AFRICAN MORPHOLOGY

AFRICAN MORPH FROM PREY TO RESURGENT GLOBAL PARADISE Two continents savaging one for over 2,000 years : Western Asia and Western Europe upon Africa. Two "white" sub-interest groups plundering the "black" one for over 2,000 years: Islam and Christianity over African indigenous cultures, religions, civilizations, cosmology. The same two "white" sub-interest groups' colonization, appropriation of African international trade rights and intra-African trade privileges cultures lasted over 1,000 years. The same two "white" sub-interest groups' enslavement, exportation of African people to Western Asia, Western Europe, Caribbean islands, other islands of the seas, especially in South, Central, North, America lasted over 1500 years. The reference point used here is our own, year 2019. It is used as the point of departure, a unit of measure for this survey in time. It would certainly seem as if Africa and Africans have been, are being, preyed upon by nearby neighbors for thousands of years. Perhaps it was and is because Africans don't or didn't conceive nor perceive of themselves as being Africans, nor of being "black", but their nearby neighbors did, yet do. The same "whites" agreed to divide by tacit treaties African nations, tribes, they have militarily defeated by superior arms technology by dominions, into spheres of dominion-influence for trading raiding religious conversion; until people, cultural, geographical carcass of Africa itself was cut off, sectioned, collegially, for the two. Predators and prey have Africa and Africans been to its near-neighbors for over the past 2,000 years. This rather largo sweep of time includes the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the persecution of Christians, the codified Nicene Creed under the aegis of Emperor Constantine, the rise of Muhammad, Islam, spread of Islam, the Crusaders, the Dark Ages, the integumentary Greek and Roman empires of Europe, the rise and spread of Christianity from Africa to Rome and Constantinople; the expulsion of Muslims from Spain and Portugal; the circumnavigation of the globe by Portuguese and Spanish sailors; the Italian Renaissance; the discovery of the Americas, to wit: the island Hispaniola and its natives by Columbus, seeking a short cut to the riches, spices, of the Indies. One may wonder if the humbling of Africa, Africans, by Muslims and Christians was unavoidable? Or was it as inevitable as the ice ages , the desiccation of the Sahara and of the Yellow Nile River? Or was the defeat, shame subordinations for over 2,000 years remediable by the Africans themselves by continued dedication to acquiring knowledge? Two thousand years (or seasons) includes me and you and our close ancestors, predecessors, progeny. What does this sketchy conception of continental interaction connote, denote, to us, who were born into it as the fait accompli? Does any duty devolve upon us by reason of this conception? May not there be yet other conceptions, categorizations, possibilities ahead, above, within, our present paradigmatic paradox? These questions befit those who study, who reflect, who attempt to do something about the prior ideas that brought about this ignoble African parody of ancient pyramids and present poverty: economically, philosophically, cosmologically. The world awaits Africa to resume the place of primacy forfeited by idle inanity, inertia, inattentiveness to the world around it, until it is prey! There are no lack of challenges that befit a resurgent African conspectus. Everywhere a line is cast a keeper-fish is caught: in every field of endeavor bar none. The paradise of which Diodorus Siculus, Homer, Herodotus wrote; the maths, sciences philosophies of Pythagoras, Euclid, Plato, more still endure epigenetically in the spiritual perspectives of Africans. Bring on climate change, nuclear proliferation and nuclear waste; bring on abased, depressed men women, nations, children! African genius that was yet is as the sun is, as the earth is, as the stars are , as we are! Africans hold the solutions.