Rename Lake Victoria in honour of Mandela
Mar 07, 2009
While in London delivering a protest letter to prime minister Winston Churchill demanding freedom for the people of India, Mahatma Gandhi was ambushed with a journalist’s question seeking his thought of Western culture.
While in London delivering a protest letter to prime minister Winston Churchill demanding freedom for the people of India, Mahatma Gandhi was ambushed with a journalist’s question seeking his thought of Western culture.
Mahatma Gandhi, the undisputed symbol of anticolonialism, shot back: “Does the West have a culture?â€
Africans have permitted themselves to be brainwashed by the West to a point where the word ‘African’ can no longer adequately describe them as a people. They do not realise their illusory belief that Western names will deliver them into heaven is a sick obsession that threatens African identity with extinction. African landmarks and great heritage sites are named after Westerners. For instance, Lake Victoria and the Victoria Falls (originally Mosi or Tunya), were named after a European queen as though there was a shortage of appropriate African names. I urge the East African Legislative Assembly and its parent governments to rename Lake Victoria — the heart of Africa — in honour of former South African President Nelson Mandela. He has earned it. Africans must pride themselves in being the defenders of African heritage. European names were created for Europeans and African names for Africans: there is no room for colonial names in ‘post-colonial’ Africa.
Bosire Mosi
United States
Mahatma Gandhi, the undisputed symbol of anticolonialism, shot back: “Does the West have a culture?â€
Africans have permitted themselves to be brainwashed by the West to a point where the word ‘African’ can no longer adequately describe them as a people. They do not realise their illusory belief that Western names will deliver them into heaven is a sick obsession that threatens African identity with extinction. African landmarks and great heritage sites are named after Westerners. For instance, Lake Victoria and the Victoria Falls (originally Mosi or Tunya), were named after a European queen as though there was a shortage of appropriate African names. I urge the East African Legislative Assembly and its parent governments to rename Lake Victoria — the heart of Africa — in honour of former South African President Nelson Mandela. He has earned it. Africans must pride themselves in being the defenders of African heritage. European names were created for Europeans and African names for Africans: there is no room for colonial names in ‘post-colonial’ Africa.
Bosire Mosi
United States