Bridging the Gulf between Many Centuries
Bridging the Gulf between Many Centuries
By Nana Kweku Egyir Gyepi III
The world is fast becoming a global village and we must make an indelible mark upon our psyche as to the role we are to play if we are to not only survive but also be relevant to the world of the future. My travels outside of Africa have convinced me that we must be wise enough to be able to expand our mental and spiritual scope to recognize that ancestors were torn from our midst and their seed-our undeniable blood relatives exist. We must then develop a consciousness that includes the genuine concerns of our people no matter who they are and no matter how far slavery has flung them! This, in my view, is a duty, an obligation and a responsibility we have to ourselves for it is time for the voices of those who have not been heard for almost a half thousand years to be raised: those in exile!
Every African man, woman and child, regardless of the environment in which they came forth into life, must expand their views to recognize and include those victims of the holocaust that we know as the slave trade. No individual was a willing victim! Not one fled our land! All were unwilling captives in the unholy, profanely vicious and unforgivably wicked enterprise of the trafficking of the flesh of our people. This, in fact, ushered into being the most devastating brain drain that has ever happened to any people on earth-a fact from which our beloved Mother Africa still suffers today! Thus, it behooves men and women of consciousness and clear perception who are mentally, spiritually, politically, socially and economically responsible for the future of our species to see the urgent need to link our people and unite despite artificial geographical boundaries
It would be unthinkable not to do so! It would be unconsciousnable not to do so! It would be unforgivable not to reach out and out and send forth the call to all of our people to identify themselves and to prepare to join in a worldwide crusade to reunite ourselves back into a family structure! For, the same blood is pumped through all of us our veins. Hundreds of millions of our people survived the holocaust. They are vibrant and gifted and still astound the world with their Africans genius. Yet, they do not know from which village they come, to which tribe they belong or their true tongue. However, even having lost all these tools knowledge, they remain African. Yes! It is truly a wonder of the world that we are still strong and endure against such incredible and unbelievable odds!
That f then is the profound reason why Africans born in Africa must expand our thinking so as to include these hundreds of millions of Africans and call ourselves back together and begin working together to forge a greater African link than ever before in the history of our people! When we dare think of the advanced technical knowledge and skills acquired by that captive segment of us and then look at our needs in our Holy Motherland, we are immediately able to grasp the significance of making arrangements to tap into the vast experience and expertise of our people that was gained despite their grave, grievous disadvantaged of being kidnapped and spirited away from us hundreds of years ago!
I speak on this for me, for you and for our leaders who are charged with securing our future! We must not allow our hard won genius and development to go by the wayside. We must not be too narrow minded or too local in our understanding to be able to see the future that looms before our eyes. We cannot afford to be too selfish to admit that we are one people despite the fact that we operate as tribes, nations and different political nationalities! The fact will remain that there was but one creation that brought Africans into being. Thus, we are one people!
As we look around the world today, we see many nations putting away their differences, submerging their politics and re-tying themselves back into their own racial and family groupings. They are preparing to become more powerful than ever before! It is also evident that our Continent will be even more plundered, gutted and exploited with greater vengeance if we are not careful to properly analyze what these new formations mean! If we understand these things, we must recognize that the future of this Continent we call Africa is actually in our hands! We will then be able to have the vision of those individuals that sprang from our midst and came forth advocating the “United States of Africa” our mind. Our vision, our understanding, our ability and our willingness to reach out and include our own people regardless of where they were born and let and let them know that we are concerned about their well-being and are prepared to welcome them back home will create a spiritual bridge between us.
Tower of Return 2006
December 30, 2005
To properly prepare for their return and for the much needed development of Cape Coast Ghana and Africa. An international African council staffed by our experts in every field or human endeavor from around the world must be formed ASAP. They will serve as counselors and advisors to our government and work to bring the technology and resources to Africa to help us to develop our own industries. By exploiting our own raw materials and resources, we can product the products to feed, clothe shelter, protect Africans in Africa and around the world, and then have some to share if we so desire! This opportunity stares us in the face if we are responsible enough to take full advantage of it! Sisters and Brothers of Africa worldwide this call must be taking as very important as Africans.
As a first corporative gesture to bring about a global re-tying of our people, I suggest greatly that a TOWER OF RETURN be built in Cape Coast Ghana West Africa. West Africa. This TOWER OF RETURN will be a monument to our ancestors who were captured and will acknowledge their descendants who still reside in the exile in the North America, South America and the Caribbean. This Project, invites cooperation, invites respect, exhibits our concern and ultimately establishes for the first time in the History a tribute to our people whose incredible story of survival must not be ignored! This epic story defies belief, yet it is one that must not end in exile but in return! Hence the name the name TOWER OF RETURN This tower will stand forever calling the descendants of our captured ancestors home to the sacred soil of Mother land Africa!!!!
The TOWER OF RETURN will wipe out the myth that says that Africans at home aren’t sensitive or concerned with our people in exile! The cooperative building of the Tower of Return should be the imitation of our cooperative building of our continent. This then is the first task that we humbly and respectfully propose for your consideration! This mandate offers us the opportunity of a life time. Let us start in stone our concern for the hundreds of million of our ancestors who were captured, for those who died and for those who survived and for their descendants our brothers and Sisters who still live today! Please ponder the significance of the foregoing and come forth with action.
Please to get more information on this NGO for Tower of Return project you can contact:
SUCARDIF Association
Attention: Nana Kweku Egyir Gyepi III
President and CEO.
777 One Power Station
P.O. Box CT 732 Cape Coast Ghana
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