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The Lessons From Covid-19 For Afrika

s stated earlier, Covid-19
did not so much come
to destroy our lives or
Asociety, but to show us
how to stop, relook, review, re-plan,
re-arrange and re-evaluate our lives
both as individuals, and as nations.

We can deal with the issue of the pan-
demic from the place of panicked re-
actions that create more problems than
they solve, while not learning anything
new from the crisis, or we can respond
accurately, in wisdom, which gives us the
ability to learn through the crisis and to
make the accurate adjustments that are
needed for a better life after the crisis.

It came to show us as Afrikans that we
can actually deal with our own issues,
using the original and authentic solu-
tions we have in Afrika. It has given us
the much needed reason to once again
believe in ourselves as people, who
carry original solutions to this world’s
problems. But how we respond to the
many aspects of our lives that Covid-19
came to show us will determine if we
are worthy custodians of the wisdom of
the ages graciously given to us by God.

Wonderfully enough, the rest of the

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