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To perpetuate their imperial domination over the peoples of
Africa, the colonisers sought to enslave the African mind and to
destroy the African soul. They sought to oblidge us to accept
that as Africans we had contributed nothing to human
civilization except as beast of burden in much the same way as
those who are opposed to the emancipation of women seek to
convince them that they have a place in human society, but
only as beast of burden and bearers of children.
In the end, they wanted us to despise ourselves, convinced that
if we were subhuman we were, at least, not equal to the
colonial master and mistress and were incapable of original
thought and the African creativity which had endowed the
world with an extraordinary treasure of masterpieces in
architecture and the fine arts.
The beginning of our rebirth as a continent must be our own
rediscovery of our soul, captured and made permanently
available in the great works of creativity represented by the
pyramids and sphinxes of Egypt, the stobe building ofAxum
and the ruins of Carthage and Zimbabwe, the rock paintings of
the San, the Benin bronzes and the African masks, the carvings
of the Makonde and the stone scufptures of the Shona.
(Mbeki, 1998:299).
Kuyacaca kutsi Iivekati le-Afrika lidzinga kutikhulula Iona kufamaketane
labalikhunge kuwo. Phela tingcondvo tebantfu bendzabuko tivele tihilelwe
ensikeni yebugcili. Kungako umufi Bob Marley bekasolomane akhale njalo
etingomeni takhe kutsi kumele sitikhulufe tsine kulobugcili bekutfunjwa.
Asimuve engomeni yakhe letsi . Redemption Song'uma abeka ngalendlela:
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery
None but ourselves can free our minds
(Marley, 2001: 17).
Inkholo yesintfu ingaba sisombufulo sekutsi bantfu bendzabuko babuyefe
emasikweni abo. Phela ngesintfu awuphahli lidloti lalesinye sibongo kepha
uphahfa lakini lekungilo lekutsenjelwa kutsi likukhulumela kancono
kuMvelinchanti. Loku akusho kutsi usuke uthandaza emadloti kepha ubika
tinkinga takho kubakini labangasekho kute bakukhulumele nave.
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