Europe or whites as they were called our lords, the inhumane, the most civilized people who took us for the devils, have not only enslaved us but also all our long gone ancestors. You can see the remains of us at the Gold coast, Ghana and in Badagry the border of Lagos in Nigeria. See how we were being annihilated, but not only that.
The
Europeans has ended up silencing us, even cutting the ties and connections
between we and our fathers, they forced us to believe their religion carries
ours away. They stole it all away for their children, for their unborn
generations, see them, the most civilized; disintegrating us bit by bit; from
our language to our beliefs even to our personality. Hmmm yes we’ve conquered
their terror but…………….
How
can we prove our religion? Who will know how great our ancestors are?When their
work are not with us. The work they kept
for us to be able to decipher the future. You left us here still oppressing us
with our right.
Who are we/ nothing,
yes nothing but give us our artifact back, We know some dated thousand of years
back yes we know some are older then your father, we know they can prove the
evolution wrong you don’t know what they hold; they hold they key to the future.
The African arts means a lot and only a true African and not a bastard will
tell you what his ancestors meant with the art.
If you choose to claim ignorance, I will start by telling
you right from the most recent 400 year old crown you stole in Nigeria; To the
precious mummies you excavated for fun and used as toys in your so called
museum, the Akuaba’s at Ghana and how you invaded Benin in the late 19th
century especially in 1897 where you took the bronze heads and even the bronze
plaques of different manners. Going far to Zaria the oldest of Nigerian arts
‘NOK’ (the terracotta) that was found between 1943 and 1944. The Igbo Ukwu arts
found in the eastern part of Nigeria; all these bronze plates and utensils are
ours. I will still talk of Owo arts and Tsoede arts at Kogi state in Nigeria of
elephants, creatures and Ostriches of our precious gods our fathers serve; the
Esie arts that was found by H.G. Ramsey in 1933 in the forest, and to cap it
up, can you tell me where the numerous Ife arts disappeared to or is it only
the “Opa Oranmiyan” (Oranmiyan Staff) we have.
Don’t let me speak of
only Nigeria and West Africa, I will also write about others I know or now find
in international and private museums. Is it only Nimolithat is for the sierraLeoneans?
What of those artifacts I find in American’s and European museums; arte facts
like the Gelede, Bundu, Mimba, Angas, Akpo, Makondagazelles, Bambora, the
wealth and gold of ancient Egypt, mummies, ancient resources and so many I cant
even name all this are suppose to be here in Africa not in distant nations.
If you are not an
artist, you may not understand how I feel or if you are not an African your
blood won’t boil. The future is her, the culprit know themselves not Europe
alone: please return our arts to our land, return peace to our land. Our
fathers were not fools to have done that, please we need it not only to
appreciate but to decipher the information it holds. Art is too hard to wrought
than to be taken for granted. It’s too tedious to be a joke. Though for its beauty
yet for the message it acrries. Return what is rightfully ours to us and let us
know who our ancestors were, not roaming about with your notion which even you
are confused with. Let us know why we are here, it’s in the arts with you, you
know your fathers who stole it are dead and have even shared it between
numerous hands: so now I will ask the world: WHERE ARE OUR ARTS? Until you
return them you will know no peace. It’s not a curse; it’s the fact.
“That’s the god’s
message to you”
INTELLIGENCE PROPERTY
By Psalm XY
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