By David G Maillu
Many foreigners have symbolized the African’s black skin with mental backwardness. The Whiteman loves painting Satan black. Black magic is evil and whiteness is associated with purity and advancement. It is not a credit but discredit in the Whiteman’s world when you are called a black sheep. It means that you are some kind of curse.
Some time ago while discussing the seemingly world-wide miserable fate of the BlackRace, a Canadian man called Henry Miller was quick to say, “Irrespective of what the history of the Blackman has recorded, he is fast coming out of the prescribed wood. For example, in the past and of the recent times the most talked about and quoted people in the world are black people.”
“Oh yeah?” I wondered.
Henry Miller confronted me with a long list of black people after which he asked me, “Tell me, in Europe, America and Asia who matches Martin Luther King, Barrack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jackson, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Mohamed Ali, Nelson Mandela, Kofi Annan, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Desmond Tutu, Miriam Makeba, Wangari Maathai, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Robert Mugabe, Mohammad Ghadafi, Pele, Usain Bolt.
