Continental Africans and the Africans in Diaspora: A 'Black World' divided upon Itself

In the 50s and 60s, when there was established consciousness, Continental Africans and African-Americans were gradually forging a powerful UNITED FRONT against Euro-oppressive powers. We had the likes of Nkrumah and Muhammad Ali coming together for the common good of Africa and the future of the entire 'Black World'. Long before them, we had W.E.B DuBois, Marcus Mosiah Garvey among others who postulated and fervently pursued the concept of Pan-Africanism and the economic emancipation of Africa.

Scholars like Papa John Henrik Clarke, Amos Wilson and others gave us the blueprints. Malcolm X was available with his fiery stance. Kwame Nkrumah was on ground to articulate and implement. Nnamdi Azikiwe was available to think along the continental line. The African-Americans were at the forefront of the battle. They were fighting three wars simultaneously: The war to free Africa, the war for the unity of the 'Black man and the Black woman' and the war against destructive racism in the Western hemisphere. Great ones!

Suddenly, the bullets began to fall. Martin Luther King Jnr gone. Malcolm X fell. Lumumba killed. Nkrumah deposed and left to be dejected. Steve Bantu Biko exterminated and in later years, Thomas Sankara. As this confusion reigned, the unity began to tear apart. Handshakes were no longer seen between the African-Americans, Africans in the Caribbean and the Continental Africans.

To set the record straight, Continental Africans are the major problem of the 'Black world'. We are the ones whose people sold some of the ancestors of the African-Americans into slavery. Whenever African-Americans are killed, we do not speak up for them. Even when the likes of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jnr were fighting for us, we were busy selling our resources cheaply to the same Supremacists and oppressors. The truth hurts but it must be told. Our grand slavery of the mind tore up every possibility of creating a better African world.

Whenever they are killed in America or elsewhere, we do not stand up for them yet they do not hesitate to lend their voices of protest whenever calamities happen to us in Africa. If anything happens to any Jew anywhere in the world, the state of Israel stands up for them. When South Africans proposed to get back their stolen lands back, Australia spoke first in defence of the European immigrants and apartheid villains (Whites) followed by Donald Trump. They will defend one another anywhere but this is not the case for Africans. 

This is the reason why many Africans in diaspora prefer to stick with the 'Black Identity' than the 'African Identity'. We have the African civilisation (Nubian, Kemetic, Benin, Ife, Dahomey, Zulu, Xhosa and others), the European Civilisation (Greek, Roman and others), the Asian Civilisation (Chinese, Indian, Japanese and others), the Arabian civilisation and many more but not a 'White Civilisation', 'Yellow Civilisation' or 'Black Civilisation'. In a bid to move away from anything associated with Africa, some of them now believe they are 'Black Indians' who had inhabited America before the coming of Columbus. We cannot blame them. They need an identity. 

Rather than court the African-Americans to come and invest so we can build together, Africans will prefer to sell their lands into European and Chinese slavery. The African-Americans and Africans in diaspora have the capability to join forces with us and lead us out of our quagmire. Take our music industry for instance; it was those from Jamaica and the Caribbean (Bob Marley, Peter Tosh and others) that moved Reggae. We followed them. Fela Anikulapo Kuti was influenced by Malcolm X, the politics of the Black Panther Party and he was tutored by an African-American woman (Sandra Smith) before he became conscious. 

Our modern music industry copied from the African-American hip hop and rap. Our modern scientific discussion and advancement cannot be separated from the Africans in diaspora. They are our surest link and lifeline if we really genuinely want to break the shackles of mental slavery and embrace development. Had we listened to Garvey, we would have been economically liberated in Africa. 

The pride of African culture today remains the African-Americans and the Africans in diaspora in general outside of Africa. Here, we hate ourselves, we loath our cultures, we lack thinking, we are basically everything associated with leeches. Rather than look at the cultural beauty in our various ethnic groups as a platform to unite and be creative, we tune to the frequency of hate and insults. We call the African-Americans names because we lack basic sense of history; that they did more for us that we can ever do for them.

It is a known fact that our current crop of leaders are puppets, sell outs, coons and 'house Negroes' who will do anything and everything to please their European and Chinese masters. They are perfectly mentally enslaved and psychologically effete to lead us out of our morass. The youths must begin to have a rethink. We should use the power of the information age to reach-out to our brothers and sisters in America and in the diaspora, connect with them and stand up for them when necessary for us to be able to rebuild our Africa. The African-Americans and Africans in diaspora cannot afford to give up on us. Together, we can create a better African world. We should always remember our motherland always. 

Soursop Fruit Kills Cancer 100 Fold better Than Chemotherapy.

                              

Raymond Kirlew, Yvonne Kirlew of Discovery Bay, St Ann, and Florida radio host Dr Dennis Grant, hold leaves and a soursop from the soursop tree behind them.

ON THE verge of death Yvonne Kirlew was, nearly a decade ago. The chemotherapy to destroy her lymphatic cancer was apparently killing her too. But her husband, Raymond, was determined that she wasn't going to leave him. He nursed her through a dreadful time of pain and near-death moments, and the cancer went into remission.

But, alas, it came back. And Raymond's war on the cancer started all over again, and this time around he went to nature for help. He acted upon the information that the leaves, stem and bark of the soursop tree, found all over Jamaica, were more powerful and less debilitating than chemotherapy. Daily, he has been feeding Yvonne the drink extracted from the leaves and the bark of the soursop tree, and Yvonne has been cancer-free since January 2010.

WELL documented

Yvonne and Raymond Kirlew's story is well documented. The reaction to the articles was overwhelming. Readers from all over the world called or e-mailed seeking further information and to get in touch with the Kirlews. The last article was published in The Gleaner on Saturday, August 20, last year, but the fascination with their story cannot seem to die.

But the information on the healing properties of the soursop tree has long been in the public domain. It was sent to south Florida radio host, the Reverend Dr Dennis G. Grant, about five years ago, and he posted it on his home office wall. Dr Grant is the host of a very popular two-hour Saturday show called 'The Love Hour' on WAVS 1170.

In April, the native of St Mary, Jamaica, who has about 35 fruit trees in his yard in Florida, also began to boil the leaves from his own tree. "I started to take it (the drink) myself, figured it was working. My high blood pressure, my cholesterol are now normal without medication," he told The Gleaner.

Then someone sent him the August 20 article. "And when I looked at the article I saw your name - and that's when I picked up the phone and called you," he told this writer, whom he had met earlier this year at an event called 'Kingston Pon Di River', "and I started to do my own research, my own investigation, and I told my radio listeners about it."

TOTALLY Healed

Subsequently, Dr Grant began bottling the drink extracted from his own leaves. "On a Saturday, after my radio programme or during my radio programme, we don't have hands to get rid of it," he said, "and now we are getting testimonies: My insurance agent, diagnosed with gall bladder problems and prostate cancer, he's now totally, totally healed by drinking the soursop. So it has been working miracles. We have numerous, numerous testimonies."

Yet, there are skeptics. "A lot of people have read your article. I have emailed it to thousands of people. A lot of them don't believe that this is really factual. As a radio host, I wanted to come and meet the Kirlews myself," Dr Grant said. So, to remove some of the doubts, Dr Grant flew in from Florida last weekend to visit the Kirlews at their home at Dairy, Discovery Bay, St Ann.

But unbeknown to Dr Grant, the big soursop tree that seems to be sustaining Yvonne and keeping the Kirlews happy was blown over by Hurricane Sandy. Some of the roots are still firmly embedded in the ground, and the leaves are still fresh and green. It will be propped up soon by Raymond. Just as it was with Yvonne, death is not an option.

After a warm reception by the Kirlews, they gave Dr Grant a synopsis of their story, and some of the soursop portion from the fridge, which they drank on the spot. Then, it was time for Raymond, always the enthusiastic storyteller, to give anecdotes of people whose cancer was cured by the soursop tree, and those who chose chemotherapy over the soursop, and had since made the transition.

At 10 o' clock, via telephone, Raymond and Yvonne were interviewed live on Dr Grant's radio show. With the fallen soursop tree as the backdrop, Yvonne, Raymond and Dr Grant spoke for about 10 minutes. At one stage, a smiling Yvonne Kirlew exclaimed, "I feel great!" to which Dr Grant replied, "And you're looking wonderful! If they could just see how wonderful and healthy you look."

After the live interview, Dr Grant told The Gleaner, "I can go back and now say, I have met them, I have seen them. They have told me how it's done, what it has done. They have the medical records right there in the home. I am a believer.

I now believe even more that this soursop cured Mrs Kirlew, and it is a miracle drug. If my visit saved one life - this visit from Florida to Discovery Bay, Jamaica - just one life, it would have been worth it." Soot.Net.