Africa Arise
So, they divided Africa among themselves in a conference, without even a single courtesy of the presence or opinion of those whose lands they wanted to divide. They killed, they pillaged, they stole, and what they could not steal, they destroyed. Their destruction not only targeted the physical things they could not steal, but the unique spirituality that is the foundation of African culture, family life, knowledge systems, wisdom pathways, agriculture, and the many other aspects of African life. These, they destroyed using the tools of religion, misinformation, indoctrination, demonetization, and the many other deceptions that were unleashed in the African continent. This act of savagery brought Africa to her knees like a girl stolen by barbaric savages and forced to perform sexual sport for her savage captors. The pain and the shame are real, and the stigma remained for a long time.
But beyond all of these evils of the foreign invaders, the compromise and backstabbing of the homegrown invaders hurt deeper. They, claiming to be part of the African family, became the very tool through which the expelled foreign invaders continued their evil works on the continent of Africa. But this cannot be how the story of Africa ends, just as the blame for the evil that has happened in Africa should not be solely that of the foreign invaders. So, what must now happen?
A better story
We need a better story, one founded on the truth about the African continent and its people. A story that shares the beauty and the strength of Africa’s resilience, ingenuity, creativity, community, and the need to rise above the horrors of the past. The True African Stories that celebrate African Cultures, Travel in Africa, African Cuisine, African Art, etc.
Africa Arise is a new single released by Samuel Phillips, as part of telling the African story in a way that calls on the global African community to rise, come together, and build the Africa that we all want to see. Click on the image to visit YouTube:
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