We must cure Black Ignorance with Black Enlightenment

In the world over, we discuss frequently, the cost of black ignorance without juxtaposing that to the value that will come along when we promote black enlightenment.

This black ignorance, which is indeed an injury to our community, is seeing to be significant in all our communities not just in Africa or in America.

It is this black ignorance that has kept us in a position where we know very well that our current position is inhuman, and yet we turn to believe that it is so desirable only for us.

Yes, black ignorance costs the black community billions of dollars in each major economic sector annually and yet we seem to care less. The subsequent realities are few narratives I have outlined to help us understand in a bit, how much it costs our community to be ignorant of ourselves, this will also help us to understand why we need urgent self-help actions and initiatives rather than relying on our governments or the system to bring the needed changes:

1. In reality, Footwear Company who may not give us an equal opportunity within its managerial, production, and distributing lines (these are the areas where the major share of the company's profit is spent) after its production, will only need to pay a few thousands of dollars to one celebrity who looks like us for advertising. The next morning we carry all monies which we have to invest in our collective development (in sums of millions) to this footwear company by way of buying this product which we may not need after all.

2. In Ghana and in Nigeria, there are well-functioning locally established automobile manufacturing companies; Kantanka and Innoson respectively. Governments of these countries ‘massagingly’ act like they are supporting these local companies only to turn around and purchase vehicles costing billions of dollars from the economies of their slave and serving masters. Are they not aware of the fact that the most important aspect of business development and sustainability is the market? Assuming that the products from these local automobile companies are not up to the standard expected by these governments (which obviously is not the case), wouldn't it be prudent for the state to still demand those products to ensure that these companies are able to get enough capital and resources to invest in research and product development to improve on the standards of their products, rather than sending those monies to economies to demand for finished goods? After all, development is a decision and determination that comes at the cost of short-term pleasure.

3. Whereas, the African Continent is said to be so rich in natural and mineral resources, the values from these resources that go into serving the interest of the indigenous African is estimated to be less than 12% from cross-sector average estimates. In some sectors, the local benefit value is far lower than this 12%. Since this proportion is highly insufficient to satisfy the abundant needs of the damaged African society, a few powerful class jump on it and use it to satisfy their hunger. From this scanty portion also, the power-class provide for themselves, a terror security system to secure them from the danger of revolt from the hungry masses. It is therefore not surprising that you keep asking how is it possible for leaders of European nations to sit in the same public transport whereas our leaders need a range of 300 Matter convoy before they can move around in the same country they have been voted for by the people they lead?

Indeed, the black ignorance is a huge money-making object in all sectors, from education to sports, and I can go on to examine each and every sector and bring out empirical evidence to show how damaging and alarming the situation is. However, the most important thing is not really the problem, but the solution.

If the black ignorance is costing us a billion-dollar in each sector, how much do you think black enlightenment will worth to, or bring to us from each of these sectors? Obviously, that will bring to us multiple-folds of what it is costing us today.

If this is the situation, what then can we do to help ourselves?

What if we start to look for opportunities from all our challenges (wherever there exists a challenge there exists ab opportunity)?

What if we start to organise ourselves into powerful sub-groups and start to work together and support one another in a more systemic and network faction?

What if we create common platforms for designing, production, distribution, and consumption lines by ourselves and for ourselves?

What if we bring together and join our knowledge, ideas, and expertise?

What if we come to know that the governments of ours and the system are only exploitative tools that will bring no change to us or to our future generations?

What if we make Black Enlightenment the focus and the new order and empower our communities through the sharing of positive knowledge?

What if we come together to build a Black World Community for ourselves?

Setting ourselves free is our duty and not anyone else’s responsibility.

My name is Kwadwo Agyei Yeboah and I love Africa. You can always connect with me on Facebook to talk about Africa.

The Great Zimbabwe: An African History Colonized by Europe

In the early 16th century, rumours of a mysterious fortress with gargantuan walls, abandoned in the African jungle, spread around Europe.

Surrounded by goldmines and sitting on a 900-metre-high hill, the city was thought to represent the summit of a unique African civilisation which had traded with distant Asian countries, including China and Persia.

Though the indigenous African have always know about this civilization they have built, a Portuguese sea captain, Viçente Pegado, was one of the first foreigners to encounter the site, in 1531.

To his surprise, of what he has seen in the African civilized community, he wrote: “Among the goldmines of the inland plains between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers [is a] fortress built of stones of marvelous size, and there appears to be no mortar joining them … This edifice is almost surrounded by hills, upon which are others resembling it in the fashioning of stone and the absence of mortar, and one of them is a tower more than 12 fathoms high.”

Great Zimbabwe was constructed between the 11th and 14th centuries over 722 hectares in the southern part of modern Zimbabwe. The plan, construction, and governance during its flourishing days were all by the Bantu Speaking who migrated from East to the Southern Part of the Mother Continent.

When European Colinizers took over, they concluded that such an advance development couldn't have come from the indigenous African people and for many centuries, they attributed it to an unknown foreign group.

It only came in recently (in 2004), that a group of Archaeologists, Historians, and Geographers ended a long lasting study with a conclusion that the Great Zimbabwe civilization was solely built by indigenous Africans without any external or foreign influence.

Indeed, Colonizers colonized not only people and their resources, they also colonized history, civilizations, and thinking/minds. Many of these are still in chains which require our collective efforts to set them free.

Yes, no one can go to, for example, France and say, I want to examine your civilization and determine whether it was built by French, how disrespectful will that sound. But why us?

Rest not until you have no life to stand in for the war of life.

My name is Kwadwo Agyei Yeboah and I love Africa. Connect with me on Facebook let us talk About Africa.

Sally Hemings: the Negro Slave who produced Presidential Babies?

Sally Hemings the daughter of one Elizabeth Hemings . Elizabeth was the daughter of an English sea captain and an enslaved African woman. She had twelve children, six of whom were likely fathered by one of her masters, John Wayles, Thomas Jefferson's father-in-law.

Upon Wayles's death, Hemings was brought to Monticello , Jefferson's estate , with her children and she lived there until the end of her life.
Elizabeth Hemings's exact birthplace is not known, and very little is known about her parents. Her mother was described as a "fullblooded African" woman; some historians believe she may have been a woman in the records named Parthena. Her father was described as an English sea captain. The story of Elizabeth Hemings's infancy survives through her grandson, Madison Hemings...

Sally Hemings shared the same father with Thomas Jeffersons wife. Sally remained a house slave to her father and later was handed over to Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson was at Monticello at the likely conception times of Sally Hemings's six known children. There are no records suggesting that she was elsewhere at these times, or records of any births at times that would exclude Jefferson paternity.

There are no indications in contemporary accounts by people familiar with Monticello that Sally Hemings's children had different fathers.

Sally Hemings's children were light-skinned, and three of them (daughter Harriet and sons Beverly and Eston) lived as members of white society as adults.

According to contemporary accounts, some of Sally Hemings's children strongly resembled Thomas Jefferson.

Thomas Jefferson freed all of Sally Hemings's children: Beverly and Harriet were allowed to leave Monticello in 1822; Madison and Eston were released in Jefferson's 1826 will. Jefferson gave freedom to no other nuclear slave family.

Thomas Jefferson did not free Sally Hemings. She was permitted to leave Monticello by his daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph not long after Jefferson's death in 1826, and went to live with her sons Madison and Eston in Charlottesville.

Several people close to Thomas Jefferson or the Monticello community believed that he was the father of Sally Hemings's children.

Eston Hemings changed his name to Eston Hemings Jefferson in 1852.

Madison Hemings stated in 1873 that he and his siblings Beverly, Harriet, and Eston were Thomas Jefferson's children.

The descendants of Madison Hemings who have lived as African-Americans have passed a family history of descent from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings down through the generations.

Eston Hemings's descendants, who have lived as whites, have passed down a family history of being related to Thomas Jefferson. In the 1940s, family members changed this history to state that an uncle of Jefferson's, rather than Jefferson himself, was their ancestor

Thomas Jefferson was the father of Eston Hemings, and that he was likely the father of all six of Sally Hemings's children listed in Monticello records—Harriet (born 1795; died in infancy); Beverly (born 1798); an unnamed daughter (born 1799; died in infancy); Harriet (born 1801); Madison (born 1805); and Eston (born 1808).

( *Note..there are no known pictures of Sally Heming . The image here is an estimate by historians as to what she may have looked like. As explained below, Sally was the daughter of a biracial mother and a white father. All children born to slave women were to remain in slavery and were often the slaves of their own fathers)

I am the Special One but Klopp is 'The Best'

The newly signed coach of Tottenham Hotspurs, Jose Mourinho has stated in categorical terms that he is not the best as the best reigning coach of today’s football world is Liverpool’s head coach Jurgen Klopp.

When commenting on performance comparison between Manchester City’s coach, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, Jose Mourinho recounted:

You can't be called the best when you cannot win without your best. He last lifted the UCL when he had Messi and Co at his disposal.

This is why I prefer to be called "The Special One", not the best. Klopp is the best. Look at what he has achieved with Liverpool . Who would have thought that Liverpool be a force to reckon in Europe?

And what I love about Mr Klopp is that he depends on African players, unlike his counterpart, who gets rid of African players wherever he goes".

Ancient ‘Egyptian’ Civilization was built in African by Black Africans and not Criminal Invaders

The invaders are trying so hard to paint Kemet (today's Egypt, after Arabic invasion) a colour that empirically and logically cannot match what this civilization actually represents!

The Kemetic Civilization was built in Africa by Africans; it was not built in Europe by Europeans nor Arabic-land by Arabians!

How can one conclude with unquestionable conviction that it was built by NATIVE AFRICANS?

1. By logical deduction and
2. By empirical evidences available

In this post, I am only talking about logical deduction; I will thereafter follow this with another post to present the widely available empirical evidences.

My first question, is there any group of people native to the African Continent apart from Black People? The obvious answer is NO! Though, there are different groups of people occupying many parts of the African Continent apart from Black People, however, none of these peoples are native to the African Continent. In most cases, these peoples are known invaders or migrants whose origins can easily be traced. An example can be the Arabians living in the northern African and Europeans in Southern Africa.

Can it be that these invaders built this civilization after their invasion? That is a possibility but only valid if these invaders have prior built such civilization in their native continents. For example, if before coming to invade Africa, these invaders have already built similar civilization in areas where they came from then it is more likely that they came with them, the technology to building this civilization on the African Continent.

In the case of Kemetic Civilization, neither the Romans nor Arabian invaders have anything similar to this civilization in their homelands.

Logically, no sound-minded men and women, will travelled to another man's land to build world's greatest civilization while their motherlands are empty?

Kemetic Civilization was built in African by native Africans and not criminal invaders who have nothing to show in places where they came from.

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Dark Skin is becoming more expensive in the Multi-Billion Modelling Industry

Not long ago, dark, and melanated skinned girls who dreamed of becoming models were either told that they are too dark to be attractive or were required to bleach their beautiful natural skin in order to become fit for a world class showcasing.

Now the table is turning in a positive direction for those who stood strong in defending the dark skin in the modelling industry. The demand for dark skin for modelling shows has increased in multiple folds in the last 5 years so is the levels of compensations pay for the services of the dark skinned models.

One person who is doing so much to promote confidence in dark skin is Nyakim Gatwech, the South Sudanese descent African American model. She is teaching people not to be afraid of the dark. With her deeply pigmented skin and fierce determination, the dark skin model is breaking down the barriers of conventional beauty and encouraging others to do the same.

The 24-year-old African model and fashion icon, who now lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has no shame about her melanin, and she makes sure the world is aware. “My chocolate is elegant. So is what I represent… A nation of warriors,” she captioned one of her many Instagram photos, which routinely exceed 10 thousand likes each. In another, she details an experience in which an Uber driver suggested she try ‘bleaching’ her skin – and her only response was laughter. “You won’t believe the kind of questions I get and the kind of looks I get for having this skin.”

Gatwech is not only an advocate for diversity in the fashion industry but also a voice for Black rights around the world. She’s even been dubbed “Queen of Darkness,” a title she happily accepts. “Black is bold, black is beautiful, black is gold… Don’t let American standards damage your African soul.” Love the skin you live in, no matter what color or shade it may be!