Bearing a curse is proving to start when you are unborn, predecessors our ancestors created a theosophy we are failing to come out of. The connection is tracing blood and it isn't our choice, considering out is asking for wisdom. We are going against the beliefs set before us, we are sinning against what we took oath to through the blood of our ancestors. Older is reigning and powerful.
Our African ancestors carried on their life the way they pleased without any input from us, but today we represent them. They were conscious about next generations, but most of their possessions last their survival only. There weren't any banks or foundations to store wealth on our behalf. The tried and tested mechanisms they relied on came to a catastrophic end during the scramble for Africa, their land and the blood we share are the most notable inheritance we own. The changes that are happening around us now were never their prediction at all, hence their unpreparedness to pass on a winning legacy against the White Man.
Land was the most precious possession that could be passed on from generation to generation. No wander why Africans were nomadic, they were in search of sufficient land to pass on to their children. In the process there are certain covenants that were made to settle at chosen locations, to possess power and many reasons. Some elders would pledge they would not move away from preferred settlements. Some rituals took place as tokens of the treaties elders sworn into. So the ritual would bind the elder’s animals, property and children.
Many of these rituals were done in secret places. A few leaders of the family would know about the secrets. These covenants expected the descendants to live in the marked territory as demanded by the elder. I will liken these ancient processes to the modern signing of agreements. An agreement has obligations from both sides and any offender would compensate the other party for an unfulfilled task
Many of these covenants have been violated due to modernisation. Most of our ancestors ended up giving up their treaties because they had to follow the settlers who had first chased them away from their ancestral land and introduced industrialization where the exchange for products and services demanded a currency our ancestors could not produce besides offering labour. Vacancies were available in the settlers plantations and mines and later on their residential areas.
The African resistance did not last long as the White Man used powerful weapons, while the new trade methods ended up forcing African men to abandon their methods. The governance was centralised and the tribes lost control of their morals as they had to contend living in compounds and later on urban locations. Law was now defined by the Roman Dutch Law.
The elders were converted to Christianity and it became embarrassing to engage in the ancient methods because our native elders wanted to please their paymasters. Many rituals are yet to be revoked in the secret caves they were carried out long back. Whatever you are doing now is all a violation of the agreement between your ancestors and their beliefs.
Your transgression comes from two things; you carry your ancestors blood meaning you are just as good as them, you don’t know what they agreed with your blood while you weren’t born. The fact that you haven’t bothered to know makes it worse. You go to university and study about the White Man and you emulate him yet you haven’t got any blood connected to him.
Changing a course whose presence was set before we were born is demanding great wisdom. The African methods were declared evil and the modern methods were commercialised to any extend of renouncing African methods. Some of the African methods were criminalised too. The brewing of beer carries a jail term if found guilty, but the brewing of beer had some beliefs in it.
In the modern world, some Africans are continuing with ancient beliefs but they have become more secretive. People now consult witchdoctors in the middle of night and they are never free to share with their families. Any violation of covenants made affects those people’s blood line. The initiator will never tell what he agreed to. Mishaps will engulf the blood line but without any knowledge.
An African child is born indebted to things that he does believe in neither he has any knowledge about. The new world order asks for logic and entrepreneurship. These skills are gotten through academic and trade civilise. You spend your time learning how to trade with the world but there is still a covenant that want’s you stay in the village. All the knowledge will be considered a violation yet you aren’t aware.
The Africans haven’t come together to agree on how they embrace the new world order. In those caves, at those shrines or Madzimbahwe have we gone to replace, alter the vows our ancestors made. When our country gained independence in 1980 our leaders took oath holding the Bible, could this be the new covenant. I am still of the opinion that we needed to do more as tribes. We have worn the settler’s jacket and started walking like him. Has our blood been cleaned to be undetected by sin that arise from the agreements our ancestors made in our absence.
The White Man hasn’t got any issues because he is being followed by money. His ancestors took all his agreements away from caves and made libraries and archives were information is easily found. Institutions were made for the son of the White Man to know his identity. Buying and selling runs in his veins. Value addition is a business, he processes raw materials to finished goods. Politics defines his governance. All these things are in black and white, this is why the White Man' children spend time at university.
The African son is in quandary, he hasn’t got any identity anymore. The skills of the white man he has learnt to the best standards leaves a void to the African Son, his blood is full of sin even if he is learned, rich, upright in terms of the white man’s world. Has there been any mutual transfer of methods with authorities that gave our ancestors wisdom to separate poison from food. Have these authorities also surrendered to the white man but why does the African Son suffer if they did.
A white man knows why he is in Africa, but an African Son does not want to acknowledge why he is interacting with a White Man. Our ancestors were better because they showed some resistance to the methods of the White Man because they knew it was going to cost them.
Do not call me racist but why are we not connecting to our ancestral methods. Land is a birth right not a title deed. Each and every child born must get a national identification and a plot, it’s African. Governance shouldn’t be about popularity, seniority and tribes governed our people well. Let us return to our methods and integrate the White Man’s methods to our own benefit. Africa must avoid going against it’s blood, it must avoid being opposed to it’s ancestors.
Research about our identity mustn’t be done in the middle of the night, it mustn’t be shameful, it’s not evil at all. Let us learn about our own tribes so that we can have new treaties. It is our right to live therefore we must ask for what is appropriate during our times just as good as what our ancestors did during their time.
Written by Fred Farai Nyakudanga fredfarai@gmail.com, +263773101411,
All the content above reflects the writer's opinion.
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