiful . Far too often, society omits the real significance of Black African history. On the other hand, in this prose, real history will never be obfuscated here. Our people made momentous accomplishments from music to engineering. The great, inspiring characteristics that form the totality of human history is lacking without our DNA. We were involved in the cultural & political developments of ancient Egypt. Nubian Kings and Nubian beautiful Queens are forever etched in our historical timeline. We were here in forming the universities of Timbuktu centuries ago and in the vital social movements of the globe (then and now). We were here when a great man talked about a dream that he had among the crowds of thousands of fellow human beings. We were here when another great man said that I will never be nonviolent toward people who are violent with us. We were here praising the great Creator and respecting the feminine image in the world too. Now, we are still here and we exist as engineers, scholars, inventors, athletes, orators, scientists, lawyers, teachers, musicians, plumbers, architects, and other leaders from Lagos, Nigeria to Seattle, Washington. Loving our being and moving concretely forward are excellent executions to adhere to faithfully. Not only that, we should assist humanity. This can allow our ancestors to be happy and our spirits joyful. Therefore, this engaging prose includes the following: a wide multiplicity of information, quotes, sources, history, studies, and a lot of insight that relate to our modern world. I wrote this work specifically for individuals that have an interest in Africa and my own black people. I definitely wrote this information for all of the black brothers and the black sisters of the world. Also, I wrote these words for the entire human race in order for all of humanity to witness honest, intrepid truths on the strength of Africa in general. SO, I WILL ALWAYS MENTION FACTS ABOUT SUCCESSFUL BLACK PEOPLE THEN AND NOW WHO BECAME SUCCESSFUL BY THEIR OWN MERIT AND THEIR OWN POWER (OR BLACK PEOPLE DOING FOR SELF AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD). There are many heroes of black Afrikan peoples. Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Charles Drew, Philip Ameagwali, Kwame Ture, Connie Matthews, Dr. John Henrik Clarke, Professor John G. Jackson, Dr. Umar Johnson, Joel A. Rogers, Ida B. Wells, and there are others are great black heroes. These people desire a keen goal of improvement among the black race in general. One such hero was especially John Henrik Clarke. He lived from January 1, 1915 to July 16, 1998. He came from Union Springs, Alabama. His parents were sharecroppers. My ancestors worked in the crops and the fields of Southampton, County, Virgina. His family moved into Columbus, Georgia. By 18, he traveled to Harlem. He loved to learn about Afrikan History . He was included in the Harlem History club. Dr. Clarke visited the famous historian Arturo or Arthur Schomberg. The other members of the Harlem History Club include luminaries like Hubert Henry Harrison, William Leo Hansberry, Willis Huggins, Charles Seiffert and John G. Jackson, who among others, would serve as jegna's and guides to the budding autodidact. Dr. Clarke never completed high school or college, but he could understand a wide spectrum of information in a very cogent fashion. Dr. Clarke worked in professorships of history at Hunter College, and at Cornell University inside of New York City . He gave speeches, articles, books, articles, etc. to black people all over the world. He is a great storyteller that can tie information in an understandable fashion. Sometimes, skilled musicians would be active during his lectures. Kwame Nkrumah (Ghana's first post-colonial President), Omowale or Macolm X (Omowale is a Yoruba word that means "...(“the son who has returned..."), and others worked with him. These individuals used his great depth of knowledge. That is why Dr. Clarke talked about the lessons he gave to Malcolm X all of the time. Some of his books were entitled, "My Life in Search of Africa", "Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust" ,"Africans at the Crossroad: Notes on an African World Revolution”, “Marcus Garvey and the Vision of Africa" , and "Rebellion in Rhyme the Early Poetry of John Henrik Clarke." His life and worked are documented in the film John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk," by Wesley Snipes, and in the book, "Dr. John Henrik Clarke: His Life, His Words, His Works" by Anna Swanston, who for years was his personal secretary. He was a great inspiration for all of us. I read some of Dr. Clarke's literature before too. He was one key figure (out of many people) that brought the beautiful history of Mother Africa to the whole entire world. We come from women and without women; we wouldn't exist in the Universe. So, Dr. Clarke told us before he met up with the ancestors in spirit that we should always respect women. Another great lesson from him is that black people should further grow institutions that deal with technology, traveling companies, airplanes, and the whole nine yards (along with sharing our wealth to help poor black people. For a civilization is not truly civilized unless a civilization takes care of the poor, the crippled, the elderly, and the outcasts). One great Sister named Drusilla Dunjee Houston wrote great works in describing Black African history too. I heard of Sister Drusilla Dunjee Houston for years. I am still growing and evolving on issues. There was a time in my life when I wasn’t militant as I am today. Today, I thank God, family, friends, and the ancestors for waking me up. The modules of truth are great for me to adhere to and coordinating my mind to love mercy is in my heart. Men are women are one in the human family. If we want solutions, then we should advocate communication & healing among both genders, fights against crime, advance real education promoted in our communities, develop the growth of businesses, and execute better health & fitness for our people. We have to allow a man to be a man, and allow a woman to be a woman. In some reality television shows, the men in some cases are acting extremely submissive & anti-intellectual. The attempt to emasculate the black man and the degradation of the black woman are real goals of white supremacy. As the late Shirley Chisholm said: “…In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.” Males and females have to be themselves unashamedly. In the final analysis, we can't fake the funk. We have to express our authentic raison d'etre. Just because a human being lived in a certain environment, doesn't mean that person will remain in the same fashion or the same social disposition. People can change. Historically, men & women with certain social weaknesses have transformed their weakness into strengths. Both males and females (black women were Queens in Africa and treated with huge respect, which refutes the old lie that female leadership is somehow emasculating to a real man) ought to be treated with dignity and respect. It is our duty as black people to oppose these anti-female including anti-male aims at every turn. All of us have that responsibility to oppose prejudice and bigotry against women, against people of every color, and against all human beings of every background ( without exception ). If we want true liberation, we have to advocate equal rights for everyone. If we don’t, then we aren’t true revolutionaries. It’s just that simple. We know that real black men and real women are strong, they exist today, and BLACK POWER IS AN ANTIODE to white supremacist dominated mainstream media. A man shouldn’t dominate a woman in an offensive manner, but a man should be a man (and not be excessively submissive to a woman. A man and a woman should exist in a relationship in the position of equality without exception). The male/female equality dynamic is a key part of African culture historically. The black man should not be behind a woman, but a black man and a black woman should stand side by side each other in fighting for truth.