“What we are always afraid of is actually afraid of us if we know the truth. The haunted can become the hunter if we apprehend and comprehend the truth. Our worst nightmare can become our sweetest dream if we see the light!”

— Jacob Maigari Nalaya Esq.

For centuries, Africa has walked under the shadow of fear, deception, and systemic sabotage. From the Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 where European powers partitioned our motherland with ruthless arrogance, to the present epistemological warfare that continues to this day—through schools, religion, economics, and media—we have been conditioned to see ourselves as haunted, hunted, hapless and helpless.

Yet, herein lies the paradox: what Africa fears is in fact afraid of Africa. The haunted can become the hunter if Africa will dare to rediscover truth. Our nightmares—of poverty, division, inferiority, and exploitation—can be transformed into our sweetest dreams if we step into the light of enlightenment, unity, and self-knowledge.

The Architecture of Fear and Deception

The history of Africa has been punctuated by carefully designed layers of fear and control. Our ancestors were chained not only physically but mentally, their sense of identity stripped and rewritten by Eurocentric narratives.

🔹 Colonial cartography dismembered us—drawing artificial boundaries that pitted brothers against brothers.

🔹 Religious manipulation weaponized the sacred against us, teaching us to bow to imported gods while despising our heritage.

🔹 Educational systems crafted by colonial architects convinced us that knowledge must be borrowed, not birthed.

🔹 Economic dependency was engineered to ensure that we remain perpetual suppliers of raw materials and consumers of finished products.

This is not history alone. It is present reality—neo-imperialism repackaged in the language of globalization, aid, and development. The confederacy of nations that once gathered in Berlin to partition Africa still conspires today in the boardrooms of the IMF, World Bank, multinational corporations, imported systems, borrowed ideologies, westernized cultures and values and military alliances to keep Africa subdued.

The Shadow and the Light

Psychology calls it the shadow self—the suppressed, unseen aspects of identity that haunt us until confronted. Africa too has a shadow: the suppressed memory of its greatness.

The Nok Civilization of Ham people Southern Kaduna, Egyptian pyramids, Timbuktu, the empires of Mali, Songhai, and Kush, the libraries and universities of ancient Africa—all testify to a light we once carried. But when our story was rewritten, our light was covered, and fear replaced our confidence.

Yet truth remains: Africa is not powerless. The very systems that exploit us tremble at the thought of an awakened, united, and enlightened Africa. Our deepest fears—our sense of inferiority, our trauma of colonization, our doubts about our capacity—are illusions that dissolve when confronted by truth.

The Call to Enlightenment

Africa’s renaissance will not come from external charity or borrowed ideologies. It will come from enlightenment—rediscovering who we truly are. Enlightenment is the act of seeing the light, confronting the darkness of deception, and reclaiming our agency.

🔹 Self-awareness: Knowing that our fears are afraid of us, and that Africa’s destiny is not subjugation but leadership.

🔹 Knowledge and truth: Rewriting history with accuracy, teaching our children not from the lens of colonial inferiority but from the heritage of African dignity.

🔹 Unity and courage: Overcoming artificial boundaries and rediscovering our shared destiny as one people, one continent, one renaissance.

🔹 Epistemological liberation: Breaking free from Eurocentric frameworks of knowledge and creating an Afrocentric epistemology that reflects our worldview, values, and aspirations.

From Haunted to Hunter: The New African Dream

The Berlin Conference turned us into the hunted. But truth now summons us to turn the tables. The haunted must become the hunter.

Our worst nightmares—poverty, exploitation, self-doubt—can become our sweetest dream if we embrace the light of self-knowledge and truth.

A renewed Africa must rise not as a beggar of aid but as a giver of wisdom, culture, innovation, and solutions.

The world trembles not at an impoverished Africa, but at an awakened Africa. That is why conspiracies abound to keep us asleep. But we must awaken.

Conclusion: The RAREM Mandate

The Renewed Africa Renaissance Movement (RAREM) is not just a call—it is a covenant. It is Africa’s collective awakening to the truth that our destiny is not written by Berlin or Brussels, Greece, London, Washington or Beijing, but by us.

We stand at the threshold of transformation.

✅ The haunted Africa can become the hunter Africa.

✅ The Africa of nightmares can become the Africa of dreams.

✅ Fear will bow to truth.

✅ Darkness will bow to light.

📢 Join us at the ancient city of Kano as we converge at the Kano State Library on the 11th October 2025 for this great awakening and to sound the alarm to awaken this sleeping giant in all of us.

✍🏾 Barr. Jacob Maigari Nalaya ACIArb

Visioneer & Co-Convener, RAREM

Renewed Africa Renaissance Movement

📧 rarem.info@gmail.com | 📞 08130862654

Kano, Nigeria

“A move for the sovereign Afrocentric epistemology towards Africa’s enlightenment, empowerment, emancipation, and prosperity.”