The ‘Conscious’ holds a dual significance. Firstly, it reflects the psychological slumber affecting our community, subduing our will and courage to empower ourselves.

The ease in accessibility of colonial over local languages in most education systems, illustrates the challenges Africans face learning in foreign languages.

This means supporting African businesses, promoting African scholarship, and building institutions that serve African interests.

This argument is bolstered by Rabaka’s engagement with Cabral’s deconstruction of Eurocentric epistemologies and his call for the radical re-Africanisation of intellectual and political practice.