Black communities are not disfunctional, let me explain...

When we stroll through black communities, almost worldwide, people complain about; crime, drugs, fatherlessness & everything associated with disfunctional societies. But when you track back to when the degeneration began (approx. the 1970s until today) we find that we simply lack a system. By system, I don't mean whatever was left by European colonialism when their empires fell. I mean the indigenous systems of yesteryear - the Ethiopian Empire, Ghanaian Empire, Sokoto Caliphate, Songhai Empire, Oyo, Mandigbe, Zulu Empire, Kongo Kingdom, Buganda Kingdom etc. These people knew that there was a system to ensure the people of the land do not become disenfranchised & created systems that allowed for peace within a land. That is, peace until a foreign entity challenged their kingdoms. Even lesser known ethnicities & nations in Africa, the most primitive of nations in Africa had a "way of doing" which had been tried & tested for centuries. 

In the 1960s, what happened was the Europeans left most of Africa with systems they had implemented for themselves. The black leaders that came into power after the power vacuum left by Europe were themselves dependant on the European systems left behind, the problem is European systems are meant for Europe & not Africans. The lawyers, doctors & teachers left in Africa by the colonial system had no systems they made themselves that allowed them to flourish. They had to make constitutions from scratch or simply adopted the European colonisers blueprints. Even an independent-minded leader like Kwame Nkrumah expected Europe from Africans instead of understanding that the African is out of place in incorrect borders & Western systems because of his Eurocentric indoctrination. 

Even today, in Africa, we find that people of the same country in Africa do not speak the same language. Language is a fundamental building block in creating a nation. Taking an example from my own people - the collective mentality was to adopt isiNtungwa as a language & let go of isiMbo of the Mbo peoples that were displaced by a new ruling power. You can embrace multi-ethnic lands all you want but without a common language, we'll always be unsure & debate whose land it is. "Izwe" (land) & "izwi" (voice) in my language have a common etymological root, implying that language & land are one & the same. 

Going back to the degeneration of the 1970s; the time of African independence came about in the early 1960s. But it was not African nations that were gaining independence, it was the "nations" created by the Berlin Conference. After the Gatling gun was invented, many African nations fell one-after-the-other to European powers in the late 1800s & from then on, they were under a system - an oppressive system - but a system nonetheless. About 80 years later, the generation that fought against colonisers from Europe & knew the old African systems - had died & left little recorded in books on how they used to do things & carry out their lives. They left a youth educated by Europe who knew nothing outside of European domination. This is why, even today, our people cannot develop their own systems that will work for them in their own lands but rather depend on Eurocentric systems & laugh off their ancestor's creations as archaic & outdated yet Europeans are still using systems today that were still being used during the Roman Empire in the year 0 AD. We can EASILY modernise our African systems & resurrect something that used to work for us before to use in the modern day. But again, it starts with land & language. An ethnicity is an ethnicity because of the land it originates & language it speaks. We can't create a land if we are divided on these very basic fundamentals. 

"Africa is big enough to have 200 countries." - Unknown | Africans do not live within borders they created.

Next time you walk through a black neighbourhood & see brokenness & degeneration; you must remember that there is a black-created system that was designed to fix this degeneration & order was not something strictly reserved for countries that are in now called developed lands. We had an order & laws in Africa just like the rest of the world. Our order & laws allowed for the development of a young individual mentally & emotionally into an adult that could help the land move forward & not disenfranchise them to drugs & crime like we have done in the present day. It may not have been perfect but it was what worked for us in KwaTu. 

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