This is not about Al Gore’s campaign on global warming. This
is about the truth that we as Africans are not comfortable bringing up or discussing. It’s
the no-go are in our society. It’s the unquestionable, unspeakable aspects of
our lives. Unfortunately, the truth is the truth. It never changes. It never
dies. In order for us to liberate ourselves we must embrace the truth that we have
been avoiding; the truth about what we really feel; the truth about who we really
are; the truth about what we really think. The truth about who or what we
really love. And only the truth is capable of setting a people/person free from
the baggage and deceits carried over from generations to generations.
This is about how our enslavers and colonizers (and
subsequently neocolonialists who have been taught the trade via the divide and
conquer strategy) wants us to forget who we were so we will not know what we
still can be. John Henrik Clarke says “When you want to lose a people from
history, you first destroy their self-confidence and historical memory. This is
the basis of our dilemma”. I know it will sound like a broken record to some
ears but we must understand the place of these historical events in context of
our lives.
