Africa Never Stopped Resisting | The Courage They Couldn't Conquer

[00:00:00]There's this belief the world has refused to export.

[00:00:03]This illusion that resistance is alien to Africans. While resistance flows in our bloodline and courage lives in our history.

[00:00:13]Resistance here is not just a choice, it's a birthmark.

[00:00:18]Resistance is the men and women who hid history in songs and memories in proverbs. For Africa was never a continent of victims. It was and still remains the continent of warriors.

[00:00:32]Who were out-spirited, outnumbered, outgunned, not outfought.

[00:00:39]They call themselves civilized, but civilized men do not attack while children sleep.

[00:00:44]They came at dawn, the cowards are.

[00:00:48]Because even with cannons, they feared what a free African standing upright might do today.

[00:00:55]For there's something about a man who values dignity more than safety. About a people who values freedom more than comfort. You see, Africa was and still remains the home of unsung conquerors. When I think of Sundiata Keita, the lion king of Mali.

[00:01:17]Is it Queen Amina, a woman who rode into the battlefield carrying courage like a whip?

[00:01:24]Is it Shaka?

[00:01:25]Or Samori Touré?

[00:01:27]Is it Nehanda Charwe Nyakasikana?

[00:01:31]>> [music] >> Is it Yaa Asantewaa?

[00:01:33]Men and women who looked impossible odds in the face and refused to kneel.

[00:01:39]Is it Hendrik Witbooi?

[00:01:41]A man who knew his bloodline and birthright. A man who knew that freedom is not given. It is affirmed and defended. A man born of the desert winds of Namaqualand, where the earth teaches you that nothing soft survives and nothing that survives is soft.

[00:01:59]There's an African proverb that says, "If there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you."

[00:02:06]But, what happens when the enemy arrives with a Bible in one hand and a gun in the other?

[00:02:12]Hendrik Witbooi resisted. Not because he hated peace, but because he understood that peace without dignity is merely another form of captivity. So, he fought again and again and again against forces with better weapons because if courage was measured by certainty, no revolution would begin.

[00:02:34]See, Hendrik Witbooi is a name carved into the memories of this continent.

[00:02:38]Now, the question is, are we resisting?

[00:02:41]It's by no means a version of what of decolonization, for we are never truly free if the mind is still in chains.

[00:02:47]Thank you.

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