Not Only the Truth

Does the truth really set one free?
If so, how?

Do our people - The African People of the former UN Trust Territory of the Southern Cameroons - need freedom?
Those who are "doing well" in the present so-called New Deal dispensation will most probably say they have freedom
already.

And that could be true.
Those who are not doing so well, will have some complaints. It might not necessarily be about "freedom". When one is hungry or thirsty, is "freedom" the first thing that comes to mind?
Food and water (or Beer in this case) are what shake and dance in the mind.
So the answer to the question - do our people need freedom - depends on which side of the river (Mungo) you are standing on.

Can the truth set them free just like that?
Not exactly, it seems.

So how will the truth set our people free?

The answer lies in not only knowing
that the truth can set free, but also that
"knowledge of the truth" is truly what can set one free.

So knowledge is freedom?
Yes, not only truth sets free but knowledge of the truth is what CAN set free.

So how can our people have this knowledge of the truth?
How can our people become truly free?
It seems that this freedom is bringing palava instead.
Is that true?

Well freedom will bring palava because
freedom brings light where there is darkness
Knowledge of the truth points the light to all the dark corners
of our houses, our families, our villages, our counties, our state
and everything can be seen by everyone.
There is no room for lies.
There is no place to hide
There is no opportunity to cheat
There is no way to steal

Infact
Knowledge is power.
and if every citizen has this knowledge
So have they power
and there lies the true
"power of the people"
Not the power of a few

'Knowledge is power'. Really?
Is that why those who have 'power'
know some things that those who do not have 'power'
do not know?

For example, if our people pay taxes but do not
know how to add, subtract, divide and/or multiply,
how can they know how much taxes everyone is paying?
How can they know how their tax money is being used?
How can they know what a budget looks like?
Even a family budget? Or the village council budget?
Or the divisional/state budget?

Can our people be part of a Njangi where they have
no control of their own contributions and no say on
how these are used, spent or expended?

Only the Truth, does not set free.
Knowledge of the Truth does begin the path to freedom.

So what is the Truth?

Do our people really have
"knowledge" of the so-called "Truth"?

Some people are surprised that religion has so much power on those who opt to follow or
become member of a certain belief, faith, group, movement etc.
Pschocybernetics ... is the art of pounding the minds of people several times with the same message to the point where
this becomes part of them and they can unconsciously react to or act on suggestions/ideas extrapolated from the message(s).

The Jews in the days of Old were asked to write the laws and scriptures on their
door posts and other public places ... so that the word/law could be at the 'front of their eyes'
all the time!

Well sometimes that is what it takes to 'move' a people from one level to the other.
Moslems spend hours, days, months, years, decades, murmuring, reciting, memorizing
many many lines of verse from the Quran and you can guess what happens to their
brains and spirit after this kind of training.

In our situation, the most consistent form of training that our people get is in beer drinking,
makossa dancing and soccer watching. Can you guess what happens to our brains and spirits after this kind of training.

So what's the point?

The point is that to move from the level we are at today to another level,
will require a two-step process: one of untraining and the other of training.

- untraining from the habits we have developed for over half a century; and
- training for new habits that we need to develop for (at least) the next half century.

What does this mean to you and me today?

In the continuing dispensation of the eventual freedom of our people, we should all be able to question any leadership initiative that presents a plan for the future that looks at less than 50 years ahead. Visionary leadership requires that one looks into the future - literally - and that one makes the kinds of plans that will be beneficial to those who will still be alive at that time, even if we are not.

Impossible to do? Hard but not impossible? One needs to have knowledge of the truth, and use this knowledge to plan for the future. Good thing about the truth is that it does not change. The truth is reliable. It is something you can take to the bank at any time.

Look at the banking system that our people are forced to use at home. A lot of our countrymen/women prefer to manage
their monies through 'njangis' rather than through the existing banks. Because of the 'lack of trust'. The absence of 'trust'
results in the failure of any banking system. Just as the absence of the 'truth' has resulted in the failure of the socio-political system.

How do we get our people from this point - aware that the truth is out there - to the next point - knowing what this truth is -
to the next point - making use of this knowledge to liberate themselves mentally, spiritually and then physically. This will then lead to the kind of transformation that some of our dreams are made of - a new nation that will be a beacon for others in the sub-region.

Sounds easy but it is hard work.
Sounds like hard work but it could be very fulfilling in the long run.

Listen to your heartbeat.

Blessings
Wanaku