reAfricanisation
Then comes a time of re-Africanisation,
where we tried to revert to
whatever we are,
whatever we were, as people,
whatever we aspire, culturally,
because culture is what defines us
language, identity, culture.
Our freedom fighters
realised that very quickly.
After the second World War,
just like the Manden Charter,
the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
states that all men are equal.
The colonisers probably did not realise
what that statement implied.
Because decades after ratifying it
exploitation in Africa was
business as usual.
Contrary to what we might hear,
independence was not given to us.
We took it back ourselves,
sometimes by force.
For most African states,
during the first years after independence,
economies started to grow.
How come?
Half a century later, many countries
are still unstable and poorly developed.
Did we get comfortable
and let our guards down,
allowing neo-colonialism to take over?
This was the time
when we won a big battle,
the battle of physical emancipation
to fight against colonialism.
Unfortunately, there is an other-one here.
We need to get rid of it.
We need to mentally emancipate ourselves
from the forces from outside.
It comes now
in the form of digital colonialism.
I think the fight is not over.