Mayowa@Mayoveli
I couldn’t bring myself to care about you attending the Grand Prix but you see this, “Only Black man to…” “First Black man to…”
What usually follows is some utterly mundane achievement that you think is some racial milestone, it lowkey reeks of an inferiority complex.
You’ve been doing alright for a few years now, settle in already.
Many Africans need to unlearn this mindset. It is a subtle form of mental servitude that conditions people to view ordinary participation in global spaces as extraordinary simply because a Black person is involved.
Worse, it encourages Africans to seek status over one another through proximity to institutions, activities, or standards they subconsciously regard as belonging to someone else.
Who was the first white man to eat amala? Who cares about the first white man to speak Yoruba? Who was the first white man to dance to Afrobeats or Fuji? Nobody knows, and nobody cares.
Yet you as an African cannot announce the most routine activity without attaching “Black” to it. If white people do something every day, why must a Black person doing the same thing be framed as a historic breakthrough?
