Africa's dilemma: House nigga vs Field nigga.

This fictional yet critically relevant dialogue speaks to a little-known social phenomenon: Africa's Dilemma.✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

When the oppressed are divided into two castes—those who believe they have an interest in defending the system and those who fight for their liberation—the true power of the master is revealed.

Between collaboration and revolution, between relative privileges and true freedom, dive into this conversation that transcends the era of slavery to illuminate our contemporary divisions...
The House Negro: Our lives have greatly improved, and our conditions are much better. The master is benevolent towards me. If you accept my authority, I will make sure you benefit from the same advantages I have, and together, we will dominate the other negroes.

The Field Negro: But we possess nothing, while the master's wealth is the fruit of our labor! Everything he promises to give us already belongs to us. We have the strength and intelligence to build what we want ourselves, as soon as we are free.

Later, the House Negro gathers other negroes and tells them: "Thanks to my closeness to the master, we have obtained roads, bridges, and hospitals. But an enemy threatens what we have gained: the Field Negro. He wants to liberate you from the master's yoke, at the cost of everything we have built."

And in unison, they decide to neutralize this Field Negro, who opposes their slave happiness.

This dialogue is not just a page from history—it is a mirror of our current struggles.

Even today, some prefer to defend the crumbs from the system rather than unite to demand the whole loaf.

The "House Negro" exists in every oppressed community, in every social movement, sowing division to preserve illusory privileges.

And you, in this dialogue, which one do you sometimes embody without meaning to?

👉 The one who believes they are protecting their gains by serving the system?
👉 Or the one who understands that true freedom requires rebuilding everything?



Yusuf Monhaaté 

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