Let us get our banzo organized

To talk about banzo, we must admit that there are some dimensions of emotionality that escape words, because what is felt lies in the realm of bodily experience.

The historical depth of Banzo permeates the African body in diaspora to give meaning to memory; which means Banzo is a tool that creates a direct umbilical cord to the matrix.

The internal path to identifying the feeling of deterritorialization led many of our ancestors to illness: not being able to speak their own language, or enshrine their own philosophy and/or way of being in the world, were violent ways of hijacking the senses and affections that were once experienced.

That is why the body in diaspora, ever since it set foot on this land, has made the body itself an instrument of experimentation and language, challenging the colonial order that still on going.

Banzo, like anger and hatred, is a tool imposed by the colonial order. However, for our mental, physical, and spiritual emancipation to be successful, we must transform it into a driving force.

Banzo, like other emotionalities, is proof that the creation of a diasporic lexicon has brought us closer (and continues to bring) to radical imaginaries of good living.

May our Banzo be a sharp spear when needed.