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njengalesiphikisa buntfu bema-Afrika, ngisho nebuve babo imbala.
Ngemagama akhe Mbeki ubeka atsi:
The long-held dogma of African exceptionalism continues to wigh
down the African mind and spirit, like the ton of lead the African
slave carries on her shoulders, producing in her and the rest of
the continent a condition which, in itself, contests any assertion
that she is capable of initiative, creativity, individuality and
interpreneurship.
Its weight dictates that she will never straighten her back and
thus discover that she is as tall as the slave master who carries
the whip. Neither will she have opportunity to question why
master has legal title both to the commodity she transports on
her back, and the labour she must make available to ensure the
burden on her shoulders translates into dollars and yen.
An essential and necessary element of African Renaissance is
that we must all make it as our task to encourage her, who
carries this leaden weight, to rebel, to assert the principality of
her humanity - that fact that she, in the first instance, is not a
beast of burden, but a human and African being.
(Mbeki, 1998:242).
Kutitfola kutsi singubobani kubaluleke kakhulu ekutalweni kabusha
kwelivekati le-Afrika. Labanyenti nanyalo basasangene kutsi yini mbamba
mbamba lelindzelekile kulokutalwa kabusha kwe-Afrika nekutitfola bubona
babo. Kuyinkinga lenkhulu kabi uma bantfu bahluleka kutitfola bubona babo
ngoba loku kubenta bangatati kutsi bayaphi futsi bayini. Kutfunjwa
kwelivekati Ie-Afrika kube neligalelo lelikhulu kulesimo sive sakitsi lesisitfola
sikuso. Motshekga, (1999:6) ubeka ngalendlela:
The awakening and rediscovery of the African soul was arrested
by slave trade and centuries of colonialism.
Loku kubeka ngalokusebaleni kutsi kutfunjwa kwengcondvo yemuntfu lomnyama
kWacala kadzeni futsi sekwamila kwaba netimphandze kangangekutsi imphilo
seyibukwa ngeliso lesilumbi. Kungako akumangalisi kuva umuntfu atsi: 'Ientfo
ngiyenta silumbi' noma 'Ientfombi yinhle ungatsi ngumesisi', kumbe 'Belumbu
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