Build Where You Are – Enslavement

In order to hold meaningful analysis of any state of interruption and disruption to Afrikan life’s norm of flourishing, it is necessary to have a level of knowingness as to what this primary people’s norm is. To do this, provision to answer such questions as, ‘What did the substance and expression of Afrikan life consist of prior to disruption?’ is surely apt to inform oneself. Of course, throughout the ages of their journeying - in whatever place this soul people located themselves to be - grand civilisation was continual mainstay thrust of their determinations.    

Abominably, the horror of enslavement and its updated form of colonisation are the source of dire devastations that have plagued Afrikan life across recent centuries. According to a contemporary mainstream source the word enslavement is defined thus:  

“the action of making someone a slave; subjugation.

‘the enslavement of millions of Africans’".

Plantations and colonies concocted by others that mean the Afrikan ill, were concocted and established in a range of places: here, there or elsewhere. The mission to strip soul people of knowingness of self and force them to toil exclusively for the benefit of others and total neglect of themselves became perennial disorder.   Void of knowingness of self, susceptible souls may erroneously conceive of the disruptive state as somehow being some sort of ‘norm’ and resign themselves to uncivilised, non-constructive existence or worse.

Despite the terror of imposition, Afrikans naturally and in general fought against the onslaught on every front and in every location. On the Afrikan continent Afrikan souls fought the enslavers. On the ships of doom Afrikan souls fought the enslavers. In the Americas and in the Islands Afrikan souls fought the enslavers and so on. Eventually, the process of bondage became too unwieldly for the so-called master because of the thrust for Afrikan freedom. As a result, the enslavers reached for a pacifier in their version of ‘abolition’. Still, the thirst for resource extraction had to be satisfied and much of the chattel plantation enslavement effort was redirected into another form of enslavement referred to as colonisation.

The great hero Omowale Malcolm X courageously highlights the fatal enormity of what had taken place during the scourge of chattel enslavement:

“One hundred million Afrikans were uprooted from the Afrikan continent. Where are they today? One hundred million Afrikans were uprooted. 100 million Afrikans, according to the book Anti-Slavery by Professor Dwight Lowell Dumond – excuse me for raising my voice – were uprooted from the continent of Afrika. At the end of slavery you didn’t have 25 million Afrikans in the Western Hemisphere. What happened to 75 million? Their bodies are at the bottom of the ocean, or their blood and their bones have fertilised the soil of this country”.

With superlative depths of strength and fortitude and amidst the most dire set of conditions, this primary people of creation fought to safeguard themselves and built self-determined societies wherever they could here, there and elsewhere.  In the now, surely Afrikan souls have a duty and responsibility to themselves to restore self-knowingness and build where they stand for the strength and fortitude of longevity with the connection of being one people. Far from being an excuse to abandon the imperative thrust for vital self-determined Afrikan construction, the disruption of enslavement can provide essential lessons that will inform Afrikan life security and flourishing. Civilisation is not of happenstance.

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