It is obvious and undisputed that the coming of the Whiteman to Africa has done more harm than good.
Apart from the fact that the early White men who landed on the shores of Africa were able to enlighten us to grow and hate our own selves, religion and way of doing things, they also succeeded in injecting a huge dose of “Inferiority” into our subliminal minds.
I do not want to jeopardise the direction of this post by going into the various ways by which the Whiteman was able to “conscientize” our forefathers to throw away so many of our effective practices such as religion, governance, etc that worked perfectly well for them over years before the former’s coming to accord supremacy to the Whiteman’s custom. Most of our practices were labelled evil, antique and ungodly.
A rapid growing disease which was injected by the Whiteman into our minds and being tendered by ourselves over the years is the concept of “Western World’s Supremacy, The Blackman’s Inferiority”.
Over the years, everything made in Africa, Nigeria or Ghana, made by African, Nigerian or Ghanaian is seen by the majority of us as inferior. If a product descends from a western country, it is giving a huge gravity over our own Africa made products.
The above has led us to importing almost everything from the Whiteman’s land. And I mean everything including toilet tissues and tooth picks. Are you aware that majority of the tooth picks (common tooth picks) used in Ghana are imported from Asia? (Geeez, we also have a lot of bamboos in Ghana).
I do not want to channel my wrath towards the importers since they are just towing along the lines of consumers. You and I are the ones with the “Inferiority” issue. How many of us would buy a Kumasi made leather shoes? All we want is Italian made. No wonder the Kumasi boys have recently started to stick “Made In Italy” stickers under the shoes they made.
It is very pathetic that we do not trust our own work and have no regard for our own inventions, creativity and ideas.
We copy “everything” of a western origin. We copy their way of dressing, talking, eating and even what they eat. Where is our identity, what happened to “us”? Let me say, in 10 years to come, there will be no Africa, Ghana or Nigeria since we will all be Americans or British. (Sad! Isn’t it? )
I have seen people sending money from Africa to UK for friends to buy them sardines, cornflakes, milk and others because they think those made in Africa are inferior to the western country ones.
Who even said Gucci or Armani is prestigious and of any better quality than our Kente or Tie & Dye? Why do we attach the utmost supremacy to everything western and degrade everything African including our own food? How can we come out of our inferior minds? Do you really think everything western is better than ours?
Slavery is far gone, yet we dwell in this sort of mental slavery!
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