What is it about?
We wish to guarantee, as much as possible and beyond possibilities, that the theory of tribalism is a reference to the authentic identity of the African. We attempted, from this pre-concept, to affirm how crucial our belonging to a Tribe is as real tribalists, therefore nationalists, without seeking to misinterpret the hypothesis relating to this afro-conception of tribalism. The nationalist asserts himself and defends local values against the imperialists. We therefore dare to eradicate the mental inferiority complex from our revalued ancestral roots in this chapter.
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Why is it important?
Faced with political issues in Africa and geopolitical threats weighing on Africans, I think it is urgent to reform African states into governments that the imperialists will be able to neither infiltrate nor control. African scientists are sounding the alarm against politicians. I really appreciate that; but very few of them offer lasting solutions that match the threats facing African women and their children. This content, just like myself, is one of the donors of scientific solutions to better situate the Tribes in a very complex model to control politically. However, in its complexity as a model of new governance, I foresee the weakening of the imperialists in Africa. This is very important because such weakening only means the rise of the African peoples and their reformed States as United Tribes under an Afrodemocracy.
Perspectives
I maintain that in reorganizing African states we are valuing “uninfluenced tribalism". This involves reassessing the political model of governance in African countries. The procedure applied hereby consists of taking control of mining products and other resources from our “ancestral” lands. I therefore claim the land rights of Africans beyond the right of birth by tracing their ancestral roots in order to distinguish among us the infiltrators who speak our dialect, who are black like us, but foreign by ancestry, and who are also imperialist elements, or the "country system" against the indigenous. Several economic and social perspectives present themselves to us following the adoption of the New African Order or the closure of the presidency as the misfortune of Africans. The presidency is the misfortune of Africans, I maintain it. We must simply remove it, "shut it down" and continue to keep pace with democracy, so that the black race can regain its former supremacy.
Gael Clavis Johnson
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This page is a summary of: The Theory of Tribalism, January 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004719002_004.
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