OUR CONTAFRIKAFAMILY UNDER SIEGE

OUR CONTAFRIKAFAMILY UNDER ATTACK or THE CRISIS OF HOW TODAY'S CONTAFRIKANS ARE KEPT IGNORANT OF THE POWER ND BENEFITS OF THEIR AFRIKACENTRIC CONTINENTAL AFRIKAFAMILYHOOD , By (c) 2012 by Prof. Afrikadzata Deku, Docteur d'Etat; Doctorat d'Etat (PhD); AFRIKALION@AOL.COM;

The Continental Afrikan Family is in deep serious crisis today because most Continental Afrikan People have been programmed by slavery and colonialism to abandon, reject or destroy their Ancient/pre-colonial and pre-slavery concept and practice of Continental Afrikan Family that has kept all Continental Afrikans together for 3 million years.

Throughout our Continental AfrikaWorld today, most if not all "modern" Continental Afrikans are helping the enemy to destroy the Continental Afrikan Family by replacing it with slave/colonial concepts and practice of Family.

For example, throughout the entire "modern" part of Continental Afrika, most if not all "educated" Continental Afrikans are beginning to lose the meaning of Family in the Continental Afrikan sense of the world.

To the Ancient Continental Afrikan down to pre-colonial and pre-slavery Continental Afrikan, Family means everybody.

That is, the meaning of Continental Afrikan Family is not the Foreign meaning of Family.

To Westerners, family is a nuclear family. Foreign concept of family is limited to father, mother and children.

But to the traditional/ancient Continental Afrikan, family is not only a nuclear one but an extended one.

It includes everybody once can think of— grandparents, their parents and relatives, parents, children and relatives near and far including the departed who we are told are never dead but live with and among us daily .

In other words, there is a big difference between someone who thinks "nucleus" and the other who thinks "extended."

Thinking "nucleus" makes you selfish because it tells you only your father and mother and brothers and sisters are your family worth bothering about.

The rest do not count. So the more you concentrate on your "nucleus" the more you forget others also exist and need your attention and love.

And the more isolated you become from them, the more you deprive yourself of their love, affection, support and guidance.

Secondly, thinking "nucleus" is unnatural. Most if not all families in the world today, excluding non-Western ones are extended and not nuclear family-based and oriented.

Hence, the Indians, the Oriental, the Arab, the Jews etc. all practiced in the past and still practice today the Continental Afrikan concept of Family.

Even the Western world, before they became Nucleus family based, practiced in the past extended family, and not a nuclear one.

Also animals practice the Continental Afrikan concept of extended family.

Trees and herbs also do the same by growing and living together in vast numbers rather than in isolation.

But today, this Ancient three million year old Continental Afrikan Concept of extended family is under serious threat from within and outside .

In the today's Foreignized part of Continental Afrika today, there is now the growing tendency for more if not all the new elite to consider or refer to extended family as "bad," "anti-development," "anti-modern" and "barbaric."

All because for hundred years of colonialism has programmed us into thinking, believing and accepting the colonial lie that there is something wrong with our extended family.

And the only way for us to become civilized and today's is to replace the Continental Afrikan extended family with European nucleus family.

And since some Continental Afrikans still believe everything "white" is

better than everything Continental Afrikan, it is no surprise that more and more "modern" Continental Afrikans are giving up their Continental Afrikan extended family for Foreign nucleus family.

This means, more and more "modern" Continental Afrikans do not want to have anything to do with their flesh and blood Continental Afrikan people outside the Foreign father-mother-child family concept.

Only their nucleus family counts. Anything outside it, is considered a waste of time.

Hence, like their colonial teachers, there is less love, less sharing, less supporting among modern Continental Afrikans.

Nucleus family is bringing most of them isolation and the feeling of ingratitude vis-a-vis their extended families.

That is why the average "modern" elite in Continental Afrika today is in this way, torn between their Continental AfrikaValues of extended family and the Foreign one.

There are more and more "modern" Continental Afrikans in our "modern" cities and capitals who are now being accused of selfishness and ingratitude by their relatives they abandon in the traditional world of Continental Afrika.

Most if not all of our today's city and capital dwellers were all born or

raised collectively by their various Traditional Afrikan communities as school children.

But as soon as they go to the city/capital, the tendency is to concentrate only on oneself or one's "nucleus" family and at the expense of one's other relatives.

With the result that the extended family concept is gradually dying in our Westernized parts of Continental Afrika.

And in its place, we now have the nucleus family with its woes of selfishness, greed, loneliness, ingratitude, distrust, accumulation, hoarding, and all kinds of crimes.

However, those Continental Afrikans who practice the European class of family are still in minority in Continental Afrika today.

The majority of Continental Afrikans in traditional Continental Afrika still believe in the extended family and still benefit from all its benefits of sharing, support, love, care, devotion, etc. for one another.

They are ready to suffer for keeping alive the torch of their extended family which their elite in the cities and capitals are doing everything they can to abolish.

They lose daily their children to the cities and capitals only to be turned into ungrateful children who proclaim they no more need them.

In the cities and capitals, their children are cut away from their extended families. They scarcely visit them.

They are busy making money or living in the cities/capitals that they forget their relatives in the traditional Continental Afrika.

They see their extended families as a burden rather than a blessing. All because the Foreign life in the cities/capitals is meant only for the individual rather than the collectivity.

Whereas in an extended family, everything is shared for the benefits of all.

In the nucleus family in our cities/capitals, people learn how to accumulate wealth for themselves and their nucleus families rather than think of the welfare of others.

Hence, we not have "my degree," "my job," "my salary," "my car," "my bungalow," etc. meant to be reserved only for a privileged few in the Westernized parts of Continental Afrika.

And yet, the practice of the extended family continues to grow from strength to strength mostly in traditional Continental Afrika.

The more it is destroyed in our cities and capitals, the more it is determined to stay alive in traditional Continental Afrika.

So, the recovery and practice of our authentic traditional Continental Afrikan extended family concept is not only inevitable, it is a must for all Continental Afrikans worthy of the name.

To limit one's ability to love and be loved to only a "nucleus" few members of one's family is to deprive oneself of the priceless joy of more love, more sharing, and more care for one another that we can only get through our Continental Afrikan concept and practice of extended family.

The more people we have at our disposal to love, advise, care, support and motivate us, the more our chances of total happiness, success and fulfillment will be. For the more people we have to love and be loved, the more blessed we are bound to be.

Rather than consider the extended family as a "burden" as we have been taught by our "white" masters, we should consider it as the golden key that unlocks for us the hidden treasures of Afrikan Kingdom of hospitality, kindness and sharing that has preserved us for three million years.

Anything short of that is a betrayal due to ignorance and selfishness.

By COPYRIGHT (2012) Prof Afrikadzata Deku, Docteur d'Etat, PhD; *Doctorat d'Etat (Ph.D.) * D.E.S.S. (M. Phil) * Diplome De L' I.I.A.P.(Post-Grad. Dipl.) * M.Sc. * BA. Double Majors *,

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