Colourism!

Wait... if these Arabs can feel too superior to honour Bilal ibn Rabah as one of the most trusted and loyal companion of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, do you think they'll have any regard for you and I? And that's symbolically speaking.

I'm talking to y'all wannabe Arabs, y'all that I see wearing desert protective clothes during a typical Gambian summer and you think it's Sunnah, y'all who hold Arabic newspapers sacred, because you cannot distinguish between mere Arabic text and the Qur'an, all y'all who think it's haram to listen to Cess Ngom during Ramadan, but you can listen to najwa karam because she sings in Arabic, her lyrics regardless.

Listen Africans! Before oppressed people, we were blessed people, so let's not be oppressed by ourselves. Say to hell with colourism, f*ck what's going on in Libya. Damn the African Union and shout out to Burkina Faso for making the first move in showing the government of Libya that all men are created equal. Let's stop subjecting ourselves to mental slavery. Let's stop shedding all our values in the name of wakefulness, because no single race is of higher consciousness than the other, and if I'm wrong, then mine is a racial accident because I'm not unconscious.

Now to all you borderline specialists in African affairs: check your sense of Pan-Africanism by comparison with the efforts that rebuilt Europe after the second World War and see if we are doing great... what are we using our support structure for? I say abso-freaking-lutely nothing other than making grandiloquent speeches in celebration of pseudo-Pan-African led dictatorships that are even more evil than colonialism.

Pan-Africanism doesn't stop at calling each other "comrade," wearing Mutabaruka inspired clothes, singing 'Shosholoza' and quoting Julius Nyerere. We need to use the cause to educe black potential, to support all blacks to develop from within, and do so until fair-coloured chauvinism is no longer able to reproduce. But until then, y'all contemporary Pan-Africans bore me to death.