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Explicitly African


It utterly baffles me to ascertain that the hoi polloi nor the non-Africans, often perceived the concept of “Explicitly African” as a euphemism nor a synonym for “racist black” or, often confuse it with Africans who would partake in all possible activities that put a black man in a position where he’s deemed a racist nor an advocate of discrimination against the non-African.

I would love to concur, but unfortunately we cannot make a conclusion of this concept nor lifestyle, based on your own perception. 

Allow me to provide you with a lucid exegesis of the concept of being explicit African. It is not about blacks turning against whites nor utterances from another black, reverse racist gadfly, that seeks to fit all kinds of victim hats that are available in the market. 

However, I seek to express and perpetuate the pulchritude of the former slaves, but current mental slaves, negroes, kaffirs, blacks, Africans, kings, queens, deities, emperors, empresses, etc. 

First of all, I know the hoi polloi have been convinced to believe that Africa is poor; I, personally, refuse to accept and believe that utter rotten applesauce but I would state that Africa is not poor. Africa feeds all the continents in the world. Africa maintains all these other continents. The only irrefutable fact is that a preponderance of Africans are still baffled by many systems in this swiftly evolving world that seems to have left so many behind. Poverty is a mindset. Poverty is being generated; it’s more like a business. 

The knowledgeable ones benefit tremendously from the credulous characters and the ignoramuses that exist. 

We often hear “be informed” nor “stay informed”. It can be deemed, rather vague because it seems a tad extensive if you perceive a preponderance of individuals’ reaction towards this instruction. We have loafers, couch-potatoes, nerds, geeks, whatever you call them; therefore, all these groups will receive the message in their own level of understanding, respectively. Now, you see where the calamity ensues?

However, we need to devoutly ensure that it is incumbent upon ourselves to “inform ourselves, nor seek the knowledge ourselves but also evaluating what they feed us before we consume it". We need to learn about a lot of things, as Africans, in order to regain our deity status. The concept of explicit Africanness, simply means that you find it utterly imbecilic to address nor refer to people who share the same ancestor, race and origin as you, as a foreigner for being from other parts of Africa, owing to border gates that were effective, post colonization. 

It means standing tall in being who you are, what you believe in as an African, as long as your preferences never detriment others nor the ones who share the same vicinity as you. 

It means seeing other Africans as you see yourself owing to how deeply connected we are to one another. Your education should also be aligned with the values of Africans nor match the African standard. Being explicitly African means not being afraid to wear a short sleeve shirt owing to your “isiphandla". It, simply, means normalising the African culture in whichever part of the world, as long as Africans are present.

It is utterly flabbergasting how most black people of Azania (South Africa) are in utter oblivion of the brainwashing that has taken place in this country. We have been made to see our fellow Africans from other parts of Africa as, what we often refer to as “amaZizimbane", “amaKwerekwere", “foreigners” and all those uncongenial words and labels you can think of. We were even made to believe that our fellow Africans are the biggest problem and the chief reason why Africa is facing these problems and also the reason for all the crime and poverty. The lack of skills in the townships, the number of black students who are dropouts. The crime rates, unemployment rates, teenage pregnancy, and substance abuse are all the results of a black man’s errors, according to the non-Africans who left their continents to find wealth in Africa. Democracy is not intrinsic to Africa and not every African was kept abreast of how this system works, including credit and the banking system. Our people are not the problem, they need education.

I’m explicitly African!

However, that should never be confused with anti non-African…

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