We honor them by telling their stories, by naming their resistance, and by remembering the hard fights they fought in silence. We honor them by refusing to treat African indigenous knowledge as superstition, and by holding fast to the legacy they preserved for us with their lives.
by Fahkawur Dematepia
When we talk about heroes, the first names that usually come to mind are Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Sankara, and others like them. But what we often fail to recognize are the heroes who never step into the limelight, whose sacrifices are not publicly celebrated yet are felt across existence. Their choices, endurance and resistance still form the quiet bedrock of our human evolution. These are the real heroes.
Today, most of us are deeply entangled in a modern parasitic way of thinking. Even those of us who find the way back to African traditions often carry a huge colonial baggage that continues to manifest in our thoughts, behaviors and overall expression. It has been roughly 400 years since many of us were pushed away from reality and from what it truly means to be a human being in evolution.
