The Memoirs of Kwabena Amikaketo (2) The Definition and Characteristics of Obroni

Kwabena Amikaketo sat in his favourite chair on his balcony, viewing the setting sun which was making way for the shadows to grow longer and soon cover his part of the world like a dark blanket.
What was happening in his America and some parts of the world was still disturbing him, as he recalled some things he had experienced or heard about the White Man.
The other day, he had a long distance conversation with a primary school mate called Mina. She was based in the US of A, and during their chat, Mina asked him what he thought the meaning of obroni was. Kwabena was lost, ebro means corn, maize, so obroni could have something to do with corn, if that would make sense.
Mina said, “No,” and then came the bombshell. “It means aa-broni”…abro means wickedness of all sorts. Mina went on like a historian to highlight reasons why the White Man came to be called Obroni for singular and Abrofuo for plural.
His wickedness and treacherousness has been legendary. He came to Black Africa and first lured the Blacks to believe he was the best thing after God. When he had dug his feet in and won the trust of the people, he then spread the venom of division and hatred among the Blacks, knocking the heads of one person against the other, and creating divisions in families, clans, and ethnic groups.
Then he started making slaves out of the Blacks and was cunning enough to push the blame on stronger African tribes, saying that they conquered the weaker ones and sold them to him as slaves. With that he successfully created a strong division between Black Americans and Black Africans. But the issue here is, if the ancestors of the Blacks in Africa were inhuman enough to sell their fellow human beings, why should someone who is such a good soul and well cultured accept, not only to buy them, but also to subject them to the worst conditions ever?
Black Africans did keep slaves, but in all instances the slaves become members of the family and were treated as such. However, that is not the case of the White Man. Even though he introduced Jesus Christ to Black Africa, he never obeyed the teachings of the Sacred Scriptures. For example, in Exodus 20, it is written that anyone who kills his slave must be killed, and anyone who hits his slave and damages his or her eye or tooth must set that slave free. These never happened when the obroni man took us as slaves. We rather hear stories of how Blacks in slavery were ill-treated, and some even murdered, with the Whites involved living to boast of how many Blacks they killed.
We read in the Sacred Scriptures they introduced to us and found out that in the Letter of Paul to the Ephesians Chapter 6, slave masters are asked to do the will of the God from their heart when dealing with slaves, and God asks us to love one another, to show true love by sacrificing for one another. Yet, it is the lives of Blacks that they sacrifice to this day, with no sense of feelings towards their fellow humans, as if they are dealing with some wild animals.
To put the fear of God into the slaves, the White Man, in the usual abro state of mind, disregarded the warning given to us that we must not take out or add on to what has been stated in the Sacred Scriptures (Rev. 22:18-19 and Deuteronomy 4:2) and went on to remove many books and verses of the Sacred Scriptures which spoke on liberation, and came out with a Slave Bible, which was used to preach the Word of God to the Black African slaves for them to accept that God wanted them to remain slaves. This bible had 90% of the Old Testament and 50% of the New Testament removed, all in the effort to justify slavery, a brutal form of slavery. The King James Version (KJV) has 1,189 chapters in it and the Slave Bible has only 232.
In such wickedness, the Living Word was reduced into propaganda machinery to force people to accept what God never intended them be. So nothing on Moses and his strong message to Pharaoh, “Let my People Go!!!” Neither were there “…there is neither slave nor free man…for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28), and “woe to him…who works his neighbour without pay, and gives him no wages.” (Jeremiah 22: 13). Certainly, these would have challenged the idea of slavery in the first place, and today it will question the policy of pricing cheaply, services and products from Third World producer nations. Christianity regards everyone equal in the sight of God; Christianity accepts that all peoples are God’s children irrespective of the religious and ideological differences. But the White Man, the obroni, is practicing what is opposite the Will of God.
Kwabena Amikaketo sighed and continued his lamentation and contemplation. For some reasons best known only to them, the obroni (White Man) has decided to take up God’s role in this life and determine who should be regarded as the creation in God’s image and likeness; and here, the Blacks are not included.
One other thing that has been bothering Amikaketo is the way some Black African leaders, political, traditional, public and civil servants, regard the White Man to the detriment of the Black Man is very legendary.
Some decades ago, Black African leaders in the Francophone countries sold out to France when they consented to an agreement to pay into the France Central Bank about 75% of their annual Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which total $500 billion. Guinea and Algeria opted out of this. Then just as the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) decided to use one currency as a means of enhancing development and economic growth, France gathered its former colonies around and proposed to change the CFA and adopt the Eco, which, incidentally, is the name of the currency ECOWAS had wanted to adapt.
As if that was not enough, these Francophone countries re-negotiated their almost sixty year agreement with France and accepted to continue paying billions of dollars annually into the France Central Bank, but this time 50% of their GDP.
If only Blacks will unite as one and put Black matters first, coming out as humans there are all these stupidity and nonsense on the part of America and the West with their institutionalised and systematic racism; the Arabs who sell off Blacks into slavery, including sex slavery and for body parts, and the Chinese who do not even think Blacks should share the world with them, will never have become manifest.
That was the agenda of Nkrumah and all the free African nations at that time. But, of course, Kwabena Amikaketo recalled that when the issue came up for adoption, the vast majority of the free African nations supported unity with a free market economy, and seven others, including Ghana, also supported unity but with command economy, the Socialist way. The dream fizzled out and has forever remained a dream.
The insensitive and barbaric killing of Blacks in America and elsewhere is now in vogue, and the UN is yet to make a strong statement against the rise of racism in the world. Rather, whenever there are troubles spouting out in corners of Asia, based more on ethnicity, the UN will be heard loud and clear, but not when something is affecting a whole race.
The Obroni (White Man) has been able to make Blacks, especially Black Africans, not to think highly of themselves and accept whatever is said about them.
Whenever an African leader becomes a despot, it would have most likely come from encouragement from the Whites, through their businessmen and politicians, who would gladly invite that African leadership to deposit monies in personal accounts in banks in the foreign countries. When the Black African leader is no longer the head of state, either by losing elections or removed violently from power, these Whites, who lured him into lodging monies into bank accounts in their countries, will label him as a corrupt person. Meanwhile, they knew he was corrupt all along, and yet, they received monies he stole. And the law says it is an act of crime to receive stolen goods, meaning the Whites are just as corrupt.
In another way to belittle the Black Man, the White Man will only accept any Black who is better than their best to be considered good enough for any role. That is how low we are considered.
So, from the senseless killings of Black slaves during the days of slavery, through the killing of 14 year old George Junius Stinney Jr, who was executed by electric chair in 1944, for a crime of murder he never committed, and seventy years later, in 2014, his conviction was overturned and he was pronounced innocent by the court; justice was hardly served to a Black Man.
Between May 31 and June 1, 1921 the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) stormed and burnt to ashes a Black business hub called the Black Wall Street in Greenwood, Tulsa, Oklahoma, and in the process, at least, 1,000 Blacks were killed; businesses, hospitals, schools, airplanes belonging to Black families were destroyed, because this affluent Black American community was seen as a threat to white dominated American capitalism.
The list continues with many Blacks killed for no good reason at all and little was done to address the situation. What angered Kwabena Amikaketo was that in some instances, Black police officers partook in the assault and killing of their own fellow Blacks who were at the receiving end of injustice. J. Alexander Kueng, who was among the three other police officers who watched on as Officer Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, is a Black American.
Kwabena Amikaketo had lots of reflect on about the state of Blacks in the world today. His one appeal is for Blacks to learn to live with one another, and unite as one. The Black Wall Street can be reincarnated into something much bigger and stronger if all Black African nations can unite and establish a very strong economic community. Blacks in the Diaspora can be made to join in to add their expertise to this Union.
This is when the Age of Ebony, the era of Black Renaissance, begins. We were created by God to lead in humility, and God, in His Wisdom, allowed us to be enslaved and killed senselessly to face all sorts of injustices and be lorded over by other races. For with that we have humility, and humility is the foundation of all virtues.
This was exactly what happened to the Jewish people of Israel, God’s chosen people. We are also God’s chosen people, the next Israel. Let us get together in love and remain united and glorify God with acts that will please God. We should Love one another, remain Together in love, and be Devoted to God (LTD).
Hon. Daniel Dugan

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