ASAFO: A Warrior's Guide to Manhood

[Baba Ahmed]

"Yebehyia (yea-bashia: something like greetings) Mwalimu K. Bomani Baruti introduces his latest work, ASAFO: A Warrior's Guide to MANHOOD, with a "poem" for The Warrior Class. After listing a few names, he writes its also for "...all of our brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers and sons and daughters and wives and husbands battling to maintain their Afrikan sanity while locked in the deepest, most dehumanizing abyss of the beast's bowels." Then...
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Warrior Scholars.
Never, ever,
commit treason
against our ancestors.
Never, ever,
abandon our children
to others' chaos.
Never, ever,
give up your power
to our enemies.
Never, ever,
compromise truth.
Never, ever,
be without
a liberating vision,
a vision of tradition.
Warrior Scholars,
Always
be true
to the spirit
of our ancestors.
Always
BE AFRIKAN!"
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Then chpt one: THE REAFRIKANIZATION OF MANHOOD is intro'd with -

I am a Black man
An Afrikan man
Do not attack me with media cries of Chauvinism
(Exploitation is a foreign product --- imported by Negoes)
Do not try to change me -- I reject the effeminate
Do not ask me to cry -- tears are for the trembling and watery
eyes anathema to the warrior
(i.e. the enemy must remain in focus until the enemy no
longer remains)
Do not attempt to domesticate me --
I cannot protect you with dishpan hands.

- by George Edward Tait"