Africa: Breaking Free From Western Negative Narratives
All documentary knowledge, be it religion, history (both oral and writing) and science such as; archeology, or anthropology, point to the fact that the evolution of mankind started from Africa.
Truly speaking, the stages of human development from homo sapien to modern humanity was not marked by hour, minute, or second. It is the preparedness of nature as provoked by spirituality that connects with the reality of a moment to know the time to sleep, wake, eat, work and engage in different levels of socialization.
In most African religion, custom and tradition the dynamism of time is not fixated on specific hour, minute or second. But, it is a function of activities at different moments as demanded or determined by our human nature that connects with our spirit beings.
A classic example is that you cannot fix a particular time to eat or go to the restroom; it is determined by the nature of your body system and still connects with your soul and spirit.
Yes, the spirit realm determines the physical realm, not the hour, minute and second as manipulated or established by the western world for the purpose of productivity.
Moreover, time as dictated by the white man is still within the limit of human error and may never be the best way to determine the nature and activities of humanity as connected with the spiritual realm.
Yes, man proposes, God disposes.
“Emi ti ko ni di ola, ti o pe osu meta ni, a man that will die few minutes from now but is making plans for tomorrow.”
Suffice it to say, Africans are more concerned about the time and action of a moment than a particular hour, minute or second of a moment.
Even the western world’s understanding of time is not devoid from African spirituality of time and moment.
Moreover, is it not true that the western world came to steal our spirituality to evolve a new science of divine interpretation of moment and events from Yoruba divine oracle, Ifa to what we have today as Google. Ifa with 256 odus is today the analogue of Google with similar 256 binaries.
Say it to the marines that Africa, the cradle of the human race and the beginning of civilization is a dark continent.
What a fallacy!
Yes, it is a dark continent but, most developments in the western world in both human capacity and mineral resources were stolen, explored and exploited from the so-called dark continent, Africa.
Even after many years of de-colonisation, the stealing, exploitation and exploration of Africa’s resources continues through the policy of imperialism.
Wake Up Africa!!!
Yes, Africa’s spirituality and the understanding of a moment of time underscores the purpose of hour, minute and second for productivity as manipulated or determined by the western world.
However, It is imperative to say that the science of time; hour, minute and second as manipulated by the western world for the purpose of productivity, cannot be over emphasized.
In the final analysis, it is time for Africa as a continent to stop helping the western world to spin negative narratives like “Africa is a dark continent, Africans are very lazy people” etc. The western world uses such negative narratives for their miscellaneous purposes at the detriment of the black people in the continent of Africa. Yes, they want our resources and truth be told, it’s for their selfish interests; and in spinning out such negative narratives, they sound out tales.
Prejudice apart and without mincing words, African spirituality vis a vis, the nature of man and moment underscores the science of hour, minute and second as manipulated or established by the western world.
David Adeyinka Adenekan Is The Editor of Shekinah International Magazine and a Media Consultant. He Is also the secretary of Afenifere Diaspora USA. He writes from Chicago, Illinois.
Africa: Breaking Free From Western Negative Narratives is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
