It is absolutely critical that the opportunity to build synergies and leverage capacity across the African world is forged towards as a future alternative to the exploitation, colonialism and brutal hegemony that is currently the global approach. The wider diaspora, coordinated with a continental focus of 54 countries, can become the engine for a future that is inclusive and interdependent. The next two generations of Africans need this systemic change, and Afrlition lays it out starkly and hopefully with clarity.
The African expression of identity and character in the 21st century has to be transcontinental. It has forever been so: in the DNA of human beings, both the mitochondrial and Y chromosomes go back to African origins. Afrilition, thankfully, offers Africanness based on self-identification, not genetic or even official origins. As a book or manifesto, the focus is the engagement of the willing or remnants, as there are many born on the continent who are white supremacist in orientation and mental model. This is nothing shocking, since their formal socialisation offers Africa as a foil to perceived European or Western excellence. Afrilition targets those who choose African identity worldwide.
