MAYIBUYE I AFRICA

BLACK MAN YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN(UWEDVWA MUNTFU LOMNYAMA)
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Culture  is  a proven concept for a nation to be followed by any one living in that particular community. Anyone born in that domain must simple follow that proven concept of life to avoid making mistakes in life. Culture includes  language,education,laws,funeral,marriage,healthy,food,names,surname,music ,dress code,festivals,calendar,spirituality and dancing. Our life  revolves  around  our culture  as culture is  the  heart  of  a  nation. A nation without   a culture is a nation in darkness, without any direction. When you lose your culture you lose yourself,your whole life depends on your culture. When a child is born within few days he will start adapting  to a certain culture and that will be the way of  life.

When  you  have lost your culture ,you are left with vacuum in your life, with  that  vacuum  then comes  a need  for  Education, because  without  your  culture  you  find  yourself uneducated  unable  to  even feed  yourself.When the Europeans come  to  Africa  they found  healthy African  who  were educated in everything in life, but  after  they  lost  their culture ,they were  then considered illiterate and there was  a  big need  for education. Even  today they  say  if  your are  not  educated in the  European ways  then you  have no future. African’s  future was  bright without European education, education is  nothing  else  but to program  ones mind  to  behave  like  someone. When  you  are  educated  it  is when  you have qualified  to act like someone, doing  like someone  in order  to live. Africans  were  having  their  own  cultural  education  which was enough  for ones  future.Agricultural education was  number one profession  for Africans ,we  were  taught  how  to  produce food  at  an early age. Our  children  use  to  know  that  in order  to  eat  you must plant  and  look  after your  livestock. Today  our  children  knows  that  you  buy  food  in a  supermarket  instead of  producing food, all this  is  because  we  have lost our culture. Technology  was not part  of African culture  because  technology  destroy  the environment ,Africans were very good in taking care of the environment they like to keep everything natural.Big industries  are not  good  as they destroys  the environment and causes global warming.Our fathers were not stupid by not industrialising our continent,but they were wise.

It is impossible to colonize someone who honors  his  culture. Once  you have lost  your culture  then  you  lose  your identity  and  you  can  be taken from pillar to  post. During  the  days  of colonization they  used  the  gospel  to  destroy our culture for  us  to lose our  pride and identity. True  freedom is  embedded in ones culture  without your  culture you  are  just  a  follower  and you know nothing  you  need to learn every  day. Most nations like to impose their culture to other nations in order to rule them. When you abondon your culture  to  someone’s  culture  you lose  everything you know ,then you have  to learn and acquire  new  things. Even if  you  are  an adult  you become like a  baby because everything  you  know  becomes  useless as you will have  to learn again. Without  your  culture you  are  a  servant  for everyone, because you must always  learn  and  without  learning  that culture you  are considered nothing 

Most  animals  have their  own culture  which  they learn  from  birth  and  through  that culture  they  learn how  to earn  a living. A chameleon  and  a spider  they all  eat  flies but  their  culture has taught them  a different ways  of  catching  the flies. A chameleon  uses its  shocking tongue to  catch flies  and  a spider  uses  the  web  to  catch  flies. If  one  day  a  spider will convince  a chameleon  to  forsake its ways  of  catching  the flies   and  adopt  the  spider’s  culture of  catching  flies  then  the  chameleon  will be  immediately unable  to  live  because it does not have  a  web. In  that case  the  chameleon  must  attend  classes under spider to learn  and  after learning it must  look for  employment  from  the spider. This  is  exactly  what  happened  in  a  case  of  Africans  when  they  were  convinced  to  forsake  their  culture  and  follow  the  European  culture. Today  for  the African  to live  they must learn  European ways  of living  and  then work  for  the Europeans  as  they have forsaken  their  ways  of  living .

 

CONCLUSION

The Europeans  were  undermining  African  cultures,religion  was  used to destroys our culture, if  you  allow  religion  or  anyone to impose  his  culture on you , then  you are  opening yourself to slavery and colonization. Colonization  can  happen to an individual by allowing  other  people  to impose  their culture and religion to that individual. Today Africans are naked without  their  culture vulnerable  to  every  people  of  the world . Europeans, Indians  and Chinese  when they see an African they see a  naked person  who need  to adopt their culture and they are enforcing their culture  to  enrich  themselves through Africans. All  this  nations  see  Africans  as  their  market  place  where they  sell  their  goods, we  have  became consumers for Europeans ,Indians  and  Chinese  as we are no longer  producing  anything  because we lost our culture of  farming. Africans  are just consumers  and  the  very  same  wages  they  earn  from working  for the  Europeans they  again use it to buy from  Europeans, as  Africans  produce nothing. You can go  to any shopping  centre  where our  black  people  spend  their  money  everything there is  from Europeans, Indians  and Chinese  African are  just  buyers  not  selling anything there. Indians wants Africans to buy from them but they have a policy of not buying from Africans. We have accepted  stupid verse that  says ‘’look at the  bird of the air  they don’t  sow or reap or store away in barns’’ by obeying such stupid verse our people have stopped  sowing  and reaping but buying in supermarkets yet  the very same people who came with that verse  are sowing and planting  for you to buy from them. In other Africans homes they have even forsaken African  languages  in  favour  of  European  languages  thinking they are better by speaking other peoples language yet they are dead and stupid.(TRUE GREATNESS COMES FROM WITHIN)No one has  ever  been  great by imitating  someone  or following  someone’s  culture, Imitating  can only  makes  you  a  follower  not  a  leader.
Africans  will  be great  by  keeping  their culture manifesting  what  is  within  them  and  stop  following  other nations culture  and religions. There  was  nothing  wrong with African cultures ,before  our cultures were  destroyed by Europeans  our  forefathers  were  having enough  food,cattles,sheep,goats,chickens,clean  water,clean air,producing their own food,land,healthy,less death,heathy  families,they were not employees ,not dependant, no crime, no prisons,not consumers,education was at home, life was not commercialized and able to heal diseases .But  after they  allow foreign cultures  and Christianity what happened  then? Life became very stressful and difficult. Let me  mentioned  what  we received by accepting  foreign cultures  poverty ,hunger,no land,no cattles ,no sheep ,no goats, no chickens,unhealthy,high death rate, broken families,single parents,crime,we buy  everything, we are consumers, we are now employees, dirty water,polluted  envinroment,more orphans,we are dependants, have to go to school,slavery,religion,diseases ,prisons  and  murder.

Without  your  culture  you are  a  dead man  walking  and  you don’t  know  who  you are, you can be  anyone ‘s ball  and  be  kicked by anyone. A  PERSON WITH HIS CULTURE  IS  SOMEONE YOU CAN NOT CONTROL  OR  COLONIZE.WITHOUT  YOUR  CULTURE  YOU  ARE  A SLAVE,SUCCESS WILL  ALWAYS  BE LINKED IN YOUR  CULTURE.NO CULTURE  NO  SUCCESS,FOLLOWING  OTHER PEOPLES CULTURE FOLLOWING  SLAVERY.WITHOUT  YOUR  CULTURE  YOU WILL BUY EVERYTHING  AND PRODUCE  NOTHING  EVERYONE WILL  BE RICH OUT  OF YOU.