On Our Afrikan Interests

**Akyeame Kwame** · 07-12-2005

"Having lost a clear and detailed sense of our identity, we have naturally also lost our ability to create a point of view of the world strictly our own. With our scrambled sense of reality we have forgotten how to see things in terms of our separate and concrete interests. We behave as if the interest of the West were necessarily our own, as if the western point of view were the one and only valid one. Worse still, we behave as if it were some sort of betrayal to discover and insist on our own point of viewing the world. We allowed ourselves to be persuaded that African unity was utopian..."

Chinweizu
The West and the rest of us

**Akyeame Kwame** · 07-13-2005

"Having lost the honor of full manhood that comes only from the pride of racial worth and identity, the black man's mind generally operates favorably toward his white enemies and negatively toward himself and his kind."

Chancellor Williams
The Destruction of Black Civilization

**Akyeame Kwame** · 08-13-2005

"Until we learn that it serves our objectives to
emphasize the similarities, the ties, the unifying
principles, the common threads and themes that bind
and identify us all as 'African,' we will continue to
be politically and ideologically confused."

Marimba Ani