Tapping From Diasporic Africans' Spiritual Energy 

As Africans, we are the most on the planet that have suffered identity theft. One of such experiences was the cruel shipments of Africans from the Mother Land through the oceans into America and the Caribbean.

Many of our ancestors didn't survive the triffling journey and those that did, their names, spiritual beliefs, bloodlines and so forth were deleted in ways that dehumanized them and made them worst than a common beast.

They were disconnected from who they were into what their tormentors wanted them to be. They faced trauma. Their offsprings still live with the trauma. Those who do not want the trauma to be a tradition in their lives decided to heal and reconcile their beings through ancestral connection. This, though, was not by their making. It is the spirit of the Mother Land working, showcasing that the spirit of Africa can't be subjugated into the oblivion. A king must surely rise up in the lineage of Kings being the reason the Igbo would say, Nze ako n'obi.

Remember the hundreds of years these Africans were marooned to lose their identity, yet the spirit of the Mother Land is still speaking through them to make a reconnect with whom they are. Ordinarily, they would not. But the powers of our ancestors and their spirits are too powerful that they certainly will rise up when all hope seemed lost.

Look at the whole of Africa that was presented with scattering belief systems by those who stole our kiths and kin into the West, the ancestors have risen to bring back what belongs to them. Traditional doctors are springing up here and there to redirect and reconnect the people to their mediums and mediumships. This is not ordinary but inherently programmed in the architecture of taking back what belongs to us.

No matter how our communities were religiously destabilized, our people are returning into the fold, reclaiming their once erased languages, pummeled names, separated families and the other. Like our brothers and sisters who were stolen into the West that are today christened Africans in the Diaspora who endured unimaginable torture and they surmounted, the ones at home are braving up, eschewing the days they were plunged into religious darkness thereby awakening to the call of duty their forebears died with. We are exhuming buried truths in order to understand where we are from which is critical to understanding who we are.

The offsprings of our kiths and kin sold into slavery have never let us down. They are rekindling the once quenched flame by abreasting with who they truly are by making a reconnect with their ancestry for the healing that comes between paternal and maternal lineage. If ancestors veneration is not valid, with the exposure of the modern civilization they may be enjoying in the areas they found themselves, they might not have the ability to start tracing their ways back to the Mother Land in the true sense.

Ancestors' spirits are too powerful and never let theirs down. So, we that are on the Mother Land, who have the direct contact with our ancestral land, should avoid gaslighting the spiritual laboratory. Commiting to who we are should be handled like human relationship that needs to be committed to.

We need to be committed with our ancestors for their healing, blessing and protection. There is no other time but now.

~Odimegwu Onwumere
July 18, 2024.