Dear Brother ....
How are you doing today? How is the visit of President Mills in Namibia going? I hope that you get the opportunity to talk to him or my friend Cadman.
I wanted to get back to the question you asked me in you previous email.
You said; "why is it only African Muslims in North East Africa who become Arabs. Muslims in Asia remain Asians?". I wanted to first make a slight correction. It is not only African Muslims in North East Africa who become Arabs once they become Muslims. West African Muslims also behave and act like Arabs. The only difference between the two is that one has reached the point of totally turning their back to the Heritage much faster than the other. The same way that Africans Christians behave like Europeans and are sucked into the mixture of the belief system of Constantinople's Roman and judaism. I have never been to North East Africa but I have travelled throughout all the Western and most of the North Western part of the Continent. What I have noticed is that although the Waalafs (Senegal) or the Mande(Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire) or the Fulani(Senegal, Niger, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon and Chad) or the Haussa (Niger, Nigeria) have kept their languages, their culture is highly contiminated by the Arab culture through Islam. My Nation, the Serer, which had migrated from the North of Senegal to the Central and Western part of Senegal to resist Islamization is one of the few nations in Senegal which had until the 1970s kept most of it customs intact. The economic crisis in the 1970 and the arrival of the Petro-Dollar during that same period had lurred some of my people to convert to Islam and I must say that since then, the arabization of the Serer People in Senegal is one the the BIGGEST THREAT to our Cultural Survival. My People are not being forced into Arabization, they are being pulled into it by the Petro-Dollars. What I have learned from this experience of my people is that their ECONIMIC VULNERABILITY is playing a major role into the slow death of our Culture. The Low Income Capacity of Senegal has made them very vulnerable to outside influence be it Evangilization(through Dollars, Euros or Pounds) or Islamization(through Petro-Dollars). Unless this low Income Capacity status is made history, my culture will most likely continue to descend to oblivion and in two or three generations down the line, my people who have for thousands of years kept their culture intact, will give it up in exchange of a few Petro-Dollars.
My Commitement to the United States of Africa Project is deeply rooted in my determination to save my culture.
Take care my brother,
Cheers!
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B.F.Bankie
Sudan Sensitisation Project (SSP)
https://theblacklist.net/
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If we were to examine ourselves first and foremost with the view as it relates to relationships with ourselves, Arabs, Europeans and now Chinese we should see a picture where in we are among these people and believe me it is all right, but what is not all right is though in the picture we are unseen. What it seems to me is that we occupy a relationship of subservience that cannot be broken, because self -will is lacking. In other words whatever it is that attracts us to this relationship we become acustomed to regardless of the interest to ourselves and our kind and believe me most time there is no self-interest as Black people. But, whenever we start to love, care and protect one another for the common good we will see the difference. In other words you have to be a person inorder to have a relationship with another. So acknowledge self and kind first and all your efforts will be so inclined.