AFROCENTRIC INNOVATION INTELLIGENCE
AFROCENTRIC INNOVATION INTELLIGENCE
All these resistance activities culminated in the legal abolition of slavery. Slavery was over! But has freedom come? Well maybe the first stage.
Nearly 100 years after the emancipation of slaves, there was still slavery and intense racial discrimination towards the African-Americans. Jim crow laws ensured that blacks living in the southern states still inhabited a startling unequal world of disenfranchisement, segregation and various forms of oppression including race-inspired violence.
The fight and quest for freedom started almost immediately. Martin Luther king jnr led the people through non-violent protests, marching and civil disobedience to bring about change. These resulted to the US supreme court striking down the “separate but equal doctrine”, the voting rights act of 1965 and the civil rights act of 1968.
At the time the blacks in America was wrapping up their struggle for freedom, blacks in south Africa was about to start the bondage and sufferings of apartheid. our instinct for freedom rose again!!
Nelson Mandela’s long walk from apartheid prisoner to south-African president remade a country and inspired the world.
It was defining moment of the 20th century. “Apartheid was over”
At this level, we have fought and achieved equal political and social rights.
But has freedom finally come? Well I don’t think so. The second level was just over.
Where are we now?
While blacks in south Africa and America has the white man to blame for their troubles, what of the rest of us in Africa?
A lot of African countries were colonized quite alright, but we got freedom and independence at a peak period when the natural wealth of Africa was being discovered. We had the social, political and economic power to build a glorious destiny for ourselves. But we did not. How does one explain all these poverty amidst all the wealth?
Today, after a hundred years, black people are still marching for justice and equality for little things like police brutality. We have marched and protested our way out of apartheid, Jim crow and colonialism. But then marching cannot take us into real freedom economically, politically and socially. It is not just a sustainable solution.
The truth is that the color of your skin shouldn’t automatically confer respect upon you. That respect must be earned as a collective. Majority of people do not like the Chinese, but you cannot discriminate against them and you know why. The man of color is still being suffocated everywhere he goes in the world because his/her roots in Africa has refused to shine. Not being born in Africa and living in Africa does not exclude you from the consequences of the suffering Africa.
We have to go for the next level of freedom; freeing ourselves mentally from our small mindedness and legacies of imperialism. Intellectually conquering the world through science and technology is the way forward.
How can we truly be free when all the technological, social and economic fabrics of our lives is painted white? Black children in Africa that has never seen an apple tree are consistently taught with a curriculum that says that A is for apple. Look around you, we smell, see, hear, touch and taste almost all of our systems, goods and services through a white man’s lens.
Who you are and where you live is supposed to reflect in everything that you do. Cultures evolve with the need to solve problems, using our peculiar geophysical, historical and social data realities.
You don't use another man's data to try and solve your problems. You can’t go far with that. Europeans started wearing the jacket(suit) because they live in a cold arid climate. The middle westerners (Arabs) wear the long thawb robe because the weather is very dry and desert-like. The thwab keeps their body humid. In Africa, we live in a hot arid climate. I don't understand why wearing a jacket and tie is a standard for civility and decency? our whole fabrics of life and existence has taken over and highjacked by a white culture and western systems.
Whenever you see our schools touting themselves as British curriculum centered, teaching with curriculum and textbooks that does not talk about the gacaca court from the Rwandan tradition, the zai or tassa farming technique from Niger, the ishango bone for prime numbers and the mathematical legacy of Africa, numerous African civilizations like the great Zimbabwean medieval city, the powerful ancient Kush or Nubian civilization of the Sudan, the legacy of the Benin empire, just know that you are training an educated slave. This genesis of ignorance is the reason why we cannot build a long-lasting legacy. All of our big brands are just plugged on to the global brands that return majority of the profit to headquarters in Paris, Tokyo, New York, London. Our local producers and manufacturers cannot survive, not just because the economy is not protected, but because the culture of innovation is working against them. The reason why a lot of small and medium businesses are failing is because the taste of our people is western; just look at the beauty industry, the fashion industry and even the manufacturing sector. How do you expect to beat the man that owns the system to his game with your limited resources? It is just not possible.
Imagine if it could be our engineers that are building our bridges and our road projects without the expatriates. With our number in Africa, imagine if all our economic activities recycled our money within ourselves. We wouldn’t be globe throttling the globe as we are doing now. Imagine if we didn’t have to do practice all sorts of white culture in our marriage ceremonies, naming ceremonies and work ethics. Imagine the west coming to us for ideas and not just telling us what to do. Imagine us living our lives without the controlling hegemony of the USD. Imagine we also paved the pace for the research, development and deployment of advanced science and technology, imagine us building a legacy of wealth and prosperity that will last into generations because we have all the systems that will sustain and advance them. You think anyone will have the guts to discriminate against black people? Imagine if we can do something more tangible about this rather than just talk about it?
Yes, we can; an organization called KULENGA Africa has arisen to pave the way for a scientific Africa. A social platform; KULENGA Science Initiative and an LLC; KULENGA Research Lab Limited. Established to conduct fundamental research and discoveries and also inspire scientific creativity. For four years, we have worked on variety of project researches by introducing Afrocentric innovation intelligence to our systems.
At KULENGA Research Lab, we have developed a simple formula for Afrocentrism;
The past ancient intelligence + other modern intelligence + our modern reality data = Afrocentric innovation intelligence.
With this formula, we afro-innovate our products, services and systems in the following ways;
1. Old traditional products and systems that is yearning for something new; e.g. the Europeans invented the fork cos of their traditional meals, the Asians invented the chopsticks for theirs. Why do I use fork to eat Abacha and fufu when I don't feel like using my hands? Why don't we have a unique cutlery for our traditional meals?
2. Western products, services and systems that are foreign but useful. E.g. Why would anyone use a curriculum that says that A is for apple to teach a child that lives in an environment where apple does not grow?
3. Unsolved global problems. Why are we not part of the conversations around climate change, space travel, AI, and advancement scientific innovations?
KULENGA labs has developed products in all these three areas.
KULENGA Research Lab is charting a new pathway for the intelligence, data and research industry.
Racism is real. But it is not about color. It's about power. The man that is discovering the universe and building global brands will always rule over the man that is not thinking!
"Africa's story has been written by others. We need to own our problems and solutions and write our story "... President of Rwanda, Paul kagame.
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