The name is Yurugu-An African Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior- by Marimba Ani.

It was written by an African-American woman. This woman has to be the most intelligent African-American woman ever!. Read this book to understand how the west has structured our enslavement forever. Read this book to understand white supremacy in scholarship, white supremacy in religion, cultural imperialism. Read this book so that you (yourself) can be free from the illusion of freedom we've been given.

Those who have read my book; intellectual slavery the worst legacy of colonialism, please kindly follow it up with this book and you'll get a holistic understanding of the nature of the control mechanism that has been set up against black people in general.

Read this book for your own good. We will never be truly free until we free ourselves from everything given to us by the white man, no matter how good it may seem on the surface.

''while others may have freed the body, none but ourselves can free the mind''............ Marcus Garvey.

To get a picture of the book, see below an interview she granted about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkkNa7eMyF0

I have read your book and found it quite seminal.

Do you have a soft copy of this other book?

gensteejay:
I have read your book and found it quite seminal.

Do you have a soft copy of this other book?

Email kemeticphilosophy@gmail

musicwriter:


Email kemeticphilosophy@gmail

Okay, thanks a lot

Bookmarked
Weekend read found

merahki:
Bookmarked
Weekend read found

Ditto

Happy holidays dear Mr musicwriter
Please post the link to the book on here for me?
Deeme

merahki:
Happy holidays dear Mr musicwriter
Please post the link to the book on here for me?
Deeme

Good day my sister.

I can email it to you, email: kemeticphilosophy@gmail or try the following link, but you'll need an email or facebook to access it. https://www.scribd.com/doc/231365895/76901220-Yurugu-an-African-Centered-Critique-of-European-Cultural-Thought-and-Behavior-Marimba-Ani-Smaller

That woman is the most educated black lady you'll ever come across. The fact that she got to the top of the education given us by the Europeans but discovered it works as a tool for helping enslave ourselves and that it doesn't worth it, that's what it means to be a truly educated black person. And until an African get to that stage in his/her education, that person is not really educated.

John H. Clark, Cheik Diop, Yosef Ben Joachannan, Ivan Van Sertima, Lord Nkrumah, Hanns Berry, these were the first people that realized that their education was part and parcel of colonialism and that it works to maintain European world domination. This is why you see them teaching black people the truth. Their disciples could be found on this link http://www.africason.com/2018/08/africans-and-african-american-scholars.html

I hope you listened to the interview? If you didn't, please do listen to the interview before reading, it would already give you a head start. Of course, I am not saying you don't already know some of these things but it would only help put words to what you're already subconsciously or even consciously aware of.

Have a nice day.

musicwriter:


Good day my sister.

I can email it to you, email: kemeticphilosophy@gmail or try the following link, but you'll need an email or facebook to access it. https://www.scribd.com/doc/231365895/76901220-Yurugu-an-African-Centered-Critique-of-European-Cultural-Thought-and-Behavior-Marimba-Ani-Smaller

That woman is the most educated black lady you'll ever come across. The fact that she got to the top of the education given us by the Europeans but discovered it works as a tool for helping enslave ourselves and that it doesn't worth it, that's what it means to be a truly educated black person. And until an African get to that stage in his/her education, that person is not really educated.

John H. Clark, Cheik Diop, Yosef Ben Joachannan, Ivan Van Sertima, Lord Nkrumah, Hanns Berry, these were the first people that realized that their education was part and parcel of colonialism and that it works to maintain European world domination. This is why you see them teaching black people the truth. Their disciples could be found on this link http://www.africason.com/2018/08/africans-and-african-american-scholars.html

I hope you listened to the interview? If you didn't, please do listen to the interview before reading, it would already give you a head start. Of course, I am not saying you don't already know some of these things but it would only help put words to what you're already subconsciously or even consciously aware of.

Have a nice day.

A thread like this doesn't get the kind of attention it deserves courtesy of the DUMBSIFICATION given to us in the name of EDUCATION. So ENSLAVED is the black race so much that he EXCEPT a few are sensitive enough to understand that those SLAVES of old with chains around their necks are indeed FREE MEN and WOMEN compared to most us today, the GENUINE SLAVES of the EUROPEANS chained MENTALLY.

I BELIEVE IN THE GOODNESS OF MANKIND. I STRIVE HARD TO SEE BEYOND RACE SO AS TO EMBRACE OUR HUMANITY. THE TRUTH IS, THE BLACK RACE EXCEPT A FEW ENLIGHTENED MINDS UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT WE PRIDE OURSELVES AS BEING WESTERN EDUCATION IS A SYSTEMATIC MENTAL ENSLAVEMENT PROGRAM. THE POINT IS NOT AN ADVOCATION TO NOT GO TO SCHOOL BUT TO NOT BECOME MENTALLY ENSLAVED TO THE POINT OF SUCH INFERIORITY COMPLEX THAT KEEPS ONE AS A SLAVE. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS PIECE.

The brutal words of Richard Smith, famous British guitarist, during an interview ...
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°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
I have been asked many times what I think of Africans, here is what I think of Africans, without language and without taboos.

*They sell everything to the highest bidder, even the land. Then they poison themselves with everything that is edible.*

*I am not a racist because I do not believe for a single second that I am superior to a black man. The difference with them is that we think of our descendants, we are calculators, we protect our interests and we'll kill for that if need be*.

*We are not emotional, we have passed this stage. If the lion has pity on the gazelle, it is he who will die of hunger. They have lions at home, but they do not understand the laws of nature.*

*For everything, they confide in superstition and religion. The difference between the others and blacks is, while others reflect, blacks do not think, they do not use their intellectual capacity and very few blacks are analytical.*

*And when a few black people pierce through, we admit them to our side or eliminate them in one way or another, most often, with the hand of other blacks.*

*We brought them our gods and continuously invent fuzzy concepts to confuse them more.*

*In a hundred years, their descendants will be more slaves than they are now. [/b]They are already more unhappy than the generation of their parents, and they naively believe that numbers will be their strength.*

*Just watch how they drown at sea to come here. We conquered them with a few tens of ours and the active help of theirs.*

*[b]We forced them to speak and write in our languages. We will control their descendants more than we control them right now.*

*Other people understood our game, they started to use the same technical knowledge as us to protect and dissuade, but the blacks did not understand anything.*

*I'm sorry to be so brutal in my franchise. Nothing personal, I'm just plain."*

Richard Smith

WORDWORLD:
The brutal words of Richard Smith, famous British guitarist, during an interview ...
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°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°
I have been asked many times what I think of Africans, here is what I think of Africans, without language and without taboos.

*They sell everything to the highest bidder, even the land. Then they poison themselves with everything that is edible.*

*I am not a racist because I do not believe for a single second that I am superior to a black man. The difference with them is that we think of our descendants, we are calculators, we protect our interests and we'll kill for that if need be*.

*We are not emotional, we have passed this stage. If the lion has pity on the gazelle, it is he who will die of hunger. They have lions at home, but they do not understand the laws of nature.*

*For everything, they confide in superstition and religion. The difference between the others and blacks is, while others reflect, blacks do not think, they do not use their intellectual capacity and very few blacks are analytical.*

*And when a few black people pierce through, we admit them to our side or eliminate them in one way or another, most often, with the hand of other blacks.*

*We brought them our gods and continuously invent fuzzy concepts to confuse them more.*

*In a hundred years, their descendants will be more slaves than they are now. [/b]They are already more unhappy than the generation of their parents, and they naively believe that numbers will be their strength.*

*Just watch how they drown at sea to come here. We conquered them with a few tens of ours and the active help of theirs.*

*[b]We forced them to speak and write in our languages. We will control their descendants more than we control them right now.*

*Other people understood our game, they started to use the same technical knowledge as us to protect and dissuade, but the blacks did not understand anything.*

*I'm sorry to be so brutal in my franchise. Nothing personal, I'm just plain."*

Richard Smith

Bro, thanks for this info. That's the honest truth.

We don't understand the game.

The situation looks so bleak. So, what is the way out of this vicious circle?

Well done OP. So what do we do now? please WORDWORLD continue with the enlightenment, looks like I have been lagging behind in understanding the reality of this issue. Thanks!

spiritualmubi:
Well done OP. So what do we do now? please WORDWORLD continue with the enlightenment, looks like I have been lagging behind in understanding the reality of this issue. Thanks!

writeprof:
The situation looks so bleak. So, what is the way out of this vicious circle?

What you have to do is to continue to pursue knowledge that would continue to help you understand that EVERYTHING that Europeans gave to their colonies during colonialism was for the sole purpose of controlling the people in that colony.

''The secret Europeans discovered early in their history is that culture carries rules for thinking, and that if you could impose your culture on your victims, you could limit the creativity of their vision, destroying their ability to act with will and intent and in their own interest.''........... Marimba Ani, Yurugu.

If the white man gave you English LANGUAGE, it was for the purpose of controlling you. If he gave you EDUCATION, it was for purpose of controlling you. If he gave you RELIGION or Jesus, it was for the purpose of controlling you. The ultimate goal is to free ourselves from his language, education religion, and return to being ourselves as Africans and not these Euro-Afro hybrids we're today.

You need to continue to seek knowledge on African-centered history that would lead you to understand the nature of Europeans and how they ended up controlling the world today. I bet you, once you understand how we ended up where we're today, you'll tell yourself what we need to do.

To get started to set yourself free and to get enlightenment, follow the scholars in this link, and do read the books they recommend for black people. Also follow their lectures on Youtude http://www.africason.com/2018/08/africans-and-african-american-scholars.html

musicwriter:




What you have to do is to continue to pursue knowledge that would continue to help you understand that EVERYTHING that Europeans gave to their colonies during colonialism was for the sole purpose of controlling the people in that colony.

''The secret Europeans discovered early in their history is that culture carries rules for thinking, and that if you could impose your culture on your victims, you could limit the creativity of their vision, destroying their ability to act with will and intent and in their own interest.''........... Marimba Ani, Yurugu.

If the white man gave you English LANGUAGE, it was for the purpose of controlling you. If he gave you EDUCATION, it was for purpose of controlling you. If he gave you RELIGION or Jesus, it was for the purpose of controlling you. The ultimate goal is to free ourselves from his language, education religion, and return to being ourselves as Africans and not these Euro-Afro hybrids we're today.

You need to continue to seek knowledge on African-centered history that would lead you to understand the nature of Europeans and how they ended up controlling the world today. I bet you, once you understand how we ended up where we're today, you'll tell yourself what we need to do.

To get started to set yourself free and to get enlightenment, follow the scholars in this link, and do read the books they recommend for black people. Also follow their lectures on Youtude http://www.africason.com/2018/08/africans-and-african-american-scholars.html

Hello. I just downloaded a copy of your book 'intellectual slavery the worst legacy of colonialism".  Please can you send me a copy of "yurugu" by Marimba Ani.?  I would be grateful if i can have the book. I tried sending you an email, but it was showing that the email is invalid. Thank you sir.

BrightForYou:


Hello. I just downloaded a copy of your book 'intellectual slavery the worst legacy of colonialism".  Please can you send me a copy of "yurugu" by Marimba Ani.?  I would be grateful if i can have the book. I tried sending you an email, but it was showing that the email is invalid. Thank you sir. 

You didn't add .com at the end, that's why it shows invalid. Gmail should end with gmail.com but there's a reason I didn't put it that way.

Also, may I humbly inform you that I don't like the tag of ''sir'' attached to me. The titles sir, baron, knight, lord, duke, etc, are titles that came out of European societies, which were societies based on supremacy and the quest for nobility at all cost. Those titles were first given to landlords (slave owners) and later to atlantic slave traders and colonialists who went across the world stealing from innocent humane peope in Africa, Asia, the Amerocas, Caribbeans, Australia. Example; when a certain Hawkins sailed the first ship that came to Africa to carry Africans as slaves, his social status arose in England, he was called sir and the queen of England knighted him and many others.

To understand where Europeans are coming from versus Africans, see Why Europeans Were Able to Conquer Africa And the Rest of the World http://www.africason.com/2017/09/why-europeans-were-able-to-conquer.html

We African people and societies did not evolve that way, but during slavery and colonialism, they imposed their language, education, religion on us, and we digested it as ours, so that their view became our view today and their truth also became our truth. This is why we now assume the European supremacy ourselves, giving ourselves titles belonging to our enemies!.

In Yorubaland, they do have ''oga'', and in Igboland we have ''Maazi and Nna. Oga is just master, maazi is just like Mr, and Nna is literally father. Unless of course, a titled chief or queen.

So, you can see that our ancestors were so simple that everybody was addressed equally. The first time I came to Lagos in the 80's, you could see a family; mother, father, daughter, sons, eating together in one serve and everybody felt so good and happy. In fact, if you happened to be hungry and don't have money to eat, you could run into an ''owambe'' party and get served food like every other person who came to that party. And they don't even know you!!. African societies worked so good that you could literally enter any house and get served food by someone who don't even know you!!. Just think about that.

Today, all this has been destroyed because we're tearing ourselves apart with alien tools given us by Europeans.

In our tradition, anybody could be called Oga or Maazi. We lived in a homogeneous almost classless society. We already had what Karl Max and the rest were looking for ''yesterday'' in 19th century Europe. But all that has been lost and we now live in a society created for us by foreigners. This's why African societies are not in sync with ourselves today and don't even seem to know the solution of our problems. Whether it is ''sir'' or all other alien concepts, the reason we can't get things right in Africa is because we continue using alien concepts to address our local problems, so that the problem and solution does not match.

Bottom line: I don't want to be any title that our African ancestors did not not create. Just call me Africason, and I'll be fine.

Note that I never said you did anything wrong. Wrongs are now considered right in Africa because we're living an illusion.

Thanks for your kind understanding.

musicwriter:


You didn't add .com at the end, that's why it shows invalid. Gmail should end with gmail.com but there's a reason I didn't put it that way.

Also, may I humbly inform you that I don't like the tag of ''sir'' attached to me. The titles sir, baron, knight, lord, duke, etc, are titles that came out of European societies, which were societies based on supremacy and the quest for nobility at all cost. Those titles were first given to landlords (slave owners) and later to atlantic slave traders and colonialists who went across the world stealing from innocent humane peope in Africa, Asia, the Amerocas, Caribbeans, Australia. Example; when a certain Hawkins sailed the first ship that came to Africa to carry Africans as slaves, his social status arose in England, he was called sir and the queen of England knighted him and many others.

To understand where Europeans are coming from versus Africans, see Why Europeans Were Able to Conquer Africa And the Rest of the World http://www.africason.com/2017/09/why-europeans-were-able-to-conquer.html

We African people and societies did not evolve that way, but during slavery and colonialism, they imposed their language, education, religion on us, and we digested it as ours, so that their view became our view today and their truth also became our truth. This is why we now assume the European supremacy ourselves, giving ourselves titles belonging to our enemies!.

In Yorubaland, they do have ''oga'', and in Igboland we have ''Maazi and Nna. Oga is just master, maazi is just like Mr, and Nna is literally father. Unless of course, a titled chief or queen.

So, you can see that our ancestors were so simple that everybody was addressed equally. The first time I came to Lagos in the 80's, you could see a family; mother, father, daughter, sons, eating together in one serve and everybody felt so good and happy. In fact, if you happened to be hungry and don't have money to eat, you could run into an ''owambe'' party and get served food like every other person who came to that party. And they don't even know you!!. African societies worked so good that you could literally enter any house and get served food by someone who don't even know you!!. Just think about that.

Today, all this has been destroyed because we're tearing ourselves apart with alien tools given us by Europeans.

In our tradition, anybody could be called Oga or Maazi. We lived in a homogeneous almost classless society. We already had what Karl Max and the rest were looking for ''yesterday'' in 19th century Europe. But all that has been lost and we now live in a society created for us by foreigners. This's why African societies are not in sync with ourselves today and don't even seem to know the solution of our problems. Whether it is ''sir'' or all other alien concepts, the reason we can't get things right in Africa is because we continue using alien concepts to address our local problems, so that the problem and solution does not match.

Bottom line: I don't want to be any title that our African ancestors did not not create. Just call me Africason, and I'll be fine.

Note that I never said you did anything wrong. Wrongs are now considered right in Africa because we're living an illusion.

Thanks for your kind understanding.

I'm so speechless. Thank you very much for the eye-opening messages. Your messages are thought provoking though, but we need a spark in order to get things right. Of course all of us cannot be thinking the same way. Thank you Africason. Please keep the ball rolling.