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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

on a daily basis and in each and every interaction? As if it
was not bad enough that most of these loans are taken with-
out the express approval and permission of the citizens who
have to pay, or whose children and grandchildren will have
to keep paying these loans for decades to come… these gov-
ernments then turn around and deal harshly with their citi-
zens! Afrika, we need to tread carefully in all things; for
the principle of sowing and reaping is universal and it does
not recognize religious affiliations or political gimmicks.

All things considered, that is, the dependence on aid, with its
concomitant corruption and enduring legacy and presence in
Afrika, the equal reliance on ‘debt for growth’ and its con-
sequence of enslaving Afrikan countries and Afrikan people
in cycles of domination by the imperialist Western countries,
banking and financial institutions, the falsehoods that are be-
ing constructed by both Afrikan governments and primarily
middle-class Afrikans that are basically materialistic, con-
sumer-based lifestyles that are frightfully temporal and filled
with compromise and servitude to a system… all these have
demonstrated quite clearly that Afrikans and the rest of the
world are living lives without honor. That previously exist-
ing honor code that Afrikan societies were inculcated with in
pre-colonial days are on the verge of disappearing altogether.

The honor code

In the ancient days, when Afrikans conducted trade, they did
so on the basis of trust, honor, respect… Ubuntu. Ubuntu is
a principle of living that gives weight (honor) to the impact of
one’s life on another’s. This principle is discussed in greater
detail later in this book. Giving due consideration for the im-
pact that one’s choices, one’s actions, one’s motives on the

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