Chinua Achebe: " ... I do not believe that black people should invent a great fictitious past in order to justify their human existence and dignity today." africasacountry.com/2019/09/beyonc…
@africasacountry Brilliance. Achille Mbembe also has lots to say about exoticised views of Africa and how it leads to views of the continent as being stuck in time, motionless, outside of history
@africasacountry The truth is Africa has a great past. It's not just in the books.
@africasacountry But they should read Achebe's "Things fall apart"
@africasacountry @Haanamiri Too many grammar for a little point . The article almost seemed grandiloquential and the sophisticated syntax made the comprehension a struggle. Poor write-up.
@africasacountry @SeunEsq Is Chinua Achebe some kind authority on how to be black? Let people tell themselves whatever they want. What's the big deal?
@africasacountry @RosebellK To reinstate our African dignity we need to revise the curricula used in our history classes. I know that’s a toll order so we could individually start with popularizing the right literature that captures our history.
@africasacountry Mythic memory, however, has been a powerful force in the making and remaking of nations, the building of historical imagination as well as the trigger for technological revolutions.
@africasacountry The image of a once great and noble African society is in my opinion necessary to erase the brain wash that Africans were civilised by colonists. The mechanisms of civilisations and their ingenuity are a common trait of mankind in general, not a preserve of colour or 'race'.