The African Frame

- European post Renaissance technology was never independent of African "Cultural Technology" that was the springboard for wealth and understanding leading to the industrial revolution. The African mind needn't be hampered by feeling of irrelevance to this amazing (if rather destructive) phase of history.

African use of "cultural technology" that increased raw energy through the sophisticated deployment of rhythm and the unique mastery of fractals has led to its cultural dominance of the west. (That represents a sort of imperialistic jujitsu.)

- In a world that could not have materialized without forfeiture of Indian land and African "energy," the African (of the diaspora) has no case for feeling inferior or not belonging. To paraphrase Marcus Garvey: "The whole world is my home until Africa is free." (How much of that freedom is mental, and what it signifies geographically is not totally revealed.)

- If the whole world is home to the African, miniscule jurisdictions  where Africans have roots (like EPA) are obligated to form small modules of a world-scale African "state,"--micro units of a proto all African state in the making. Such a module must govern itself so elegantly, inclusively and meticulously that it has an increased chance of survival against hostile forces. But this is not possible to do without understanding its assets while also ceasing to aspire after failed Eurocentric materialist, patriarchal and scientistic civilization.

- The African state is non racialist.

- An African state is built from the bottom up and from any place in the Diaspora.

- The African "empire" has been formed by default though the trans-Atlantic passage, which now is conceptually turning the tables on European hegemony. The African state therefore has no need for militarism dominance.

- The African state is feminist.

- Based on the "one drop" doctrine of who is black, a back-of the-envelope assessment suggests that "blacks" form the most numerous segment of the US population. Most Hispanics may be "black, "as also might be most southern "whites," as also Jews and Middle Easterners, southern Europeans, etc.

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“Across the African continent and beyond its borders, African creatives continue to search for the history, reality, and future of the black diaspora. As they wrestle with the deeply political nature of the intersectional African body, question the global tradition of the “single story”, and push the boundaries that define “art”, their voices and contributions subvert narrow notions of Africa. Through performances, discussions, creative workshops and exhibits, AFRICA SALON invites attendees to peel back these complex layers of contemporary African culture, introduces listeners to the disruptive and defiant discourse of contemporary Africans, and encourages all communities to sample the vast and rich beauty of Africa’s artistic and cultural contributions.