Tuesday, January 1, 2008

The Objective

To embrace a socially conscious lifestyle that celebrates our unity in diversity, excellence and perseverance in our endevours to achieve our dreams. This  is not about clothes, it's about a state of mind. This stems from the meaning of the original akan proverb which translates in it's most basic form to "unity in diversity". So this is all let's come together, oneness of mankind, peace on earth, united world college principles and all profound rhetoric.


On the other hand is the "revolution". “Revolution” is about the new revolution - the revolution to achieve unity through diversity which is the new revolution that we face as the world turns today. As everything gets smaller, borders get broken down, the internet brings us all closer together. The new revolution is to achieve unity as all these diverse cultures come closer together, forming a new community.

This new nation is the “Bantu Republic”. the attitude is of an intelligent, diversely cultured, well travelled, politically conscious, no-nonsense taking, world knowledgeable individual traversing all colors and creeds. The word "Bantu" is a Zulu word which means people, other  African Nguni tribes use variants of the word which also have the same meaning - people.

Not just limited to africa, though as in all things, the purest inspiration will be african, but of influences from all cultures, the republic is an international movement with multiple crossover sympathy, credibility and appeal.

Fusing cross cultural influences from Africa to Japan, New Delhi to Harlem. capitalising on the cultural icons from every revolution in history from Garvey to Gandhi, Mandela to Malcolm while the base, the starting point the jugular vein will always be African, as it is for mankind in general.

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