It is written:
“And when it was day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under an oath, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.” (Acts 23:12)
The Scripture recording such instances of imperial surrogacy, including the betrayal of the Redeemer, and the several kings of Israel and Judah, doing “evil in the sight of the Lord.”
Forerunners of present-day oppressors of their own people, in the service of racism and white supremacy, anchored on its economic imperatives, reinforced with the architecture of the Post-Colonial State.
Repentance of the sinner, the cornerstone of Redemption, the turnaround of “man” as sinner into the recreated “man” in the image of God.
The sin: The Nationalities in Africa accepting, by force or subterfuge, their change of status as created by God, the image of God, embracing their characterization by the sinner; the colonial power, defining their existentialism.
The Repentance: the transformation of the architecture of the Post-Colonial State sustained by the political economy of racism and white supremacy, established for continuous suppression of the African; globally, making the African-American the only National group in America without a formal tie to their homeland.
Mandating the Nationalities in Africa to reconfigure the Post-Colonial State into their God-given existence, by which African humanity is restored.
This necessity overlooked by earlier Pan-Africanist praxis, championed by Kwame Nkrumah, CLR James, George Padmore et al; correctly recognizing the artificiality of colonial borders, but compromising African aspirations and self-realization on its sustenance, hence the OAU and now the AU.
Against which Obafemi Awolowo advised, during the run-up to the 1958 All Peoples Conference, proposing the alternative, to wit: the necessity for the Nationalities to come into being for themselves and in themselves, the basis for Ethno-National Federalism as the political future of Africa and consequently the Global African community.
Put into practice through the then developing relationship established between the Western Region and Bahia in Brazil, truncated by the “Nigerian” enablers of the Post-Colonial State paradigm.
A continuity with the past, where internal conflicts for dominance led to alliances with foreign interlopers, both parties to the internal conflicts becoming victims of the foreigner.
Hence colonial rule.
Now making the control of the Post-Colonial State the imperative, an end in itself; and this, possible only by destroying the self-actualization of the Peoples.
Ensuring continuity of the parameters of African oppression and exploitation; all because the Peoples were, and are, imprisoned within the walls of the Post-Colonial State, and by which the Global African remain imprisoned.
By which we know that the Autonomy and Self-Determination of the Peoples of Africa, negating the artificiality of the current borders, is the only pathway towards repentance.
Repentance, the “setting at liberty” of various Peoples of Africa from the cages of the Post-Colonial State enabling them to come into being as created by God; “man” made in His image.
But who, despite the command to have dominion, are instead dominated by the Post- Colonial State, to which the “church” and most of its leadership in Africa is enamored, plastering it with untempered mortar; claiming it is of God?
By which we know that “submission to authority,” in this instance, “spiritual authority” is a denial of the visions of God given to servants of God, outside the purview of the experienced “authorities;” whose inability to respond with humility and reverence for God, become an attempt at subsuming such instructions from God under their authority, substituting the self for God.
Recalling the young prophet’s inability, despite concluding the assignment given him, to “hold fast to what he had;” not remembering “how he had received and heard;” acquiescing to charges of “rebellion” made by the “old prophet”, consequently losing his life, thereby cutting short further opportunities to serve the Lord.
In Nigeria and America, many are prophesying and seeing visions in the name of the Lord; yet none of them has been specific as to what God has proclaimed as what needs to be done concerning Black Lives, locally and globally, fueling a recourse into African Atavism/ancestors as a counter to Christian Evangelization.
To address which the African Christian must continue from where others stopped; where, for example, the “Black church” became the platform for resistance, reinforcing the truth that the black person, the African, is indeed a human being; and following on the footsteps of Isabella Baumfree, also known as Sojourner Truth because “I was to travel up and down the land showing people their sins and being a sign to them, and Truth because I was to declare the truth unto the people”.
The sign, the Scripture fulfilled:
“But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.”
(Mathew 13:16-17)
The truth, setting at liberty the Nations oppressed by the Post-Colonial State in Africa, able to restore the broken ties between the African homeland and its Diaspora, thereby changing the narrative of global politics.
Yes, “Black Lives Matter”!!! (concluded)
Written by Wale Odeku February 19, 2022
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