Dear Editor,
A recently formed organisation to promote African culture, heritage, unity, drive and empower communities in positive social change among other noble ideals, plans to host its own Emancipation Day festivities. This has evoked the ire of another organization who sees it as a ‘contemptuous and wicked ploy’ to divide and destroy and has call for the cancellation of the event in support of the traditional event (KN July 16). The call suggests the Emancipation celebrations is owned exclusively by the traditional organization and no other is allowed to dare venture outside of this. Pure balderdash!
Every year, at this time, the ugly head of divisiveness, discord, disunity, animosity among several more adjectives must rise to the surface in what is essentially a time of celebrating and commemorating an occasion of our people. Why does it have to be this way? Africans organizing and promoting an African event to showcase cultures and values of the African people is deemed and labelled ‘contemptuous and wicked’. Now who is being disingenuous?
Sincerely,
Shamshun Mohamed
