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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

the heavily compromised leadership cannot target with taxes,
levies or policies, because they are done purely and simply
out of a heart of brotherhood and Ubuntu, which is beyond
the reach of Capitalism. It is time that Afrikans realized that
the ancient wisdom that guided Afrika was wiser than any
economic model or any government policy because LOVE
cannot be regulated and if we are willing to drop this fruit-
less sense of greed in favor of the real common good, we
can actually make a difference that will force changes to be
made by those who were hired to do the job in the first place.

Remove the physical and mental borders
Our conversation about borders in Afrika begins at the Ber-
lin Conference of 1885 that birthed the most evil plot against
Afrika, with the possible exception of the Atlantic slave
trade. Hanging on the wall of the Reich Chancellery in Ber-
lin was a five meter (16.4 foot) map of Afrika. It showed Af-
rika with rivers which were natural borders for locals, lakes,
a few place names and many white spots where no white
foot had ever stepped nor eye ever beheld the land and
nor the societies in those places unknown. When the Ber-
lin Conference came to an end on February 26, 1885, and
while each representative of the countries that were present
in that conference shook hands, congratulating themselves
for a conference well held, the suffering and the more than
a century long epoch of Afrika’s woes under the hands of
the European imperialists went up to a whole new level.

The feet of the conspiring colonialists and their illegiti-
mate agreement brought to the land of Afrika, disunity,
hatred, division, greed and all manner of weird attitudes
between Afrikans followed, and after about sixty years

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