Right before the native Egyptians were invaded by the Arabs about 642 CE, they were under the rule of Romans/Byzantines. The native Egyptians kept their own identity for over 1,000 years since they lost sovereignty with the invasions of the Persians/Assyrians (600 BCE), then the Greeks (332 BCE), then Romans & Byzantines. However, when they were invaded by the Arabs (642 CE), they went down along with Rome.

Rome was a "superpower" of the world at that time, and today we live in Western nations (United States, UK, etc.) which have been imperialistic in recent centuries but are fast on the decline.

Will we go down with our respective Western countries, or will we develop enough dignity as Pan-Africanists to reconnect ourselves with Africa and cut a piece out of this world for ourselves (again)?

We need to reinstate Swahili as a trading language, can't put enough emphasis on it. Like now if we in europe had a common language we could communicate in we could be a force to be reckoned with in a short space of time the same would also work to tie in those of us in South America and so on, undo this Babel situation we're in. Half of the books we write in the diaspora aren't even translated into an African language or made into 'Talking books' to better spread the word.

The information gap alone is stifling.