Ways Of Freeing

Ways of Freeing

Date: 12.03.12

“Condorcet, Nicholas recalled, had once said of satire that it was a weapon to be used only against those who by virtue of their rank or their power were sheltered from every other chastisement. In Communitaria, it seemed, they were sheltered from satire too.” – (The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat, A Novel of Ideas by Steven Lukes)

Here’s a quote excerpted from the same book:

‘Yes, I am proud; I must be proud to see

Men not afraid of God, afraid of me:

Safe from the Bar, the Pulpit and the Throne,

Yet touched and sham’d by Ridicule alone.’ – Voltaire

In Ways of freeing I am re-energising an old theme, re-asking the oldest questions concerning the beginning, the government and the speculated end of the world. Many religious and scientific theories have been investigated and tried with varying degrees of accuracy yet human beings have clearly not learned to live in harmony with each other and their environment.

It is fair to say that no one hypothesis can be said to contain the ultimate answer to how, when and inevitably the who of such inquiries. In other words, knowledge has increased but we are none the wiser.

I have added the above quotes in order to connect all of us to the underlying theme, that Freedom of Expression. And I think that the novel of Ideas which is quoted first managed to capture the themes of human displacement and a search for a Better Life For All very well. The whole theme of the novel is professor Caritat’s adventurous quest for the ‘best possible world.’

As already mentioned, there is no one no matter how learned or devoted, who has a monopoly of all the answers to these questions.

None of the belief system or sciences (ways of knowing) have satisfied or given mankind proper peace of mind regarding the full understanding of how It all came to be and how It all will end, if at all it shall end.

All of the bits of the myths and bits of information from various schools of thought and knowledge systems are vital to our common and factual understanding of our common purpose or mission on planet Earth.

To make sense of all this information though, we have to gain a basic knowledge of the laws of nature. Again we must be ever mindful that different people respond, react and correspond (relate) differently to what occurs naturally.  A lot of our behaviour is determined by environmental factors which include the religious, traditional, social and circumstantial upbringing, these may change through time and experience but ones initial or earliest experiences ultimately shape our cognisance. As they say old habits die harder.

Within these few words, I aim to show how all information can be collectively developed into a unified and knowledge of Being, a knowledge that can be incorporated into everyday peoples habits.

I must state that I am knower of God as creator, and I am a believer in science. I believe in freedom of scientific and theological enquiry and that the two are not as exclusive as we have been made to believe. Theology and Science or are to me Spiritual Science and Physical Science, two hands, two eyes and two parts of the same brain, and they are gradually becoming clear expressions of the One Mind.

I also believe in science because I have a limited knowledge of it, only having the most basic fundamentals to go by, thus I believe what serious and unbiased scientists posit while I question some of their findings and conclusions.

 I also know that in science, nothing is really ever final and conclusive, nothing is sacred, and that is why science sits very uncomfortably with religion, since the latter supposes the end of all quests through submission.

I know that God lives because I live and many of those who gave me life not only believed in a Creator, but they instilled It in me. My ancestors also lived their lives in accordance with their knowledge of God, in other words, they strove to obey the laws of God.

Therefore, I am a product of God inspired people. I also have personally attempted to free myself from God, only to find that even in It’s absence from my active mind, the energy of God persists and is as much a part of who I am as the Sun is to a leaf or oxygen is to water.

Let us now return to the question of beginnings, being and endings, the following passage clearly demonstrates the essence of what I am saying.

‘Science rejects true miracles.

In spite of the fact that biogenesis strikes many as virtually miraculous, the starting point of any scientific investigation must be the assumption that life emerged naturally, via a sequence of normal physical processes. Research into the origin of life may still yield valuable information even in the absence of a detailed account of how life actually began.” – (The 5^th Miracle by Paul Davies)

One God One People 

Knowing is better than just believing

There is a well known Rastafari axiom that says “One Jah, One Aim, One Destiny”, JAH of course meaning God in its Judeo or Hebraic sense as derived from the tetra gram JHVH which Christians presently vocalise as Jehovah. While many theoretical and even physical battles have been fought over such definitions, it is important to return to common sense and finally close the chapters of needless bloodshed, especially among Afrikan people who call themselves believers, since there’s been too many families split over improper use of religion. For far too long, ever-since being subjected to missionary zeal and many forms of book knowledge, we have continued to lose touch with the Divine within ourselves/each other and nature. The result of this scattering of the Black family have been on-going spiritual and mental violence. While it appears as if it would take too much effort to reverse the situation, to regain our senses and begin Living instead of merely surviving, it is in fact a far simpler task than most people can dare to imagine.

No one has to remind us that we are a highly gifted people, these gifts which we continue to waste in Basketball courts, churches, Advertising (subvertising) and marketing companies and many institutions that only serve to create more money that we quickly invest back to our oppressors through consumerist behaviour, can be put to better use.

We have tried many other religious, some of us have even crossed the floors among so called Abrahamic faiths – becoming Muslims, African-Hebrew Israelites and Christians, some of the more daring among us have even chosen far eastern ‘belief’ systems or ways of life – such as Hare Krishna, Buddhism and even embraced the cerebral-spiritual disciplines of Scientology and even atheism.

All this points to the fact that there is a hunger, a real need for Transformation within all of us, we see that the status quo is not landing us where we really deserve to be as individuals and as a people.

It is equally true that some of our families swear by Jesus Christ and they are able to live very comfortable and contented lives, some may even say that they have found the Joy that cannot be compared to any other. The real question though is, have they ever been exposed to this ‘Any other’, has anyone shown them that one can be justifiably successful and prosperous through observance of an Afrikan or Indigenous Knowledge System?

This is not written to agitate the pious souls who love Jesus, Muhammad, Krishna, Gautama or any of the modern day messiahs whose aims are all good and fair, as they are here to transform the people’s behaviour and conform it to what they see as God’s Plan.

But what people must really open their eyes to is the how much this spiritual migration costs Mother Africa, the one who has given so much of Her-self to the Life maintenance of Mankind. We are not asking that everyone should be a student of history, although this would help a lot, but simply asking for an alternative and proper view of the way of things. The truth is Africans are suffering badly in the world, especially in the land of mankind’s birth and to anyone who loves Justice and Truth, this should be a wake up call.

It is not enough to deposit Bibles, Quran’s, alms and food parcels in impoverished territories, there is nothing in that method that has worked yet, instead we see people competing and killing each other over simple resources and in churches many unconverted souls battling it out for positions. The handfuls of people who are doing Gods will are also in similar trouble, they are doing almost everything without questioning, challenging or attempting to turn an unjust system around.Instead of being like the Jeremiah’s, Daniels, Isaiah’s and Yehoshua’s  of this age, we find them opening political rallies, starting political parties, capitalist oriented businesses that compete with others within a vividly unjust system. This has to come to an end, and we cannot wait for Armageddon or  pray away the situation, all systems based on lies must confess, repent and Look to Africa for the solutions of African problems, problems which Afrika had very little part in creating in the first place.

But to be honest, we must first see what exactly it is that we did or did not do that brought us this far down. Consider this:

“There is no doubt that both, the Ancient Egyptians and Kushites, were the earliest Black African families; interlinked with them, today’s Oromos are the most conscious descendants of the most illustrious Khammitic nations. Among today’s Khammitic nations, one identifies the Berbers of Northern and Northwestern Africa (from the Northwestern confines of Egypt through Libya and Tunisia to Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania), the Egyptians, the Arabic speaking Sudanese, the Kushitic nations of Eastern Africa (Oromos, Afars, Sidamas, Kaffas, Shekachos, etc), the Somalis, and the Hausa and Fulani speaking peoples of Western and Central Africa. In respect to all cases of arabization (from Mauritania to Egypt and thence to Eritrea), one has to stress the point that the phenomenon was limited only at the linguistic level, as consequence of the gradual islamization of all these countries from the 7th until the 16th century; it has no ethnic and no cultural impact. To all those who may oppose the approach, based on considerations of the currently prevailing sociopolitical and cultural conditions, one has to remind that all this is result of Anglo-French colonialism, and has no historicity, no impact, and no value. It is the result of the diffusion of the perverse and disastrous theories of Pan-Arabism and Islamic Fundamentalism that were both systems produced by the colonialist Orientalist academia, and then projected among ignorant local students who thought opportune to continue with postgraduate and doctoral studies in French and English universities.

4. This is an important point; black as colour in general and black as skin colour was never considered as negative or inferior in the Antiquity. It all started with the rise of Christianity and the demonization of the black (either colour or skin colour). Islam rebuffed the concept, but this did not save the non-Muslim Africans from discriminatory attitude in Abbasid Baghdad. Within the context of the Ancient Egyptian religion, the black colour symbolized the all-inclusiveness and the supreme power. We have good reason to believe that these concepts were shared by the Kushitic – Meroitic Ethiopians, the ancestors of the modern Oromos. A comparative historico-religious examination of the fundamental concepts of Waaqeffannaa and those of the Ancient Egyptian religion would help tremendously in retracing the origin of the Oromo religion.

Waaqa and Ra

5. Waaqa seems to have in Oromo religion the same position as Atum in the Ancient Egyptian Heliopolitan system and Ra – Atum in the Ancient Egyptian Hermopolitan system. In other words, Waaqa seems to have retained the most original aspects of Khammitic / Kushitic monotheism. The rise of the Memphitic (around Ptah) and Theban (around Amun) polytheisms seems to have reduced the primordial Egyptian monotheism to great extent; however, there has always been a rivalry between monotheism and polytheism in Ancient Egypt, and the monotheistic current triggered in the middle of the 14th century BCE a radical ideology promoted and supported by several pharaohs before Akhenaten who simply institutionalized for the first time in the World History monotheism as state religion. Amenhotep III, Thutmoses IV, Amenhotep II, and Thutmoses III were all strong monotheists.

Only Christian European colonial racism and Jewish bias prevent modern scholars from saying publicly that the Solar Religion and Ideology of Akhenaten (also known as Atonism after the name of Akhenaten’s Unique God, Aten or Aton) was more complete and more explicit monotheism that the other two religious systems, and that entire verses of Ancient Egyptian hymns to Aten have been reproduced within the Psalms of Torah (Old Testament).

The polytheistic comeback plunged Egypt into strife and centuries long decay, but even after the departure of the Egyptian monotheists and the Hebrews under Moses, the Egyptian monotheism survived within temples and among priesthoods that resisted the expansion of the polytheism and the decomposition of the mythical semiotics.

The entire issue was transferred among the Kushitic Ethiopians in the South of Egypt, and later sources (mainly Greek) shed insightful into the religious divisions of Meroitic Ethiopia that may have been at the origin of the final collapse of Meroe. The priests and the court seem to have formed two opposite camps among the Meroitic Ethiopians, and following the defeat to the Axumite king Ezanas, the monotheistic part prevailed in exile.

6. The Oromo concept of Law and Order, set up by Waaqa and granted to the first men, reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat. To the Egyptian mind, Maat was the Law and Order that kept the entire universe in function. The concept was diffused among the Kushitic and Meroitic Ethiopians. The legislature stipulated by the Pharaoh in Egypt and the Qore (the title ‘King’ in Kushitic language) in Kush (Ethiopia) had to be a derivate and an emanation of the Maat Law and Order. Contradicting Maat would be viewed as a from of self-annihilation.”

This is not some superstitious mambo jumbo, it is not an attempt to diminish the good works done by the churches and mosques in spiritually grounding our people, it is not even aimed at causing a debate. My aim is to cause each reader/hearer of these words to ask themselves clear questions about the past-present and future of the Mother Land, keeping in mind how it relates the future of the entire universe, and with the answering of these questions, the One Aim, One JAH, One destiny so desired by the Movement of Haile Selassie I conscious people can be attained. But it is not just their destiny; it’s also Our Ancestors and our Creators too. We are three together as One, seen Iyah?

Here is the second offer, and this one will require individual effort which is more heroic and even much more disciplined. I am asking the Zulu, Xhosa, Tswana, Yoruba, Ibo, Hausa, Oromo, Amhara, Sudanese, Khoi San, Shangaan, Himba, Luo, BaKhongo …each and every sort of Black man and woman to Re-learn as I am also striving to do, The Essence of their Divinity, Ubunkulunkulu bobuntu bethu via this method: I am simply asking any person who like I, claims to have faith in the One True God to consider these words carefully and make their own judgment. We are after all – People of The Word and the word that was manifest

 (made flesh) or became  Natural rather than invisible/spiritual:

“Hymn of Ra

Words of Neb-Er-Tcher [Lord of the World] which It spoken after coming into Being:

“I am that which came into Being [Kheper] in the form of Creator”

“I became the Creator [Khepera] of what came into Being [Kheperu]”

“After My coming into Being, Many were Things which came into Being”

“Coming Forth from my Mouth” “Embrace My Shadow and Released Seed”

“Not existed Heaven, Not existed Earth”

“Not had been Created Things of Earth,

“And Creeping Things in that Place”

“I raised them Out of NU, from the State of Inactivity”

“Not found I a place to Stand Wherein”

I radiated My Words of Power with my Will”

“I laid a Foundation in the Law, and I made All Attributes”

“I was Alone, for not had I spit out the form of Shu” “Not had I Emitted Tefnut”

“Not Existed None who Worked with Me”

“I made a Foundation by Means of my Will”

“And there Came into Being the Multitude of Things”

“I became from God One, Gods Three” “That is from Out of Myself” 

“My Name is Ausares”  ***

We have read that it was St John who wrote that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the Word was God. It is now time for the ORIGINAL MAN to be known and to once again teach the world how to be civilised. If we don’t do it, no one else will and we shall forever remain slaves to things and to those who value things more than people and God. With these words, I say…AMEN!

 Menzi Maseko ---

Izwi LeSintu/The Voice of a People (Part 1)

Background: More than just a pipe dream, African unity and independence for all its peoples is a challenge that shall follow us until it is realised. Yet the difficulties we face towards reaching that noble goal are acerbated by lack of political will and by external forces that see how much good that this will do for the people of the Mother Land.

Many Africans are tired of the sentimentality and unpractical manner with which this issue is dealt with by such bodies as the United Nations, African Union and locally by the seemingly toothless and power hungry politicians who still pose as Pan-Africanists.

This essay is written in response to the undying call for sovereignty and justice for the unbiased, truly patriotic peoples of the world, beginning with Africa, I will begin closer to home, dealing with the almost silenced call for sovereignty and justice by the Maseko (Ngcamane Swazi) group of families and we will take a look at the East African challenges in Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somalia.

What roles do religion, tyranny and Western meddling have on these issues, can African truly become self-determined and purposefully prosperous people who place their own needs before those of the cash-inspired West?

Allow me to begin with some lenghty points from an interview of the Nigerian African Renaissance Party chairman Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu, conducted through the website Buzzle.com:

24. How would you help Somalia pacify and gain national unity and rehabilitation?

Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu - Comprised of a former British protectorate and an Italian colony, Somalia was created in 1960 when the two territories merged. Since then, its development has been slow. Relations with neighbors have been soured by territorial misunderstandings.

The University of Peace’s Peace and Conflict Monitor Report a few years back states that the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) was better placed to pacify Somalia.

The Report was based on the understanding that for the six-month period June to December 2006 in which the ICU was in control of Mogadishu and much of Central and Southern Somalia, that territory enjoyed peace, order and security; we know very well that this was good and unique, unprecedented ever since the Siad Barre administration had collapsed. In other words, the security situation was getting better in this swathe of land that had only known and lived with over 15 years of statelessness, insecurity, clan feuds, thriving warlordism and lawlessness.

So, the question is why the Ethiopian-backed offence – with tacit support from the United States and a number of Western powers – was undertaken and who finally decided to kick the Islamic Courts Union out of Somalia when the courts merited an opposite response from the international community, having already delivered stability and order to the most of Somalia’s territory?

25. Where do you stand as regards African conflicts, notably Eritrea vs. Ethiopia, Western Sahara and Uganda vs. Congo?

Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu – I believe that the African Diaspora should intervene and come up with constructive suggestions able to offer an exit to those conflicts. The acrimonious relationship between Eritrea and Ethiopia is both, old and new. Resentful ethnic stereotypes run deep, but more recent political events have added a toxic element of embitterment. Whipped into this unstable mix is the fact that the Horn of Africa is a region at the cross roads of Europe, Asia and Africa, where the ambitions of the world’s greatest powers have colluded with local populations, religions and political formations for the last centuries.

26. What is your position about national liberation fronts and autonomy movements, notably Ogaden, Oromo and Kabylia?

Yahaya Ezemoo Ndu - Let me start by saying that I myself and the African Renaissance Party are irrevocably committed to the convocation of a sovereign national conference of all ethnic nationalities of Nigeria for the direct purpose of the renegotiation of Nigeria in order to offer an amicable coexistence formula to all the peoples of Nigeria.

The lessons taken from the Nigerian Civil War of 1967-1970, the incessant interethnic unrests that have befallen on our the nation ever since, as well as the ongoing unrests pertaining to the Niger Delta region of our country, to the extent that active military operation is going on there right now, are more than an eloquent testimony to the fact that the component units of any nation should not be bound by force but by unmitigated free will.

I therefore support freedom for the peoples of my country, and I do support freedom for all the peoples of Africa, forall the ethno-religious groups wherever they may happen to be located.

One of greatest obstacles in the path the African Unification is that efforts to unify Africa have hitherto deployed to implement the unification project with the grossly defective ‘blocks’ formed out of the colonially and arbitrary contrived boundaries. These states are subjects of serious and at times bloody contentions throughout the length and breadth of the continent.

Liberation fronts are fighting for the liberation of their various peoples and deserve the support of all right thinking human beings. When all African peoples are liberated, then the objective of African unification can be commenced in earnest.

All liberation movements in Africa should be supported by all and sundry, as it is diversionary, unnecessary, and wicked for governments to seek to control peoples against their own free will. In every instance, a system must be introduced to determine the true feelings of the people; wherever it is established that they wish to be independent, the proper modalities should be worked out to enable and implement the independence process.

However, I must make the point that there is a political solution to internal strife issues, and this unfortunately has not yet been thorough explored in most of the needy African nations. This solution is: True Federalism. This implies running real, functioning and fair, federal governments.

Faced with corruption and stalled development, Africa is seeking a fresh path to good governance; federalism is the Black Continent’s watch word in this search.

The Fifth International Conference on Federalism, the bi-yearly gathering of the forum of federations, and the Global Network on Federalism, which opened in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa on December 13th 2010, has offered African leaders the opportunity to review the benefits that would accrue to the nations that embrace federalism. The theme of this year’s conference was ‘’Equity and Unity in Diversity for Development’’.

I want to underscore the fact that it is the first time the conference is being held in Africa since its initiation in 1999 in Mt. Tremblant, Canada.”

EmaKhaya: What does it mean to have a rightful home

Before we explore the above questions and answers, it would be wise to begin closer to home.  I cannot even attempt to deal with such major and historical issues as the conflicts between the Eritreans, the Ethiopians (Abyssinians) and the disenfranchised Oromo (Kushites) and the Somalians without acknowledging similar patterns of behaviour here where I live.

First, a little background information: For the past 5 to 7 years I have been a member of a cultic and nationalistic movement called Rastafari, more properly, The Nyahbinghi Theocratic Order of Haile Selassie I. To most people this only means, I have been part of a religious group that is inspired by Bob Marley, Reggae music and the ‘utterances’ of Ethiopia’s last Emperor and that I have been a fundamentalist ritual smoker of the holy herb called marijuana. But this is just 2 per cent of the story.

Contrary to popular belief, the Rasta’s are a serious international/outer-nationalist movement that while inspired by HIM are also keen observers of history and Biblical prophecy. Although a lot of the rituals in the cult may reference the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Coptic churches too, much of the ‘acts’ of the Rastafari derive from the Jamaican Anti-imperialist or liberation movements which were inspired by the Honourable Marcus Mosiah Garvey. 

These movements placed a lot of emphasis on the re-interpretation of the Judeo-Christian Bible, and were enlivened by the international or Diaspora growth of the Ethiopianist movements which included in their political and social rallying calls for African solidarity, a lot of Biblical propaganda such as ‘Ethiopia shall soon stretch forth her hands to JAH/God’, hence the pseudo-prophetic tendency to call the Emperor of Ethiopia by the name of JAH and to worship HIM as such.

Let me not get carried away for the history of the Rastafari is long and eventful and it must be said that this is one movement, not withstanding its flaws has championed the course of African emancipation and self determination more than any other. Through their use of music and other cultural instruments the Nyahbinghi and even the related movements such as the Twelve Tribes of Israel and the Bobo Ashanti have placed Africa first at all times.

I give this brief background so that the reader can appreciate where I am coming from in order to over-stand (understand) where I am going. My purpose is to arrive at the truth and the truth as it’s been said, shall set us free. Although as a Rasta I had come to denounce all notions or tendencies towards my tribal or family culture, it soon became clear to me that no man is an island and that as an African/Kushite* it was of primary concern to know who I am and where I am coming from. The denial of ones tribal or homeland culture by the Rasta’s is a source of many misunderstandings and conflicts. From whether or not we should observe the Zulu or Bantu practices of Lobola, traditional medicine and divination to performing specific rituals at the birth of our children and other initiation ceremonies performed by our people…this issue is an ongoing one and I am sure it has a lot with our over-reliance on the literal interpretation of the Holy Bible.

It seems that even though we (I and I) questioned and even rejected certain pronouncements from this Judeo-Christian collection of stories, we also rejected any wisdom coming from our forefathers, choosing to claim that our forefathers and mothers are the Hagars, Sarahs and Rebeca’s and the Queen of Sheba’s from the ancient book. This has wrecked our families and as I said, caused a lot of confusion to our immediate families.

Let us now turn to the complicated matter of the Ngcamane-Swazini and in order to capture the essence of my ‘reasoning’, I shall begin with a quotation from an elder of the Maseko  clan:

“I, like the first black Deputy President to be democratically installed in South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, in 1996, would like to “start at the beginning…”.

I am an African. In Africa I am a Ngcamane Swazi National of the last royal clan called Maseko. The Ngcamane are the direct descendants of the Royal hierarchy which started with King Ndlovu. All Nguni speaking tribes and nationas, owe their identity and cultural heritage from this great king. These include the Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, Swazi, Malawian, and some 17 Chieftaincies in Mozambique ( in the 1990’s) and many more in Malawi; to mention but a few.

The Ngcamane adults who are alive today in Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Lesotho and Ghana, owe it to the children of their great grand children, to restore the nation of Ngcamane-Swazi’s, the head of the Nguni stream of the Bantu peopleof Africa, to their original status and place in the history and on the face of this great continent, and the world at large. We do not only won the land and heritage, but we owe it and hold it in trust for our great grand children and their own great grand children.

Like the children of Israel in the Bible history, the Ngcamane Swazi’s need to repent, cry out to God, lay their trust in Him and His wisdom, then He shall reverse the Diaspora of the Ngcamane. In all the Maseko’s and other members of the Ngcamane Nation who live today, there is a mixed cocktail of adrenaline (warriorship), Africanism, and maleness or fatherliness that gushes through our veins. God and the Holy Spirit are the Power Engine and live in our dying bodies. It is because of them, and the Blood of His Son Jesus Christ, that we are now being restored to our rightful place in history, the continebt and among the nations of the world.” (Page --from Return of The Ngcamane Swazi -)

Among some of the aims and objectives of the EMANGCAMANE SWAZI National Council as of the year 1997 (version one of 1997), are the following:

“3. To secure the removal of the illegitimate borders covering present day Swaziland as defined by the British in 1967 and 1968, perpetrating the stinking scam started by the Ngwane impostors called Dlamini of the Sobhuza and Mswati ilk, since 1840.

7.To ensure that Swaziland follows the example of the Transkei, Venda, Gazankulu, Bophuthatswana, Ciskei and Lebowa, and return to South Africa, because the Ngcamane owners of that piece of land never commissioned its seclusion from the rest of our country.

8. To stimulate and cause a real and decisive debate and subsequent resolution on the fate of the Dlamini so called “Royalty” that imposed themselves on our children, our brothers and sisters, our land, our Kingdom, our language, our name and our culture and throne!

12. To ensure that all Ngcamane Swazi’s return to the cordial relationship they enjoyed with our God, the God of the Bible. It is this same God who used to fellowship with the Maseko-Ngcamane Kings on the mountains of Ncabaneni, and used to come in the form of a cloud that looked like a one legged person, which earned Him the Nickname, “Mlentemangunye”, or the “One Legged One”. He did the same to the children of Israel and the Bible is full of stories similar to these of our God. Therefore we regard Jesus Christ, the son of the God of the Bible, as our in disputed Lord and Savior, and the Holy Spirit as our daily companion.

16. To secure, mobilise, local, regional, national and international funds for development and business projects that will improve the quality of life of our communities and create employment in those those areas in which our members live.*

Simply by reading through this book, it is obvious that the author is not only a zealous and principles Christian, he is undoubtedly an African patriot who is eager to see the restoration of the Ngcamane Swazi’s.

In my first reading of the book, I was put off by his repeated references to the Bible and to how the course of Maseko nation is somewhat ordained by Jesus Christ.  But then I recalled my own personal writings and conversations with various people on the issue of Christianity and African self-determination. It seems that my bias was ill placed and that as a person who is also a Maseko and raised on a hearty diet of the Christian doctrine, it was almost impossible to move beyond the Biblical juxtapositions. However it is also good to be an objective reader, writer and listener, since not everybody would take kindly to ones particular doctrine, this is important in relation to the knowledge that Africans are a diverse people and also being mindful that as good as the doctrine may be, there were a lot of atrocities and lies told about black African people using this Holy Bible and its doctrine.

With that said, let us turn a little bit to politics. The author of Return of the Ngcamane Swazi book mentions earlier that he does not intend to delve too deeply in partisan politics, firstly as a devout Christian and also as a principles person who thinks that the political platform is divisive and is opposed to the unification of people. He has a point there, although it is clear that when one speaks or writes on the subjects of restorative justice, repatriation and reparations, one has crossed the social-political dividing line, if there really is one.

The issue of the Ngcamane Swazi will surely be gaining much more airtime or popularity in this day and age when it seems like the Sobhuza ‘royal’ family characterised by the domineering antics of its wayward king is tottering towards a fall. Surely the Maseko Royals will use this weak point in Swazi-South African relations as an opportunity to make their voices heard. Unless this is done quickly, it seems to me that their/our warrior spirit is just as diminished as the political voice of such  Pan Africanist parties as the PAC, AZAPO and the Black Consciousness Party all of which had an embarrassing showing at the recent South African local government elections (18 May 2011).

If the Ngcamene Swazi’s fail to double up their efforts, aside from the Facebook  pages and seemingly half-hearted national campaigns, this will be a clear missed opportunity. But then there are still the problems of State  and international interests and relationships with Swaziland, these matters are not cleared in just a few days, it will really take a lot of political manoeuvring and not just prayers to Jesus to bring down the faulty Dlamini regime. This is the kind of lesson that the Egyptian and Libyans in North Africa are having to learn quickly and their efforts are not made easy by the All Seeing Eye of Big Brothers – Britain and the United States of America.

What we must keep in mind when we endeavour to change the historical borders imposed on us by these superpowers, is that there is still a lot od reliance on our part on Western styled trade or economic systems. These unsustainable habits wherein cash comes before real personal and nationwide transformation are going to take some time to be erased from our peoples psyche and this is where I would place the role of a True Religion.

When I say true religion and re-evaluation of our collective culture, I am alluding to what the Rastafari began to do but sadly never got around to fulfilling. In our Western learned habits of idolising personality rather than merit and true spirituality, we have created a race of servants and rebels without clear causes. The servants are satisfied with the churches perks and promises of salvation, the other Africans of the Islamic and Hebraic persuasion are just as brainwashed, white-washed and lost as the rest of us, in perpetual Arabisation, Ethiopianisation and Jesusification. What I mean by these terms is that as much as the religions here mentioned have their intrinsic and obvious values (Compassion, Love, Charity and Self-Sacrifice and Faith), they have clearly failed to create or cause us to be a people who excel at Being Ourselves.

What is to be oneself? It is to find a way or ways that help yourself and others to gain self realisation. The realisation that not only are you created in Gods image, but you also have every right to call yourself and your sister a daughter of God. It means that we too can be exactly like Jesus was/is, exactly as Solomon was, to become more than what Haile Selassie I represented and to re-write history just like the illiterate and inspired Muhammad …

The telling shall continue