FINAL EMANCIPATION OF BLACK PEOPLE

By Rolland Nwanua

We have fought against slavery, we overcame; we fought against colonialism, we overcame; we fought against segregation, we overcame; now it’s time for one more struggle. This struggle will lead to the final emancipation of the Black people.

Unlike the previous struggles of the Black people, this one will be silent, it will be principally among us, and it will take place within every individual and will sweep across all Black countries and all continents.

“As much as we have external enemies to fight and overcome,
the greatest enemy we must conquer is ourselves.”
- Kenneth Kaunda
(Former president of Zaire – now DRC).

When slavery, colonialism, segregation and every form of oppression of the Black people were gone, they left an element behind which was born of them. It’s a personality trait that psychology calls inferiority complex. When inferiority complex goes beyond an individual and affects an entire society it is called social cringe.

This trait is hidden and destroys silently. Its elimination must also be silent and persistent.

In my inquiry into the problems and backwardness of the Black people, after years of research and contemplation, I arrived at a point where the answer presented itself before me. It’s the trait; it’s inferiority complex; this is the psychogenesis of the backwardness of Black people.

The tedious research of George G. M. James also presents an answer
that tallies with mine. He wrote in his book Stolen Legacy, “both groups(White and Black) have been the common victims of miseducation about
the African Continent and it has caused them to develop attitudes according to their common believe: The White people, a superiority complex; and the Black people, the corresponding inferiority complex.”

It has to be established that Africa has made a great contribution to world civilization. There has been a misconception and miseducation on this issue. African scholars are working tirelessly to set out some tactics by which a reformation can be made so that the African Continent can have redemption and stand side by side with the rest of the world.

Another struggle is on; final emancipation of the Black people. When mental emancipation must have taken place, the people will be free indeed. Brace yourself. This will take generations and centuries but entertain no fear. It is just and worthy. Therefore, let the fire in you burn continuously until we reestablish the Glory of the Black people.

We bear no grudge against our White brothers, rather, we call on them to join us in bringing Africa back to her Glory, so that when many nations of the world are great, the world as a whole may be called a great world.