The Seven Great Prophets.
The seven truly great prophets: Imhotep, Jesus, Mohammad, Luella Adzo (aka Frances Cress-Welsing), Nkrumah, Cheikh Anta Diop, and me. But let's focus for a tiny bit on Luella Adzo and the Traditional African Idea of God.
To be precise, let's consider the Vodun Theology on the nature of God. One way to grasp the concept of God...
On Voting & Democracy.
The More-Educated-Yet-Idiots (the Meyi) and their nations (Meyinations) are not even remotely aware that the thing they call western democracy, which they are forcing down our throats in Ghana and in many other African nations, is just an institution that backs the counting of votes until their results improve.
In other words, western democracy is a Counters...
Human beings are aware of their sense of both analysis and synthesis. What separates us from the animals is simply that we are capable both of identifying a tool, or a set of tools (through the synthesis of pieces of information) for use in the understanding of some other subject (by breaking down that subject into simpler parts: analysis)....
Living Inside The Matrix.
I just heard that “fatphobia,” “diet culture” (dieting) and “systems of oppression” have created false hierarchies of food. And that this false hierarchy of food culture shows up everywhere in social life claiming that fruits and vegetables are better and healthier to eat than sugar-coated deep-fried donuts.
I have to ask: Are we living in a matrix...
Framing Their Enemies. Framing Themselves.
It's revealing, dare I say, even unnerving how the west frames its enemies. Put another way, the west frames its enemies in such a language that is meant to frighten people about its enemies but ends up exposing its own deeper monsters.
Take a look at this Rhino (image below), and the description (from the Daily...
Castles In The Sky.
Ever since they got here, they've always wanted to escape. Since they can't escape yet, they kill, rape, loot and destroy. They want to turn the Earth into the destroyed planets from where they have come.
The Metaverse is the tip of something really stupefying. The Grey...
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Anything Goes Behaviour & Culture.
Anything Goes Behaviour & Culture.
What we have seen from the west is that they peddle around the world a particular kind of culture -- the Anything Goes Behaviour and Culture. When it comes to morality, it is Anything Goes. When it comes to sex,...
The Great, Painful Problem with Recent Colonial African History.
The Great, Painful Problem with Recent Colonial African History.
The major Problem with European Accounts of West Africa from the 1400s to late 1800s is that since they came to loot and kidnap African peoples, these Europeans saw at best, everywhere they looked, "primitive" peoples!
Worse,...
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(Image: Melissa Viviane Jefferson, known professionally as Lizzo, is an American singer and rapper.)
Feminists defend Lizzo’s beauty with a major claim that in some cultures in West Africa, such “big” women as big as Lizzo are preferred by men. And so the question goes? Which West African culture do...
America's Lizzo & The Defense of West African Men.
They say, Black Feminists (both men and women), and this is what they call themselves, will never defend Black Men. This is the trope.
However, like all tropes, this one two is not without some cognitive injustice - the concept does not...
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