Identity Crisis

Resolving African Identity Crisis.

Africans and blacks in the Diaspora. are having an identity crisis.

Our sense of being as created equal by God among all men whether whites, yellow, red or black has in our present time become distorted due to our a wrong orientation. This is very regrettable.

We need not look too hard or long in order to know that “something is missing in us” as a black people, as Nigerians.

We are happier it seems struggling every day trying to be other people than accepting to be ourselves.

As Nigerians and Black Africans, we have little or nothing left of our once cherished values, our culture our morality and our pride. What we are, unknowingly, embodies “civilized decencies” but we have assisted through our cooperation exterminated them through neglect.

Our languages, marriages, customs, our traditional music of which are a direct communication with our inner Higher-Selves, our souls as well as our industrial potentials have almost become non-existing.

We have come to accept, as Nigerians and blacks that no new knowledge can come from the prevailing subjected circumstances of our present orientation; neither do we have the capacities it seems, to industrialize materials of our culture. We have resigned ourselves to eating crumbs thrown to us from the platters of our colonialists even in the modern times.

In the face of these seeming impossibilities some of us are still hopeful that a New World of possibilities for Africans and the Black Race will emerge in this period and epoch.

To this end, we believe that the only way we can be relevant is to encourage individual and group to work towards perfecting models for the improvement of our indigenous cultural materials for the enhancement of our daily lives through the application of the instrument of science and technology.

It must however be reiterated that the idea of perfecting our material culture as expounded by no less a personality as Africa’s A.U. President and Nigerian Head of State, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo during the Abuja Carnival in Nigeria that revisiting our cultural way of life “…is not a return to primitivity”

could also be said that we are not setting up a new culture in isolation of other “civilized culture”. Cultural interaction among all nations is here to stay. The crux of our “railings” is that we do not have to empty ourselves of our natural elements and be re-composed of the substances of other people in order to feel all right and civilized.

There is need to critically examine the contemporary world we live in with its present orientation and a completely NEW WORLD of our untried possibilities and potentialities based on a new knowledge to re-evaluate ourselves.

Each and every one of us have a duty to contribute to the dignity and pride of the Black People, with a wider reference to the larger African continent for the banishment of ignorance, the enhancement and the re-hauling of our old orientation for the challenges ahead.

To this task and many others that we may consider worth our while to establish us as co-creators and co-partners of our modern day realty we invite all and sundry to girdle up and follow the path to a new world of unlimited possibilities. In that reality the banishment of a self perpetrated African identity crisis will be resolved and fruitful co-relationship and friendship re-engineered.