Category: Well-being

He Shall Return: Unveiling the Untold Synergy of Precolonial Africa and the Triumphant Roots of the African Diaspora

Time bore on, and the young boy who once had trembled in the belly of a slave ship became the man who stopped planning escapes. When the others were broken and lay in the dirt, whispering of home, George’s role changed. He became like the older folk who had shaken their heads at his refusal to respond to the name George. He comforted the broken slaves with his flute and with barely remembered Igbo proverbs, forcing his tongue to do some exercise to form the words:
Akụkụ nke chọrọ ịghọ nkwụ ga-esi n’ọkụ gafee (A palm nut that wants to become palm oil must pass through fire).