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Wakanda Forever - Africans Dreaming (ZZzzz)

Wakanda Forever - Nothing to Go Back to. Let's take a moment and reflect, Wakanda is real and it's forever. First and foremost, the death of Okonkwo will forever haunt Africans. The illiterate will be haunted even if they don't know about his tragic death.  Why are some of our African kings coronated by the representatives of the colonial masters? Okay,  African kings were abducted and shipped to Europe to be humiliated, and others simply vanished. Assassinations continued to the modern world, for instance, the assissination of 20th-Century African leaders such as Malcohm X, Thomas Sankara,  , Patrice Lumumba,  Steve Biko, Dr Martin Luther King, and the list goes on. These were great leaders that I don't think we will ever have anytime soon. They were a great hope of Great Africa. These deaths have changed the course of an African's life anywhere in the world. Ethiopians fought and won the Battle of Adwa. At that time the spirit of Mother Africa arose. Will we ever ...

Little Mabuthu

The Story of Little Mabuthu - Real  Empowerment Little Mabuthu refers to a young African boy I regard as a warrior. Actually, he is a warrior, given his attitude towards life. He conquers everything on his path. Yet, when you look through his eyes, you see his soul, you feel the humility of your ancestors, and you see endless future possibilities of greatness. An inquisitive young boy with energy that needs to be directed to do good. The real empowerment of any child (Black, white, yellow, green, purple, but here I talk about black Africans from my lived experience) is magnitudes better than BBEEE. Empowerment, according to the Cambridge English dictionary, " is the process of gaining freedom and power to do what you want or to control what happens to you ." When you can't control what happens to you, the system hoses you down, and the longer this happens, the more unescapable it gets. Nowadays, it does not take a village to raise a child since we no longer live in small ...

The Weekend Class Clash

Part Reason Why Your Weekend Maybe Noisy Class discussions started heating up in the 19th century. Karl Marx and his friend looked at class from a materialist point of view in the communist manifesto. But class was here before capitalists, I mean in most cultures, whilst in some cultures such as that of the Khoisans, class is rebuked. There are instances where one can be a capitalist without any class at all. You see this in the zeitgeist with the proliferation of public display of ill-gotten gains. To avoid class, ideological, religious, and racial weekend clashes, South Africa was built different, segregated! Nowadays, with our free market, segregation is achieved through pricing out. Racial classification is achieved that way. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you assess it, sectional titles are the low branch easily reached by many. Hence, this makes sectional-title complexes the battleground of "The Weekend Class Class". To live in peace with your neighbours...