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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

with love just as they want to be treated. Or that the Bible actu-
ally is about the equality of all men before God. Christianity, as
a religion, (not as a pathway to truth and life which it actually is)
was used by the white man to subject and deceive the good-heart-
ed Afrikans into slavery of the mind and the demonization of
the Afrikan way of life, which the white man called primitive.

However, wisdom demands critical thinking and analyses of
the big picture playing out in our very lives. Some Afrikans
now also claim that God and Jesus are the creations of the
white man’s thinking. (This aspect is further explained in an
article on Saphire338.org by Samuel, titled “Jesus in Afrika’s
History”.)However, while we are still debating the issue of
freedom from the ‘white man’s religion’ that created slavery
of the Afrikan mind, can we at least start to put to work the
very heritage that we still have from our Afrikan forefathers
and which we are fast losing and must quickly move to pre-
vent that? We are referring to our heritage called Ubuntu.
We can at least begin the narrative of change from there.

What is Ubuntu?
As a concept, Ubuntu clearly goes beyond a set of
definitions, and this excerpt from the writings of Dr.
Bhengu unfolds some of the depths of its meaning.

He writes:
“No person exists in and out of himself/herself. You exist
physically only as you are immersed in an ocean of life-giv-
ing air. One exists as a man only because you have partic-
ipated from the moment of birth in a world of human be-
ings and culture. You are a self-in-a-world, not just a self. “To
be” is not only you and the world, but it means to co-create

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