A ruinous openess we had,
For those who came as beggars
Turned to snake after feeding.
The suspicious among us had pronounced fears
Incomprehensible to our spirits then,
Words generosity failed to understand.
"These are makers of carrion"
The wary ones said,
"Do not shelter them.
See their eyes, their noses.
Such are the beaks
Of all the deserts predatory birds."
We laughed at the fearful ones,
Gave the askers shelter
And watched them unsuspicious,
watched them turn in the fecundity of our way,
Turn into the force that pushed us
Till the proper flowing of all our people,
The way itself,
Became a lonely memory
For abandoned minds.
Ayi Kwei Armah
Unity will come if we have the courage to face the very people whos work disunited us in the first place.
Walter Rodney was not blaming when he wrote "How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Chancellor Williams was not bashing or blaming when he also added more fire in "The Destruction of Black Civilization"
The Africans who wrote the Bible by Nana Banchie Darkwa showed clearly the hands of the invaders in our disunity.
No truth no unity.