THE AFRICAN DILEMMA

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN MAAT AND ISFET (SEVENTEEN)

Everything as far as the name "Africa" is concerned was designed to fail its indigenous people. Some may say that the name is not important, but that is not true. If the name is not important, then there is nothing that is important. The name and its corrosive image contribute a whole lot to what is going on in our beloved continent. The nature of every given thing starts with its name, whether good or bad, and the name connotes and denotes its essential nature and origin. The African dilemma is inseparable with the name and its image. The etymology of the name resonates the etiology of its image. The consequences are clear which have led to the ongoing process of changing the name. By changing the name, we have started the process of transforming whatever that is associated with our beloved continent.

The continent of KEMET belongs to the People of KEMET and not to the Africans. Until the Africans reject the religions of ISFET, they can no longer represent or inherit the continent of KEMET. It is only in our beloved continent that we have a classic case of divide and conquer. The Africans have been divided into different spheres of influence by the religions of ISFET, which were used as instruments of conquest and domination.

The name "Africa" is no doubt a brand and not an identity. If the name "Africa" is an identity, it would have been relatively easy to unite the African people as one people. Being as a brand name that is loaded with negative images, which are continually being created by those who branded it, the Africans cannot control its imagery or are they capable of changing the narrative of the negative brand's image? Because the name Africa is a brand, it has never been functional to the Africans.

To the contrary, the name Africa as a brand has been highly functional to invaders and foreigners alike who are in control of its imagery and purpose of existence. Evidently, the name Africa is out of touch with the reality on the ground and it has never been functional to those who call themselves Africans and it will never be functional in the future. It is a fallacy for anyone to promote the false notion of an African identity. There has never been an African identity with definite values that anyone can speak of. What actually exists is anti-Africanism, which has been used to create and sustain the African brand name. The false notion of an African identity did not even start from the within of our beloved continent. What people often mistake as an African identity has been a brand created by imperialists and the consequent reactions of some westernized Africans who were indoctrinated through Western education to embrace it. If there was an identity with definite values behind the African image, it would have been very difficult for non-Africans to control the African imagery.

An identity is derived from the consciousness of an archetypal past, which serves as the basis of unity, from which each and every unit draws its inspiration. Unlike an identity, the African brand has a past but this past is encapsulated in the history of enslavement and colonialism. There has never been an African identity that is derived from the consciousness of an archetypal past upon which the identity can derive its positive values from a common past. The enslavement of the Africans by the followers of the religions of ISFET and the colonization of the Africans can never serve as the basis of unity for the Africans for neither of the African experience is archetypal indeed.

Whatever may be the case, the name "Africa" is unworthy and can never represent an identity for those who have rejected the false images of what it means to be black constantly being created and nurtured from the African experience. Let it be known that there can never be unity without definite values of a common past.Therefore, there is nothing like an African unity embedded in a common past. As long as the religions of ISFET are patronized by the majority of Africans, the Africans are in a dilemma of who they are.

It is without any shadow of doubt that the African experience is not an identity that is rooted in an archetypal past, but instead it is a brand that had been created, nurtured, and sustained by an external logic which determines and defines its dominant anti-African imagery. That is why, the African experience must be understood from the point of view of being an effect to a definite cause. In other words, the much promoted African experience is the effect of the destruction of the black civilization. In fact, the destruction of the black civilization had helped to create the contemporary African experience that is the basis of the African dilemma.

There is an undeniable unity in the African experience, but there is no unity of purpose among the Africans. The Africans being acted upon by the external logic became victims of malicious propaganda and became objects that can easily be manipulated through the instrumentality of the religions of ISFET. The branding of the image of the "Africa" that never was created the African experience that makes unity untenable. The African brand, therefore, is designed and programmed to produce particular results so long as it is allowed to continue to exist. This branded image of the African that never was is the ego-trip and effigy of those who created it. Thus, the reason why no African is capable of changing the negative narrative of the African experience is that those who created the African brand control its imagery and would never accept any contrary image formation.

Why is this existing condition called the African dilemma? This existing condition is called the African dilemma because the name Africa and its corrosive image as a brand can never be functional to its indigenous people. Consequently, this albatross must be totally rejected by those who have come to understand the fundamental truth of this matter; and simultaneously, they ought to accept the emergent self-definition of the People of KEMET.

We cannot remain as Africans and expect different results. For, the name "Africa" is a brand designed to serve the interest of those who have created it.

In the struggle between MAAT and ISFET, the African is ignorant of EKUMEKU; and as a result, the name "Africa" and its corrosive image do not represent the emergent world interest of our beloved continent. Hence, the African is in a dilemma for one who is branded by another can only look at the world through the eyes of those who had created the brand name. No doubt, the African brand was created for a definite purpose and it is serving the actual purpose of its creation.

The People of KEMET thus have rejected the African brand for it is diametrically opposed to the best interest of the people of our beloved continent.

Without accepting your identity as a Kemite, you would remain as an African, or you would remain a Negro or even you can become any other thing others may want you to be. The People of KEMET are not Africans for we are the new synthesis that came out of the African dilemma. When the African understands that the corrosive African image and whatever that the image represents was not shaped for him and that the image of the African was shaped by the Europeans for the Europeans, to suit the European people, it is only then can an African transform himself to become a Kemite.

What the Europeans did to the Africans has altered their thought patterns. That is why, when we tell ignorant Africans that we are the People of KEMET all that they would say is: "I am not going back to Egypt". Why is this so? It is because they prefer to go to Rome, Jerusalem and Mecca as servants than to take control of their own destiny in their hands. Let them go to Jerusalem, Rome and Mecca and leave us alone in our beloved continent. Indeed, our beloved KEMET is the Holy Land and all of you Africans better repent or you can move to your own holy land in Rome, Jerusalem or Mecca as the case may be. The beloved continent of KEMET must have its own definite values in this struggle between MAAT and ISFET as its own reason for existence.

THE CREATOR IS ONE. THE ONE IS AMUN AND THE DIVINE PLAN IS EKUMEKU. THERE IS NO OTHER CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE BUT AMUN IN WHOM WE TRUST.

Blessings of Hotep!

In the spirit of MAAT, I am

YOUR HUMBLE SERVANT.