![]() May you merrily make the 6th MEANINGFUL MOVE! Now, rejoice to the top of your heart and indulge in a PSYCHIC feast, upon realisation that you are in the generation that will pioneer the transformation of the African society. People have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo. First, never underestimate the profuse power of INERTIA. Second, that power can be harnessed to wreck you. As you robustly ride in the current whirlwind of Africa’s Awakening, here are SEVEN ways in which, BEYONDISM waters and manures the soil of AFRICAN ANSWERS, for the sake of the germination and fruition of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE:Now, rejoice to the top of your heart and indulge in a PSYCHIC feast, upon realisation that you are in the generation that will pioneer the transformation of the African society. People have a strong tendency to go along with the status quo. First, never underestimate the profuse power of INERTIA. Second, that power can be harnessed to wreck you. As you robustly ride in the current whirlwind of Africa’s Awakening, here are SEVEN ways in which, BEYONDISM waters and manures the soil of AFRICAN ANSWERS, for the sake of the germination and fruition of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE:Appreciating that culture (a way giving us a consistent view of world and issues) is not static but very dynamic is the key note of AFRICAN ANSWERS. Culture is determined by forces of production, such that what was relevant in an agricultural economy may be obsolete in a computerised economy. Negating obsolete ideals and finding intellectual stimulation from the ‘unidirectionality of Time’s arrow’ is core aspect of AFRICAN ANSWERS. This means appreciating that we can never ‘go back to our roots’, by revisiting the teaching, philosophies and ideologies which have gone ‘by the wayside’. We can ONLY be personally enriched by understanding the dynamisms of modern TIMES. Sociability and cultivating the spirit of altruism is the fuel of AFRICAN ANSWERS. This goes in the mannner of establishing ‘communion’, ‘synchronicity’, ‘presence’ and ‘inclusion’ with other people, without anyone absorbing the other – with each person preserving one’s uniqueness. Wonderfully and without denial, being comfortable in our African skin, and never envying the skin of other races, is the glue of AFRICAN ANSWERS. This means realising the strength in our uniqueness; which will be the source of high levels of self-awareness. Esteeming and being proud of yourself, your family, your clan, your tribe and your race is the fresh air of AFRICAN ANSWERS. Your native language gives you a deep mode of expression which no other language can substitute. Love your tribe, but do not be prejudiced about other tribes (which is tribalism). As a YOUTH living at this particular time in history, you should have a command of a minimum of three languages: your native language, the language of Kenyans (Kiswahili), and the language of humanity (English). Realistic and reasonable, AFRICAN ANSWERS is abhorring all superstitious beliefs and cultic practices and appreciating a scientific viewpoint, where through self-assertion, you can creatively manage all learned limitations, social scruples and the rigours of environment. Submiting ourselves to the order of GOD, AFRICAN ANSWERS entails being ‘notoriously religious’ (to borrow the phrase from prominent African anthropologist and theologian John S. Mbiti (1931 - 2019)). It is knowing that, the universe is the source of LIFE and religious feelings are feelings of reverence for, and dependence on, the universe. The future has no place for dogmatic religions and authoritarian religious institutions which inhibit the intensification of and expansion of LIFE. “Everyone is a religious carrier,” thus wrote Mbiti in his influential book African Religions and Philosophy (1969). “Wherever the African is,” he added, “there is his religion.” Unprecedented social and economic changes have over years changed the way we Africans manage our lives. Consequently not all the lessons of the past can effectively deal with the challenges of modern times.
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May you reveretially receive the 6th LUMINOUS LIGHTNING!
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[prompt 1...Left hand palm placed on the chest, Right hand raised with a clenched fist rending the air] Hail BEYONDISM!===>[reply 1...imitating the prompter, but rending the air 3 times] Awakened. Blooming. Creative....... [prompt 2...Left hand clinching the waist, Right hand palm stroking the chest] I AM a Blessed Beyondist (BB)===>[reply 2...imitating the prompter, but stroking the chest 3 times] Which amounts to being The Anointed One (TAO).......[prompt 3...Hands resting on the belly, head slightly bowed] In as much as My ‘BEING’ is in holy harmony with Nature and The SUPREME BEING so WHAT?===>[reply 3...imitating the prompter, but bowing the head 3 times] GOD IS FOR ME. GOD IS IN ME. GOD IS WITH ME. [facing each other, hands lifted up with open palm, slashing the air 7 times] AFRICA. AFRICA. AFRICA! ARISE. ADVANCE. ACHIEVE! AMEN! May you celestially celebrate the 6th BEYONDIST BOMBSHELL!
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YE SHALL BE A PROMULGATOR OF THE AFRICAN ANSWERS--->YE SHALL BE A PROMULGATOR OF THE AFRICAN ANSWERSWill-to-Selfhood Selfhood Code Sun Awakening Will-to-Strength Strength Code Mercury Success Will-to-Love Loving Code Venus Intimacy Will-to-Live Living Code Earth Progress Will-to-Health Health Code Mars Conquest Will-to-Lead Leading Code Jupiter Greatness Will-to-Relate Relating Code Saturn Goodwill Will-to-Parent Parenting Code Uranus Nurturing Will-to-Become Becoming Code Neptune Growth |
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(Latin: “Through difficulties to honours”)---> May you whoopingly win the 6th PURPOSIVE PRIZE! A person who is motivated by vanity behaves in certain unbecoming ways: Talks a lot about oneself, cleaves to the society of the eminent, rejects criticisms. Seeks the footlights and disengages oneself from conversations about the merits of others. One indulges in roseate daydreams about personal successes. Avoids recalling past failures and plans for one’s advancement. One feels certain pangs and flutters in certain situations; has an acute sinking feeling when an eminent person forgets his or her name. Feels buoyant of heart and light of toe on hearing of the misfortunes of his or her rivals. “I’m the type to swallow my blood before I swallow my pride,” so sung 50 Cent Feelings of pique and buoyancy are not more directly indicative of vanity. Vanity resides in the public acts of boasting or private acts of daydreaming. None are more taken in with flattery than the vain, who wish to be the first and are not. Vanity is the venomous pang which will poison or water down all effort towards ACTUALISATION. A BLESSED BEYONDIST is a regular person with flaws, shortcomings and defects. Like any one else one experiences challenges and bad days. However, because one is confident (not vain), one does not let any of this hold one back. |
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iv. “A person who does not cultivate well his or her farm always says that it has been bewitched”. The 6th AFRICAN AFFIRMATION: |
iv. “And do not obey the bidding of the extravagant who make mischief in the land and do not act right”. The 6th SCRIPTURAL STANDING: |
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Regardless of our opinions of the relative values of the answers from philosophy, religions and science, we should recognize —though those born in the generations of intellectual warfare between science and religion may find it hard to do so —that the most asked QUESTIONS are virtually identical. First: “Where am I? What is the nature of this universe in which this small, pulsating bit of protoplasm finds itself?” Secondly: “What am I? What are the properties —the limitations, the needs, the full possibilities —of this bit of living matter I call myself?” Thirdly: “What shall I do?” The first two questions concern the stage and the actor. But what is the play? What is the purpose of the individual's appearance? Here the individual seeks an answer to, “What ought I to do?” |
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i. Be superbly confident, and believe in yourself.ii. Face all rejections, setbacks and obstacles boldly.iii. Cultivate an enduring propensity against adversities.iv. Thrill in imperial imaginations for a bright future.v. Have an ingrained tendency as to honour onerous promises.vi. Maintain your serene poise come hell or high water.vii. Be distasteful of infantile emotional displays.Truly, this is your 6th Mortal Mission, as a function of your Divine Duty. |
May you intimately immerse in the 6th THERAPEUTIC TRANSCENDENCE |
Why is BEYONDISM effortlessly ECLECTIC, without being effetely ENIGMATIC? Here is the 6th DIVINE DOSE to keenly keep your PSYCHE bounteously BOOSTED: BEYONDISM thrives in therapeutic tension—between Old and New, Logic and Myth, Soul and Structure. |
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The 6th ONE Word (hover below) which Breeds SEVEN Words to Depict Who a BLESSED BEYONDIST Is:---> The 6th of SEVEN reasons why you should be PROUD to be an AFRICAN:
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BEYONDIST Text to Speech ConverterHail Assertive African, click here to listen to what you have affirmatively ascribed unto thyself You write the story of what you think is likely and/or possible based on what you believe is true and then you take actions consistent with those expectations. When you act on what you expect will happen before it actually happens, you participate in creating the experience. For example, if you do not have a positive self-concept and you fear rejection when you go on a date or go to a job interview, you are not likely to present your best self by acting calm and self-confident; you are likely to be anxious and act in a way that is more likely to result in rejection. Hence, the SELF-FULFILLING prophecy. We act in ways likely to bring about what we believe is true. That is the very definition of creating your REALITY. O Thee Blessed Beyondist, stop mark-timing in your low self-esteem. Seize this historical chance and merry moment to soulfully scribe for yourself a unique ‘Individually Inspiring Instruction’. ---> |
Kenneth Donald ‘Kenny’ Rogers (August 21, 1938 - 2022),‘Something Inside So Strong’, by Kenny Rogers Is a US singer-songwriter, photographer and record producer. He is also a part time actor, good entrepreneur and an author. This country song ‘Something inside so strong’ is a 1982 release. There’s something inside so strong; I know that I can make it. ...........................though you are doing me wrong so wrong; ........................you thought that my pride was gone, oh no. The higher you build your barrier |
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| IN THE HIGHEST PEAK on the refined layer of our consciousness, and upon the basest chambers on the bedrock of our consciences, as well as on the deepest wells of our souls, we weep when we contemplate of thee O AFRICA! O thee Motherland! The chilling disgust is becoming more and more unbearable as the days passes on, with our hearts tending to melt within us. Worry and strain are written in each of our faces, as bitterness and resentment threatens to occupy our every cell and nerve. Terrible as it is to die of thirst in the sea as its salty water cannot quench our thirst, we have salted the TRUTH of our human ‘existence’ in as far as our African situation is concerned. Consequently, our hearts are scornfully soured, our spirits firmly fettered as our aspirations are dangerously dislocated by illusory ideologies and dehumanising dogmas. Forthwith, in our poisoned percepts, little nourishing can be squeezed from our society, and therefore, we are dying of thirst.---> All grumbling, whining and complaining aside, the most important thing here, is to first analyse and understand our African undoings, or problems before striving to get solutions or answers. In one of his essays, English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936), wrote: “Father Brown laid down his cigar and said, carefully; ‘it is not that they cannot see the solution; it is that they cannot see the problem’”. As British philosopher George Edward Moore (1873 - 1958) comprehensively put it: “It appears to me that Ethics… the difficulties and disagreements, of which its history is full, are mainly due to a very simple cause: namely to the attempt to answer questions, without first discovering precisely what question it is which you desire to answer.” “You know that, medicine when well used will restore health to the sick: they will be well used when the doctor together with his understanding of their nature shall understand also what man is, what life is, and what constitution and health are. Know these well and you will know their opposites; and when this is the case you will know well how to devise a remedy”, thus noted Florentine artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519). |
“The future, gentlemen, is the faith of our age: it is the torch of the past, the guiding star of the present.”
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Repulsive as it may seem at the outset, Africa is like a house hidden away in the depths of the valleys, where the sun never penetrates. It is a gloomy dwelling permeated by numbing chill, ever fireless, ever shrouded---> in thick darkness. The sanctuaries of our minds seems to be cramped and beaten down by cowardice, ignorance and superstitions. Our paths seems to be strewn not with positive stimulants, but negative aberrations, as the continent continues to single itself out as the ‘sick man’ of the world, a ‘laughing stock’ of human race, and a ‘painful embarrassment’ to mankind. A sizeable number of Africans have come out as infernal ‘cursed creatures’. Majority of us Africans have become every more and more abominable, as the days passes on, always wearing the slavish chain, deprived of all created possible bliss, and languishing through hardship, toil and pain. |
Ennervated thus, we lack the creative resources to exploit our immense natural resources. We have thus disdainfully paved way for the people of other continents to exploit our resources benefiting nobody but themselves. ---> We have become like a shameless beggar with a begging bowl, and sitting on a bag full of foodstuffs. We have portrayed ourselves as a provisional backwater contemptuously left behind by the swift flux of events, always at the ebb of the tide of world affairs. Much of what defines us is poverty, dirt and a miserable ease. Being victims of chronic indecisiveness, we do want to get somewhere, but unsure what to do once we get there. Restless with our heads turned backward, we can not keep still and contemplate our present situation for any length of time. As a result, we keep jumping from issue to issue, groping in the dark, never arriving at a meaningful conclusion. We are very good at skirting around facts, and eventually ducking them altogether with no answer. |
As a matter of fact, compared to modern Civilisations the world over, the current African Civilisation is what a pencil sketch is to coloured painting. It lacks that variety, that amplitude, that abundance of LIFE which is ---> the condition of perfectibility. Possessing very minimal fecundity (creative productivity), having attained only the most mediocre virility (potency for novel ideas), we have failed to achieve maturity, towards the fullest flowering of our potentials. Those vital ‘psychic inner forces’, freed of tradition and convention, vital in influencing conduct and shaping character have not yet been fully utilised. Without those inner strengths, many individuals lack an autonomous inner core as counterbalance in facing the NEW WORLD, with very few amongst us daring to defy tradition and stand alone. |
Stripping ourselves of steadfastness of personal freedom (which was the instrument of Western Progress, as triggered by the era of Enlightenment), is our dacadent delight. We have created a static, frozen kind of---> society, sunk in the degrading LIFE of mere custom. We have portrayed ourselves as a people incapable of movement and evolution, as we are caught in a process of virtual circular development. Disgusting as it is to swallow, the bitter pill of our situation is that, our African society remains poor amidst the increase in world wealth, as well as pale amidst the global meteoric improvement in luxury. Our material privation dwarfs our moral, as well as our psychical stature. At the very outset, we are plunged into the thorny center of two worlds; one dying, the other hardly born. The words of Nigerian poet Christopher Okigbo (1930 - 1967) in Limits (1964) seems to be very inspiring: And this is the crisis point |
On a deeper analysis, we trend upon the enigmatic world below on our shaky legs, with our blurred vision focused on the incredible heaven above, almost naked of supernatural creeds. We are devoid of a general theological ---> predilection, a persuasive ideological conviction, a comprehensive philosophical outlook and an enduring transmitted moral code. In The Second Round (1966) Gambian poet Lenrie Peters (1932 - 2009) depicts our situation thus: The trouble with our African society into which we are struggling like roosting hen is perpetual weightlessness. Not light enough to take wings and soar, but at the same time not heavy enough to settle on any firm foundation. A people at the middle way; the turning point, who cannot see round the corner, hovering like evil ghosts and restless enough to be confused. |
Now more than ever, most (NOT ALL) of our leaders, dishonoured by contempt of all virtue, defiled by their practice of every vice, are a factious crew and enemies to all good governance. They are simply allergic to ---> economic progress. They are a pack of mercenary wrenches, and would like Esau sell their country for a ‘mess of pottage’, and like Judas betray their Teacher for a ‘thirty pieces of silver’. Having battered their consciences for bribes, they have no religion left and gold (money) is their God. Forthwith, most (NOT ALL) of our older societal members who may be referred to as intellectuals have contributed in one way or the other to our societal sorrow. With these profuse pretenders who have succeeded in attacking the disease of our ailing society, with diagnoses which are as empty as they are fanciful, and with violently counteracting specifics, this is the direst retribution that can befall any society. Indeed, for these men and women who have failed in all aspects of mentoring our young minds, there is further danger that, precisely in the multiplicity (or mediocrity?) of their knowledge, they lose sight of what is essential. Their minds lacking in either conviction or conscience, are in sarcastic words of U.S. novelist and playwright Irving Stone (1903 - 1989): “Like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody’s lap”. In Love Labor’s Lost (1598) Shakespeare exposes the nakedness of this kind of futile knowledge: Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain |
Sorrowfully speaking, having sunk at the lowest bottom of decadence in regard to the general level of Civilisations attained by other societies in the modern world, we have tried to justify our wretchedness.---> This we have achieved by falsely trying to persuade ourselves with illusory self-preservative measures, anxiety reducing defense mechanisms and security operations. We have sunk in a deep state of denial that, everything seems to be a FILTHY FALLACY:
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An insatiable appetite to grow BEYOND our means is our only launching pad. (The higher the intensity, the better!) This must be done while demanding world bodies such as World Bank and United Nations to honour promises of assistance, and for the mere fact that it cannot afford involvement and will have to look at other alternatives to address inter and intra-state conflict. Further factors that compound Africa’s dilemma are the phenomena referred to as “Africa fatigue” and “Afro-pessimism”. Although the two concepts are inter-related, the concept of “Africa fatigue” refers to a global perception that Africa has lost its strategic value after the end of the Cold War and due to its high volatility, non-development, corruption, discrimination and conflict potential, also its potential for involvement and investment by the world’s donor community. |
Unlike the grass in the house top which withers before it grows up, the fact that some misfortunes have affected us, does not mean we should poison our present and our future with despair, and give in to the virtual darkness engulfing us. Upon the ruins of our shattered past, and disgusting present, there is an ever possibility flowing through our nerves that we can lay a firm foundation for a bright and promising future. “Every little thing gonna be alright!” so sung Jamaican Reggae Musician Bob Marley (1945 - 1981). In the midst of various unfortunate encounters, all is not burned and consumed to ashes! And the little that is in ash form, we still have the potential to rebuild and get beauty from it. We have found ourselves in a non-negotiable point of seeking sweeping, but opulently outlined answers to our dilemma. The chief assignment of this uncertain, amorphous and tense generation, is to rebuild everything as if we had been cast into the wilderness, and forced to begin everything a new. It should dawn upon us as an imperative necessity, to take our own case in hand; for we cannot rely on others (foreigners) for remedy. |
In human history, every new social system arises by incorporating the material and cultural values created over preceding epochs. “No social order ever disappears”, German political philosopher Karl Marx (1818 - 1883) reasoned, “before all the productive forces for which there is room in it have been developed, and new, higher relations of production, never appear before the material conditions for their existence have matured in the womb of the old society.” In the same vein British philosopher Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903) declared: “Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficial necessity.” CIVILISATION is the sum total of the general societal ACTUALISATION of its POTENTIALS, in every sphere of its peoples ACTIONS and from every point of view, in so far as this PROGRESS helps towards utilisation of all TECHNOLOGICAL, as well as CULTURAL achievements attained and attainable at a particular point in the history of its EVOLUTION. It was British writer, painter and musician Samuel Butler (1832 - 1902) who theorized: “All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live BEYOND its income”. Solid and sustainable success of any socio-political system, is a function of its integrative, responsive and adaptive capacity. This is coupled by an inexorable tendency toward greater differentiation, as the division of labour and specialisation of tasks becomes more widespread. This fundamentally forms the basis of CIVILISATION. But what is civilisation in the first instance? American philosopher and historian Will Durant (1885 - 1981) offers his most distinguished definition: “Civilisation is a complex of security and culture, of order and liberty: political security through morals and laws; economic security through the continuity of production and exchange; culture through facilities for growth and transmission of knowledge, manners and arts.” |
“The question tonight, as I understand it, is ‘The Negro Revolt, and Where Do We Go From Here?’ or ‘What Next?’ In my little humble way of understanding it, it points toward either the ballot or the bullet.”
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i. ONE Spanish-Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun, full name Abu Zayd Abd-Ar-Rahman Ibn Khaldun (1332 - 1406), is the greatest of the medieval Islamic historians. He intuited that, social change, and the rise and fall of--->
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ii. VEERING towards the center, is the emergence of a second generation that craves some order. They are still feeling the heat of the revolution itself, having lived through it at a very early age. But they want to --->
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iii. EVENTUALLY a gnawing sense of stagnation sinks in. Along comes the fourth generation, which feels that society has lost its vitality, but they are not sure what should replace it. They begin to question the--->
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iv. REALLY, although this pattern certainly has variations and is not a science, we tend to see a lot of the overall sequencing in history. Most notable of all is the emergence of the fourth generation and the crisis in ---> values that comes with it. This period is often the most painful to live through — we humans feel a deep need to believe in something, and when we begin to doubt and question the old order and sense a vacuum in our values, we can go a little mad. We tend to latch onto the latest belief systems peddled by the charlatans and demagogues who thrive in such periods. We look for scapegoats for all the problems that now arise and the spreading dissatisfaction. Without a unifying belief to anchor and calm us, we become tribal, relying on some small affinity group to give us a feeling of belonging. |
v. ALL the times, in a crisis period, we will notice the forming of a sub-group among those who feel particularly anxious and resentful at the breakdown of order. They are often people who felt somewhat privileged ---> in the past, and the chaos and coming change threatens what they have taken for granted. They want to hold on to the past, return to some golden age they can vaguely remember, and prevent any coming revolution. They are doomed, because the cycle cannot be stopped, and the past cannot be magically brought back to LIFE. But as this crisis period fades and begins to merge into the revolutionary period, we often detect rising levels of excitement, as those who are young and particularly hungry for something new can sense the changes coming that they have set up in their own way. |
vi. LIVING through such a crisis period, is our PRESENT CONDEMNATION. Ours is a generation that is experiencing it in its key phase in LIFE. Although we cannot see how close we might be to the end of ---> this period, such times never last too long, because the human spirit will not tolerate them. With BEYONDISM serving as the end of a gestation period of a unifying belief system, some new values are being generated that only the CONSCIOUS CHARACTERS can see. If you feel you have a sense of a personal mission — to serve mankind (and Africa in particular), to contribute toward its progress, you should appreciate the real groundbreaking change under way. If you are ferociously diligent and hard on yourself, although your interests should range far and wide, when you attack a particular problem, it will be with complete focus. Impelled by this inner authority, you will push BEYOND the obstacles that LIFE places in your path. |
vii. LUCIDLY learning about the TIMES, and with your awareness of the overall ZEITGEIST (spirit of the Times), you will also understand the historical context. You will have a sense of where the continent is headed. ---> You can anticipate what is around the corner (the looming African Renaissance). With such knowledge, you can bring your own individual spirit into play and help shape this future that is gestating in the present. Feeling deeply connected to the unbroken chain of history, and your role in this grand historical drama, will infuse you with a calmness that will make everything in LIFE more bearable. You do not overreact at the outrage of the day. You do not go gaga over the latest trend. You are aware of the pattern that will tend to swing things in a different direction within a period of time. If you feel out of harmony with the times, you know that the bad days will end and you can play your part in making the next wave happen. |
Acknowledging the ‘transient nature of error’ and appreciating the ‘eternity of genius and virtue’, you will be disgusted with all vanity and uselessness. Classically aspiring only for what is good and made to last long, you will be a warrior who knows no defeat owing to your persistence, perseverance and an inflexible WILL. Impatient at all the oppression that are done under the Sun, you will be an all-powerful homo sapien, leaving fire in your wake, as you move from conquest to conquest, towards being a homo magiste (Man the Master). Yes! From the center (Sahara) to the Oceans (Indian and Pacific). Hurrah! Africa’s Prosperity! So affirms BEYONDISM.Acknowledging the ‘transient nature of error’ and appreciating the ‘eternity of genius and virtue’, you will be disgusted with all vanity and uselessness. Classically aspiring only for what is good and made to last long, you will be a warrior who knows no defeat owing to your persistence, perseverance and an inflexible WILL. Impatient at all the oppression that are done under the Sun, you will be an all-powerful homo sapien, leaving fire in your wake, as you move from conquest to conquest, towards being a homo magiste (Man the Master). Yes! From the center (Sahara) to the Oceans (Indian and Pacific). Hurrah! Africa’s Prosperity! So affirms BEYONDISM. |
I. What PERCENTAGE defines the forces that militate against an African RENAISSANCE? |
#1. A Potent Percentage of our Counselling services, are invested by charlatans, who confuses giving advise, with facilitating a conducive psychological environment, for the client to generate solution to his or her maladjustment. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the myriad malaise stunting our growth. Counselling is NOT advising: telling the other person what TO DO or NOT. Counselling is NOT directing, leading, JUDGING, evaluating or diagnosing. It is NOT moralising, PREACHING, patronising, labelling, or interrogating. It is NOT giving unwarranted reassurance, or accepting the client’s feelings. Counselling is concerned WITH addressing and resolving specific problems. It helps the client to make decisions, cope with crisis, work through feelings. The aim of counselling is to help a client to live a more full, satisfying LIFE. #2. A Potent Percentage of our Teachers in ignorance of student’s needs, fail to arouse in the young minds a sense of success, MASTERY, curiousity, understanding, originality, self-expression and relationships. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the loathsome lethargy amongst our young scholars. Cooperative learning strategies improves both self-efficacy and academic achievement. Students working together and helping one another, promotes self-evaluation of ability. This guarantees higher academic attainments than do individualistic or competitive ones. Students should be helped to establish specific, attainable, challenging short-term goals. Performance in and out of class must be compared to the goals set for a specific student. Comparing one student against another, or to the rest of the class should be discouraged. Self-efficacy is the key to academic success, other activities and peace within the student. #3. A Potent Percentage of our Elders are incompetent in arming youths with the requisite energy to deal with complexity, confusion, repetition, uncertainties and ambiguities of daily LIFE. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the low level of the drive towards SELF-ACTUALISATION. Elders should do all they can, and provide youths with tools to be better than them. Should be heroes who teach lessons, enhance active and positive emotional interaction. Should teach youths to understand face reading and differentiate various emotional states. Avoid instilling fear or ridicule which results in youngsters with inadequate ‘conscience’. Be nonrestrictive, open, appreciative; lead by example, and be unconditionally accepting. Inculcate competence, adventurousness, skills and confidence in expressing opinions. Be loyal, pillars of strength, support and discipline, in order to raise well-adjusted youths. #4. A Potent Percentage of our Administrators are unable to build the necessary motivation and engagement that is essential for removal of all scrupples, to enable a complete and productive LIFE (either for the individual or society). Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the daunting detachment amongst our people. Administration ought to be focused on benefit, protection and security of the people. The best one is which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety. Administrations must be built upon the rights of the people, and be entrusted to experts. The only yardstick by which to test every major problem is: Is it good for the people? No administration can be progressive when the future sits in the judgment of the past. Ability to solve and deal with problems as they arise is the only measure of distinction. Officials must be held accountable as dupes, fools, or traitors for policies that goes wrong. #5. A Potent Percentage of our Parents use punishments which produce bitter children and unconsciously condition them to use the same mechanistic and counterproductive methods on those who may anger them. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the raft rebellion amongst our adolescents. ‘Poor Parenthood’ fails to differentiate between ‘discipline’ and ‘punishment’. Punishment creates fear, but if the fear is diminished the behaviour will recur. Beating is for lazy parents as it takes less creativity; needs only anger and strength. The word ‘beat’ implies that you are dealing with an object which does not think. Children require sound discipline which has two components; affection and control. Control needs to be consistent if it is to contribute to a stable character structure. Discipline as an important element in affection is fondly based on mutual respect. #6. A Potent Percentage of our Families authoritatively imposes their convictions and ideals (though positive in their view) devoid of unconditional positive regard, empathy and consultation. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the mounting meaninglessness of our interactions. To draw honesty from our kids, we must be honest ourselves, even when it hurts. Barking to these little evolving creatures rather than softly talking to them, is lethal. We tend to use strong, emotionally charged language when under great provocation. This is to set up in them, for unconscious imitation, the memory of violent speech. If we want children to be polite, we have to be polite; to be neat we have to be neat. Positive responses can be inculcated to children only by ‘patiently persistent’ example. This task involves almost the re-education, re-phasing and re-evaluation of our motives. #7. A Potent Percentage of our Correctional Institutions (Prisons) have become colleges where minor delinquents graduates into hardcore criminals, or in one way or the other, vacation resorts for social outcast and psychopaths. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the compounded crimes in our society. All sorts of CRIMINALISM cannot be controlled simply by imposing harsh legal penalties. DEVIANCY implies some kind of DEPRIVATION within the home or social environment. Rather than stigmatising victims as social misfits who should be subjected to incarceration, We should put them in environments where their DEFICIENCIES can be compensated for. We should embark on a large scale to prevent criminogenic situation from developing. By building in the society, services classified in the medical sphere as ‘good sanitation’. This is by creating a more just society in which people connect with each other humanly. |
2. What is the RATION of the factors that stands against an African RENAISSANCE? |
#1. A Reasonable Ration of our Education is a painful accumulation of data and dates, in ignorance of developing individual potential capacities for the comprehension, control and appreciation of the world. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the dire dumbness amongst our learners. Assigning to education narrow goals whose objective is absorption in the job market is deathly. This only moulds CONSUMPTIVE members of society, as opposed to productive members. By solely focusing on the grades, education becomes stressful, especially to younger students. It is also self-defeatist since not all learners will really have the same ample academic abilities. Most of our schools have only succeeded in an unprecedented spread of science without wisdom. Accumulating knowledge without intelligence, cleverness without conscience is our unbecoming. Not sensibility and creativity, but a mechanical adaptation to the environment, is what is taught. #2. A Reasonable Ration of our Intellectualism is a hotchpotch and collection of long-dead fossils, with very little to contribute to the world pool of knowledge and very little new to offer in regard to the ‘Spirit of Age’. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the disturbing dislocation from present imperatives. Though the world has changed, our educational curriculum has not or has little changed. It remotely or flatly fails to keep pace with all the rapid global and technological changes. Students spend many study years preparing for a world that is obsolete or no longer exists. Our learning system places more emphasis on the transmission of a heritage of knowledge. And less on the capacity for innovation, adjustment and a taste for constantly renewed study. It is a system lacking in the dynamic content and an incessant ability to assimilate changes. It lacks that supposedly inherent potential for active, intelligent and scientific spirit of inquiry. #3. A Reasonable Ration of our Scholars lacking the essential intellectual curiousity and thirst, fall short of separating facts from theory, or conjectured ideas from practical and realistic ones. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the bare blindness of our academicians. The standard limit for human capacity should not be set by education curriculum. It should take into consideration a person’s genetic make-up, and temperaments. The drill-and-kill teaching styles MUST be replaced by a problem-based approach. The educational system, should develop all the potentials to be of use in adulthood. It should have the unique capacity to broaden the imaginative terrain of the student. In this way learners will have a thorough reflective and interrogative view of the world. In adulthood they will see for themselves more clearly from a range of perspectives. #4. A Reasonable Ration of our Researchers lost in myopic speculation fails to understand the essence of any problem by being unable to observe its beginnings and its development. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the enervating emptiness in our innovations. Research as a function of development, means investigation into new or improved products: In business and industry, improving processes and services and of developing new ones. It is a rebuilding of industries, farming methods, companies, universities and laboratories. It is advancing the frontiers of scientific knowledge, to sustain the present mode of production. The most gratifying research worth its name, starts by picturing what the products will be. And then diligently ask: what technology should we be working on today to help us get there? It is to reduce the cost of production, and then minimise the price of buying for the consumers. #5. A Reasonable Ration of our Science, is so rudimentary and pedestrian that, in the crippleness of our creativity, defenses against the inclemency of weather and food self-sufficiency remains pathetically deficient. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the constant calamities bedevilling us. The fastness to which situations are changing at times outpaces the former acquired knowledge. This includes the experience accumulated in the past to serve as guidance for the future actions. The ‘Old World’ was stable as the upheavals of history were ebb and flow of a changeless sea. In today’s ‘New World’, the value formerly attributed to experience gained has been shifted, To handling an enormous amount of information efficiently, and applying them effectively. Thus, the current, as well as the future mode of academic research requires a two-fold possibility: Of accumulating the maximum amount of data, and of processing them in a real-time manner. #6. A Reasonable Ration of our Industrialisation, has become not substitution of brawn for brain towards mass-production, but a daily toil where people are herded together in factories and farms with very little pay. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the prosaic production in our factories. The speed of technological innovation is bringing qualitative change now and then. In this era of IT Revolution it is apparent that in most dynamic branches of industry, Acquired scientific information soon lags behind the current stage reached in technology. It becomes necessary for one to be re-trained, or re-educated, through refresher courses; If one wishes to keep up with the changes, adjust way of thinking and method of analysis. We should appreciate the quickness in which knowledge becomes easily challengeable. This precipitates the imperativeness of inventing our own new motions and their regulation. #7. A Reasonable Ration of our History, is characterised by darkness, with its hysteric reaction to light (rejection of new ideas) which in our myopic rigidity we perceive to be offensive, without any justifiable reason. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the reactionary reasons for Africa’s underdevelopment. It is said that, if one does not know one’s history, one will remain blind of one’s destiny. This is to mean that, what you are now and what you will be, is informed by what you were. To know yourself without any denial, will go far in charting for yourself a bright future. However, do not stagnate in what happened in the past, and fail to make a solid step forward. Many of the past African traditions, cannot and will not simply work in the modern ‘Times’. And if we are to remain blindly true to the mode of valuations and thinking of our forefathers, We will remain irresponsive to the demands of the moment; we will live a stagnant ‘existence’. |
3. How is the nature of the CONTENT that blurs the vision of an African RENAISSANCE? |
#1. A Critical Content of our Art Industry, is full of decaying debris, with the matter-of-fact credibility gone clean out of them; devoid of any aesthetic dose of awakening the soul, and keeping it refreshed and energised. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the arid awkwardness in our tastes. Senility is basically looking back with nostalgia; it is lack of inspiration in LIFE. The function of real art, is to restimulate inspirations and awaken sensibilities. Good art, is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. A great work of art, bears its meaning on its face; it is what it is and what it has. Any authentic work of art, starts an argument between the artist and the audience. Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of its creator go together. True art, is a thing greater and fairer than whatever may exist in the external world. #2. A Critical Content of our Theologies, are empty soothsayings, accompanied by idolatrous rites, impotent in radiating spiritual truths, vital in making us happy in this world, and to be blissful in the LIFE BEYOND the grave. Therapeautic Tool to armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the filthy faithlessness in our preachers. To appreciate the mystery inherent in the incomprehensible phenomenal order of Nature, And initiate a dedicated and perpetual effort to be showered by this encompassing beauty, To feel a sincere enriching relation and an intimate connection with the great world forces, As a manifestation of GOD’s infinite creativity, is the key element to being RELIGIOUS. To comprehend our GOD-endowed potentials and to perpetually strive to actualise them, Transcending all the seemingly deceptive limitations of our social or natural environment, Is the essential and supreme mark of being GODLY; in a word, our God-Consciousness. #3. A Critical Content of our Philosophies imprisoned in logical futilities and conceptualisations, is intended at contradicting and confuting others rather than a suitable survival strategy to be won in the service of the individual. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the fanatical fancies in our purported thinkers. A logician is a blind person in a dark room, looking for a black hat which is not there. To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, Is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it. Philosophy is clearly seeing World in a Grain of Sand, and Heaven in a Wild Flower. Philosophy is tightly holding Infinity in the palm of your hand, and Eternity in an hour. Of course! The path to Heaven does not lie down in flat miles. It is in the imagination, With which you perceive this World, and the gestures with which you truly honours it. #4. A Critical Content of our Morality, is outmoded, as it reproaches us with the infidelity and shabbiness of failing to absorb the transiency and relativity of values, by only lionising the past without a fertile future view. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the rasp rottenness in our valuations. Without doubt, the greatest philosophical injury was done by basing morals on myth. For sooner or later, myth is recognised for what it is, and it is exposed, it just disappears. Then morality loses the foundation on which it has been built, and it becomes a sham. Ethical behaviour should be based on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs - No religious basis is necessary (sanctions imposed by religion soon becomes a mirage). Humans would be in a poor way if they had to be restrained by fear of punishment, And hope of reward after death, or walking blissfully in the golden streets of Heaven. #5. A Critical Content of our Ethics, is a manifestation of the highest level of hypocrisy, owing to the fact that, in the present curse-like bastardisation of our natural vital instincts, it is impossible if not inhuman to bless. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the drab directionless in our actions. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, sadder than owl-songs or the midnight blast, Is that portentous phrase pathetically used by all moral luminaries, ‘I told you so.’ Labour to keep alive in your heart, that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. Act in such a way as to secure the enduring love and affection of your neighbour. Seek to have a virtue to shape your LIFE, amid the powers and chances of the world. To be a BEYONDIST is to be a combatant, a politician, a prophet, a moral teacher. To affirm like Martin Luther: “Here stand I. I can do no other. God help me. Amen.” #6. A Critical Content of our Culture does not have within it mechanisms for survival, and its general spirit does not allow for the utmost individual search for oneself, as a veritable vehicle towards self-actualisation. Therapeautic Tool to armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the hideous haemorrhage of our society ‘Culture’ is simply how one lives on a daily basis, and is connected to history by habit. Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and the passion for making them prevail. Culture is acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world. Its progressiveness is the measure of synchronising with the history of the human spirit. Its aim is to reckon the possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of LIFE. The primary function of a retrogressive ritual, religion and culture is almost to stop change. A vital and living tradition today, precisely provides the basic instruments of rapid change. #7. A Critical Content of our Ancestral past suffices out as something null and vain; to be looked with contempt and shame, as every progressive mind becomes impatient and disgusted when a word is said about it. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O theeHence the African civilisation’s catalepsy Notice: Undefined variable: mwaniki2a3pDB in /home3/beyondis/public_html/templates/catalyst.html on line 8079 Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home3/beyondis/public_html/templates/catalyst.html on line 8079 in clearing this mess! If history truly relates good things of good people, the attentive hearer, Is highly excited to intimately imitate that which is good and progressive; Or if it mentions evil things of wicked persons, the pious hearer or reader... Is then more earnestly excited to perform those things which he or she knows, To be good and worthy of God, and to perpetuate the development of humans. Human history, without moral philosophy, is a mere string of crude facts; And moral philosophy, without human history, is apt to become a pipe dream. |
4. To what EXTENT is the dream of the nobility of an African RENAISSANCE under siege? |
#1. To an Essential Extent, our Joblessness is just a contradiction in terms, for nobody with a sound mind can allege that he or she has nothing to do, besides having in the words of King Solomon eaten ‘the bread of idleness’. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the wanton wastage of our youth’s energy. Idleness begets ennui, ennui lead to hypochondriac, and finally to a diseased body. Lack of interest or sense of excitement, ends in weariness and dissatisfaction with LIFE. That is why, research has indicated that no laborious person was ever yet hysterical. A busy LIFE is far more enriching and fundamentally nobler than attending for a check. It is richer than doing nothing for a bribe; it is prouder than rustling in unpaid-for job. Idleness is the refuge of weak minds; Satan finds some mischief for idle hands to do. If you allow your potential-to-create to fade, then propensity for destruction will ensue. #2. To an Essential Extent, our Employment only qualifies us to be hardworking slaves, where all our efforts and energies devoid of creative investment, benefit anyone else – the corporation or government - except ourselves. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the purposeless pattern in our endeavours Time has really come to replace the concept of having a job with having a mission. An energetic human being willing to work, and unable to find meaningful work, Is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality crudely exhibits under the sun. The most visible and substantial differences between the corporation of the future, And its present-day counterpart will not be the nature of the products they make, Or the equipment they use — but WHO will be working, HOW they will be working, WHY they will be working, and WHAT work will mean to them. Simply, a LIFE’s TASK. #3. To an Essential Extent, our Work is a curse and a condemnation we must live with without any sense of meaning, besides getting that pay, as the job is absolutely out of synch with our traits and temperaments. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the thankless toiling amongst most workers. Most professions in our African society are pursued by those who are utterly unsuited. It is the perfect application of an anti-Darwinian theory — the survival of the unfittest. When work is a pleasure, life becomes a joy! When work is a duty, life is then slavery. Instead of the question ‘What must I do for my employer?’ substitute ‘What can I do?’ No occupation should be unfairly demeaned, degraded, denounced, and deplored. The value of a job lies in the worker: Every calling is great when greatly pursued. Your great ambition should essentially be: To die of exhaustion rather than boredom. #4. To an Essential Extent, our Entrepreneurship is an unjust, legally sanctioned robbery-without-violence, whereby the chief drive is a murderous desire to reap super-profits, as altruism is melted away from our lives. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the pathetic poverty amongst our people. Entrepreneurship will become a core skill which all our young people will need to exploit, The opportunities emerging from science and technology, culture and communications. An entrepreneur, if there is such a thing, is a born schemer and a thinker up of things. Entrepreneurs should be able to really spend 80 percent of their time getting customers. Everything is always impossible before it works; that is what entrepreneurs are all about. It is doing what people have told them is impossible, and pushing it BEYOND any barrier. He or she revels in Risk-taking; an integral and intrinsic part of success or living a full LIFE. #5. To an Essential Extent alot of Money in the local and foreign bank accounts owned by the few sacred cows, are soiled with the sweat and blood of plundered, exploited and impoverished peasants. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the sluggish slowness of our economy. The one who steals money from our economy and stash it in a foreign bank, Is worse than a rapist who destroys the fragile LIFE of his young daughter. While impoverishing the economy of our motherland, they enriches foreigners. In this bottomless pit, they pierces themselves through with many sorrows. Wealth and fame are like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become. Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, and not a deity to be worshipped. Domestic investment and philanthropy are the sacred hunger of ambitious minds. #6. To an Essential Extent, our War is waged against ourselves and our fellowships, as we are always battering and parasiting ourselves with corruption, thus eating away and weakening a good portion of our inner strengths. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the endemic extortionism in our Society. ‘Corruption’ is defined as wrongdoing by those in a special position of trust. The term is commonly applied to self-benefiting conduct by public officials. To be precise, it is rather confused rhetoric to call a corrupt person a thief. His or her crime is not flinching away from the safe, but betraying a trust. A corrupt person is one whose loyalty is divided and whose motives are misled. These motives involve the ‘public interest’ for which one is employed for, And one’s ‘private selfish interest’ which one would want to illegally quench. #7. To an Essential Extent, our Civil Servants have degraded themselves to civil suckers by developing corruption into a high art, an efficient shadow system to the cumbersome official one. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the appeasable abomination in our motherland. Basically, corruption is the worst threat to any society’s potential for development. As such, out of the crooked timber of our society, no straight thing can ever be made. To avoid degeneration or drooping to a fatal decay, we have to outlive these pangs. And ardently wax young again by casting off this old and wrinkled skin of corruption. Once an econo-socio-political system has been corrupted right from the top leaders, To the lowest rungs of the bureaucracy, the core problem is practically very complicated. The cleansing has to start from top and go downwards in a thorough and systematic way. |
5. What is the MEASURE of our inability to make an African RENAISSANCE a reality? |
#1. To a Meaningful Measure, our Sacred Institutions – executive, judiciary and legislature – have been defiled and turned into dens of thieves and robbers, by immoral principles and wicked practices. Therapeautic Tool to armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the gruelling grievances by the populace. The issue of power sharing should be superseded by the question of power relationship, Between the political center and the instrument of production – the taxpayers in general. The question of how much power we give to any administrative or political institution, Ought to depend wholly on how much responsibility we give to that particular institution. It should be obvious that if we do not give it power commensurate with its responsibilities, The ultimate result is that it will be toothless, inefficient, and also not perform effectively. If we dole out power without defining responsibilities, it will eventually be used corruptly. #2. To a Meaningful Measure, our Leaders have metamorphosed into pirates, who plunder our meager resources and share everything amongst themselves, reducing the majority into hunters and fruit gatherers. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the fortified fury amongst the citizens. A leader who steals public money is worse than a thief. He or she is a fool. With the grand opportunities all around, there is no excuse for stealing a cent. A leader stooping too low by succumbing to the lure of a bribe or corruption, Is not worth the moral responsibility squarely resting on his or her shoulders. He or she can be perfectly described as an infidel with a ‘punctured personality’. Who if convicted should be made to repay amount doubly and then be forced, To serve a jail term, besides being barred from holding any future public office. #3. To a Meaningful Measure, our Guardians (law-makers, law-interpreters and law-enforcers) have blatantly disregarded the constitutional law, becoming open and shameless law breakers. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the anarchical anchoring of impunity. The most crucial lesson of history is: Any system in which the fate of the people, Depends upon the wisdom or shortsightedness of the leaders is implicitly wrong. Any society’s salvation lies not in the wisdom of leaders, but in the wisdom of laws. Time has come when we are supposed to draft constitutional mechanisms to protect, The gullible and anxious mass; who are taken for granted during the campaign time, By the power mongers, political con artists, spin doctors, holier-than-thou rascals, And silver-tongued devils, whose villainy is subtly clothed in the language of deceit. #4. To a Meaningful Measure, our Laws only impose legal penalties, which have no force of controlling crimes, as they fall short of creating a more just society, in which people can connect humanly with each other. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the spiritless socialisation amongst our people. Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. The LIFE of any progressive law has not been logic; it has been experience. The law embodies the story of any society’s development and actualisation. It cannot be dealt with as if it contained the axioms of a book of mathematics. The law should be the intimate witness and external deposit of our moral LIFE. Its history is the history of the moral development of the individual and society. The real test of good laws is their ability to oil the wheel of social relations. #5. To a Meaningful Measure, our Justice is an organised conspiracy to oppress, to break all the ladders for other society members to climb to high helms, such that poverty has become enforced and disillusionment prevails. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the pitiful penology of our legal system. People should be made to be aware of the interconnectedness of desperation, In one section of society and how this might lead to general destructive acts, That will eventually affect them in one way or the other, directly or indirectly. They should be made aware that no society is just and good for some to live in, Until it is nourishing, satisfactory and a good one for every person to live in. They should therefore be motivated to verily assert their right to safe existence, By speaking out against all preventable malaise, without any fear or favour. #6. To a Meaningful Measure, our Road to Power is charted through ‘political organisations’ and ‘tribal alliances’, without a unique pragmatic agenda in our manifestos, without either statesmanship or patriotism. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the hallowed hope in our politics. The worthiness of present politicians, has become the measure of his or her ability, To invent some interesting and unimportant issue to divert the eyes of the populace, From the problems involved in their daily agricultural, parenting and working lives. Political campaign thus degenerate into the wrestling of the brawn not the brainy. Whereas elections simply becomes a contest in fraud and farce, in noise and insults. Sound arguments make the least sound, as empty container makes the most noise. In all essential manifest, truth is lost in the confusion, and smoked away into oblivion. #7. To a Meaningful Measure, our Offices are run by our smallest individuals who are subservient, amenable to discipline, elastic of conscience and devoid of dangerous originality or genius. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the mugging mediocrity in our historical institutions. We must design a ‘Triangular Pattern’ of governing any social or economic unit. The first corner is the set tasks or prescribed goals and respective roles and duties. The second is the institution or instrument for implementing the set tasks and goals. The third is the system of reward and punishment for those performing specific tasks. The constitution must be clear on the way of recalling all those hypocritical liars; Who assumes power through deception by preaching what is ‘of interest to the public’; And who might prove inefficient in failing to pursue what is ‘in the public interest’. |
6. Which is the DEGREE of our impotence in assimilating the ideal of an African RENAISSANCE? |
#1. To a Decisive Degree, our Human Rights Watch Groups, seem to obey the orders of their foreign paymasters, thus lacking the boldness and conscience to be the ‘voice of the voiceless’. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the hollow hypocrisy in their advocacy. No person can be so stupid to deny that all humans naturally were born free. Our greatest defense, our most overriding motives against all manner of abuse, Is to take a solidly bold and offensive action on behalf of justice and righteousness. We must seek to remove conditions of poverty, injustice, and social discrimination; Equal and exact justice to all people...freedom of religion, of the press, of all people, Under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected. These fundamental principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us. #2. To a Decisive Degree, our Trade Unions are managed by cartels, who are more concerned on entrenching their power bases, and easily earned allowances for their unnecessary boardroom meetings. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the rhetorical restlessness in their demands and grievances. The most conservative person is a Trade Unionist when you want to change him or her. Almost all trades unions have relied for success upon extorted oaths and physical force. Their fault has been that they have copied the vices which they professed to condemn. Acts as if with a corkscrew soul, a waterlogged brain, carrying a tumor of rotten principles. To protect workers in their inalienable rights to a higher and better life; to protect them, Not only as equals before the law, but also in their liberties as workers, and as citizens; To overcome prejudices and antagonism; is the glorious mission of the Trade Unions. #3. To a Decisive Degree, our Feminism fights for the egoistic narrow self-interest of few individuals, who are hell-bent on getting free nominations or appointments, or curve cheap short-cuts to power. Therapeautic Tool to armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the dangerous deception in the affirmative action. A society in which women are taught anything at all but the management of a family, The care of men, and the creation of the future generation, is a society which is obsolete. Conventionality has curtailed feminine force by hindering healthful and varied activity. If we aspire to have heroes, statesmen, and philosophers, we should have learned women. A progressive society should have nothing like masculine or feminine power or priviledge. Women should never wait to be dished out positions freely, they should fight their way in. Always knowing that, even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. #4. To a Decisive Degree, our Equality is fallacious in all aspects, for it means denying opportunities to the qualified, and imposing obligations to those who do not measure up to the required task. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the dire drain of our human resources. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal. It means the poorest that is in our society, has a life to live as the richest we have. If we perceive, construe and treat people equally in all circumstances, all the time, Then this means suppressing genius and elevating mediocrity, which is very wrong. Equality of opportunity means equal opportunity to be unequal, in all particularity. It means giving people a chance to express their differences in a level playing field. It is reaping most from the variety of talents for a harmoniously integrated society. #5. To a Decisive Degree, our Mainstream Media primarily focused on acquiring advertisement and make a quick kill, can promote any product or service devoid of all scientific considerations. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the warped ways of interpreting events and issues. History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. Advertising is an environmental striptease for a world of abundance. Advertising is not a science. It is persuasion. And persuasion is an art. It is arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Far more thought and care go into the composition of any advertisement, Than what goes into the writing of the articles, features and editorials. #6. To a Decisive Degree, our Newspapers are written by skeptics and cynics who criticises for the sake of it, and are utterly unable to give any constructive solution to the menacing problems of the day. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the disdainful distrust by the populace. “What if journalists write objectively without caring whether they will upset their editors?” That is a good question to be asked, but not a wise question for BEYONDISM to answer. Journalists would like everyone to believe that they are champions of freedom of expression. But they themselves are not free at all to express any opinion which is against public opinion. Bloody and blindfolded, they piteously bow down before the free play of economic forces. The primary objective of any Newspaper worth its name, is objectively gathering of news. At the peril of its soul, it must see that data is not tainted; comment is free, but facts are sacred. #7. To a Decisive Degree, our Medical fraternity is haunted by quacks (whether intentional or unwitting), whose lust for money only happens to make people more sick and keep undertakers busy. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the corrosive contempt by the informed. Most people are driven into medicine not by a social conscience but by rampant curiosity. A vain, covetous physician is squarely like a milking stool, of no use except when sat upon. Misdiagnosing a patient and giving wrong prescription is the most beastly act and nothing else. When a doctor does wrong - having nerve and knowledge - he or she is the first of criminals. A qualified physician worth his or her title is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, More even than the whole patient; he or she must view the client in his or her psychic world. A skillful physician who is a proud professional, is better far than half a hundred Men of War. |
7. Is there any THEME in the hurdles that weaken our resolve for an African RENAISSANCE? |
#1. The Terrifying Theme in our Politics is precisely decadent deceptions and crude charlatanism, where the small minority of exclusive oligois, organises themselves to rob and parasite the larger unorganised gullible majority. Therapeautic Tool to armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the mass manipulativeness by our politicians. Power corrupts in the measure of the irresponsibility of those holding public offices, Which is augmented by the low degree of checks and balances imposed by the led. The potential for any exploitative social machinery to thrive is ‘Inversely Proportion’, To the level of people’s social political consciousness - the ability to assert their liberty, Be in control of their destinies; developing the ability to assimilate and direct change. The abuse of power, the exploitation by some small minority of the larger majority, Is in ‘Inverse Ratio’ to the intellectual development which that society has attained. #2. The Terrifying Theme in our Electoral process, is the shameless act of raising money from the rich, in order to buy votes from the poor, and promising to protect these two antagonistic groups against each other. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the veritable violence during the campaign period. In Africa, political campaigns have become a tragic case of mistaken identity. Where the foxes make a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. To avert this, there ought to be a concise assignment for each elected official, Made public and the database of their general performance updated regularly. Their performance will have to be critically evaluated and diligently measured, From the standpoint of the promises they made during the political campaigns, As well as their performance on the floor of parliament or in other elective offices. #3. The Terrifying Theme in our Democracy is the most banal lie where through tribal alliances, leaders choose voters other than voters choosing leaders, such that all our institutions are hallowed out of all meaning. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the blunted blade of our social organisation. Low societal awakening is the fount for the difficulty of the people to agree, In their grievances or to unite in their action; which is essence of democracy. This timidity eventually waters down the demand for greatness or foresight, On the elected officials, as the people are carried away by bare-toothed oratory. In this cold atmosphere of indecisiveness, the leaders suffices out not as people, Endowed with the creativity to govern, but to deceptively secure the approval, Of the gullible mass for whatever policy they may have callously decided upon. #4. The Terrifying Theme in our Policies are promulgated by ignoramuses, whose abomination is analogous to quack physicians, who would pour drugs of which they know little into a body of which they know less. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the hollow hustling amongst the youths. It is sad that our leaders are masters of improved speech and improvised policies. Our policy should be verily directed against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the continent so as to permit, The emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. The key is to alleviate the suffering of all those unfortunates who had been victimized. The main focus is to strengthen our continental inhabitants’ faith in modernisation. Anyone in a government who thinks major change is impossible should just get out. #5. The Terrifying Theme in our Progress is contained in the unanimous unconscious vow, that inaction is the most perfect of all states, as our habitual inclination to useless movement has become the highest good. Therapeautic Tool to armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the stagnatory state of our general aspirations. Business, with its global influence and its ability to adapt rapidly to changing conditions, Shall be one of the most effective vehicles for accelerating our self-conscious awareness. “Commodities all the way to the horizon: There is enough of everything for everybody”. That is how productive and rich the future continental economic social order shall be. The whole process should creatively begin with a concentrated and radical proposition, That the conquest of nature will eventually be going to be the top job of the modern age. As a continent, when we will accept change as core part of our lives, we will be through. #6. The Terrifying Theme in our Youths is being dizzy with frustrations, drowned in the deep lake of confusion, their minds riddled with arrows of despair, as their hearts burst with fury. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the perennial protests in their objectives. Though you may have endured many ordeals, the time has come for you to revolt. Before your powers are consumed, exhausted and extinguished by your encounters. The time is NOW to say and assert a resolute NO; make a clean sweep in your LIFE. Success in LIFE entails a repudiation of the current retrogressive state-of-affairs. It means devising new ways and methods of LIFE and thought; contriving new ideals, To meet the blind and brute forces which have infiltrated all levels of our society. It implies saying ‘NO’, to the multitude of errors that you may have accepted as true. #7. The Terrifying Theme in our Continental Inhabitants is living in ghettos, or somewhere along a wide curve of deep-rooted, bottled-up inexpressible anger where the smell of adour of decay is almost everywhere. Therapeautic Tool to Africanly Armour, O thee BEYONDIST in clearing this mess!Hence the degenerative dissillusionment amongst the masses. Weakness of all governments boils down to the weaknesses of the governed. Leaders are not the moon; people have to emit their own light and in its absence, Leaders metamorphose into parasites who suck the society’s blood to the last pint. The more the governed people expect the governors to solve their daily problems, The more the governors will demand to be highly compensated covertly or overtly. Demanding more might translate to heavy taxation to feed a bloated bureaucracy. This might translate to bigger bribes, or both excessive taxation and bigger bribes. |
“Negritude is the sum total of the values of the civilization of the African world. It is not racialism, it is culture.”
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i. Volatile as it may seem, our current African situation is a mildly extreme case, calling for mildly unusual measures, and more prevalently the exception may and will invariably prove the rule. --->
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ii. Astute in its analysis, BEYONDISM deliberately uses the tag ‘Valiant Voyage’ to designate adaptability and capability for radical action, coupled to a willingness to think BEYOND the thinkable.--->
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iii. Lessons from history, confirm the fact that, new ideas always take shape within a small group of men and women, whose next task is to spread them and get them accepted by the people.--->
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iv. It was English philosopher John Locke (1632 - 1704) who asserted: “New opinions are always suspected; and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common”. ---> “There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it”, so taught American philosopher and psychologist William James (1842 - 1910). “All great truths begin as blasphemies”, thus noted Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950). “As I look back upon our history or upon my own experience, nearly every progressive or fruitful move, especially if it was novel has been considered naïve”, thus commented American educator and politician James William Fulbright (1905 - 1995). So, if we construe history in terms of the ‘Progressive Forces’ of the ‘Superior Souls’ and the ‘Regressive Forces’ of mediocrities, it becomes apparent that ‘Superior Souls’ have always found violent opposition from the common herd. Mediocrities cannot understand it, when a real ‘existentially’ authentic individual does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his or her intelligence. Mediocrities never take the initiative; they are afraid, and probably never dream that any need exist, for they are captives of most traditional responses, custom and habits. |
v. Apparent creative fecundity (ability to produce many different and original ideas), is the reserve of ‘Superior Souls’. It creates a mental exaltation that predisposes them to extraordinary insights.--->
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vi. None other than Arthur James Balfour (1848 - 1930) who complained thus: “It is unfortunate considering that enthusiasm move the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth”.--->
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vii. To the philosopher of pessimism Arthur Schopenhauer: “Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”. Every new idea, every original or creative conception, presents itself to our minds as a pathological focus. --->
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| | viii. Verily, the great majority of humans, never realise the fundamental changes taking place during their lifetime. Universal History, is the history of the ‘Superior Souls’ who have lived and worked in this world.--->
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ix. Over and over, a fundamental historical fact worth noting is that, each age and place, calls for and needs certain brands of genius, rather than others. But what distinguishes cultural sort of geniuses, is that they can--->
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x. Yearning and success in making an indelible mark on history, is a function of favourable social environment. “Great men make history, but only such history as it is possible for them to make. Their freedom of---> achievements is limited by the necessities of their environment”, thus noted West Indian political theorist, literary critic, Pan-African leader, and sports historian Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901 - 1981). Refreshing as it is, it is only in our times that, the conditions have ripened for the realisation of this noble ideal of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE. However, we should not be ashamed to confess that, our posterity acclaims are not greater than our progressive predecessors; they too had placed their stones upon the pile. But somehow we have the good fortune to come at this specific time in the history of our society and when we place our stone, the arch shall stand self-supported. We have the blessings of sitting on the shoulders of these giants, thus seeing further than them. What we need is to have an insight into the requirements of our TIME; and be conscious of what is ripe for development and maturation. Though we might not wholly qualify to be original creators of this noble ideal of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE, we shall however be midwives; helping the time to bring forth that which is already in the womb. We shall facilitate the birth of the world that is struggling to born; to replace the current world that is dying. |
xi. All in all, it is a vital historical lesson that, even the most economically, politically or ethically degraded society can align, capture and assert good values and positive attitudes. Political, economic or moral entropy---> is not a problem unique to Africa. Europe which is geographically smaller than Africa has a history tainted with all kinds of vices and sins; thirty year’s war, two world wars, extermination of a whole ethnic community, slavery, child paedophile, robber baron capitalism, to name but a few examples. The point is this: No matter how bad things gets, it takes a few good, courageous and creative men and women to stand up and chart the way out of the morass. Therefore, guided by their personal ‘North Stars’ and with demonstrable resolve, the future African ‘Resourceful Redeemers’ should understand that a decent person may appear to be coming last, but that it is only because he or she is running in different race. And the race that matters in the end, is not won by racketeers and charlatans, but by hard workers and dedicated people. The words of first prime minister (1957 - 1960) and president (1960 - 1966) of Ghana and the first black African postcolonial leader Kwame Nkrumah in this respect are very inspiring: “Circumstances can be changed by revolution and revolutions are brought about by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought”. |
xii. Granted the mortal unreliability of our sense organs, even our PSYCHIC apparatus, it is a truism that one cannot measure an idea, even less the effects of an idea like the way temperature is measured by a thermometer.---> However, wisdom born of historical empiricism show that, if people cannot hang on to an original and noble idea, doubts starts to creep in. This then goes round and round inside them and collects more doubt leading to skeptism and pessimism, and ultimately they begin to weaken, to be less sure of their idea. Finally, the dreadful fear – fear of being wrong – of defeat cripples them. When the molecule of doubt get more and more magnified, it juggles and hammers one’s reason and one’s cherished convictions get swept away irretrievably. This gives us the reason why, although we must be driven by a fundamental conviction that, there is nothing stronger, stronger than the armies and police, including all underground gangs of the world combined, than the IDEA which has come at its right time, we must direct and gear all the resources at our disposal and all the organisational skills at our command, to the all-important battle of actualisation of the noble ideal of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE. The caution of German novelist, essayist, and short-story writer Thomas Mann (1875 - 1910) is imperative: “Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.” |
xiii. Essentially, as Africa continues to grapple with the need for a breach of cultural continuity, an abolition of traditional society, and developing something new to its utmost creative and logical conclusion,--->
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xiv. Reading the ‘Signs of the Time’, does not require a prophetic eye. You only need to discard self-absorption and soak yourself to the daily happenings of your Place and Time. Consequently, BEYONDISM prudently proclaims to the highest possible decibel thus:---> As a Valiant Voyager, besides being vocal and vibrant, you will be well versed in the exposition of your views. Vehemently resisting any temptation at being visionless, you will be full of vigour and vitality in vouching for the transformative power of the noble IDEAL of an AFRICAN RENAISSANCE. Desisting from all vulgar valuations, you will be vivid to overcome all econo-socio-politico vendettas, by validating only the valuable ideas and venturing where the mediocre cannot. Veracious to your convictions, your verdicts will have to pass through the sieves of versatility and variety. Vigilant without either being vicious, violent, vindictive or vengeful, you will expose all ideological as well as theological vandals living under all kinds of hypocritical veils; avoiding all the tendencies at victimising would be opponents, and critics. Out of your own volition, you will be a volunteer who will disdain all kinds of voluptuous tastes and indulgences at expense of voters; never veering away from the objective of vetting the society off all economic, social, and political vermins and vampires. Click here: The breed of a leader to be in order to REDEEM Africa: (xix) |
![]() The 6th Enduring Excerpt Eschewing any sort of gimmick, this page may well be capped by an excerpt from the book Challange of Modernization (1964), by Prominent 21st century author and political scientist I. R Sinai. “Faith in the perfectibility of Man and society, belief in progress, in the furtherance of humanity, is rather naïve and shallow. On the other hand man is not an imperfect creature because an imperfect man can only create an imperfect society, a parody of soaring expectations, always at war with itself, always reaching out for ideals which ineluctable reality snatches from its grasps. Every form of society is thus a painful and antagonistic process, never a harmonious or finished conclusion…Man is not born absolutely good and he is not everywhere in chains, only because of his environmental situation, or because of any particular system of property relations. He is on the contrary a divided and fallible creature, divided in the deepest layers of his unconscious, as he is on the highest levels of consciousness, tainted with and ruled by blind necessity…Man is both creative and destructive, swayed both by love and hate. He is as much moved by his passion for creation, for justice, for truth, for the fulfillment of an ideal as he is by his greed for power, domination and gain. Man is both imperfect and imperfectible, an eternal battleground, between conflicting urges and impulses, lost alike to seeds of nobility and ignominy. Man tends to be intoxicated by power. Man’s ambitions and lusts enter into every relationship and every institution, distorting and corrupting his most generous aspirations, overseeing the powerful strength of forces of habit, custom, tradition, and inertia which are both form of human society. The world inhabited by man is not as tractable as the philosophers of the enlightenment, of liberalism and of socialism in all its forms imagined….Viewed in this light, history is then a permanent, an eternal conflict between man, driven by sublime discontents and aspirations, and the inherent limitations of his own nature and of his environment, unable to transcend the antagonisms at the heart of the world. All mans bravest efforts, all his quests, all his discoveries, can never really eliminate or overcome the primordial pain and contradiction at the heart of things.” |
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