Safari Mkubwa: The Ancient Pathways of Pan-Afrika, The Pilgrimage to Authenticity

Safari Mkubwa: The Ancient Pathways of Pan-Afrika, The Pilgrimage to AuthenticityThe turmoil from the death of George Floyd in May 2020 and the subsequent events that followed, showed that in the supposedly post racial West, race is still considered to be a valid but divisive source of identity. For the nearly 1. 6 billion people of Pan Afrika, this has brought certain questions to the foreground: what really is race and racism? Does it really matter if one identifies as being "Black" or being Afrikan? What really is the truth

The turmoil from the death of George Floyd in May 2020 and the subsequent events that followed,
showed that in the supposedly post-racial West, race is still considered to be a valid but divisive source of identity. For the nearly 1.6 billion people of Pan-Afrika, this has brought certain questions to the foreground: what really is race and racism? Does it really matter if one identifies as being "Black" or being Afrikan? What really is the truth behind the claim that Christianity is the "White Man's Religion"? The events of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Colonization of Afrika, which are often referred to as the Maafa, the Afrikan Holocaust - how should they be understood? Were they just events of the past, with no impact for Pan-Afrika today?
How deep was the psychological trauma to Pan-Afrika? Ê Can the displaced and alienated peoples of Afrika, though differing ethnicities, still identify with the civilizational identity of Afrika? Finally and more importantly, can Pan-Afrika, discover again their unique identity in God and the mystery of the Afrikan Unconscious? In answering these the questions, the author turns his attention to the issues of race, identity and of the Transcendent Personhood of Humanity in the Person of Jesus Christ as the goal of destiny for all of Pan-Afrika. The author shows the fallacy of the concept of race, its mythology and its existentially self-destructive nature and the dangers to Pan-Afrikan consciousness, if they consistently react to the legacy of European racial beliefs. He examines the Christian Church's role in the instigation of much of the race and racist psychology of the modern era. Finally he gives a programme of mind renewal for those of Pan-Afrika, that enables those who are willing to engage with it, to take the journey of self - discovery to true identity, not based on biological traits, but the Image of God.