The African Diaspora devised some key mechanisms to fight global White supremacy – slavery, colonization and neocolonization – which continental Africans adopted with the exception of one.
The Haiti Ogun revolution, the only slave revolution to result in a nation, was the beginning of the end of slavery and was brought about by the cultural unity of the slaves.
Africa is essentially made up of two cultural spheres, Original Africans and Afroasians.
Original Africans are made up of the Niger Kongo ethnolinguistic group that is a continuum of about 2240 dialects, who share the same genetic origins and cultural foundations. Afroasians are products of various Eurasian and Afro-Asian imperialism.
Most of the Original African groups were represented in the Americas, according to the their continental populations and accessibility. However, the conditions faced made them fuse into one cultural identity and religion closer to Yoruba Ifa and Kongo being the largest groups.
This cultural unity was essential to the success of the Haiti Revolution. It started when Francois Mackandal in 1750s initiated an Ifa network, which culminated in the 200 Ifa priests that congregated on 14th August 1791 to launch the Ogun festival with Oya undertones that kicked off the Haiti revolution seven days later.
The Haiti revolution spread across the Caribbean and by 1810 most of South America was independent, as the 300yr Trans Atlantic African slavery came to an end over the next 70 years due to the fears of a repeat Haiti scenario, globally.
Or not came to an end, but evolved into colonization of the African continent and sharecropping in the Americas.
The cultural imperialism roots laid by European colonization were to have more damaging and long lasting effects than the physical and political constraints. The continued economic deprivations helped cultural imperialism as the people had to go through the Church to access the economic sphere.
Therefore the new global Black Power movement that pushed civil rights and political independence agitations was founded on a Christian cultural platform. It spread to Africa through Christianized Internationalist students in London and Paris to Africa.
However, this global Black Pan Africanist movement was mainly comprised of Original African groups, as Afroasians mainly choose Pan-Arabism.
Even though Civil rights and political independence were achieved, the use of a Black movement with Abrahamic cultural foundations was to cause unity and identity problems.
Unity of purpose between the two main Abrahamic branches, Christian and Muslim, and between the different Christian sects was difficult to achieve, and when achieved was susceptible to the divide and rule tactics of the colonial masters.
There was unity of purpose against White domination but the lack of cultural identity and unity made the Black freedoms short lived as they fell to Western inspired propaganda, coups and Civil Wars. Everytime Africans got to the verge of economic and political breakthrough, the lack of cultural unity was exploited.
60yrs after Civil rights and political independence, the Black Race without a well articulated cultural identity and platform has continued to perambulate with arrested economic and political development.
The problem is not only the ethnically fragmented Abrahamic platform, but geographic Pan Africanism that fails to take cognizance of the fact that Africa is divided into two major cultural spheres.
What is required is cultural Pan Africanism that will unite the Niger Kongo ethnolinguistic group that accounts for 70% of Black African people based on well articulated cultural origins, identity, linkages and aspirations.
This has to start at the core of the Black heartland, which is Nigeria, where Yorubas and Igbos, the two oldest, richest and most populous Original African groups must come together in brotherhood and not war, and unify all other Original African groups to take control on Nigeria’s destiny.
With collective aspirations of restructuring to achieve ethnic self determination of every small and large group to take control of their economy, culture and politics in a loose federation, the process would spread across Africa along the migratory routes and cultural linkages to South Africa and Senegambia, leading to the dismantling of all European created borders into a continentwide loose federation of ethnic self determined units. This is the only way to global Black economic and political ascendancy.
Some would ask if this is an option why hasn’t it been taken? The reason is unlike in Haiti slave plantations where Original African cultures were compressed into one by force and they unified in force, this option requires the revelation of hidden knowledge of our cultural and origins, which has only become available in the last decade.
This revealed hidden knowledge has to be applied with the Osun philosophy of brotherly love as opposed the wielding together with the Ogun philosophy of liberation fighters. A cultural platform built on truth, justice and love will provide a strong political platform that can resist the divide and rule tactics of Asiatic imperialism.
The Original African platform must be achieved through Afrocentric scholars guiding cultural monarchs and custodians, as opposed to Eurocentric scholars and partisan politicians.
The paramount cultural monarchs and custodians have the necessary long term perspective unlike short termism of partisan politics, and posses the ability to merge the oral histories of cultural linkages to new scientific evidence.
Moreover, it is in their self interest to reverse European colonial structures and bring control back from the national to the local level.
