WriterEnoch
Title PREFACE DAWN OF THE WHITE MAN
DAWN OF THE WHITE MAN
(A striking, layered title that hints at history, loss, and prophecy.)
Background Preface:
An apocalypse does not always announce itself.
Sometimes it arrives aboard a ship.
Sometimes it carries medicine in one hand and a treaty in the other.
Sometimes it smiles.
This is the history of what we suffered. Africa's apocalypse is not yet to come-it is here.
The second coming of Christ will not save us from the Armageddon brought by the white man.
While Africa prays, she has lived in an apocalypse since colonial arrival.
But who made him-God or Satan?
Are there multiple gods?
One question leads to another, back to the beginning: God's first creation, God's first machine.
They came and asked land upon which to build a house of prayer, a warehouse and just a harbour.
Then, one morning, the visitor raises his flag upon your shore and informs you that the land beneath your feet has always belonged to him.
A black man asks:
What did we ever do wrong?
What gave them power over us?
Is this our fate forever?
Should God ask why He created any of them?