Like the fables of La Fontaine:
plaire pour instruire
Chidi loves
to provoke.
"independent mind "?
Are you kidding? Have you ever seen one? Met one? More than one? Emancipate yourself from mental slavery? Yours? Mine? I believe in miracles
Never mind the "mind", isn't it enough to be independent? The world? The world is too big. There would be too much confusion.
As the early bard (early bird) asks,
in a Ballad in Plain D:
"Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me
"How good, how good does it feel to be free?"
And I answer them most mysteriously
"Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"
When you (Chidi) talk about "independent mind", the first thing that comes to mind is a few million Biafrans united as one, as one independent mind running around going about their business, undisturbed by the master-mind behind e.g. Operation Python Dance 11 which would like to cage other minds like a parrot in cage, in perpetual captivity , and the parrot not shuffering and shmiling but screaming, like Sengbe Pieh in Amistad : "Give us free!"
Independent mind says that in the meantime the ethnic enclave known as Biafra can continue as a colony of Nigeria or a remote outpost of the Caliphate, continue to speak its mind, clear its conscience, suffer in dignity. Indignity....
Not that your condition is permanent or anything near or akin to slavery. Your mind is not in chains and you can speak your mind freely, under the sky, in Nigeria or even here. Freedom of speech.
"Most of your life can be out of sight
Withdraw from the darkness and look to the light
Where everyone's free
At least that's the way it's supposed to be " ( Keep on Keeping on)
"Independent mind" is open to the same kind of ridicule Malcolm X laid on the idea of the toubab down below having a " moral conscience". Malcolm asked, how can he have a " moral" conscience when he doesn't have any morals – at all?
"moral conscience" ?
"Independent mind" ? That would be the beginning – the very beginning of free will, the beginning of poetry, spirituality, the end of conformity and the end, the burial of the English language , as we know it in its many variations, today. Like Cleopatra's " infinite variety"
Concrete answer please : How should a liberated African mind act in response to this kind of thing ?
On Monday, 1 October 2018 16:41:25 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM wrote:
What would the world be like if everyone has "independent mind"?(c) Chidi Anthony Opara#2018Quotes
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