“Who are you?”
By Onitaset Kumat (africanbloodsibs@aim.com)
(Read through and answer four)
- Name three ancestors (known or unknown) which most resonate with you. What are their qualities? What would you describe concretely as their “purposes?”
- Name three elders from which you would wish to learn? What do you want to learn? Why?
- What three specific African traditions would you most recommend on the African Diaspora?
- What are two books that you would recommend to African people? What one video? Why?
- What’s one important life lesson you learned from your youth? Separately, what’s one learned from a youth?
- Have you ever seen a being of another world? Describe the incident(s).
- What is the worst economic injustice on African people today? Political? Cultural?
- Looking specifically at the entirety of your formal education, describe four things that should be changed. How should they be changed? Why?
- Where in Africa, what time, should we most look to repeat? Why?
- The poem “African Blood Siblings,” says “We wronged making our Diaspora?” What do those lines mean to you?
- Where in Africa, today, would you most look to changing? Why? How?
- What is one negative behaviorism you have observed in young Africans today? Why do you think that this is so? What should an African organization do to reverse this?
- Design a realistic seven-point plan starting from today’s conditions to uniting the African continent. Meaning “if I had billions” doesn’t cut it–speak to how you could get billions if you want to spend billions.
- In the poem “African Blood Siblings,” Onitaset Kumat writes the triplet:
“Then, let us answer to Hilaire Belloc,
“You’re wrong, for the Maxim Gun we have got!” “You’re wrong, for the Maxim Gun we have got!”"A response to Hilaire Belloc’s anti-imperialist couplet:
“Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not”Suppose someone disagreed with Onitaset Kumat and you were called upon to take a stance. What would your stance be? Which five episodes in history would you likely quote for your defense?
- What three benefits will African people gain if Africa were united?
- Nearly every day, you pass silently by a person of African descent. Sometimes you give a greeting. If you could give your passerby one meaningful and clear instruction, what would it be? If you could, what would you like to give them?
- What two talents of yours do you wish to offer African people?
- Name one lifetime goal dealing with the creation of an independent African community either here or abroad.
- Name five short-term goals that can facilitate the above creation.
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