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Afrika’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Global reset

n the face of recent global events,
that is, the pandemic that shut down
the entire system of the world, it is
Isafe to say we were hit by a major
reset that very few saw coming. It’s like
a huge finger from outside of our world
came and pushed a giant reset button and
the entire world went into a shutdown
that spared no nation from its effects.

All economies were affected even as
businesses in the various sectors that
hold these economies together were
closing around the world. No one seems
to have a clue as to when things will
return to normal… even though there
really was nothing normal about the
direction the world was going in prior
to Covid-19. Nothing normal. In fact,
apart from the loss of lives, this global
reset was probably the best thing that
could have happened to this world.

While we commiserate with those who
lost loved ones, whose livelihoods were
cut off, the businesses that closed per-
manently and the untold financial loss-
es that the entire global market was
hit with, we also believe very strong-

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