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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

Afrikan originality by hiding our heads in the sand when it
concerns living the Ubuntu lifestyle, while at the same time
continuing to blame the white man and his supposed religion
for our woes. It’s high time we called things what they are.

We must tell ourselves that we have failed in upholding the
truth and the indigenous knowledge systems of our fore-
fathers and thus we must repent for that (i.e. change our
minds utterly and turn to the right path). An Afrikan prov-
erb says,“It is a bastard that points at his father’s house with
his left hand.” We Afrikans have now mastered how to hold
the white man’s chicken and chips with our right hand while
pointing with our left hand to our father’s house that the
white man “destroyed”. That is the highway of foolishness.

While we banter and lament over the white man and what-
ever nonsense he has done in and to Afrika, we do not go
back to tell ourselves the truth that we do not really want to
let go of the white man’s game, delicacies and his Capitalist
tendencies. We love the white man’s inferior knowledge that
is just a few hundred years old, while calling ours, which has
been for millennia, primitive or alternative. We love his in-
ferior medicine that kills more than heals, while calling our
indigenous Afrikan medicine witchcraft. We love his inferi-
or lifestyle of individualism, greed, Capitalism, pride, supe-
riority complex, his twisted educational degrees that cause
us to gather information but not to attain wisdom, his tech-
nology that will only make man dependent on machines,
we appreciate his mindset, because it makes us feel like he-
roes when we use his tools and then turn back to say the
white man is the demon that devalued our Afrikan heritage.

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