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Ubuntu
Deep down, all of Afrika’s sons and daughters know that they
are more than what has been said or decided about them. Con-
fusion has reigned for far too long and so has mindlessness.
Sincerely speaking, if Afrikan voters and taxpayers stood up
for themselves, they could shift things in their countries. If
they stopped being greedy, fearful and lazy and hiring the same
clowns year in year out to bedevil them with their corrupt ways,
and actually chose people based on what God showed them, and
held them to account for promises made and not kept - things
would be very different. Ukrainians do not take nonsense from
their leaders, and if their leaders are producing rubbish, then
the people take them out and literally throw them in the dustbin.
Afrikans must stop fearing their elected officials because,
they are first and foremost created beings like everyone
else and secondly, the people chose them and therefore
the people can fire them and replace them with others who
are more deserving. We are not prisoners to the system.
On another level, if Afrikan leaders bravely and boldly banded
together against the influences of the ‘Global Elite’, not fear-
ing death or coups, but pushing as one unified voice for the
emancipation of Afrika, they could do it. They cannot be in a
position where they are afraid, no. They must want their lives
to speak and resound in eternity, saying that they stood for
something of true value and that they defended it with all that
they could. Then things could shift and cultures could change
in their countries, in the continent and all over the world.
Boldness attracts respect; sniveling cowardice is despised
even by those before whom these ‘leaders’ grovel and
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