I am glad to follow in the footsteps of men and women such as Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo, Cheikh Anta Diop, Kwameh Nkuruma, Anenechukwu Umeh, Catherine Acholonu, Adiele Afigbo, Elizabeth Isichei, Chimamanda Adichie, and many others.
My ability to effortlessly handle the research and writing of African history, philosophy, archaeology, culture, spirituality and “Chinua Achebe-Type” fiction is one unique thing about me, which I sometimes can’t explain. However, I am grateful to Agwu (The Deity For Divine wisdom, intuition and intelligence) for putting me on this path.
This is because I didn’t study any of this in school. Actually, I played a lot around art related activities at the university.
Many people don’t know this, but I was a science student in secondary school and at the University of Nigeria Nsukka. I was supposed to read Medicine & Surgery but ended up with Microbiology.
After my NYSC I started to read books and articles about African history, archaeology, culture, and others, which opened my mind to the richness of our heritage. I started to write articles and fiction books of my own as early as 2015. By 2017/2018 I had built a catalogue of articles on the transatlantic slave trade and the riches of the African people. I also had some books in the making, some of which are unfinished even at this point.
In 2018, I set up a blog named “Liberty Writers Africa,” where I published my articles, and in a few months, I got a vast readership from African Americans in the United States and other Africans from around the world. I continued to write on African history, black consciousness and spiritual reawakening, and by 2021, I started to narrow my research and writing to only Igbo cosmology and spirituality, because I can’t try to save the whole black race without saving my indigenous people first.
Over the years, as I researched, wrote, and published articles and research papers, I realized that the Black man in Africa, despite paying hugely for European education, detests reading. The majority of our educated brothers and sisters prefer to watch videos and follow idle trends. Despite the praise given to Education In Africa, we have a small group who are interested in “reading for knowledge that will emancipate them.”
So, my research has also been in the field of producing documents that will drive the majority of Africans to read—read about our history, philosophy, spirituality, culture, traditions, and the worldview of our people. Although the majority of our people now prefer video content, we who are researchers and writers must do our best to document the history, archaeology, philosophy, culture, traditions, spirituality, metaphysics, and sociology of Africa and preserve that knowledge for the next generation.
I am dedicated to the emancipation of the African mind. And my method is through research, writing, teaching and advocacy. I hope that one day Africa will produce a great number of young men and women like myself—for the betterment of the motherland.
My book “The Attack On Critical Race Theory” is my contribution to the defense of African history in the United States and indeed all over the world. It is part of my fight to see that the voice of the African is not silenced by Caucasian propaganda. We have a right to talk about the oppression of our people by Europeans, and any attempt to stop that knowledge from being taught in schools is an invitation to more oppression of the Black man.
~ Article Written By Chuka Nduneseokwu, a Dibia, Igbo Odinala Researcher, African Revolutionary, and Igbo Philosopher
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