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.