HOW UMLUNGU ROBBED AFRICANS

Sir,

The most educated leader in the world, Robert Mugabe once said “(South) Africans will kick down a statue of a White man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one.
Yet they can stone to death a Black man simply because he is a foreigner.”

This was in the wake of the #RhodesMustFall campaign in which students demanded the removal of a statue of the late imperialist, Cecil John Rhodes.
Before this, black people had killed fellow blacks, in a series of xenophobic attacks, because they allegedly took their jobs.
The only people killed were black, none were white.

Mugabe was right! Black people will never touch white people, no matter the atrocities they have caused.
Even during apartheid, the only people killed by blacks were black spies.

For millions of years, black people lived together in harmaony, except for the few tribal wars, here and there.
They had vast acres of land and practised shifting cultivation: when the land could no longer sustain them, they moved to a new location.
As my Form One teacher would put it, “They lived a nomadic way of life”.

It was in the 18th century that the umlungu (white man) came. He took everything, literally everything.
Black people had it all; the land, peace, science, religion and the identity.
When the colonialists came to Swaziland, it is alleged that the ruler of that time was given a mirror, bottles of spirits and a swinging chair.
He drank the spirits and they sat him on the swinging chair. When he was inebriated, they told him to look into the mirror and show them land that he was giving the white man and they swung the chair, thus giving the umlungu authority over the whole land. This led to Swazis questioning the authority of that king.

The umlungu drafted a paper that gave him ownership of the land.
He called that paper a Title Deed. Until today, people whose great grandfathers had been given land by the then chiefs are being evicted from their land.
These people do not have solid evidence that the land was given to them by their chiefs, however, the umlungu who looted the land has a paper which says he owns the land. We have turned beggars in our own land.
Court orders are waved on our faces, day in and day out.

We are threatened in our own country and even the courts cannot help us, they favour the umlungu.
Now, they are selling the land back to us through estate agents. It pains me when what was stolen from black people is sold back to them at a very high price. They ‘bought’ it with a swinging chair, a pint of spirit and a mirror, but they’re making millions out of it.

We appreciate the education they gave us, especially with regard to modern agricultural practices. We are learned, but we have no land. The land is concentrated to the minority. Would I be lying if I said they taught us so that we worked for them? What use is education without the necessary tools for developing oneself?
Black people have been spiritual since time immemorial.  

We honoured our ancestors. We talked to them, and they talked to us, either through visions or diviners (tinyanga). Tinyanga are our intermediaries to the spirit world. They can interprete the language of bones and tells us what our ancestors are saying or require of us.
They provide solutions to problems, more especially pertaining to day to day ailments.
Mother Nature provided us with a plethora of plants for every ailment in the land.

Before umlungu came to Africa, there was no HIV or the majority of incurable illnesses. Our ancestors gave us the cure to all ailments and solutions to all our problems, then the God of the umlungu came and told us that at the end of the world there will be incurable diseases.
These people knew very well they had HIV and would infect black people.

As alluded to earlier, our tinyanga have all solutions for African problems and ailments but not HIV. It is not an African thing. It was engineered in the lab. Our assortment of herbs cannot counter it.
Its DNA is so specially encoded, only the umlungu’s ARVs can tackle it - and he makes trillions of dollars out of it.
The umlungu brought with him his own religion.

He belittled our own and made laws that rendered ours witchcraft. Even the herbs our ancestors grew up taking are labelled all sorts of expletives.
Being seeing with a herbal concoction now draws unnecessary looks from the born again, even though there is concrete evidence that our ancestors lived to over a century, just because they used these herbs.
He threatened us with hell and read verses the likes of 1 Peter 2:18-25 that force one to honour their master, umlungu, the same way as they honour Christ.
Black people, as slaves of their own conscience obliged, they left their own, and they adopted the umlungu’s religion.
Christianity is a religion, like the other religions, be it Isam, Judaism, Hiduism and any religion you can think of. In Swaziland, Christianity came in 1844 and for more than six billion years, Swazis were worshipping their ancestors.
Where was this Christian God? Then he came with the umlungu and they made us slaves, stole our land all in the name of the Christian God!

It is funny that black people will eat you alive when you question God, the white God. They think everybody is a Christian. They don’t care if you question the Muslim God or their ancestors. You can touch those but not the God of the umlungu.
The world has seven billion people but only two billion (approximately 30 per cent) follow the white God!
Only 40 per cent of Africans follow the God of the umlungu.

Christianity is not a barometer of morality and we should refuse to make it one. After all, it took the United States of America 245 years to realise slavery was wrong, simply because Christianity said it was right.
The supremacy of Christianity in black communities was well explained in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart:
“The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

How often have you heard traditionalists punch holes into Christian cultures like Christmas or Easters? In fact, as a black nation, we have even made them national holidays! How often have you heard Christians punch holes in our traditions? They will make all sorts of comments on Incwala (first fruits ceremony) and kuphahla (honouring ancestors).

They will quote verses from the Bible, forgetting that the very reasons we do these is because we are not Christians, hence we do not subscribe to the Biblical way of life, since it is meant for Christians.
Growing up, we had a siSwati newspaper, Tikhatsi temaSwati. It was discontinued because of low sales.
People did not buy it as much as they bought the paper written in the language of the umlungu. It is not that they cannot read siSwati; they can.
However, “What will people say?” ‘Bantfu batotsini sengifundza liphepha lesiSwati?’
Most of them think those who do are unlearned.

How many times have you heard black people laugh at a fellow black for failure to speak English or making a grammar error in the Queen’s language? Do we laugh at the umlungu for failing to speak siSwati? No, we congratulate him and say, ‘Shem, uyazama (he’s trying).’
We have reached a stage where we are even not comfortable in our own skin. Skin bleaching lotions fly off the shelves, as slaves of their own conscience try to change their skins to be as light as that of the umlungu.
A friend of mine almost got back with his ex-girlfriend because she had changed completely. She was no longer the black beauty that my friend had dated earlier but was now a yellow bone (a black person with white skin, but is neither a white nor a coloured). My friend only retreated when the girl told him her name.

As black people, we have moved away from our own. We have adopted the culture of the umlungu. We think his way of life is superior to ours. We suffer from an inferiority complex. Yes, we are to blame for white supremacy.
Black people should stop seeing themselves as inferior to white people. We have our own religion; let us stop belittling and calling it demonic because the religion of white people says so! #WhiteSupremacyMustFall‎

Anthoniser
SITEKI

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