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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

Please take careful note of the position taken by the Afri-
kan governments, because they actually say that they do not
want to jeopardize their chances of getting more debt later
on, so they do not want to be too loud in their appeals for
relief in case they get ‘victimized’ by the lenders for wanting
relief! Those are the people who say they represent you and
I and who are, essentially, by their actions, telling the world
that Afrika has no other ideas or solutions for themselves but
to beg and borrow for the next who knows how long. Again,
it is 2020. We should not be in this quagmire at this stage!

Perhaps these individuals are not aware that Proverbs 22:7
(KJV) says, “The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower
is servant to the lender.” Or is it that they enjoy the slavery and
bondage that they remain in? Because Afrikan governments
have been digging deeper and deeper debt holes for their
countries since the 1970s, without stopping to consider that
they are: 1) Struggling to repay these loans; 2) These long-term
debts end up imprisoning the next generation, while the signa-
tories will be dead or long retired by the time the loan period
lapses; 3) The system is rigged to ensure that they are never
going to be able to get out of the cycle of debt; 4) These loans
they take are not actually benefiting the people on the ground,
but are creating a culture of loans and debt imprisonment
in the society and perpetuating this vicious cycle of slavery.

To the fourth point above, it is our contention that cultures
are pervasive in terms of their ability to influence and perpet-
uate behavior in society. The behavior of the government and
its employees with regard to the handling of its mandate as en-
trusted by the citizens and the government’s responses to this
behavior communicates clearly to the rest of the citizenry and

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