The Embassy of Angola in Rwanda tomorrow will celebrate The 21st Anniversary of The Day of Peace and National Reconciliation, and a book “ “The Great Kassitur Empire in the Sekele Dynasty” written by an Angolan Francisco Queiroz Tchikondo will be presented to the public in Kigali Convention Center, according to the Ambassador of Angola, Octavio Leira Barber. Indeed, Dr Tchikondo presented his book to the medias as follow:
I am honoured by the opportunity to present “The Great Kassitur Empire in the Sekele Dynasty” here, in this great and beautiful capital of Rwanda, Kigali.
The Portuguese version of this book was written in 2019 and 2020, and launched for the first time on 22nd December 2020 in Luanda.
In 2022 it was translated to English and published in South Africa, by Lavender Moom publishing and printing.
This year we signed a contract to publish the same book in Brazil and Portugal, where we plan to launch it later this year.
We also plan to launch the book in Nigeria, at the suggestion of the country’s diplomatic mission in Angola.
The launch of this book here in Kigali is sponsored by the Embassy of Angola in Rwanda, the Angolan Writers’ Union (UEA) and the Angola Belgium Chamber of Trade and Industry.
We chose 4th of April for the launch in Kigali because it is a very important date for Angolans. It was on that date that we achieved peace. The country never returned to the state of war in which it was dragged for 41 consecutive years, to which we can add five centuries of colonial domination and the permanent conflict resistance with the occupying authority of our territory.
We chose Rwanda to launch the book because this African country has demonstrated to the world, through its practice and results, that the African continent can develop in a sustainable way.
This book is also a tribute to our mother Africa and a call for peace on our continent. Peace is an essential factor for the development and happiness of our people.
The book makes a prediction of what Angola and the African continent will be in the future.
Based on the business experience of an ordinary citizen (who is Angolan, but could be Rwandan, South African, Nigerian or any other African nationality), the narrative leads us to experience beforehand the new realities of the future in Africa.
Using the literary technique of science fiction, we foresee that the current standards will be totally overcome by the very modern paradigms of the new economic, political, social and cultural realities. The framework of values, ethical and moral references will also experience an evolution in which the notion of good and evil will adjust to the new times.
Technology based on quantum physics will replace the old digital system, which will no longer be the basis of information and communication technologies.
It is predicted that we will communicate by telepathy, using energies produced by brain neurons.
The old systems of displacement powered by combustion or electricity will be replaced by locomotion by magnetic levitation of people and means of transport.
Specialised medical centres will preventively monitor the health of every citizen, who will be permanently connected by telepathy online to diagnostic medical centres. Advanced alert mechanisms will warn each citizen of signs occurring in his or her body and will recommend medical examinations or the taking of appropriate medicines that the system recommends.
Marital relationships will be liberalised and open, making them transparent and preventing passionate crises caused by the exclusivity that fosters a feeling of possessing the other, as happens in conventional relationships.
The book places the reader in this new reality and leads him/her to experience this new economic, social, political and cultural environment. The reader is invited to look back and analyse the way in which we evolved up to that point.
A critical look is proposed, which is intended to be didactic about the mistakes made, the systems that block social and human development and the negative attitude of each person, restraints that make it difficult and delay the journey towards the levels of modernity that the book creates through imagination, but which are not a mere fictional speculation. Africa can reach that level of development, yes.
The changes Africa will experience, in the vision underlying the story we tell readers, are structural and profound. That is why we used the technique of predicting world events that propitiate these changes.
We chose a world war that we predicted would happen when we wrote the book. We called this warlike event “Global War”.
Unlike world wars, this one uses instruments of economic, technological and financial combat, as well as biological weapons, such as the CoronaVirus, to target enemies. This global war was predicted as happening between dominant and dominated countries, in a confrontation between two world blocks for the domination of markets and the establishment of new rules of world relations.
Unfortunately that 2019 prediction has come to pass in 2022. The economic war currently taking place between the world powers, with Ukraine as a pretext for confrontation, confirms this prediction.
As predicted in the book, this war will not only lead to profound structural changes in the world powers’ view of Africa, but could greatly benefit the African continent. By not getting directly involved in the Global War, Africa can become a “safe haven” to which the resources of the world’s oligarchs can converge, who will tend to look for markets less exposed to conflict to invest their capital. This tendency is already noticeable. Indeed, the leaders of the world’s powers are unfolding diplomatic initiatives in African countries in an unusual procession of visits by heads of state, foreign ministers and other high-ranking dignitaries to secure alliances and prepare the political environment for their countries’ companies to establish themselves on the African continent.
The challenge for African countries is to define a common strategy to deal with this new reality. A strategy that brings together all African nations and allows sustainable advantages to be gained for the whole of Africa. The unity of Africans is crucial at this historical moment. This is the message that the book suggests in its educational narrative. Thank you very much. Kigali, 3rd April 2023
The author, F. Tchikondo. (End)