The New Black man is not embarking on an individualistic approach to face life, but working in unison with Blacks, at home and abroad.
Many hundreds of years ago, the Black man received wholeheartedly strangers from foreign lands. These strangers were seen as grandchildren with little knowledge about African lands and the people living on the Continent. Our great-grandfathers told all their life secrets, including their spiritual protection, to these strangers. In no time, our Black ancestors were attacked and captured to work without payment in many parts of the world as slaves, and their wealth was taken too. The Black man used manpower to build cities and engaged in farming to produce cotton, which provided clothes for the Slave master and the slave. The only explanation to consider the enslavement was the necessary evil whereby clothes were provided and shared, but it just got the Blackman to live longer to work harder. All other races, apart from the Black man, learnt something from Slavery, except the Black man, who was considered least likely to develop in anything.
After the stranger had access to the Black man, every plan was made to subject him to thinking and feeling inferior.
The education the Black man received does not help to develop in line with our Culture and traditions. The political Ideologies put in place cannot help the Black man to manage his own affairs because the coloniser is giving close supervision measures to continue exploiting the African continent. The Customs and traditions binding the people as one people with Culture are taken as primitive, superstitious and now abominable. Our belief systems are seen as evil and bad. The Black man is born free, but everywhere in chains.
Now, the new Black man who can walk chest out to maintain his stand in this world has to do the following:
- Respect all Black people deeply from inside.
- Respect all natural things on the African soil.
- Work harder to achieve communal objectives as defined by the people.
- Think twice about the people we bring into this world
- Have a financial legacy for now and the next generation.
- Invest in Africa without throwing our resources outside.
- Stop relying on foreign aid, since that is a tool used by colonial masters to control our freedom
- To do educational reforms in line with the Culture and traditions of Africa.
- To engage the youth in all forms of activities, be it financially or ruling
- To teach the effects of corruption at the grassroots level home or School
- To strengthen the traditional powers of Queens and Kings.
- To revive religion in Africa by loving ourselves to live in peace and harmony.
The New Black man is not embarking on an individualistic approach to face life, but working in unison with Blacks, at home and abroad.
To produce what you eat, wear, and shelter is the ultimate goal of the New Black man.
Tribal differences cannot be part of the New Black man’s idea to make Africa better. The Black Restoration is a racial war from within the Black man.
*The writer, Osabarima Kwaku Adu, is the Chief Executive Officer of the Black Restoration Foundation based in Holland.
