giant steps: the complete transcript #17
Lefifi Tladi: To them the earth’s deepest depths are taboo.
Before we sit at a table and speak in a foreign language with the Albino
Foreigners.
We need to go into a huddle and speak to ourselves in our own languages.
We need to make our own decisions about governance and what is important to us on our own terms.
This discussion needs to happen amongst ourselves in our own languages before we can negotiate with the albino foreigners.
July 1st, 2006 at 12:17 am
Through a range of interviews with black intellectuals, poets and artists – most notably Lefifi Tladi, Lesego Rampolokeng, Don Laka and Geoff Mphakati himself – it is asserted that African consciousness has been abducted by Eurocentric ideologies:
Post-colonial ‘independence’ is a dubious one, with African individuals merely ‘freed’ to live a Eurocentric reality.