What freedom feels like in an African country
In an African country, freedom feels immense. There is freedom from oppression. Freedom from control by oppressors. Freedom in the wind, in the sun, in the rain, in the breeze that blows off the ocean. Freedom from the need to be validated by a colonial system that was created to crush indigenous and African people. All African people living in the African Diaspora should take a trip to the Continent of Africa. It is an experience that will shake your core and remind you who you are and who your ancestors are--a mighty people whose history the colonizers tried to erase in their colonial narratives. As the great South African singer Miriam Makeba once said: "The conqueror writes history. They came. They conquered and they wrote. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us. It should be the mission of African people living in the African Diaspora to recapture that narrative and correct it.
