RECOLONIZATION OF THE BLACK MAN By Adeleke David Temitope

RECOLONIZATION OF THE BLACK MAN

  The uniqueness of the black man is not only depicted in his intelligence and physicality but also in his ability to adapt and cope with difficult situations and an unpalatable economic  hardship.
   For centuries, decades and years,the black man has not only been constantly racially marginalised but also deprived of the ability to access a world of his own. Although,we believe colonization is long gone but I insist recolonisation is the Black's lot and indirectly we would continue to get robbed of our own views towards life and our ideas would only be made to look inferior.
Presently,we are still colonized by the western world in almost all areas of our life both economically, morally,in sport and educationally.
  We live in a world where we are made to believe that the only key  to success is academic excellence without considering the capacity and interest of individuals.
No doubt it is,  but research has shown that the main aim of education  nowadays is to train pupils to work in big factories and industries and not necessarily to build individuals with the ability to think creatively, innovatively , critically independently with the ability to connect. I bet if Mark zuckerberg were to be a 'black' he wouldn't succeed that much. Because he would live his whole life  believing that ,"without education, he wouldn't succeed". So therefore, 'FACEBOOK' might only be in our dreams.
  From my little research, I learnt Chinese teens make torches and lamps,then send them to the dark continent (Africa).
Although,they are not overly better than us, but they have come to the realization that education is to be more practical oriented and rather than the policy of reading bulky pages and cramming without having the ability to reproduce what is  been learnt ( LA cram LA pour ),they have been imbibed with the mentality  that, "we are products of our innovations".
   Frequently , black gurus and the best brains among us leave our midst to develop the western world all because of the ideology that they wouldn't make it here and no matter how much they try, they wouldn't be appreciated nor would they be able to maximize their potentials over here.
Dr Phillip Emeagwali, who designed the world fastest computer which performs computations at 3.1 billion calculations per second, using 65,000 processors is now a citizen of the United States with his work been used to predict the likelihood and effects of future global warming and to forecast the weather over there. Just to mention one of hundreds of them with special talents but who are now resources not contributing to the development of his fatherland.
   My contention is that until we come to the realization that the black man and black nation is a brand that can stand independently, valuing its own assets and  believing we have what it takes both mentally,  intellectually, physically and morally to develop ourselves, we would continue to be short —changed and our resources (both human and material ) would be carted away for use because we don't value them and this is the RECOLONIZATION PROCESS.

Just trying to make common sense.
   
Adeleke David Temitope
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