Never Again
Dear African Family.
Finally,
We are sending the proposal on the Stones of Tears for the Tower of Return Monument Project out this week, so please, Brothers and Sisters, it would be great if you would write a letter of endorsement to support this important work for our African world history in the making. We believe that with your endorsement we can get this project off the ground. We hope to hear from you and your organizations as well. Please forward your letter of support either by e-stationary or postal mail
to the address below.
Thank you in advance for helping..
The Stones of Tears Project
c/o The BroomLady Event Design
Suite 107. 101 West Broad Street - Lower Level
Richmond, Virginia 23220
804) 343-0773
Spiritually, Danita
CC: Nana Kweku Egyir Gyepi III
TOWER OF RETURN
Bridging the
Gulf between Many Centuries
By Nana Kweku Egyir Gyepi III
The world is fast becoming a global village and we must make an indelible mark upon our psyche as to the role we are to play if we are to not only survive but also be relevant to the world of the future. My travels outside of Africa have convinced me that we must be wise enough to be able to expand our mental and spiritual scope to recognize that ancestors were torn from our midst and their seed-our undeniable blood relatives exist. We must then develop a consciousness that includes the genuine concerns of our people no matter who they are and no matter how far slavery has flung them! This, in my view, is a duty, an obligation and a responsibility we have to ourselves for it is time for the voices of those who have not been heard for almost a half thousand years to be raised: those in exile!
Every African man, woman and child, regardless of the environment in which they came forth into life, must expand their views to recognize and include those victims of the holocaust that we know as the slave trade. No individual was a willing victim! Not one fled our land! All were unwilling captives in the unholy, profanely vicious and unforgivably wicked enterprise of the trafficking of the flesh of our people. This, in fact, ushered into being the most devastating brain drain that has ever happened to any people on earth-a fact from which our beloved Mother Africa still suffers today! Thus, it behooves men and women of consciousness and clear perception who are mentally, spiritually, politically, socially and economically responsible for the future of our species to see the urgent need to link our people and unite despite artificial geographical boundaries.
It would be unthinkable not to do so! It would be unconsciousnable not to do so! It would be unforgivable not to reach out and out and send forth the call to all of our people to identify themselves and to prepare to join in a worldwide crusade to reunite ourselves back into a family structure! For, the same blood is pumped through all of us our veins. Hundreds of millions of our people survived the holocaust. They are vibrant and gifted and still astound the world with their Africans genius. Yet, they do not know from which village they come, to which tribe they belong or their true tongue. However, even having lost all these tools knowledge, they remain African. Yes! It is truly a wonder of the world that we are still strong and endure against such incredible and unbelievable odds!
That then of then is the profound reason why Africans born in Africa must expand our thinking so as to include these hundreds of millions of Africans and call ourselves back together and begin working together to forge a greater African link than ever before in the history of our people! When we dare think of the advanced technical knowledge and skills acquired by that captive segment of us and then look at our needs in our Holy Motherland, we are immediately able to grasp the significance of making arrangements to tap into the vast experience and expertise of our people that was gained despite their grave, grievous disadvantaged of being kidnapped and spirited away from us hundreds of years ago!
I speak on this for me, for you and for our leaders who are charged with securing our future! We must not allow our hard won genius and development to go by the wayside. We must not be too narrow minded or too local in our understanding to be able to see the future that looms before our eyes. We cannot afford to be too selfish to admit that we are one people despite the fact that we operate as tribes, nations and different political nationalities! The fact will remain that there was but one creation that brought Africans into being. Thus, we are one people!
As we look around the world today, we see many nations putting away their differences, submerging their politics and re-tying themselves back into their own racial and family groupings. They are preparing to become more powerful than ever before! It is also evident that our Continent will be even more plundered, gutted and exploited with greater vengeance if we are not careful to properly analyze what these new formations mean! If we understand these things, we must recognize that the future of this Continent we call Africa is actually in our hands! We will then be able to have the vision of those individuals that sprang from our midst and came forth advocating the “United States of
Africa” our mind. Our vision, our understanding, our ability and our willingness to reach out and include our own people regardless of where they were born and let and let them know that we are concerned about their well-being and are prepared to welcome them back home will create a spiritual bridge between us.
To properly prepare for their return and for the much needed development of Cape Coast Ghana and Africa. An international African council staffed by our experts in every field or human endeavor from around the world must be formed ASAP. They will serve as counselors and advisors to our government and work to bring the technology and resources to Africa to help us to develop our own industries. By exploiting our own raw materials and resources, we can product the products to feed, clothe shelter, protect Africans in Africa and around the world, and then have some to share if we so desire! This opportunity stares us in the face if we are responsible enough to take full advantage of it! Sisters and Brothers of Africa worldwide this call must be taking as very important as Africans. As a first corporative gesture to bring about a global re-tying of our people, I suggest greatly that a TOWER OF RETURN us to be built in Cape Coast Ghana West Africa. West Africa.
This TOWER OF RETURN will be a monument to our ancestors who were captured and will acknowledge their descendants who still reside in the exile in the North America, South America and the Caribbean. This Project, invites cooperation, invites respect, exhibits our concern and ultimately establishes for the first time in the History a tribute to our people whose incredible story of survival must not be ignored! This epic story defies belief, yet it is one that must not end in exile but in return! Hence the name the name TOWER OF RETURN This tower will stand forever calling the descendants of our captured ancestors home to the sacred soil of Mother land Africa!!!!
The TOWER OF RETURN will wipe out the myth that says that Africans at home aren’t sensitive or concerned with our people in exile! The cooperative building of the Tower of Return should be the imitation of our cooperative building of our continent. This then is the first task that we humbly and respectfully propose for your consideration! This mandate offers us the opportunity of a life time. Let us start in stone our concern for the hundreds of million of our ancestors who were captured, for those who died and for those who survived and for their descendants our brothers and Sisters who still live today!
Please ponder the significance of the foregoing and come forth with action.
Please to get more information on this NGO for Tower of Return project you can contact:
SUCARDIF Association
Attention: Nana Kweku Egyir Gyepi III
President and CEO.
777 One Power Station
P.O. Box CT 732 Cape Coast Ghana
West Africa
Cape Coast Slave Castle
THE TOWER OF RETURN
The Tower of Return is a concept of a monument that was conceived, contributed and collaborated by His Excellency, Nana Kweku Egyir Gyepi III.
The Tower of Return addressed itself to Africans scattered throughout the world, having no home base and thus no tangible reality in any a real form to which to attach themselves whereby each could focus and look forward to some kind of homeland and holy land to which one could migrate to for spiritual refuge.
Something had to emerge, had to come into being that would symbolize what the unrequieted yearning and secret inner burning of hundreds of millions of African men, women and children. This something, or this thing, needed to, and had to, address this yearning and burning focus of their deeply divine secret hopes, dreams and visions to one day return to the continent of Africa for renewal, rejuvenation and spiritual elevation!
These hundreds of millions of exile no real significant or singular identification that would tie tem mentally, spiritually, ideologically, culturally or linguistically, and yet all of their common history ties them to the West Coast of Africa, as a beginning departure point that led into the holocausts odyssey that marked the initiation into their baptism of fire in the holocaust better know as the “Slave-Trade.” Their common ancestors were victims in the hundreds of millions of Africans whose names are never to be known to anyone including historians whose will never be able to give an accurate account of these Africans! One must ask who were these Africans, where exactly were they captured, what land, nation and linguistic group were they take from prior to becoming victims of this God awful holocausts demonic. Diabolical and unutterable anguishing? Centuries upon centuries of nightmares and mentally befuddling and spiritually stifling, there horrendous, life wasting and human destroying situations, conditions and circumstances had befallen these hundreds of millions of nameless African people!
These were questions along the way and laid ambushing within corridors of our memories, within our minds, hearts and souls a we have struggled with coming up with that special and significant something that would welcome something address these needs to know answers to these painful and agonizing questions that so haunted the corridors of our souls .
The Chief came forth with “The Atlantic Slave Trade Monument” but that would now say exactly what needed to be said, has to be something that involved all of us in exile that rose above and beyond the holocaust of slavery and yet something that would inspire us to actually return to pay homage to all of those lost dead that would honor them and honor those of their survivors. Thus the name was changed to “The Tower of Return!” that is how it actually came to be so named. We both were satisfied with the name and a corporation was established to officially signify that it had to come into being!
During further discussions between the two men, thoughts dealing with ways means and methods of launching this concept and the idea of having a rendering done to put a picture in our minds and detailing what this could and would involve as a living monument began to take shape, and piece by piece it began to fall into place! Such places as libraries, hotel facilities businesses that would cater to the pilgrims would be returning to this sacred place to pay homage to their lost dead in a spiritual way. As it began to unfold and unravel in our minds suddenly it dawned upon us that this project would become the spiritual focus and headquarters to untold millions of people who would at long last have a focus point and something to which they could see as the home for wandering souls. It would also at long last lay under the long standing propaganda that Africans at home had no love nor possessed any concern for those Africans in exile who were victims of the holocaust called the slave trading of many centuries prior.
Having arrived at satisfaction of the idea and having it firmly in our minds, we understood that this project could mushroom into a powerful economic boom for the country that encouraged and participated in erecting this monument. Furthermore, the country that helped in its construction would itself be making global history and becoming the most famous country on the continent of Africa! The Chief wanted to be the person charged with leading this project and assigned himself to seek an audience with his country’s leader, His Excellency, Flight Lieutenant President Jerry Rawlings of whose support and blessings he would need to bring this project into being!
Since the Chief had to return to Ghana for his enrollment in July 1991, it would be an opportune time for him to brief his president on this project. His president being a highly sensitive and acutely intelligent man of integrity and honor, with visions of leading Ghana into the twenty first century and making Ghana a powerful country, this project would very likely be the kind of opportunity that would appeal to him personally if not economically and politically! Moreover, the president has a rather extensive knowledge of Africans in exile as did in said of Kwame Nkrumah before him! This would have been something that Nkrumah himself would have favored being so immensely qualified as a scholar and leader that he was.
To put it sufficiently, the Tower of Return will serve for us as the Wailing Wall, Mecca, as Rome, and as symbols of many other nations who are converged upon by world prisms to their holy lands across the world! The Tower of Return will take its place among the world places as it so rightfully should and Ghana will once again light the torch of inspiration to hundreds of millions of Africans home and abroad and to generations for thousands of years to come! It is much too awesome to contemplate the power to this idea but the concept is absolutely awesome and mind-boggling to put it mildly! Thus, you have the story of the idea that === minds of two men to answer questions of the wondering souls of their unsung dead and wondering spirits of their royal, noble and great ancestors.
THE POWER AND MEANING OF THE TOWER OF RETURN
THE MEANING OF IT
What the Tower symbolizes and equates to Africans home and abroad will be a sense of global and universal holiness and wholeness OF AN ENTIRE RACE OF AFRICAN people.
It shall serve as a reminder that African stretches forth it hands unto God, unto its people regardless of what land and irrespective of what nation they now dwell in, saying that each of you are blood of our blood, bones of our bones, flesh of our flesh, and that although we exist worlds apart, we move to one rhythm and to the heartbeat of a single heart. It says that we are one, our would is one, our future is one, our destiny is one, our blood is one our aim is to restore ourselves to a status of one powerful, international, global and universal family as it was meant to be from the founding of the world, by our own African creator.
It says that we have by the charge of our very existence a divine duty, a supreme obligation, a holy responsibility to lend our knowledge, our skills our finances, wealth and riches, our advice, aid and aberrance to our members that call upon us because we are bound by a tie that is original, binding, unbreakable and that is eternal and everlasting. We are bound in more ways than any language can explain bound in such a way that it transcends language, transcends cultural variation, transcends the boundaries of geography, personality and symbolic status in lands we might by happenstance been born; we are bound by the very genes that houses the life force that alienates our beings and its bound cannot be broken by superficial markings or temporary allegiances to systems of governments, ideology, politics and such mundane considerations!
We have become brave enough to take the change of investigation our history, we are struck dumb and make num by this God awful experience that impact4d our beings; that shaped and moulded our character! When we look squarely into the face of our history, it sends us reeling mentally; it discombobulates one spiritually, it shocks and reveals something that is so aghast, one is moved to tears in wonderment as to how did our people survive this incredible and unbelievable terror. There is no language on the earth now, nor has it ever been nor will there be in the future that is precise enough, full in expression enough, nor possesses the capacity to touch the level of human strength that our people had to have had to endure and survive a holocaust in which approximately one and one half billion Africans lost their lives in trade that trafficked in the flesh of their forefather and foremothers! There just isn’t such specialized language that can explain it! And yet wherever one travel throughout the earth you find African people smiling, singling, dancing, creating, inventing, and appearing to the oblivious of everything that has happen to them in ways that are so profoundly vulgar, in ways that are so extremely diabolical; in ways that are so ruthlessly relentlessly humiliating, so God awful in its awesome repression, so thorough in its denial of their rights to be human beings, it makes one wonder what is the meaning of this people’s suffering! It is still the ninth wonder of the world and it is still the major mystery for all mankind to learn and come to understand!