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Ubuntu
Take responsibility and end the
blame game

eeing the shift and the many
changes that have hit Afri-
ka over the course of the de-
Scades and how most Afrikans
are fast losing their connection to the
Afrikan pathway of wisdom, suggests
that we have not been paying accurate
attention to the truth about the origi-
nal thoughts of the Afrikan ancients.

Afrikan scholars, media personalities, so-
cial media influencers or even average Af-
rikans talk about going back to our Afri-
kan heritage, which is a great thing, except
that most of them see the return to the
Afrikan heritage only from the place of
“freedom” from the ‘white man’s religion’
(Christianity), which they claim was the
“chain” that was used to enslave Afrikans.

This perspective is understandable, for it
is clear from historical records and sto-
ries told, that the white slavers were quite
quick to show the black slaves the portions
of the Bible that said slaves or servants
must honor their masters, but wouldn’t
show them from the same Bible that God
is love and thus all men must treat others

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