Sugru Manwuriba Alhassan
The failure of Africa’s educated elite to conduct research into the traditions of Africa and build up a body of knowledge that contains the studying of the mind, the body and the spirit of man for Africa’s youth to study, is the cause of Africa’s mental slavery, poverty and suffering. Today, the youth have risen from different corners of the world to raise high the flag of Africa by creating new organizations to inspire and empower their creative spirit to make our continent a better place to live.
When people appreciate the science of the mind, body and spirit, they will never engage in the physical wars that are destroying the world today. Instead, they will use their wisdom and intellectual weapons to fight a mental war, and not resort to raising cutlasses, arrows, swords, guns and bombs to kill each other. We will no longer use our physical strength to wage war because the mind is the most powerful weapon available to man. People easily resort to physical weapons because they lack the wisdom to wage mental warfare. They use their physical bodies as weapons to fight for what they want and as tools in self-defence. But once people begin to appreciate the power of the mind and they learn how to deploy this power, a lot of the problems in the world will be solved. But achieving this mental power comes from an appreciation of one’s traditional origins.
Today, how many of our African youth know the real traditions of Africa? How much does the current generation of Africans know about the history and customs of the continent they call home? We need traditional education now and not later. We need a new African renaissance in which African culture and traditions will be aggressively applied by Africans in their daily lives. This will not only make the new breed of Africans conscious of their heritage, this traditional education will open more venues for employment, reduce ignorance, cut our dependence on foreign cultures, and bring about an African re-awakening that will fill us with confidence and hope.
For years, Africa has been impoverished and not taken seriously on the global stage because Africa’s educated elites are too lazy to think and too dependent on foreign traditions, which have taken over their minds. The only way for a people to achieve true identity and development is for them to use their creative wisdom to create their own cultural and traditional systems that put their destiny in their own hands.
When a people throw away their cultural identity and embrace foreign cultures and traditions, they begin to lose themselves. No matter how talented and gifted you are, if you accept some else’s tradition against your own tradition, everything you do favours the one who deceived you to throw away your tradition and embrace his.
WHY AFRICANS FAIL TO BE CREATIVE PART II
Created by Sugru Manwuriba Alhassan
Author of Africans Traditional Revolution
sugrumanwuriba@yahoo.com
How can the African Tradition help develop Africa ?
Thank you for your question Mr. GhanaIn France, African traditional has got a lots for developing of Africa, All developed societies initially appreciated they own traditions with self believes that lead them to build the scientific system and I believe Africans traditions can also play a vital role if Africans want to advance, Here our believe is that traditions are variable and not fixed, with this believe we can modified a lots of our traditions that will be love by other people in the world, and when this happen it means we are going to sell out our own talents to the world, therefore, more income for Africans. We will create more employment to our people through our own creations, example if I can promote the smock I am wearing which has been produced by my brothers at northern Ghana to the world and it became attracted to the world it means foreigners will like to wear it, and when they buy from us we make money and increase employment. A very good example of traditional evolution in Ghana is A.R. Magazine Projecting Kantanka Dr. Kwadwo Safo ( Star of Africa ).You will get to realized this man took our own traditional believe that made him now a new creator in our continent, What is science? Is all about self believe through encouraging of one own traditions, Mr.Ghanain France I believe our traditional has a great role for Africa development.
Thank you for your question Mr. GhanaIn France, African traditional has got a lots for developing of Africa, All developed societies initially appreciated they own traditions with self believes that lead them to build the scientific system and I believe Africans traditions can also play a vital role if Africans want to advance, Here our believe is that traditions are variable and not fixed, with this believe we can modified a lots of our traditions that will be love by other people in the world, and when this happen it means we are going to sell out our own talents to the world, therefore, more income for Africans. We will create more employment to our people through our own creations, example if I can promote the smock I am wearing which has been produced by my brothers at northern Ghana to the world and it became attracted to the world it means foreigners will like to wear it, and when they buy from us we make money and increase employment. A very good example of traditional evolution in Ghana is A.R. Magazine Projecting Kantanka Dr. Kwadwo Safo ( Star of Africa ).You will get to realized this man took our own traditional believe that made him now a new creator in our continent, What is science? Is all about self believe through encouraging of one own traditions, Mr.Ghanain France I believe our traditional has a great role for Africa development.
good work, you have really made as pride, keep the fire on, educate us more and more research is really needed.we Africans have all it takes to make ourselves better.
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