28/08/2025
Dear Sons and Daughters of Africa.
Today, I stand before you with a truth burning in my spirit — a reminder that this life, this struggle, this journey we walk — is not just political, not just economic, not just social.
It is a spiritual thing!
Until each and every one of us reconnects to the African Equinox — that divine balance between spirit, mind, and soil — we will remain in chains, no matter how free we think we are.
We are in a spiritual war, and the battlefield is not just outside — it is inside us.
The Three Empires
Our ancestors left us three sacred empires.
Three realms we must guard with all our might.
And hear me well: if you lose these empires, you lose your connection to yourself, to your people, and to God.
1. The First Empire: Your Head
The worst, most brutal battlefield you will ever face is between your ears.
It is here, in your head, where wars are fought every day.
Do I surrender or do I rise?
Do I submit to manipulation, or do I awaken?
Do I remain enslaved, or do I break free?
As an African child, Motho ka Sesotho, you must guard your mind.
Because if you don’t, someone else will!
Lose your first empire, and you lose control of your destiny. You become enslaved not by chains, but by mental slavery.
This is how we were disconnected from African Spiritualism — from our gifts, from our wisdom, from our divine talents. We became servants to foreign education, cut off from ancestral knowledge.
The first empire is your mind. And until you emancipate it, you cannot be free.
2. The Second Empire: Between Your Legs
The second empire is all about continuity and reproduction.
It is through this empire that nations are born, legacies are carried, and bloodlines are preserved.
But let me tell you this truth: when the first empire — the mind — is lost, the second empire becomes corrupted.
We reproduce confusion instead of clarity.
We raise leaders who are corrupt, disconnected from spirit.
We bring forth children who inherit brokenness instead of purpose.
That is why, my brothers and sisters, this empire must be handled with wisdom, with discipline, and with sacred reverence.
Reproduction is not just biological — it is spiritual continuity. It is the passing down of Ubuntu, values, and divine purpose.
Lose this empire, and you lose the future of Africa.
3. The Third Empire: The Soil Beneath Our Feet
The third empire lies beneath us.
It is Mother Africa herself.
Her soil is not just soil — it is treasure. It carries wealth, it carries memory, it carries spirit.
But here is the danger: if we lose the first empire, and neglect the second, we will never inherit the third.
How can a people disconnected from their minds and their purpose protect their land?
How can a people enslaved mentally and spiritually ever truly own their resources?
The third empire is our land — our minerals, our forests, our rivers, our oil, our diamonds.
Lose it, and we lose our inheritance.
Takeaway
Children of the Soil — listen!
We are not “persons.”
We are Batho.
We are not driven by greed or profit.
We are driven by Ubuntu.
We are not here to exploit each other.
We are here to uplift one another.
Until we reclaim our empires —
Our minds,
Our continuity,
And our soil —
We will remain doormats to our oppressors.
But the moment we rise, the moment we awaken, the moment we reconnect with our spiritual heritage — then we will step into the fullness of who we truly are: a divine people, chosen, resilient, and unstoppable.
Closing
So I ask you today —
Will you guard your first empire?
Will you protect your second empire?
Will you fight for the third empire?
Because if you do, Africa shall rise.
And when Africa rises, humanity rises with it.
It is a spiritual thing!
Thank you.
Vincent Mashinni
Soweto Kliptown Youth Foundation Guardian Angel Studios
