Chi - this denial thing is extremely serious and what's made it worse is we are 'free' in the west to have and live by our own individual standards and opinions which means everybody is right. We have mastered the art of fronting where we fake looking good with lots to say but having nothing of substance to back it up - strip away the face pack and the rhetoric and all that's there is shame and embarrassment.

We live in a world of hype with brothas occupying jails and black women taking on the role of the white feminist (colour being a reference to no culture).

Still for all my opinions my words through the wrong eyes can be seen as racist but I'm a humanitarian at heart. Was at a Santana gig recently where he coined a phrase which sums it up for me, 'it's not about black and white, it's about the light'.

The promotion of Africa for me does not mean obsessing ourselves with tribal doctrine. From names to fashion to ceremonies to language, with enough people doing their little bit in respect for Africa, collectively this would go a long way but it starts with identity, and you and BaserB are very right, a cosmeticly given name is not an identity, I mean just look how many Africans have them.

If reclaiming your name is supposed to be the first step in reclaiming your identity then the fact that so many disassociate themselves from this very first step just shows you how much the utopia is never going to happen. We're already 500 years behind and still running backwards. The brainwash has us generating our own collective negative momentum, our collective wotlissness is nothing short of a self-fulfilling prophecy to the degree it's seen as a utopia in itself.