“You Can Sit Down Next to White Folks – On the Toilet”: Segregation, Apartheid, and Untouchability
Abstract
In this paper, we wish to demonstrate—by means of a tri-continental analysis—the fact that Abibifoɔ ‘Black People’1 the world over are subject to genocide at the hands of eurasians and their progeny. Using the 1948 UN definition of genocide, we will meticulously and painstakingly show examples of genocide against Black people for each of the 5 criteria in each of the 3 locales selected: the united snakkkes, uMzantsi, and India (United Nations, 1948). We find that in each instance, the criteria for genocide are met and/or exceeded. In conclusion, this study is significant as a manifestation of clarity of vision as a prerequisite to conceptualising Abibifoɔ ‘Black people’s’ solutions to Abibifoɔ ‘Black people’s’ problems.
Footnotes
1Akan term referring to Black people. This is preferable to the term African, which is etymologically opaque and semantically vacuous. We will be interchanging this term with those from other indigenous languages from Abibiman ‘The Black Nation/Land of Black People’ that also translate to the semantically meaningful ‘Black people’. Kambon, O. (2021). Of repatriation, rivers and rivulets. In D. Sumbry (Ed.), A smart Ghana repatriation guide (pp. 53–73). Adinkra Group. https://books.google.com.gh/books?id=laXbzQEACAAJ
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