Africa: the motherland, cradle of creation, a new millennium, Arome share his views “her children’s”

Ashani Thomas Podcast (Unvarnished-Veracity)

It’s almost as if you need never ask about the origins of Africa; there never was a time when Africa was not here. There is always a sense that whatever story about Africa is told, there is one story before it. And even when that story is told, there never is a sense that it is a story of origin. Africa was always here. Every time this African story is told, you are left feeling that there must have been, at whatever point in this perpetual story with no beginning, a story of glory, a story of triumph, a story of kings and queens who were considered all under heaven, capable of shaping the whole world into their own image. But that story does not seem to exist, not in any story that is ever told, and when it is even claimed, it does not belong: Africa could never be Rome; Africa could never be Greece. It always seems, Africa can never truly claim glory from history. This African story feels like a story of a rise and fall with the tale of the rise wiped out of history so that all Africans could ever be conscious of is a state of perpetual fall that itself feels like a permanent phenomenon that always was. While typically a fall is from grace, for Africa it feels as if the fall itself is both the beginning and the continuum. To be born in Africa – more precisely, to be born African – for the longest of times felt like a life sentence to struggle. Is there any good thing that can come out Africa, the God-forsaken continent? Africans themselves, at least before their lives were interrupted by the crusaders, took no part in creating this perception of themselves, of their continent. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7TZXHV-0Dr944qNZd0Y-ug Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashanidthomas/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashanidthomas/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ashani-thomas/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ashani-thomas/support