OK. Agreed. It seems we are coming to some mutual understanding but which
comes first, maturation or mastery? Are we to presume that this is your
order of practical guide: "Maturation, growth and independence are more
important than mastery and invocation"? It would seem to me of great
imperative that we positively appraise mastery and not stigmatize it as is
being done in black culture at the moment. I agree that the ultimate goal is
full ontological sovereignty, but what does that mean if not to truly master
the forces of one's destiny?
Bode
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Bode,
The point is not about re-inventing any wheel or being merely Afrocentric.
It is just that any great power that emerges formulates its own vision and
designs strategies to incorporate and domesticate all external and internal
legacies as its own for its development.
Africa has to deliberately create its own autonomous sites for the reception
and forging of all instruments for its self-propulsion. Thats the point.
As for the point about Fanon, of course all intellectuals have a heritage.
its another matter if the heritage becomes an albatross, from which such
intellectuals cannot graduate and need to constantly invoke. Maturation,
growth and independence are more important than mastery and invocation of
the his master's voice.
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