I’ve found out how to insult an African. Not only that, but how to insult them and have them agree! It’s not that I’m deliberately setting out to insult anyone. It’s just that insulting them is the only way I know. So I’m writing this in the hope that someone can help me stop. Maybe that person will be you?
What is strange is that the more I insult them, the more they applaud me! I’ve even started to wonder if they even realise they are being insulted. It all boils down to a problem with my language, you see. I just don’t have the words to be polite. In fact, the only reason I can get away with it is because a trick has been played and the African lost. I wonder if they are even aware of this. The trick put certain concepts in place which enabled them to enjoy my insults. When I insulted my friend he said I was telling the truth. Is this really the case?
Well, if you are an African, get ready because I’m going to start the insults. If you’re of a nervous disposition you should stop reading now! I’m going to fire them off like bullets from a machine gun. But please understand. I can’t help myself because these are the only words that I have. But I’m digressing again. Let me get on with it. OK. Here goes…
“Third world, developing, undeveloped, backwards, primitive, HIPC (oh, I think that one got a response), unadvanced…”
wait, let me stop there. I could continue but I must restrain myself.
I’m sorry I had to do that. Please forgive me. I just don’t know how else to talk about Africa. I have no other language and no other words.
If someone said this to me I would be angry. I would ask them, “By whose definitions do you judge? Who sets the criteria that allows you to say these things? Just because I do not follow your road does not mean I am not progressing. What is your definition of progress?”. But the trick, to persuade the African to accept someone else’s yard-stick and use it as their own, has made everything else possible.
So, my faithful reader, please help me stop insulting my African friends. Tell me…what other words can I use when I talk about Africa?
Critical Point 
The first thing that comes to mind, a nursery rhyme my mother would sing to me when I was upset by someone’s words: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
On a different note however, a very poignant point made again about this. It seems that the West has gained such an influence over us that they can now make us accept a manufactured reality of ourselves, essentially telling us who we are or ought to be.
They call us the third world, underdeveloped and we accept it, they tell us that we are unable to manage our own affairs and we believe it and accept the scraps that they hand to us in the form of dead aid whiles they pillage and scramble for the riches of our land. All the while we are too busy prostrating in expression of our unending generosity in revealing to us our inadequacy and incompetency.
My heart aches for Africa…but God has a plan.
interesting read. but really I don’t see the point in any African or whatever feeling insulted by any of these descriptions. you are who you are!
and it must be clear that choosing to follow some defined path by others is also a choice that must be respected. The only problem is where the person making the choice is not sure or does not understand the choice he makes.
So if an African decides to follow the economic progress of the west that should not necessarily be a problem.
Hmmmm! You seem to be the one who is angry by the lack of response to your insults. Could you not have guessed? If someone becomes unresponsive to your attacks, that means they see u as tiny bit of dirt on their shoulder. THEY DON’T CARE!!! Plus, is there such a thing as “African”? LMAO! That really revealed ur stupidity… so much for insulting “Africans” … Keep it up man, you will only be embarrassing yourself
One problem we often have as bloggers is that people sometimes read the title of your post and don’t take time to read the content. I wonder if you actually read and understood the irony of my post? Irony is a risk because it doesn’t always travel well. There is no such thing as an African in the same way there is no such thing as a European.
@novisi. An interesting sentence you made ” you are who you are “. Please can you shed more light on that statement so I don’t start insulting you based on the first impression I got .
If you have more time maybe you could also explain what you meant by “any African or whatever” too
Thanks in advance