CO-EXISTENTIAL NEGRITUDE  In the 1930s, African literature was influenced by two anti-racist ideologies: Negritude and Pan-Africanism. The principle of assimilation was a peculiar characteristic of the French African Colonies. It aimed at making people in the colony french citizens and influencing them to walk, talk, dress and behave like french men and women inhabitants of these colonies considered the principle of assimilation to be a direct attack on their identity. In Senghor’s poem “Black woman" he wrote  ".. .I come upon you, my Promised Land, And your beauty strikes me to the heart… “  The word Promised land was used to portray Africa as the home of every black not French culture and ephemeral (the land is promised it might have been underdeveloped as at then but there was a hope that it was their haven). The first proponent of this ideology, Aime Cesaire did speak of a balance between cultures: that modern elements, western culture and the traditional...

To say earth is a museum, may mean to call it a documentary of our lives. In a “Letter to the US government” in 1885 written by Chief Seattle he wrote “we are part of earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters, the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers”. Realistically, there's a museum called the museum of earth preserving bones and species over 4.5 billion years ago telling us that earth is a process and NOW would become ONCE UPON. Imagine an old man holds a photo album and sits on a huge rock by the fountain. The fountain falling steeply like an immature dancer making a first dance, her breakthrough. The old man pulls his staff near and steadies his eyes on the mountains afar. Slowly,he opens to a picture in the photo album where his Father smiles and places his arms on the malian woman he cherishes, while he, the little boy in the photo holds her hands and the setting sun grins at the camera shyly and snap. Earth has given h...

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A PLANE CRASH IN MINNESOTA  when shall I see an airplane? I ask father. I want to fly too, but he tells me  “you can fly here"  perhaps father is too poor to buy me wings. I wait to grow and I become a man, toil for dollars to buy me a wing, till I turned grey by Brooklyn’s park, counting how many planes passed each day, waiting for the one to come and make me fly, one day a SOCATA airplane flew so near, that I could touch it, but it crushed upon my home, and burnt it, and I saw that ashes couldn't fly, that, I can fly here. On March 29, 2025, a tragic plane crash occurred in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. A single-engine SOCATA TBM7 aircraft, registered to U.S. Bank executive Terry Dolan, crashed into a residential home around 12:20 PM. The plane had departed from Des Moines International Airport in Iowa and was en route to Anoka County-Blaine Airport in Minnesota. The crash resulted in a fire that engulfed the home, but fortunately, the h...