Mental Slavery
Issues of these rational nature are often rarely discussed in our traditional African societies, more particularly when religion is involved, as they often invite curses, retribution, isolation and sometimes death. In most cases, it is our men of God, Pastors and Imams who often lead the crusade in demanding perpetrators’ heads and invoking curses and branding such people as devil, evil and most ignorantly dark-hearted people. This is because we have been brain-washed to believe by our Western Masters that anything black is bad and should be avoided at all cost. They have succeeded in inventing such phrases as the Dark Continent (in reference to Africa), the Black Hole (in reference to deficit in their budget, Blackout (in reference to near death or coma), as black as the devil (insult), blacklisted, to be painted black etc all having negative connotation. Surprisingly, some of these black-related phrases and words have found their way into ‘The Holy Books’ which now control every dail...