THE NATURE OF SELF-HATE
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By NAIWU OSAHON
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In 2008, when I launched the campaign with two versions of this article, inviting our African mothers, wives, sisters, and women folks worldwide to stop wearing White female hairstyles and damaging their hair with dangerous chemicals, many said I was dreaming and that it is impossible to change our women. Some even said I was mad trying. Our queens have heeded my call to the happiness and pride of our race. See how beautiful African women now look worldwide. Other races are now copying our women and that is how it is supposed to be, because our Mama is the mother of the human race. We do not copy others, we lead the way as the ancestors of the human race. See catwalks from Europe to the Americas, other races are copying us and looking good as a result. The most beautiful women in the world now wear and look typically African. That is what we now want to do with our spirituality. All Africans must go Ma'at from this moment on. Many are asking for the publication of the original document I published that transformed our female hairstyles and gave us our Nubian Queens world wide. Thank you, thank you, great sisters, mothers, daughters. We can't thank you enough. We are very proud of you all. Here is the original article published around the world.
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African women are losing sense of self-worth. Their idea of feminine elegance is to wear White female hair styles. Flip through any issue of our week-end newspapers and picture magazines to see how far this disturbing trend of self-hate by our females has gone. No class of Black women is exempt: film and sports stars, musicians, students, models, literary gurus, politicians, academics, business executives, civil servants, religious leaders and followers, unemployed or working class spinsters and housewives, are trying desperately to pass for White. They are all pampered as teenage daughters, with charming African hair styles, which they promptly abandon for White female hair styles as soon as they become of age to choose hair styles for themselves.
We were taught through slavery and colonialism that Black is poo and White is right and supreme. So, they gave us their God and His White son to worship and look up to for redemption. Our brainwashing has continued since unabated. All our flagship media sources routinely carry without qualms, adverts that demean our race. Advertisers of cosmetic products are a major front of the assault on our sense of self-worth, telling our women that light skin and long, shinny, bodiless, straight, White female hair styles, are the ideal for our women. The advertisers hide the truth that light skin colour crack and age faster than dark skin, and that every race has natural hair styles that suit and complement her.
For instance, AMBI (meaning Africans May Be Improved), skin cream was first developed in apartheid South Africa to promote bleaching and lighten ‘the African Black skin blemish.’ Dr. Miracle tells us to be ashamed of our Afro, kinks, braids and natural hair styles, because White female bodiless, stretched hairstyles are the ideal for African females. Wild Growth Co., makers of wild growth hair oil, do not even attempt to conceal their disdain for the African race. Wild Growth claims to make our savage female animal species look human by removing their kinks, naps, braids, and rendering their hair shinny and long below the shoulder. Nivea skin cream advert on page 39 of Ebony magazine of April 2008, spells out their racial hatred for the African race in even more unequivocal language. It says a beautifully toned skin is White full stop. Motions’ Shampoo advert on page 4 of Ebony of February 2006, claims to detangle and render African hair weightless, thus implying that God made a mistake tangling and giving body to the African hair? Otherwise, why would any one want to detangle what God has tangled? If as the Bible says, God is in human image and likeness, then God is Black with thick, tangled hair, since He created the Black race and the weather created Whites. Who is Motions shampoo, therefore, to detangle God and His creation?
No amount of money in the world would buy space in a White journal for an advert that insults the sensitivities of the White race, but with us anything goes; individual survival is the language. The advert that takes the cake was by Hennessy on page 73 of Ebony magazine of May 2006, which claimed that the privileged African is the one who has been ‘convicted.’ To make the use of the advert to perpetrate our continued genocide irresistible, while making Hennessy look like our friend, Hennessy donated opposite the page 73 insulting advert, $15,000 to Howard University, at the Ebony presents Hollywood in Harlem Pre-Oscar Gala, to honour Black stars. I attacked these adverts at the time. My protests were not published but generally sent to the advertisers. The cosmetic people changed their promotion tone to ‘even tone.’ It took three critical letters to shift Dr. Miracle to their current abuse zone, and Hennessy dropped ‘convicted’ for ‘ennobling’ etc. I wonder when alcohol began to straighten mankind up, clear-eyed? Well, since they claim that Blacks are not humans, it probably works on Blacks.
Africans have the greatest variety of elegant, feminine, beautiful, sexy, creative, ennobling, envied, open to further innovations, female hair styles, than all the other tribes of the world put together. Our women have hundreds of matchless teasers from the ancient Nubian, Kanuri, Calabar, Edo queenly varieties, to the modern exquisite resourceful African tribal traffic stoppers. The proper African female hair styles, fall in the range of low/full cut, to thick, rich, woolly, curly, kinky, alluring, lively, dramatic, healthy, luscious, moist, sheer, knotted, plaited, jumbled, tangled crown of part-collected, massed or cascading hair, confirming (like the peacock’s crown for the birds’ kingdom, or the lion’s for the animals’ dominion), our females’ ordained status as the human queens: brave, proud, confident, real, important, dignified, feminine, irresistible. In fact, the most stunning women in the world, wear African female hair styles, and, by the way, are not ‘I’ or pencil thin, but ‘S’ shaped. All female species of nature are invariably sexually endowed, so, the most irresistible human females are not fat or thin, but shapely, with generous front and back sides, to distinguish them from men.
African women, wearing hot combed, straight, stretched, compacted or other white female hair styles, look inferior, like cheap substitutes and slaves, standing beside their true to nature white female peers; and like grandmas beside their proudly African peers with African female hair styles. They invariably look like white headed black dolls, doubly empty inside, or like cats emerging from a forced bath of hot oil: ugly, slimy and abnormal. So, one is tempted to ask, do our women wear white female hair styles out of a feeling of self-hate or because they are angry and want to shock and terrorize with their, I don’t care how I look pose, blacks they are ashamed of, and whites that reject them?
There was this actress looking like a precious jewel in her African hair style at the Pan-African Night of Tributes in Los Angeles and a few hours later, was looking like grandma in her white female hair style, at a Pre-Oscar Gala. Every April, Ebony magazine features black College Queens who all wear white female hair styles that make them look like jokers and pretenders to the throne of beauty queens of any tribe, black or white. Obviously, a great deal of confusion is going on in our women’s heads at the moment, a kind of split personality crisis. If they cannot change their ‘black skin blemish’ fast enough, they can, at least, jump start this with white female hair styles.
Of course, 400 years of slavery dealt a devastating blow to our feeling of self-worth. While Hiroshima bombing happened over a few days and the Jewish holocaust lasted a couple of years, without causing either of them the loss of cultural focus and identity, our dehumanization went on for 400 years and it was brutal and total. It obliterated our languages, culture, traditional mores, religions, history, individual names and identity. It was 400 years of no industry, learning, or progress, because we were running and hiding, not knowing who they would kidnap or murder next. Over two hundred million of our relatives died on the run or during the Middle Passage. It was 400 years of unbridled rape of our women and the inhuman and ungodly castration of our men; 400 years of slaving like beasts of burden without pay on the plantations of Bible totting slavers; 400 years of not knowing what we did wrong to be visited with so much hate, violence and destruction; 400 years of not knowing if and when it would end, and it has not ended 550 years after.
The Jews and the Japanese received compensation for the terrible wrong done to them but our tormentors do not consider us human enough to deserve their apology and reparations. We do not count in their records of human history, not even as a footnote and we are powerless to exert restitution because we are not united. When men are powerless, their female folks tend to ride with the winners as booties, or in the hope of some of the master’s spoils robbing off on them.
In a recent Ebony magazine feature on Black female senior executives, directors, and vice presidents of some leading US corporations, all of them wore White female hair styles that did severe damage to their look and age. They obviously believed they reached their merited heights by being dowdy and loyal servants. White leaders and bosses are not likely to be telling themselves, “I trust her absolutely because she is not true to her nature?” There is courage and strength in not living a lie, which all sane leaders and bosses, whites inclusive, recognize and quietly respect. Our girls cannot hide their basic nature under alien and unbecoming hair styles and assume that all is well.
Mitchell Obama would have eclipsed her husband’s audacity, if she had worn Afro or plait or any other African female hair-style at Obama’s inauguration as the first African President of the USA. Senior Black female holders of political offices in the US and African governments, think, passing for white with white female hair styles, encouraged their ascendance or appointment, and that foreign white leaders would resent them if they looked their natural African selves from head to toe. For a start, it makes them look older than their real age, and unattractive and undignified. It definitely offends the trust implied in the truism that: ‘real is more likely to be honest and reliable to deal with.’ That is a conflict we all face right now, we are not real but we think we are, or do not care. When our women, at whatever age, are true to their nature, they look ageless, regal, strong, trustworthy, dependable and beautiful. They inspire our confidence by being proudly African. That is what African women not contaminated by Western decadence look like.
It confirms that the Queen of Sheba’s extended family has not been completely wiped out by European’s plastic culture. We have great female poets who, despite their age, could still win the Miss World title if they would be true to their African nature. We have others in public eye, people others look up to, such as artistes, authors, film stars, who ought to know better, in terms of the correct public image to project, who do not feel there is anything wrong with their unnatural hair styles. We have daughters with long straight hair, of course, who look becoming because they are natural, but we also have black female TV hosts who wear pathetic, short or long, weightless, graceless, revolting, fake, white female hair styles, thinking they look cute. Such hosts would not get me out of bed in the morning to watch a ‘Good Morning’ TV show?
When African American men were wearing pressed or hot combed hair styles not too long ago, many of us pined and prayed for the phase to pass. Our urgent critical worry now is that we may not find proudly African sisters to marry by the morning. May be we should buy our African American females, mirrors to look at themselves with the African eye every morning, before stepping out into the world? Better still, we could send them the mirrors left behind in Africa in payment for slaves by slavers? That way we might find some value for the mirrors, by using them to see what the slavers are still doing to our daughters’ mentality because, Diaspora African women are continental African women’s mirrors in modernity but most Black women abroad are ashamed to be African and African continental women are copying their African American peers.
Female newscasters and talk show hosts on African television stations, habitually wear white female hair styles. NTA is the only exception and I influenced them when a listening patriotic African, Segun Olusola, was in charge of programmes there. Typical African cultural programmes are routinely hosted by females unsure of their correct racial image. The confused message they pass on with their unsightly non-African look, as against what they say on the programmes, apart from irritating their proudly African captive audience, discomforts the non-African viewer, eager to be treated to genuine and honest African scenes and entertainment.
There was this presenter the other day on a Nigerian television programme wearing long, straight, artificial hair, drooping all over her face to below her shoulders. She was shaking her head every few seconds to re-arrange the hair, and using her hands to transfer hair falling over her eyes to the back of her ears in typical White female manner. It was a lot of trouble for her, but that is not the issue here. On the programme, she was admonishing her listeners for not being true to their nature. “We should be proud of our culture, stick with it, and show it off to the world,” she said, stoned face. I had to touch my television set to assure myself, I was not dreaming.
Many of us see nothing wrong bowing, kowtowing, kneeling slavishly before images of White Jesus or Muhammad who we proudly call our husbands, messiahs and saviours. The Punch newspaper of Nigeria, of June 7, 2012, showed Access Bank, Nigeria, rewarding a Nigerian pre-school teenage explorer heroine with a Nichalodeon’s Dora the explorer White baby doll. The wife of the Governor of Lagos State was trapped to witness the ceremony and was showing deep appreciation for the event, not realising that Access bank had used her high public figure profile to promote an award that demeans African self worth in the eyes and psyche of the innocent Black child recipient of the award for being smart and clever. We as a people reinforce this self denigrating notion of ourselves in a million and one ways daily without realising the depth of damage we are doing to our self-esteem.
When a Nigerian won the Miss World title in 2001, she was looking like a delectable African queen. A year later, after her European sponsors had taken her around the world as their queen, she visited Nigeria looking like a masquerade. No one could recognize her. She had added 30 years to her age in twelve months, with her European hair style. If you ask our females why they take so much trouble to disfigure themselves, they say it makes them look beautiful. It is all so very sad for our race because they (as our mothers), pass their feelings on to the average African child who prefers a white baby doll to a black one because the white one is more beautiful. Then when you ask the child to point to the doll that looks more like him or her, he or she, helplessly and slowly points to the black one. If the White race is your image of God, your symbol of excellence and beauty, your summit of intelligence, virtue, success and heroism, what chance have you of ever liberating yourself mentally, at least, from emasculation?
The typical African right now, would tell you he or she is proudly African, wearing a suit in our noon day heat, and answering names like John, Jane, Stella, Stephen, Muhammad or Abdulai. The young men are wearing hair styles the females should be wearing, with earrings and all to boot; the women are looking like scarecrows or extraterrestrial beings, repulsive, masculine and strange to our environment, in compacted, stretched, alien, unbecoming hair styles. They look neither black nor white from bleaching to sore point, with accentuated stretch marks all over the covered body. Non-African tribes that would not try to change their nature as a race, by switching wholesale to African hair styles, religion, fashion, or answering African names, or burning black (in counterpoise to us bleaching), with injurious health consequences, that include kidney ruin, aggravated or heightened diabetes and hypertension, are difficult to fault for thinking that black IQ might be lower than that of the Chimpanzee.
*This campaign by me has been published profusely all over the world since 2008. It was launched as a damage control measure or palliative of sorts, and it has proved immensely successful, giving us our current over 90% potential Nubian Queens worldwide. We are very proud of our mothers, sisters, wives, partners and friends who have listened to their inner voices. You are all amazing amazons and your actions confirm that the Queen of Sheba is still very much alive; you are all her great heirs. The campaign also demonstrated that to tackle our ugly brainwashing against our best interests, we need to go beyond surface values to reach deep inside our selves. Our race is still very confused right now by the many alien distortions and contradictions, particularly religious ones, competing for our attention, and we are at a critical crossroads.
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NAIWU OSAHON Hon. Khu Mkuu (Leader) World Pan-African Movement); Ameer Spiritual (Spiritual Prince) of the African race; MSc. (Salford); Dip.M.S; G.I.P.M; Dip.I.A (Liv.); D. Inst. M; G. Inst. M; G.I.W.M; A.M.N.I.M. Poet, Author of the magnum opus: ‘The end of knowledge’. One of the world’s leading authors of children’s books; Awarded; key to the city of Memphis, Tennessee, USA; Honourary Councilmanship, Memphis City Council; Honourary Citizenship, County of Shelby; Honourary Commissionership, County of Shelby, Tennessee; and a silver shield trophy by Morehouse College, USA, for activities to unite and uplift the African race.
Naiwu Osahon, Sage: New World Order, renowned author, philosopher of science, mystique, leader of the world Pan-African Movement.
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