my land, my people

 The other day I'm watching this program on t.v about discoveries in Africa and Southern America. Well, something came up that made me really angry, so to say; and i updated my status on Facebook complaining. this is what i had to say(at the moment of course because i got more):

let me set things straight here: those ancient white explorers and missionaries did not discover nothing in Kenya or Africa for that matter....rivers, lakes, mountains...nothing. kwani wale Africans mlipata hapa hawakua wanaziona? ati u discovered them?!! nktest!!! 

Before the European explorers came to these lands in what is popularly known as The Age of Discovery, there were inhabitants in both Africa and S.America. Those European explorers saw our beautiful lands: the mountains, plains, rivers and lakes and our people (who respected nature and worshiped it) and went back to Europe saying that the had made discoveries: they even renamed some of the sites; as if our forefathers never had names for their mountains! To make things wrong they thought our ancestors uncivilized! Give us a break here: we had laws governing us, governments, we had our own medicine men, our own religions. They saw us as pagans not remembering that in ancient Europe paganism was vibrant, and those with belief worshiped gods just like our ancestors did. 

So the Europeans came back to our land with an aim of 'developing' our land and 'educating' our people: by the way, we had our own forms of education. What did they end up doing? They tricked our leaders into signing treaties that led to our colonisation and in most instances they used force. 

What I'm trying to put across here is that the settlement of Europeans in Africa between the 17th 1nd 19th centuries did Africa alot of harm and no good. Colonisation ruined this once beautiful place...and it will take Africa long to free herself from neo-colonialism since the West is still trying to control us with all their crap- first fix yourself before u try to fix us. and i still stick to my word(status update): you did not discover nothing. 

this is the meaning of discover:to see, get knowledge of, learn of, find, or find out; gain sight or knowledge of (something previously unseen or unknown) Did these explorers mean to say that our land was unknown or unseen to us?