WESTERNISM AND AFRICANISM- BY CLEMENT ERNESTERICK

To destruct arguments that are pejorative, derogatory and reductive of the other human person is very easy. And I think, it doesn't require a lot of academic papers to acclaim one learned or Professor. Because, professorhood demands that one must have  thesis,  hypothesis is postulated, premises developed and argumentation defended properly, with evidence and proof, and conclusive statement reached based on properly founded inferences. But one thing is key: research - methodology and development must be coherent and rationalizable.

I sometimes think, the whole thing is tedious and sometimes unnecessary; but it is a very necessary and an involving academic exercise because, pure gold must pass through fire and be refined. 

Now, when Westernism thinks herself superior to the Africanism and other human races, we are very keen to remind them of their position in this world,first  by the Superior Religion [Christian Religion, the Catholic Church being its established epistemic and ecclesiastical authority] governing the world and second, by Science itself.

Previously, I gave an analogy relating to theogony upon which cosmogony draws its existence: the universe as home/house of God. Being home with boundaries drawn, the birth of human race has a definitive origin on the surface of this world: African land; Egypt, Mediterranean land: Tigris, Euphrate, Phison -Havilah, Gehon - Cush/Ethiopia. 

African is the cradleland of mankind. That means, from the hands of God, the First son is African people, whose descendance is mould of earth by the Divine Personality. So in matters of birth order and superiority, confirmed by the Evolutionary Science,  Easterners are the firstborns of God, superior to Westerners.

But the child is fond of throwing tantrums, obsessed with supplanting authority, which is impossible but if possible then only among the contingent beings. The case of Jacob and Esau being a prime example, but its possibility is in the nature of their conception: monozygotic individuals. Being mature is realizing who you are and operating as per your office with the authority of silence. Reflect on how authority functions and relate with how God formed the earth: in silence, without chaos yet with this very act, all creations are drawn to him in humble reverence. Those making noise doesn't stop him from exerting and asserting his authority. 

Let's learn to be silent and quiet. But solemn quietude isn't meaningless; must be with grave significance:  jurisprudential, philosophical, scientific, ethical,... perfecting the imperfections. That's how Jesus thwarted the expectations of the Pharisees, Lawyers, Scribes and Religious Authorities ~ all of these individuals, by contrived tradition clouded by perceptions, sought to undermine their subjects, doing away with the Divine Order and Tradition. The West functions in this manner thinking we are blind, dark as they usually think and write of us. 

Know and understand your place in this universe, function and operate in and within it.

© CLEMENT MWAKA ERNESTERICK

- Kenya