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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

of other cultures and societies. The modern-day knowledge
system is too Capitalistic and gain-oriented to produce life.
It is steeped in the evil Darwinian principle that promotes
the concept of survival of the fittest, which kills the weak in
order for the strong to live. It is not natural and it does not
produce life. It must be understood clearly that the history of
Afrika’s indigenous ways of learning, knowledge production
and distribution, did not begin with the coming of Western
knowledge systems and neither should the future of Afri-
ka’s knowledge systems be subjected to or dependent on it.

It does not take a super thinking mind to know that Afrika’s
indigenous knowledge systems were suppressed by the com-
ing of the Western knowledge system. For clearly, rather
than Western science acknowledging the multiple, collabo-
rative and accommodative dimensions of knowledge, West-
ern scholars and scientists attempted to either dismiss, de-
value or negate indigenous knowledge as being unworthy of
true engagement. Sincerely, we do not have to open history
books to see proof of this reality, we just have to look at the
recent Covid-19 pandemic in the world and how the West-
ern world still thinks anything Afrikan is inferior for proof.

The undermining and undervaluing of Afrika’s knowledge
and science by the West was clearly revealed right under
our noses when Madagascar, an East Afrikan nation an-
nounced the creation of a preventive and curative medicine
for Covid-19. The World Health Organization did not waste
any time in saying that the medicine was not clinically test-
ed and so its safety status could not be vouched for, a claim
which the President of Madagascar refuted. Obviously, the
issue behind the rejection and the spite that the Madagascar

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