“We have to re-educate our society.
Albino’s in our culture’s were healers of the highest order. So […] the fable is partly true — Albino’s do heal. But not the way [hateful people falsely claim, those who encourage the killing and selling of their body parts].
In our #Afristory and our cultures, born an Albino meant that you were automatically designated ‘honourable healer status’. Being born an albino meant you were not allowed to ever graze animals, or be a warrior — albino’s strengths were in their natural sensitivity and internal understanding — of the physical body, both of humans and animals.
Born an albino meant being delegated to the Healing Sciences. They were taught the medicinal properties of plants and trees, of rivers, springs and pools. They were taught about the earth — of soils, minerals and rocks, and all that lived on it, from ants to lizards to Elephants to Hawks. They were also taught the Sciences of Astronomy, the movement of planets and stars and the moon, and the relationship between us and them.
Albino’s were healers of the highest order, […] rarely seen outdoors, they would work and walk in the night.
What a world, that today instead of raising healers, we kill and murder them for their ‘healing’ bodies. Don’t believe all that your colonialist told you…. learn your own stories.” — Ivy Kihara
I edited this [indicated], I am grateful this was public on social media, I don’t know this Albino Kenyan. Their plight is horrendous but I’m talking to an international audience here, racists too, I wish to add that marginalised disabled people experience variations of this kind of treatment the world over, not as bad as their body parts being sold but an island with no abled people would sure help, if not save a life. Before someone points fingers at any particular country being worse, take the astrological community as a nation and point your finger to 98% of it, the ableism, the ally performance, the positive thinking clubs that are nocive to marginalised people. And consider that you have not even been through genocides and a brutal occupation. Also consider that a bunch of people fuel international inaction in the world.
This reeducation is perhaps taking place through fiction, like the Akata Series by Nnedi Okorafor.
