The incoming world is asking critical new questions that Africa must answer by its practice, in order to fully realise the fruitful benefits of the next few decades. A significant part of that is a critical process of decolonisation. We must realise what Africa can do without the corrupting influence that fetters the critical and eclectic exploration of its possibilities. Afrilition explores these possibilities, highlighting the keys to this new world. It is time to stop being a brand new second-hand of the after-effects of colonialist leftovers.
In writing Afrilition, I had to engage the colonial mind map that has been given to me since childhood. A well-structured framework was instilled in the basic understanding that we cannot modernise without Westernising. The essence of certification is to concur with this mental model and then be validated into it. So many have submitted to this model and the system of Afropessimism that it holds up; that their rationale for everything, including their ethnic traditions, has gone through colonial validation before they are even engaged in any conversation.
For me, the danger is that the nations which are descending or ascending from my line are already co-opted into Western socialisation by virtue of birth and upbringing; hence, where do they go to find the mission of African evolution? My work was and is multiple in its challenges, and whether I succeed even marginally will be how the next two generations understand and take up their challenges more authentically.
