🎙️ “To silence a people, you do not need chains — you only need to steal their language.”
They called our tongues “barbaric.”
They called our stories “folklore.”
They made us believe that brilliance wears a Western accent — that truth speaks only in colonial grammar.
But language is more than words.
It is rhythm.
It is memory.
It is the ancestral archive encrypted in syllables, proverbs, idioms, and lullabies.
When they taught us to hate our languages,
They weren’t just giving us another way to speak —
They were stealing a way of thinking.
A way of being.
A way of remembering.
🌍 PowerAfrika reminds you:
You are not fully free until you can dream in your own tongue.
🔁 Today’s Action — Speak to Reclaim
🎤 Share a word, phrase, proverb, or expression in your native African language.
🔊 Explain its deeper meaning. Teach it to someone else.
📲 Use the hashtags: #IAmAfrican #AwakenAfrika #TonguesOfFreedom
💬 Sample Posts:
“In Yoruba, we say ‘Ọmọlúwàbí’ — a child born of moral code, raised with honor. It is more than a word. It is a world.”
“In Wolof, ‘Jàmm rekk’ means ‘Peace only.’ Even in greeting, we blessed each other with harmony.”
“My mother tongue is not broken. It is ancestral. It sings of who I was before they renamed me.”
🔥 PowerAfrika calls:
Restore the tongue.
Resurrect the rhythm.
Reclaim the soul.
✊🏾 To silence us, they stole our language. To awaken, we must speak again — in the voice of our people.