By Reno Omokri
The Library of Alexandria in Egypt was burned by Julius Caesar in 48 BC. If it hadn’t been burnt, we in Africa would have had access to more technology than we do today. I visited the Fasil Ghebbi Library in Ethiopia. It was the second-largest library in Africa until it was bombed by the British in 1941. We lost lots of esoteric scientific knowledge by that bombing.
And even today, we still do not like to write as a people. If you are bookish in Black Africa, it is your own people who will attempt to pull you down and make you ashamed of your knowledge. I too know. Oversabi. Sabinus. Ominiknowest. That is why many Black Africans hide their knowledge. And when we find them out, we call them witches and kill them.
Let me reiterate that what we in some parts of Africa call jazz or juju is just physics and chemistry that man’s conscious knowledge has not caught up with. The people who possess these knowledge are afraid to exhibit it in the open, because of our notoriety for attacking what we do not understand. Hence they exhibit it in secret or at night.
Technology is nothing more than magic, wizardry, sorcery, enchantment and juju simplified and codified. The Black African should stop killing so-called witches and wizards. By killing them, we are killing out technological development. Instead, interrogate them and get them to reveal the ancient secrets and give them to our scientists to simplify and then codify.
If you think a person flies at night and you have proof, that is not jazz. That is advanced quantum physics that defies the known laws of aerodynamics. Don’t kill such persons. Give them pen and paper and force them to write how they violated the law of gravity. That, right there, is a science textbook!
Africa has to develop its own indigenous technology. In all aspects. For example, we can no longer depend solely on Western pharmacopoeia. We have to consider alternatives, like homoeopathy. King Charles III was recently diagnosed with cancer and has turned to homoeopathy. This is the King of England! Homeopathy is not jazz or juju. It is an alternative and sometimes better medicine.
For example, Ose dudu (dudu Osun) can cure almost any skin condition. Chewing sticks clean as well and sometimes better than toothbrushes. Unripe plantains boost male libido. Wild African ginger relieves respiratory problems. Bitter leaf (Vernonia amygdalina) has been scientifically proven to roll back diabetes. And there are other African herbal remedies. Not only do they work, they also have fewer or no side effects. Just being around herbs and plants alone is advantageous to your health.
