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Afrika’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems

have been benefitting from this ill-fitting structure would be up
in arms and respond with certain hostility and possibly violence.

It is only in this modern world that a person with no money,
but who is in good health and of sound mind can be called
‘poor’ and looked down upon as ‘needing’ handouts, instead
of one actually looking to the cause as being a poverty of love,
communal spirit, compassion and a poverty of wisdom and
understanding. If one is to extend the example of Gaddafi’s
Libya and Afrika as described by Oluwabamide and Bhengu,
to other countries, it would mean that every country would find
ways in which to ensure that its people had access to the re-
sources they needed from the land, to allow them to find some
measure of comfort from, each day, and where a country was
lacking, its neighbor, being a part of the Afrikan family, would
be able to supply and between them each, find the strength to
move from day to day. Each citizen, nation and the entire conti-
nent would live aware of the needs of the people and their role
in meeting these needs. What a delicious slap in the face that
would be for Capitalism, but more so, what a delightful step in
the right direction, not only for Afrika, but the rest of the world
too. It just needs some country bold enough to model it in.

The world that Afrika is busy chasing after suffers from a se-
rious paucity of humanity, and because Afrika has chosen to
mimic the world’s ways, the effects of this pursuit are felt in
every part of her own society. Those who have money are
looked upon as gods, to be worshiped or served, so that some
of the coin can trickle down to the ones who do not have
it. Interestingly, many of those who ‘have’, gained it through
the politics of favoritism at faux-independence and there-
after and not really through their own personal merit - and

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