Dismantling Of Culture, Arts, Sports & Cultural Transmission Of Africans In Mzantsi. Asa Hilliard. There is no alternative to it. If we have few resources, then we on do only what our resources permit. Retreading and Retracing My Thoughts On Culture: Preface Notes For The Article Below. I have posted cultural musical video of the Africans of Mzantsi on these Hubs, so that, when one read the post above, you can simply review what I had posted earlier. With Their Accompanying Retinues.. I have added and rewritten this article and posted it on the FB Wall wherein I found the members very active and interested in the work I provided for them. This thread is only about the actual rollout, Not speculation or politics THE GENERAL NEXT TO GOD. THE STORY OF WILLIAM BOOTH AND THE SALVATION ARMY. It was midnight when Hazel Hoffman came awake to darkness, uneasy and alone--and. I posted the same videos(added some) and the history of the Africans of Mzantsi for them, and those of Africans in South America, Latin America and the US. I have decided to make a separate Hub for the Africans in Africa and those in the Diaspora - showcasing their musical cultures, some African traditions, their various short histories and some documentary videos show that All these African cultures, World- wide, are the same and are African. And I concluded the whole exercise by writing this updated article below. In keeping with the spirit of upgrading and uplifting our African milieu and , I have decided to Post this updated version with a unique take about the Africans and their Cultures, music and traditional clothing worn by Africans to in performing their culture, dances and the African languages they sing in. 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But recreating it on this Wall has been important because I can see that tell that the members of this FB Wall are people who either read or watch the stuff that is posted on the Wall, although most members say nothing, of which I take no offense, I am encouraged by the response that this FB Wall shows me how many people have . On this Wall, there is a lot of activity, which I saw with my earlier post before the cultural material of which I am about to talk about below(The music I started posting prior to the cultural set below, and that many people do or are paying attention and have a serious interest about what's on their Wall). As to politics, I maintain that it is useless if you do not know or have your culture in ones sights. If one is ignorant of ones culture, customs, traditions, languages, music, traditional dress of the different groups that make the Africans of South Africa, not aware of one's cultural bearings, moorings and make up, that is, the culture of the eleven nations I have posted here, one is hopeless and helpless and hapless, and knows nothing about Africans of Mzantsi. Many people write about Africans of South Africa not having lived with them, or just toured and read books, but know nothing about these African people. Politics makes sense if one understands, holistically, that political and cultural reality and manifestation: 'Politics is Art of the Possible'. What am I saying? What I am saying is that, presently here in our country, there is a paucity(shortage or lack) of reading material, or sort of a place where one can have a chance to read about one's own culture, traditions, cultural music, dresses, dances and different languages that comprise this culture. We have been denied access to understanding our own particular cultures, traditions, customs, history, music, dances, traditional dresses, languages, sacred rites and practices by those who want to confuse us and keep us in perpetual ignorance and as slaves. We are easy to enslave because we 'really' do not know much about our cultures, etc. Some of us do not really care. Instead, we want to be Europeans, we want to behave like what we think Europeans are like- we are. We think that being European- like in our speech, dress and . We are seriously bad and poor carbon- copies of the masters who oppressed us that we seek to emulate to be and make pretend we are not Africans. We refer to our history, traditions, customs music and so forth as 'superstition,' backward and dead/non- existent This is brought about by pure ignorance and self- imposed amnesia on one hand(along with the amnesiac outlook that has been installed in us by the Apartheid regime- on the other hand). We have still not yet sobered- up and we are heavily inebriated to the hilt! We think that America and Europe/Japan and so forth are the epitome of modernity and civilization, as opposed to us with our seemingly regressive and backward culture. This we have been taught in school and in life that we are a worthless people. Our children today, since they go to European private school(many of them, mostly go to poor public schools), where they are not really taught about themselves, and have begun to look at us(Oldies, etc) as dumb and really backward and useless people- even if we are their parents, relatives, and community. We have sold our souls to a people who really do not care nor give a rats ass about us, so long as they can keep us weak and ignorant, thus, we willingly imbibe our paltry wealth and abuse our labor power and permit these Capital investors to keep us passive and scared, and they could not care less for anything else. From the days of the early struggles to now, our intellectual cadre has no yet realized what type of powers we are really up against and what their motives and modus operandi is. Instead, we end up joining our detractors in oppression and depressing of us(Africans), without even thinking about what we are doing- we conveniently forget and pretend that we are now living today, and the past does not affect us, since there's nothing we can do about it. This is where One of my battles with anyone who thinks like that and says such statements that I have been dealing with head on and energetically opposed, throughout this Hub. So, to me, politics, which we really know nothing about, except regurgitate what we read or get from hearsay, TV or radio, is how we approach and broach the political/cultural/historical subject — after having been subliminally seduced by contemporary media and its gizmos/techniques. And, also, having been taught a one- sided and falsified version of our African History. But without ones consciousness awareness and being cognizant of how one's culture empowers and liberates one, we are supinely prostrated like cadavers on the operation table being torn apart at will, with us having no say nor action against what is happening to us. Before I started posting these cultural musical/dance videos, I posted an article I wrote about . What I did with each posting, I gave a brief historical account of the nation(not 'tribe'). In some videos I erased the word 'tribe', but was not entirely successful with the articles. Nonetheless, I was trying to augment for the lack and paucity of reading material by giving a brief historical account of each of the 1. Mzantsi. I did not include the Boers and other people, they have their own people who can do and have done that work. My interest is in the African people whose music, cultures, dance and so forth that has been distorted and not talked much about- and that which I have posted above, is my way of using cultural pedagogy to heighten the conscious awareness of Africans in South Africa and globally. This means, I have collated videos and historical records to begin to give us a fighting chance by knowing each other- enhancing and propagating our culture, future and autonomous African freedom and independence, etc. What am I talking about or saying? We are not different from each other as promulgated by the Boers and their learned minions. Africans of South Africa are really and basically one united nation. If you get a chance and look at all the cultural videos I have posed here, you can begin to discern a common pattern. The Tswanas, San, Xhosa, have the same vibe in the step. Dance technique; the Bapedi/Vha. Tsonga/Shangaans, have and admixture of both the Batswana/Xhosa/San dance and technique; The same statement will be the thrust of the New Hub I am working on, about the Cultures of the The Africans(more so, of South Africa/Africa and those of the diaspora. The Basotho are unique but the same as everyone else. Most of these groups use hand- clapping and rhythmical foot- stomping with effect and in tandem with the drum and melody, the Bapedi are more vigorous, along with the Shangaans, Venda and Ndebeles. Drums Feature all over the music and dances of Africans in south Africa, Africa all over the world. Now, All these Ten people, have cultures that form a confluence around the drum, hand clapping, synchrony of men and women(see the Batswana women, Xhosa women and other videos of women in the collection below, musicality, variegated and diverse but same dance that in fact speak for itself and also projects itself as that of one people. The colored people, one should read the historical piece I gave, but that too, which is a good thing, emanates from the Africans of New Orleans, which is entirely another topic and subject- and the word or term 'Coon', elsewhere it's viewed as a derogatory term, and the Colored People in the Cape say that this is not done in the American context of the word- next time for that) We are different because the White people say so. I say we are the same and unified because our culture shows and informs me so- it is also a hugely and large diverse culture, from south Africa into Africa and throughout the Diaspora. But it is One African Culture..
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