The title of my blog page is made up by a combination of my children's names Mpumelelo[4] and Nozizwe[16]. It is also a Zulu word that translates to 'That World' the world I aspire to.
Africa under siege, the saga never ended!
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The staged production that is Africa’s Democracy has been rolled out and maintained by the same oppressive power mongers who sought to enslave and colonize it before. It’s a mutation of the same sickness that seeks to occupy and subdue our beloved continent. Every time Africa’s children manage a measurable revolt, a task force is deployed by the oppressive power mongers to stage a Kansas City shuffle, which is an advanced form of bait-and-switch confidence game employing misdirection, subterfuge, and playing on the African’s arrogance and self-loathing. African leaders continue to be duped into abandoning the fight for liberation, instead giving away our natural resources in exchange for shiny trinkets and money printing machines.
How can we be so deluded? Worse still is that our pride won’t let us admit the glaring truth that the leadership is infested with junkies harbouring parasites that eat away at their cerebrum. This gives the masters of the parasite free reign over key survival elements and becomes aggressive when reasoning minds question the litany of destruction they cause.
South Africa's first Democratic Elections 27 April 1994
Oh Africa the saga never ended, even as we stood in long queues to cast our votes, the results we were given were the ones predestined and just enough to convince us we have conquered the tyranny. Sophisticated tactics on a primitive struggle for territory. In the animal kingdom, the hyena is only as powerful as the lion and the cheater omits its own power. In urban suburbia the criminals roam freely when we lock ourselves behind tall walls and corrugated gates instead of claiming back our territory by being present and neighbourly enough that our kids move about and play freely and we maintain a sense of community so diligently it becomes easier to recognize a stranger lurking. The problem now is that fear lives inside our heads and we seem unable to shake it off. Orchestrated mass media feeds our fears daily, as it grooms us to be recluse, detached and desensitized.
Watch Mallence Bart Williams's classic viral video - Her takes on Africa vs West
economic relationship is one of the most viewed videos on TEDtalks
As a continent we desperately need to understand this perspective and hold up its blinding truth long enough, that we begin to imagine various ways to rid ourselves of the oppressive underhandedness. I suspect there is much to learn from recovering drug addicts on how they managed to overcome their self-imposed limitations and transcend into their own breakthrough.
Sikhethukubonga bhut'omdala! These articles are not easy to write as they are fueled by emotions and one needs to transcend the angst into a place of reasoning. The research process was emotionally exhausting, it exasperated my depression. Ngibonge isikhathi sakho big brother.
Building up to the month of May, officially Africa Month, we embark on a virtual campaign inviting singing groups to raise their voices and fill our hearts! A fun campaign that aims represent the cultural and creative industries of Africa united on an enabling project to meet the projected vision of unity demonstrated. This is a production series, showcasing Africa’s new generation raising their voices in solidarity to each other’s struggles. Each year Campaign Africa will selected a relevant theme song to serve as a unifier. Wade in the Waters, The Spirituals [Live] Wade In The Water, as a theme song, selected itself really. Due to our common current situations this historic spiritual hymn, whose message carries hope beyond the African in America, but Africans globally, lends itself to be most appropriate. The best from the entries we receive in the next four weeks, will be challenged to this version of Wade in the Water and encouraged to give it their own flair. Soon we will hav...
"History was thus made on 9 January, 1991, when the integration of public schools was initiated through the admission of black students to thirty-three formerly all-white schools. The first steps to integration were begun in the former Transvaal Province, and was soon undertaken throughout the country . " - saha.org.za It was four weeks before my fourteenth birthday when South Africa had its first democratic elections in 1994. We were three years into the integration program that opened up interracial mixing at schools. Apart from expensive private schools, government schools were segregated up until January 1991. I am surprised and disappointed that our storytellers have not scripted a movie or a TV series that captures this very dynamic/funny/challenging time in our history. The content over this period, away from the political unrest and negotiations that brought us to the national elections of '94, from the corridors of previously white schools, were African kids det...
Brilliant!
ReplyDeleteSikhethukubonga bhut'omdala! These articles are not easy to write as they are fueled by emotions and one needs to transcend the angst into a place of reasoning. The research process was emotionally exhausting, it exasperated my depression. Ngibonge isikhathi sakho big brother.
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