Afrilition sets out a critical pathway towards African excellence… Afrilition is about a systemic realisation of Africa as a global community that exemplifies diversity and alignment, not in competition or comparison with other peoples or parts of world, but focused on the authentic evolution of its own possibilities and purposes.
My new book, Afrilition: 21st Century African Manifesto got released and put on Amazon on the 14th of July. It is a reflection of a lifetime of understanding the meaning of Africa that matters to and excites me. The late US commentator and media pioneer, Tony Brown, who also hosted the eponymous “Journal,” often quoted an African proverb: “It is not what you’re called, but what you answer to, that matters.” To me, Africa means the evolution of the Egyptian phrase, Afru-ika or Motherland. Indeed, the Motherland of all humanity, but more recently, the place of the widest human diversity, ethnically and genetically.
Aside from being the originating home of modern humans, it has the deepest ancestral lineages and the largest genetic variations. Afrilition is an affirmation of the distinction of the future of those who avow Africanness across the world. It is a book for those who are willingly African from across the world, not those who see their Africanness as a prison or accident of circumstance.
