All races are affected by slavery, but the African people had the worst, and still today, we are blind to what matters the most to us – Unity, our pride, our culture, our food, our environment , our medicines, our people, our minerals, our oil, our children , our men , our women but most of all our lives and above all our history defines who we are. I am an African.
Are we accounting African deaths from ARVs specifically as ARV INDUCED deaths or do we bundle it up as AIDS deaths? Was accounting ever done for African deaths during the slave trade? Who will account for the ARV deaths? Who will account for the deaths brought on by barking at the wrong tree via the HIV and AIDS dogma interventions? It’s as if accounting for those deaths is purposely ignored, no accounting and the blame is on the little four letters A.I.D.S, and so no one can be nailed for it.
You may call me names, anything convenient for you, but I surely do smell a rat. If I were an African leader, my African language would be used to educate my children and all other languages would be a second language. What is now said to be the international language can be changed. There are other languages that we can all learn. I think an international language would be sign language and that would be fair to all, there is no memorable pain in its use.
Whether one knows a language or not, there is always communication between two people via their human spirit, to communicate is love, when you genuinely want to express yourself that is a language that has no barrier and that should be the international language. We are now learning a new language, one that is quite ‘scientific’ and means no more than hopelessness in its intent. Everything that I see today, in the media, in society and our cultural practices, is focused on HIV and Aids; it is focused on portraying sadness, a demolishing of hope and even the thought of hope. Dramas have lost the cultural aspect, but mainly portray, exactly what we do not want. Dramas are in fact enticing, the children, the youth and adults… to try out all other things; things that they may have never heard off until they saw the drama, song, or film. The catch is funding, if the theme is HIV and Aids and a devastated person, then you’re on, you get the bucks. There are no plays that do not portray some guilt consciousness, regret, pain, blame and the list goes on and on. I want to see hope, as it is the only way we can enter the door as tiny as a needle hole. I have gone through that hole, only because of my strength and courage; otherwise I am just like the others who did not enter through the needle hole. Let’s make many copies of those of us, who got through the needle hole. We can only do this by walking backwards to pick up our culture, we all need the modern life but not at the expense of our lives. Slavery was involuntary, ARVs/ HAART are involuntary. Is there anything that we can do that is voluntary? Yes there is. Our culture is voluntary; even when we forget our culture; our dreams will still remind us of how we used to thrive, so much that we were the preferred labour to build the New World. This is the strength that is imbedded within our souls, being who we really are, not what we have become due to circumstance, geographical location, economy and time.
‘God has given man the eye of investigation by which he may see and recognize truth. He has endowed man with ears that he may hear the message of reality and conferred upon him the gift of reason by which he may discover things for himself. This is his endowment and equipment for the investigation of reality. Man is not intended to see through the eyes of another, hear through another’s ears nor comprehend with another’s brain. Each human creature has individual endowment, power and responsibility in the creative plan of God. Therefore depend upon your own reason and judgment and adhere to the outcome of your own investigation; otherwise you will be utterly submerged in the sea of ignorance and deprived of all the bounties of God.’
(‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Foundations of World Unity, p. 75)
If we Africans don’t re-visit our history, then our existence will always be on the line, with causalities on our side – 100% of the time. We believe all and everything that comes from the western world, and we choose to disbelieve what we have known to work, for century’s encrypted in our blood. Yet at some point of the slave trade, palm oil that was shipped overseas from Africa was of much more value than a slave. The way we were packed did not reduce the risks of dying during the 8- 10 weeks on sea voyage. Now, as wealthy as our continent is, who has interest in saving us? Do you think the western world enjoy having to buy the raw materials for their industries from Africa? No they don’t! How can we think AFRICA can be saved by drugs orchestrated by the western world?
The western world knows our strengths and abilities, so they know exactly how to slow our progress down to zero. The western world also knows our weakest point. They know that we are so submissive, that even without a proper trial we do not challenge when we are told ‘you are guilty’, we don’t ask ‘guilty of what your honour?’, we just say ‘I plead guilty for whatever they say I have done, your honour’.
Africans think again!
Interestingly there were also Africans who were advancing slavery in a different way. These Africans were advancing slavery by way of advocating that Africans should be adopting the western life style. Does this sound different today? Has anything changed? I don’t think so, because pharmaceuticals companies are generously giving Africa a tiny part of their profits, to be used in what is called ‘fighting HIV and AIDS’. But in actual fact they are once again only advancing their own interests and Africa once again becomes a land of profit with a crocodile smile.
There was no consideration for African human life when we were packed in the slave ship in the sea through the so-called ‘Middle Passage (Atlantic Crossing)’ for six to ten weeks unclothed, underfed, and forced to lie on hard planking in unhygienic conditions, many failed to survive the ‘Transatlantic Voyage’. After the journey, we would then be fattened and sold. In whose interest do you think the slave trade took place? It was for profit! They wanted to make money! Now why would cupid shoot an arrow from a pharmaceutical company straight into Africa for love? Answer yourself. I have. Pharmaceutical drugs, some of which have failed in the west, like AZT – a failed cancer medicine in western countries – that is now used on us ululating Africans. The marketing of these drugs are often driven with the powerful backing of some of our fellow Africans who know the truth about HIV and AIDS, but fellow Africans who would rather fill their bank accounts and have luxurious life styles because in the pharmaceutical context HIV and Aids is the biggest opportunity to hit the market, with their best customer being Africa. I don’t think even recession affected the HIV Medicines sector, I doubt it. The pharmaceutical intervention (HAART) is laboratory made, so it’s foreign to the body yet the true intervention is naturally made, nutrition is compatible to the body. True intervention would be the correct diet and right mental attitude. But all of these correct interventions are demolished by the pharmaceutical interventions. They are demolishing it with propaganda focused on escalating fear and boosting the use of pharmaceutical drugs.
‘Your journey has moulded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time.’ – Asha Tyson.
The immune systems are breaking down due to lack of the core nutritious foods. Some of the reasons for that would include: poverty, mass production of foods, preservatives, processing of food, GMO’S, undermining the African Herbs that have been used for many centuries, etc. A tree with dead roots and a living stem is still a dead tree and so applicable to African lost cultural practices and foods. For Africans to choose other nations cultural practices has been a deliberate choice for self destruction. Only Africans can restore what once made us strong. African genes have the memories encrypted in the bodies of every African. All we need to do is retract urgently on our food and disease management. Our cultural practices and foods are our roots and they include disease prevention and management, proper food supply and natural food preservation, eating of roots and wild fruits, etc. In the case of achieving a situation of zero deaths from HIV and Aids, as many countries have such an objective – will be to go back to our core African roots, and that will deliver to us this victory. Clearing away all the bushes for beautiful unhealthy offices and homes is the root cause of ill health and starvation. Civilization has indeed come with a price for all human kind.
The intention of the slave trade was never to be of benefit to the ‘African Slave’ – who in this case was the merchandise and now the pumping up of Africa with ARVs and vaccines is still not for the benefit of Africa. If we don’t steer the wheels of change now, our children will enjoy the shortest life span ever recorded in human history.
The use of ARVs here in Africa is equivalent in many respects to the slave trade because now even knowledgeable Africans just like the African slave traders swear an oath on this HIV and Aids management of HAART and condoms to be the best way to address an compromised immune system.
The ‘knowledge’ given to us on the ‘facts’ of ARVs and condom use can be beaten by rather focusing on the outcome of food of indigenous origin – and such practices can educate us into developing a better quality of life. This indigenous knowledge will also have to re-invent the wheel where Africans used to eat from the ground and not from a shop as we now tend to do. The high numbers of poverty in Africa is caused by lack of agricultural activities, because we live lives not of our own design. We do have some places that are desert but even there the survival rate was high. We were designed as a strong people. Once we built the western world with our own hands and yet now we are the weakest and most fragile of nations. Why? The birth of this is lost roots; and since we lost our roots, we fall for anything and everything. I once also lost my roots, that is why I took ARVs for 8 years and during that time I used all the resources I had to search for a solution outside, not realising that I had it all in me and around me, I just had to go back to our African cultural roots. Roots are the tree. Termites ate most of the roots of my guava tree, but one root remained and so I maintained the tree with that one root; hoping that there can be more roots coming out. It has worked, the tree is still there but its growth is slower. Finding our roots will not happen overnight, it will probably be the same slow process that the tree used to recover, but what matters is to get in motion as individual Africans to revive our roots. Our roots were all good at one stage; that is why we were the preferred manpower to be enslaved from afar.
In the slave trade, at one time it was believed that the European slave traders deliberately made their purchases of slaves among different African groups so as to prevent effective communication among the African slaves they purchased. Recent studies, however, have suggested that most ships probably carried a fair number of Africans who could mutually understand each other. Certainly censuses in the Caribbean islands with self-declared origins of Africans suggest that a sizable minority of workers in a given plantation could communicate with each other in their native languages. Thus we are all interlinked and borders are country laws not language barriers. These introduced barriers were probably also introduced intentionally, with the aim of us forgetting our roots.
A question; where did the dead bodies of those who were found to be dead on the slave ship go? From what I saw on the picture from ‘The Bettmann Archives’, the human merchandise was laid in such a way that it was survival of the fittest. The way in which they have disposed OF DEAD bodies, if you answer fairly, shows us that as Africans we have never been of any value, unless we value ourselves. My value goes like this: As a human being I am worth far more than the most expensive raw material that Africa could have or has had. Value yourself too; stop taking the ravaging ARVs to be absorbed into your blood stream. Educate yourself in the correct life transforming principles of nourishment. As Africans we are being told that HIV/AIDS would harm our health. We do not know if it is true. Chances are that the damage that can be observed in the health of Africans is probably becoming more active with the use of ARVs. These drugs were probably designed in test tube conditions. Chances are that in a nourished body the threat of HIV/AIDS damage would probably enjoy no dignity whatsoever, nor would it be able to make any impact on our health. AIDS were probably not designed for the strong bodies of healthy Africans who know their roots, so try to find your roots to regain your strength. Our souls know our origin, dig deep inside you for what is right as an African man, woman or child. The sequence is still the same as it was in slavery; it was man, and woman and children who were all getting exposed to devastating conditions. When slavery was abolished governments compensated the owners of the slaves, now think; do we still need to follow someone else or do we rather stick to our roots? Decisions in life are sometimes made not by exercising the most popular choices, but are made only because we know, what is at stake if we would make a different choice. Anger and blame are not building blocks, but love and forgiveness are needed to rebuild our African culture and our heritage.
When you make you decision, take care to make the correct choice. Choose only one! HAART or HEART. Be careful to make the correct choice and make sure that the choice that you have made is the one that is supposed to pump the blood in your body, and that you would need no heart transplant after you have made your choice.
“Don’t compromise yourself; you are all you’ve got”.
Janis Joplin
Some slaves were chained with chains in their hands and feet but their hearts were unchained and free, today we are unchained in the hands and feet but are chained in the heart and so we are ‘Slaves of Modern Medicine’ unless we make a different choice.
