Abstract
Afrofuturism is the belief that African new world order will be realized; and racism, discrimination, and stereotyping shall be a thing of the past. In the African new world order, the African values shall be respected across America and globally. Afrofuturism is depicted in various themes that include liberation, imagination, technology, and mysticism. This paper explores Afrofuturism in terms of how the spiritual systems, the education systems, how the health system will be organized, how the defense system shall be like, and the philosophies that shall be adopted in the African new world order.
The future African American society will be devoted to the great African spirituality. It shall not have a fixed creed like in some forms of Islam and Christianity. The African new world order will be guided by the greater role of ancestors and not technology. In education, the education system shall be focused on developing people's skills. Education shall be formalized but mainly based on the understanding of new skills, values, socialization, and responsibilities by training and observing what others do. Children will be trained on life skills to avoid crime engagement, and in the African new world order, the African education system will be focused on educating the society on how to live a responsible life.
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The healthcare system shall be a mix of both traditional African healing and modern medicine. The system will have an egalitarian health care system and will promote equality among all people. The defense system shall be on three levels, namely the national level, local level, and self-defense level. All men and women will be trained on defense to ensure all people can respond to any security threats at the individual and state levels. In the African new world order, the African diaspora culture will be respected and upheld and not faded by technology.
African New World Order
African Americans have been undermined as a minority in the United States and have been subjected to many forms of racism and discrimination. African Americans in America have been stereotyped despite the freedom granted by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. However, there has been a belief by the African American society that one point in time, there shall be equality among all Americans. Racism, discrimination, and stereotyping shall be a thing of the past, and African values shall be respected across America. The belief predicts a future that is bright and better for African American society. The belief of African new world order is commonly referred to as Afrofuturism (Barber, Gaskins, Guthrie, Gipson, McLeod, Rollins and Whitted, 2015). Afrofuturism is depicted in various themes that include liberation, imagination, technology, and mysticism. One renowned African American cultural and critic author, Ytasha Womack, defined Afrofuturism as a way of looking at the future or alternate reality through a black cultural lens.
How will Spiritual Systems Look Like?
African spirituality has based on the acknowledgment, practice, and beliefs that there is a super being that has control over peoples’ lives. Spirituality thus informs and touches on every facet of human life. Spirituality in Afrofuturism shall be part of everyday life for culture, environment, and society are interlinked with Africans and cannot be separated from the public sphere. In the African New World Order, religion will inform most aspects of life, including marriage, political art, health, diet, dress, economics, and death.
Ancestors have played a great role in the African cosmology. The ancestors are believed to bestow good fortune, offer advice, and give honor to their living dependents. They are also perceived to make demands such as requesting for shrines maintenance. Misfortunes can fall on the community if the demands of the ancestors are not met. The African new world order will be guided by the greater role of ancestors and not technology. The current African American theological system appears to be closed one as opposed to African spirituality expected to be practiced in the African new world order (Anderson, 2016). African spirituality in the African new world order will not have a fixed creed like in some forms of Islam and Christianity.
In trying to understand African spirituality, it is important to understand the aspects of monotheism and polytheism. African cosmologies have varied as others have a clear idea of a supreme being while others lack. African spirituality has increasingly fallen out of favor. Modernity should not make the spiritual systems fade. In the African new world order, African American society will seek the African spiritual direction to get relief from healers, amulets, and charms. Thus, the future African American society will be devoted to the great African spirituality.
How the Educational Systems Will Be Organized
Many people think that education has made Americans civilized, and others perceived racism as being wiped out by education. However, according to a prominent conservative African-American economist, Thomas Sowell, racism is not dead (Barber et al., 2015). An unfortunate reality is that African-Americans in America have experienced overt discrimination from preschool all the way to college. There have been reported cases of black college students' stress related to discrimination. The educational system before African colonialism focused on developing people’s skills. There was no need for a formalized organized education system as the Africans learned and understood their skills, values, socialization, and responsibilities by observing what the older members did. Skills learned by the Africans include farming, dancing, winemaking, cooking, and how to make herbal medicine. The educational systems enhanced the student's thinking capacity as it involved storytelling.
The education system in the African new world order will entail teachers teaching children skills and values. The focus of the curriculum shall be to understand African American history, values, and norms. The children will be encouraged to develop noble ethics like obedience, values such as integrity, conformity, and other ethical values. There shall be periodical festivals held for education purposes. Young adults will be trained on their responsibilities and expectations at adulthood from ritual activities. The future black culture should be guided by the African education system. Children will be trained in life skills to avoid crime engagement. Thus, in the African new world order, the African education system will educate the black society on living a responsible life.
Healthcare System
In the African new world order, it is expected that the healthcare system shall be a mix of both traditional African healing and modern medicine. Traditional African healing has been in existence for a long time and has proved effective. The World Health Organization defines traditional healing as “the sum total of all knowledge and practices, whether explicable or not, used in diagnosing, preventing or social disequilibrium and which rely exclusively on past experiences and observation handed down from generation, verbally or in writing'' (Ndlovu-Gatsheni, 2015). In the African new world order, healing will involve the treatment of illness with herbs. The health systems will include traditional healers with different training and expertise. The types of healers shall include the diviners who use spirits of ancestors and bones to diagnose and prescribe medication and herbalists who use plant parts to produce medicine. For one to become a healer, a special calling from the ancestors will be required.
Many decades ago, African cases of insanity could be easily treated by the diviners, unlike today's unreliable modern treatment. It is expected that traditional African birth attendants will be older women who are skilled midwives. The skills will be transferred from one generation to another. If the African Black American women are trained on how to handle an expectant woman, then health-related birth complications and problems will be eradicated. Unlike the American healthcare system that tends to favor the whites, the Afrofuturism system will have an egalitarian health care system and will promote equality.
How the Defense System Will Look Like
The African culture has had different forms of training for the people for their defense and the security of society. Traditionally, the Africans lived with a fear of external attacks into their kingdoms. Thus, all men in the kingdom had to be well trained and armed in readiness for any attack. In the African new world order, the security and defense system shall be structured in three categories. Firs will be a kingdom or state-level security system that will be in charge of ensuring any external aggression is deterred. The second category will be a local defense system where it shall be responsible for ensuring no crime or aggression happens at the local community level. The third will be individual defense level, where each will be trained to offer security and defense for his family. To ensure equality, both men and women shall be trained and armed for self-defense and to deter any security threat.
The African New World Order Philosophy
The future of black Americans is based on the principle that change is needed in the United States as far as equality is concerned. The future of a better America should not be deceived by the demands for modernity (Acharya, 2018). The African diaspora culture will be respected and upheld and not faded by technology. The black identity will be reclaimed through culture, art, and political reforms. A better future black American life will be a reality.
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