Baobab

The massiveness of the Baobab Tree has often enthralled me for a long time. Its magical structure has captivated my attention like a lodestone attracts the iron ore to itself. Its very posture seemed to relate the greatness of the Creator as well as the manner in which creation took place. The tree exudes a majestic aura of invincibility. From this African weirdest tree, has emanated an equally weirdest cultures and traditions that have captivated motley of people the world over. The most enchanting being that the tribes believe that when the world was an infant, the Baobabs were upright and extremely proud. However for some unknown reason, they lorded over the lesser growth. The gods became angry and uprooted the Baobabs, thrusting them back into the ground, root upwards. The uproot of the Baobab is analogous to and reminiscent of the forced removal of the Abantu from the God-given Ancestral Continent-Africa, to be deposited in a land foreign to their culture and tradition. This divestment created unbridled control over their destiny. To this end, it became very complex to change the wildly concocted perception that the marginalized have clung to during the long period of displacement in foreign lands.