The American Dream we often hear is the stable job, husband & wife living in a house with a "white picket fence", dog & two kids. This sounds simple enough but for Africans is often unattainable. In Africa where we long for simple employment, some places yearn for a meal & water, some places wish for the end of disease & some access to health facilities. There are lots of simple things that can be classified as "The African Dream" but I think we have already covered the African dream under the Kwatuist Manifesto. Anything outside the Kwatuist Manifesto in terms of "The African Dream" is simply down to cultural preference. So, for me, the African Dream equals Kwatuism.
I've heard some people quoting from King Shaka's praises claiming that he was "like the sun" therefore light-skinned. But I'd like to ask how comparisons with the sun equate with being light-skinned? If anything, if King Shaka was light-skinned, they'd compare him to something terrestrial like the colour of a cow hide, wood or other object because very few extraterrestrial objects have the colour of any human skin. Even white people are called "ondlebe zikhanya ilanga" ('those who have translucent ears") & not "abakhanya okwelanga" ("those who shine like the sun"). King Shaka's mother was from Elangeni & there is the Langa clan in KZN, all of them are black with many being exceptionally dark-skinned so I don't think the comparisons comparing King Shaka with the sun have anything to do with his complexion. Even the whites who first saw him & drew him wrote that he was dark & fairly tall. I also don...
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