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Lessons From Haiti For True Yoruba Liberation by Theydontcare: 4:10pm On Mar 04, 2018
Created in 1804, Haiti (Ayiti) was the first modern Black nationstate.

Unfortunately while Europeans learnt valuable lessons which are still useful to them from the Haiti experience, Yorubas, the largest original African group, has been kept in dark by an educational system that purports Mungo Park discovered Niger and slavery was stopped by William Wilberforce who brought out the goodness of a White enslaver.

We have failed to learn from the only successful slave revolution in human history to become a nation-state, despite being inspired from a Yoruba festival.

We fail to learn the essence of the colonial policy known as La Politique de doublure – a system whereby old Black generals were put in place to sellout the nation.

Haiti was the jewel of French America, providing no less than 40percent of French income. To achieve this, the French using the Catholic inspired Code Noir implemented the most brutal regime known to humanity – out of 850,000 Africans imported only 480,000 survived in within a short period. Enslaved Yorubas were only limited to a ten year lifespan before wasted. Torture tools were common place and for mere stealing sugarcane, unborn babies were slashed out of their pregnant mothers.

In 1750, an Ifa/voodoo priest, Francois Mackandral led a movement to poison their White masters, which sent fear throughout the Saint Domingue island later renamed Haiti.

Without weapons, the mainly first and second generation Africans, majority Yoruba, still spoke their language and knew their culture, especially the knowledge of herbs and poisons.

However, Mackandral was soon caught and burnt at the stake. This only strengthened the resolve of the Africans but drove them underground to build on his network of Ifa priests.

The revolution was delayed by geopolitical events, but eventually on the 14th of August 1791, 200 Ifa priests were assembled by Boukman Dutty and Fatima Cecile at Bwa Kayiman (Alligator Woods). Fatima kicked off the Ogun ceremony with the sacrifice of a huge pig. The Ogun festival lasted for 7days after which the Africans left to revolt, destroying 220 sugar plantations,, 600 coffee plantations and 200 hundred indigo plantations. Over 100,000 Africans were involved.

However the revolution was to be diluted by mulattoes that acted like Afro-Asians/ Fulani. They supported abolition of slavery but didn’t want blacks to be on the same sociopolitical level with them. As the revolution dragged on Dutty Boukman and other leaders were killed, while the African traditionalists allowed in new partners. It has been alleged that the USA actually backed Francois Toussaint to takeover.

Toussaint was an experienced soldier and well educated to bargain with the French. Unfortunately, while the originators of the revolution wanted total freedom, Toussaint wanted Haiti to become a French colony whereby more respect will be given to mulattoes, unlike a free nation that will turn the racial arrangement upside down.

Fortunately for the true Africans, Napoleon was too racist to accept the generous offer and instead kidnapped and jailed Toussaint on a ship offshore.

It was a grave mistake on the part of the French as it allowed the Original Africans to retake control of the revolution.

Led by Dessalines, Black Haitians fought and defeated USA, France and Britain. They won complete independence in 1804 and went on to massacre the Frenchmen and turned their women into prostitutes.

This sent a chill down the spines of all white slave owners across the Americas, since in every colony there were 10 times more African slaves than Whites.

Especially as the Ogun revolution spread across South and Central America – 1795 Second Maroon War, 1798 Bush Negroes revolt in Guyana, 1795 Felon rebellion in Grenada and on practically every West Indian island. By 1805, every South American nation, except Brazil, was free from slavery.

The Black African freedom fighters, not the mulattoes or Taino Indians as later claimed named the New nation, Ayiti meaning unbeatable in Yoruba and established a state recognized pantheon of Orishas, which included Dessalines.

The loss of Haiti put Napoleon’s America dreams in tatters and made him sell Louisiana to the USA since it now longer use Haiti and a stopover for his ships.

The French were to resort to divide and rule and backed the Southern mulattoes against the full Black rule.

In the first ten years of independence, the black Africans, majority Yoruba known as Nago, built a model state with free education, efficient public works and production of sugar and coffee doubled under the cooperative societies established.

Haiti was a model state envied by white citizens in England, because the English didn’t enjoy the rights and universal suffrage till the 1832 British electoral reform.

The French were to arm the mulattoes to takeover and destroy the Black Haiti economy and polity. The Christian Mulattoes were to sellout the spirit of the Original African revolution. Old general after old general came into power to rape the nation and sellout to France. By 1825, the old generals had signed a commitment to pay a $125m never ending debt till today for their colonization.

To stop a reoccurring Ogun revolution, the Catholic Church came down heavily on African values and whitewashed the revolution. It wasn’t until the global Black renaissance of the early 1900s that the process of reclaiming the true history of the revolution started, especially by CLR James.

It wasn’t until the 1950s coming to power of African Renaissance (The Groits) President Duvalier aka Papa Doc that AFRICAN culture was once again allowed freely in public space. Papa Doc was once again Ayiti (unbeatable) by the Western Powers. He used Yoruba traditions to inspire, empower and mobilize against the Eurocentric elites. Whenever the Church and Western Powers used propaganda to bring out the urban elites and their civil societies to protest, Papa Doc called in to rural dwellers and traditionalists who came out with cutlasses and juju charms to confront them.

His legacy continued after his death into the Eighties by those known as Duvalierists, who fought unconstitutional provisions in protests known as ‘Aba konstitisyon kominis’ (Yoruba French pidgin for curse the communist constitution) traditionalists revolts.

However, in one of the interlude Eurocentric regimes, the Church and mulattoes ordered the cutting of all trees to stop the practise of dropping Orisha sacrifices at tree roots and children of traditionalists were barred from schools. The deforestation was to bring about huge floods that killed thousands.

The pertinent lessons from the successful revolution are that Yoruba beliefs could be the basis of a true Black revolution – Oya the Orisha of revolution/Ogun the Orisha of war/Shango the Orisha of Justice were common themes used to educate and agitate.

In fact, there has been no successful Black revolution on any other cultural platform. It is doubtful whether another family’s Oriki could used to educate and inspire your children and unite your family.

Also, mulattoes, Afro-Asians and Eurocentric AFRICAN elite are more likely to betray a true Original African revolution because they won’t want to leave their elevated positions in the oppressors political and belief system, which was why Stalin in Russia and Mao in China had to kill off millions of irretrievable mental and cultural slaves.

For its role in the destruction of African plantation slavery system, Haiti has been ostracized and continuously sabotaged by the Western Powers and it’s only hope is if it’s Yoruba homeland can become truly liberated, economically and politically.

Last but not the least ímportant is the fact that we are approaching the same astrological point that the Ayiti revolution took place as Oya joins with SHANGO to bring about another global Black revolution. And this is actually a bigger and more powerful cycle to launch a 2000yr era of global Black economic justice and ascendancy.

I have spoken with all paramount monarchs of all the major ethnic groups in South and Middlebelt and they are are aware it is time for a cultural revolution.

I don’t believe in armed revolution, instead I believe the greatest revolution is that of the mind.

In biblical text, Revelation 6 verse 5, unlike weaponized the first and second horsemen, the 3rd horseman that depicts this era holds a scale of justice. While our Muslim brothers attest to the fact that the jihad of the mind (jakande) is stronger than jihad of the sword.

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Re: Lessons From Haiti For True Yoruba Liberation by ariesbull: 4:19pm On Mar 04, 2018
A dance of the Igbo nation of Nigeria. It expresses the pride of the Igbo people, who preferred death to enslavement. The movement of this dance represent the breaking the chains of slavery. The colors of the Igbo people are red and white.

In Haiti, Igbo created independent nanchons (vodun nations) informed by their own loa (gods), and with their own drumbeats and songs and ceremonials, but these took hyphenated names such as Legba-Ibo or Ibo-Lazile, transparent calques like Un Pied Un Main Un Je (One Foot, One Hand, One Eye), apparently a translation of a common Igbo name, or other names that may have evoked directly ancestral Igbo deities (perhaps alosi) (Barak, Akoupi, Takwa, Ibo Hequoike) These socio-religious forms were creolized-that is, most likely created in the diasporic context through an internal process of 'bricolage'.

Igbo in Haiti, however, invested their hyphenated loa 'with the ancestral principle [which] is the point of cosmic departure' for members of the several Igbo-named nanchons there, so that even in the mid-twentieth century these Igbo loa were believed to be 'intimately authoritative for Ibo families'. Paul E. Lovejoy

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Re: Lessons From Haiti For True Yoruba Liberation by babasolution: 4:36pm On Mar 04, 2018
very nice post,africa needs to wake up the time of revolution is now,revolution of the mind we dont need wars anymore,lets emancipate ourselves from white institutional slavery of churchery and islam.the older generation are sellouts they bought into white mans tricks
Re: Lessons From Haiti For True Yoruba Liberation by OneCorner: 4:40pm On Mar 04, 2018
ariesbull:
A dance of the Igbo nation of Nigeria. It expresses the pride of the Igbo people, who preferred death to enslavement. The movement of this dance represent the breaking the chains of slavery. The colors of the Igbo people are red and white.

In Haiti, Igbo created independent nanchons (vodun nations) informed by their own loa (gods), and with their own drumbeats and songs and ceremonials, but these took hyphenated names such as Legba-Ibo or Ibo-Lazile, transparent calques like Un Pied Un Main Un Je (One Foot, One Hand, One Eye), apparently a translation of a common Igbo name, or other names that may have evoked directly ancestral Igbo deities (perhaps alosi) (Barak, Akoupi, Takwa, Ibo Hequoike) These socio-religious forms were creolized-that is, most likely created in the diasporic context through an internal process of 'bricolage'.

Igbo in Haiti, however, invested their hyphenated loa 'with the ancestral principle [which] is the point of cosmic departure' for members of the several Igbo-named nanchons there, so that even in the mid-twentieth century these Igbo loa were believed to be 'intimately authoritative for Ibo families'. Paul E. Lovejoy
90% of the Haitians and Brazilians are even igbos.
we are the one that fought for US Independence.
reason why trump can't joke with our matter cool

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