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Afrika’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems

rika for every crisis, we just need to take a look again at our
knowledge systems and a candid look at our current health
report in ours, our children’s and their children’s bodies.

Afrika’s spirituality
The ancient Afrikans were not chasers after vanity and fri-
volity, nor were they avaricious in their social relationships
with each other like the modern-day Afrikans are. Obvious-
ly, lots of things have changed in our world since the gener-
ation of the ancient Afrikans, things we now call civilization
and technology and so on. But to have changed or eroded
the ancient moral ideology and the rich Afrikan identity is
not good for this generation and the generations to come.
Technology and modernity has its benefits, but most Afri-
kans may not be paying attention to the cost of what we call
civilization, both for this generation and the next one. The
Afrika we have now has lost so much of her true identity in
pursuit of conveniences and the pseudo lifestyles of fantasy.
It is a well-known fact that the ancient Afrikans used knowl-
edge and learning as tools of alignment to divinity, using
the natural energy and materials around them as channels.

They did not see learning and knowledge as tools for societal
mismanagement, status creation, a divide between the learned
and unlearned etc., but rather as creative tools to be used to
properly manage societal cohesion based on truth, sincerity,
accountability, justice, brotherliness, faith, compassion, kind-
ness and spirituality, to name a few. The ancient Afrikans were
not ignorant of their names and the corresponding identities
found in the meanings of those names and the depths of spir-
ituality that they were connected to. That’s why everything
the ancient Afrikan did was done with God or the “Central

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