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Cheikh
Anta Diop
" The essential for a people
is not much being able to glorify itself
by a past more or less majestic,
but it is more about discovering
and taking consciousness
of this past's continuity,
whatever this past was."
Preface to the 1964 edition
of Negro's Nation and Culture
(Paris, African presence, I edition, 1954). L. Bilolo
In homage to Cheikh Anta Diop
To cure our inferiority complexes
To discover the hidden but real face
of the deep and eternal Africa
To give ourselves the means
for a development
autocentered on Man rooted
in his ancestral culture Zunga
Mvuala:
febr.8th 1948 :
Telling our grandsons' grandsons
what our grandparents' grandparents
saw and lived Masengo Ma Mbongolo:
Recreating in Africa
the moral, intellectual
and geopolitical conditions
for the Pharaons' Renaissance
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«Make
quickly a tam-tam, if you don't want your people to disappear»,
says a Native American proverb.
Each people has its own name, Each people has its own territory
Each people has its own culture
A name identifies a people, and reveals its primary essence,
the
quintessence of the way traced to them by God.
Their name is their compass. Culture is each people's divine
path's code.
Culture is each people's initiatic walk, according to God's
will.
Culture is each people's true religion.
All the people who've lost their culture, lost their religion
too, their God, and they are lost forever.
Using others' culture is auto-damnation for eternity.
It should be given to use foreign cultures only to appropriate
ourselves of a temporary necessity.
All people who've minimized their culture, their language,
to think in others' culture and language have accepted
the chains of underdevelopment, slavery.
Territory is the virtual space donated by God. It is the
vase from which the products that will nourish God's sons
will come out.
It happens that some historical forces oblige some ones
to migrate out of their fronteers. But free people always
have to
return to the crossroad where God awaits for them to walk
on
the divine path.
Our territory is also our body, of which culture is the
soul.
Masengo Ma Mbongolo (Malaki '99) |
