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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Explorer: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Heru-Tunde: Beleive me i know a vast amount about african history, but i'm not talking about africa was then before the arab/european invaders im talking about how africa is now, me myself im a black man with proud african heritage, and have been to a number of african countries, i.e ghana, nigeria, liberia, egypt, as a person with nigerian heritage, i see that many of my people and particularly other west africans, are suffering from the effects of colonisation and you cannot disagree with that, when i say that alot of africans are doctile, im not lying, alot are still effected by the imperialism of the white man and look to him for how to live thier lives whether it be, music, religion, fashion, and movies, for example the nigerian entertainment industry is named nollywood after hollywood. if you look at the history of pan-africanism you would see that a large proportion of those proposing the idea came from the diaspora bar a few, i.e dr josef jochannan, by saying this im not saying africans do not have heritage as i am a african myself, im just commenting on what i see everyday. [/QUOTE]Heru-Tunde, I don't doubt that history of colonialism has had a lasting impact on Africans socially and economically, but rather, I'm disturbed by your seeming generalization with the 'docile' descriptive. The reason for this "lasting impact", is largely due to what I call neo-colonialism. Years after many of the African anti-colonial mass movements spurred local colonial regimes to come to terms with "token" independence, by appealing to bourgeois "activist" figures who decided to align themselves with the movement of the masses yearning for social democracy, African states are by and large still loyal to their former colonial regimes; the only difference now, is that the regimes are usually overseas and don't generally have local governing satellites made up of the colonialist nations themselves. But you need to be able to delineate between the interests of a thin layer of African ruling elites and those of the masses. Many of the aforementioned African bourgeois "activists" who previously aligned themselves with the mass movement had not lived up to the promises of their rhetoric, and by continuing to align themselves with former colonialists after independence, they betrayed the masses. This in no way makes the masses of African any more docile than the masses of other peoples under smaller layers of elites, whose interests are usually antagonistic to those of the masses. When African masses were transformed to the modern working class of the industrial age, the contradictions of the framework within which this transformation took place, urged African masses to reject the brutal conditions in which their labor was being super-exploited; this found expression in mass movements against the brutally inhumane colonialism. This doesn't suggest a docile peoples; quite to the contrary, and it post-dates pre-Arab and European contacts or invasions eras. In an age of globalization, and of course as a result of colonial history, it is not surprising to see pop culture influences spread across the borders of nations. After all, Africans see movies made in the so-called West and from the East, like those from China and India. These are bound to leave some impression and admiration for things "exotic" amongst audiences of these products, especially amongst the youth. I don't exactly consider this an expression of being docile. Seeing that you are African, I would think you'd also realize how relatively conservative Africans are, when it comes to culture; sure change is occurring, but that is not something limited to Africans. It is happening any and everywhere that is not isolated from globalization within the existing geopolitical and economic framework. For the record, African mass movements were not ignited by "Pan-African" bourgeois figures of the diaspora and Africa; those personalities saw mass discontent, and thereof, the already bourgeoning mass movement [that developed within the masses themselves, not introduced by bourgeois "Pan Africanist" figures] against the capilatist colonial framework within which they were being super-exploited and stripped off their sovereignty. These Pan-Africanist figures and other bourgeois African figures sought to align themselves with a movement that was already underway with or without them. It is the betrayal by these same figures which to this day continues to spur mass social unrest; in most cases, these social unrests are met with brutal suppression with the aid of "colonial turned neo-colonial" allies. This doesn't mean though, that they [mass social unrest] don't erupt. So, I beg to differ with the generalized descriptive of the African as "docile". But perhaps you have your own idea of what "docile" entails, in which case, it is apparently different from mine. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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