All across social media, you have people who have never made contact with us, who don’t know any BA in person, only contact they do have is through digital mediums and yet they are fiercely debating our ancestry while having zero understanding of our history. It should trouble people that outsiders are so often invested in defining who we are.
I ask why? What stakes do they have in this? What benefits or invested interest?
Foreigners repeatedly enter conversations about our history, culture, lineages, ancestry, and identities as though they possess equal or greater authority over matters that belong to us. That pattern is not harmless curiosity. It reflects a deeper impulse to interpret, manage, and sometimes overwrite a people’s self-understanding.
When others feel entitled to debate your origins, the issue is goes beyond scholarship. It becomes a struggle over narrative. A people denied authorship over themselves is always at risk of being renamed, reframed, and reduced or simply reclassified.
It seems like a case of identity fraud
How can they lecture us on who we are?
Then in irony they suddenly trust DNA and Eurocentric institutions that have perpetuated historical distortions for well over 2 centuries. The same schools of thought that rendered Africa the “dark” continent.
It’s astonishing that now they tell us to blindly trust their conclusive evidence and institutions.
