The colonised mindset: The enemy within the African communities. SendMeYourNews

Jul 23, 2006 07:12 PDT

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----- Original Message -----

From: Cheryl Sanchez mailto:sanchez-@hotmail.com

To: sendmey-@earthlink.net

Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 8:48 AM

The colonised mindset: The enemy within the African communities.

The writer is going to put forward an argument that unless the

slave/colonial mindset is recognised as the active enemy, within the African

communities world-wide, attempts to understand the social and economic

problems will be useless. This mindset has been affecting the

individual/family /organisations/community and nations alike. From an early

age, adults have been referring to people as having "being colonial or slave

minded" in a most benign way. It as if having this mindset is like having a

flue. You treat the symptoms and eventually, it should go away, if the

immune system is acute and alert. In reality, it is the most virulent

psychological condition prevalent amongst African communities. The damage is

too enormous to consider in this essay. It has and is still destroying from

individuals to revolutions to states eg Patrice Lumumba-Congo, Thomas