Zibheke m'Afrika

Africa, I implore thee to watch your selves and your ilk. Sakhula nabo abelungu. Sho. Kodwa nikhumbule ukuthi Americans still have international travelling rights that Africans don't. That Africans still get stopped at airport lines more than Europeans do. Remember that if we're gonna change the world, we must take responsibility for Africa. Lokho kuchaza ukuthi kufanele siziphathe, phansi-phezulu, ngaphakathi nangaphandle kom'zimba. Sikhathele abantu abafuna ukuba amaNigga. Ngoba mangikubiza ngeKhafula (Kaffir) uzothi ngikuthuka inhlamba. Kodwa being a Nigga is alright. Sihlaselana sodwa, sibulala omakhelwane baseMalawi naseAngola naseZimbabwe, kodwa when an American chick comes to our hood siyajabula. This is our land and kufanele sikhule siwuphathe kahle. Ngithi sikhule. Anginandaba ukuthi uyiSulumane noma uSindisiwe. uThando ludlula izinkolo zonke.

Get over this special treatment of White people as if they're a seperate race. They are humans too. And if we keep treating fellow Africans like scum, we're killing our selves. Don't kill the Black in the township. Kill the Banks and the loan sharks draining our neighbourhoods. Don't attack the Pakistani running a corner-store. Gather together and take down Anglo-Gold. Because they are destroying your land. You think holes that are kilometers deep are good for your city? The problem is not just our townships/ghettoes. It's those who commissioned these ghettoes to be built. They want to make animals out of you. So they can devalue your worth. So they can devalue your ideas. So that they can put you down like animals when you fight back against the corruption.

Whilst Save The Rhino badges sell out at Exclusive Books and other stores near you, the township still doesn't have a university or even a community built power rig. Whose fault is that? Ours, I tell you. The economic disparity is ours. We utilise systems of seperation and exploitation. We let the fearmongers plant terror in us and we respond with buying alarm systems instead of dealing with our community directly. The layers to our social are ills are many and thick, but they all come down to responsibility. Whilst kids in Athlone Cape Town play with rubber tires and sticks, kids of the same age in Claremont Cape Town are playing with pieces of cardboard (Magic the Gathering cards) worth up to R5000 each. EACH! And we're in a recession. Global economic downturn? Then how does the world afford a long-lived "War on Terror"? How does Europe afford to send troops to foreign lands? Have you noticed that most of the violence in Africa is colonial? The fighting in Africa is fueled by the scramble period. The French won't apologise for Rwanda, England won't apologise for Zimbabwe, Portugal for Angola/Mozambique, the Belgians for the Congo. The Italians for Ethiopia The French and the Americans for Burkina Faso, Etcetera and etcetera. Our tribal wars didn't spill over into their nations. Not from KwaZulu, Not from Benin, not from Ethiopia. Empirialism and it's lovechild Colonialism have ruined our global community. And it's tiring to fight. I don't wanna fight the British Throne. I don't wanna fight the Vatican or North American Imperialism. I really don't.

I would like to study without fear of crippling debt. Or to date a Black woman who isn't afraid that she's too black to be beautiful. I'd like to fly through any airport with my long dread without being stopped for drug searches. We've been getting herded, people. Our thoughts and communities have suffered way too much external manipulation. Thusly, our spiritual evolution has been grossly stunted with the destruction of African history and worldview. Asazi ukuthi iAfrika itihini. Asiyizwa, ngisho sihlala la. Mawungakaboni ukuthi sisempini, ngeke ubone. Ayikakapheli lempi. Zibheke m'Afrika. Ngoba lelizwe kufanele silinakekele. Silithathe, silihloniphe. Ukulokhe sivotela abantu esingabazi ngeke kusize muntu. Sidinga ukuziphathela amakhaya ethu. Hhayi lendaba yokuphathwa yibhange.

Ngiqinisile ngithi kini, ayikakapheli lempi. Idinga thina sonke esingama-Afrika ukuthi sidedele lokukhonza nokuhlonipha imikhuba ekungayona eyethu. Imikhuba yaseMelika naseNgilandi. Asiyidingi. IAfrika izokhula ngathi. Asingavumi ukuthi bayintshontshe, bayibulale.

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