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Afrika’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems

of natural resources. There were none of the excesses seen
in modern culture that harmed rather than helped the world
around these structures. What knowhow has been lost that
needs to be recaptured before we harvest all the hills and
soils around us in order to build homes that fall into disuse
and are abandoned for newer and more ‘modern’ structures?

Restore the Afrikan harmony
The concept of Afrikan harmony cannot be taken for granted
anymore, and especially with the Covid-19 crisis that the world
was faced with. Afrikans have come of age and are now able to
know what is good for them and to deliberately pursue it. The
colonialists left us with a broken Afrikan system that was lopsid-
ed in all its parts and which engendered the continuation of the
enslavement of the Afrikan people. The faux-independence
obviously has not done much to set Afrikans free from their new
colonial masters who now work hand-in-hand with their Afrikan
lackeys to keep the narrative of Afrikan backwardness going.

But for how long should Afrikans be subjected to slavery?
How long till Afrikans themselves know that the leadership
of Afrikan countries have failed in their duties to the Afrikan
people and thus the way forward may just be without or de-
spite them and the rules and policies they push, that contin-
ue to confine Afrikans to limited ways of thinking and living?

There was an article a while ago about some white tourists
who were making a road trip across West Afrika. Crossing
through the Nigerian border into Cameroon, they were sur-
prised to learn that the Cameroonians in the villages around
the borders actually used the Nigerian currency for trading
instead of the Cameroonian currency. They also noticed that

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