Fracture between Africans and African-Americans: Chronicle of a misunderstanding of the history of the memory of black resistance. Only the truth liberates and unites peoples The thought of facts by Hubert Marlin Elingui Jr.
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Editorial
Fracture between Africans and African-Americans: Chronicle of a misunderstanding of the history of the memory of black resistance. Only the truth liberates and unites peoples The thought of facts by Hubert Marlin Elingui Jr.
Flashmag! Issue 164 September 2025
In his seminal Discours sur le colonialisme( 1950) Aimé Césaire writes.“ Colonization works to destroy solidarities to replace community with a network of rivalries.” In 2025, the refrain continues. The black condition sometimes resembles a jar full of crabs: every attempt at individual elevation is dragged down by fear, jealousy or mistrust, inherited from centuries of colonial division. This is not a natural hatred between blacks, but a learned hatred, patiently inculcated by the enemy so that the oppressed watch over themselves, and the prison remains untouched without a guard.
Beyond this atavism, the divide between African and African-American communities remains a serious problem in relations between Africa and its global diaspora. One gets the impression that it’ s a problem of ideology, for it is indeed sometimes an underhand cold war that goes unnoticed that rages between these communities on American soil; much to the delight of a political social universe that is becoming increasingly radicalized in a conservatism with a racist and xenophobic undertone, which is increasingly attracting Black Americans who, in the same vein, see other Blacks as invaders who have come to take advantage of the country they have built.
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