REINVENTING AFRICANISM

REINVENTING AFRICANISM

The human social framework is quantized. It evolved in small packets of family and tribes. These units like everything else in life started primitively and chronologically evolving with time the way a human being grows from babyhood to adulthood.

The African social framework was not allowed to evolve normally. Her growth was upsetted by westernism and a lot of things that we were not ready for was imposed on us. This created a lot of problems; the loss of identity and a social divide. The first is the extremely westernized and lost African who scoffs at Africanism but a slave to western values. while the second is the tenacious heritage rich African who is bound to the limitations of the primitiveness of the African traditional systems. We will deal with the westernized African later. Let's talk about the traditional African.

He has grown hostile to the virus of westernism (and he should), so he scoffs at everything modern. He is trapped at the development level that his culture was before the white nation attacked.
So for the systems that has not been completed hijacked by westernism, he tenaciously holds on to them. For example,

1. Before western infiltration, his culture had not yet evolved a cutlery for their traditional meals so he considers eating with hands Africanism. Before modern Europe invented spoons and forks, primitive Europe considered eating with cutlery an abomination. (Google it).

2. He is a traditional religionists who fights christianity as a white man's religion. It's not hard to understand his resentment for a religion that came with the baggage of the white man's culture. But this is so far from the truth. Apart from the fact that Africans has the longest Christian ancient tradition, Africans has always been evolving their religious ecosystem even before they came. We were used to the spiritual atmosphere which was why it was easy to even evangelise us in the first place.

The igbo man for example does not hold on to one Chi (god) just for no reason. His chi has to be solving his problems, Else he will exchange it for another that will. Which is why we had so many gods for different things. We probably would have evolved into the modern religion without the crusaders invasion. Because naturally growth demands simplicity and efficiency.

But then holding on to a form of religiousity just for the sake of holding on to it and bashing everyone else for not taking your position is not Africanism. If traditional Africa gave room for a high level of religious tolerance, then you should. What we should strive to do is remove the white cultural symbols that came with the religion.

3. He attributes too much value to rawness, crudenes and subsistence natural methods. Now these things are really wonderful and healthy and still one of the beauty of Africa, but then there are a lot of things it can't do.

a. It can't prevent all the health problems our women get from cooking with open fires because no one has come up with an efficient solution. The knowledge for these is abundant, but then maybe we are waiting for western interest.

b. It cannot make processing our local foods easier and more scalable because the white man does not eat them.

c. It cannot communicate our traditional symbols into international media brands and many more.

At KULENGA Research Lab, we are on a mission to reinvent and increase the efficiency of our Africanism and transform our traditional systems, products and processes without sacrificing our African identity. There is too many knowledge available right now for those things to still be done crudely.

The first product in this line is the Lenga 1 cookstove.
This is an innovation that uses gasification to smokelessly burn almost any type of biomass.
It’s a multifunctional cleantech tool with endless possibilities to provide clean and portable cooking solutions, with fast cooking time, efficient use of fuel, high cooking heat and electric energy delivery.The energy is gotten from wood, charcoal, animal dung, crop residue and the conventional kerosene too.
The design converts the heat into enough usable electricity to conveniently power all basic house hold devices; lights and electronics. It efficiently burns the biomass under an environmentally friendly enclosed system.
It reduces toxic smoke by 95%, and black carbon emissions by 91%. The amount of C02 saved per is equivalent to the amount saved by buying a hybrid car.

Our culture provides us with the tools for a successful society. Liberation is not about restoring the past, but creating something fundamentally new and better for the future (Edited)... President Paul Kagame.

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