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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

Libyan; USD 50,000 for every newlywed couple to buy their
first home; sufficient food; gender equality; and water for the
whole country (source: africanexponent.com). The citizens of
Libya had access to the wealth of Libya to enjoy: wealth that
Gaddafi was keen to invest in, in order for Afrika to gain her
full liberty from the global system. Is it any wonder that it was
thought prudent, by those who sit and plot these things, that he
be eliminated? The aspect of a purely exploitative government
and commercial sector was eliminated by the distribution of re-
sources and the availing of resources to the entire population.

Dr. Mfuniselwa J. Bhengu, in an article titled, “Afrikonomics
Theory” explains the following about Afrika’s true nature in
the economic space, “In Afrika, profit was not appropriated
by a single individual or by corporate owners, as in the West.
Nor was it appropriated by the state, as in the East. In indig-
enous Afrika, profit was shared between the owners and the
workers.” In such a system, where all share the outcome of
the process, where is the room for competition and where is
the room for lack? Is it not in the face of an eroding culture
of community where you find heartbreaking stories like one
that came out in June, 2020, where a woman in Kenya was
quoted as saying that she had to give away her children for
someone else to look after, because of economic hardship?

There are even those who have been known to have sold their
children or, worse, killed them, because of being unable to
sustain them. Sociologists are, of course, quick to point out the
cause as being ‘cultural erosion’, but no one seems to want to, or
know how to, resolve these issues through a reversal of this ero-
sion. Why? Any changes would touch on the current econom-
ic systems of Afrika and thereby, the world and all those who

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