So, the brutal killing of Mr. Floyd, described in some news reports as a nightclub bouncer, hit very close to home. But, of course, we first need to list and examine at least a couple of some of the salient pushout factors that created the African Diaspora, to begin with, and the recent outward migration of some of us Continental Africans into the Diaspora. Now, on the question of the “Indigenous African Diaspora,” as it were, these Africans whose ancestors were sold by some of their own African relatives and neighbors as war captives for profit, however insignificant, to European settlers in the so-called New World or the Americas, in our time, owe their Continental African kinsmen and clanswomen absolutely nothing! Which, of course, is not to either say or imply that the compassionate and conscientious decision by some of these Indigenous Diaspora Africans to contribute to the development of their proverbial Motherland, and Fatherland, too, is unwelcome because it definitely is welcome. Where I vehemently beg to differ with Ms. Ohene is on the rather quaint notion that, somehow, the mere return to the Motherland by some of the Indigenous Diaspora Africans would necessarily extirpate the noxious existence and presence of the Derek Chauvins.

Source: GhanaWeb June 07, 2020 12:22 UTC