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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

Nkrumah regarding the consolidation of Afrika’s strengths
socially, economically and militarily but not through a
Western lens. Use the last 60 years’ of experience with
the Western lens to know what to prepare for, but draw
on indigenous knowledge to build a whole new Afrika.

• Transform Afrika’s political, agricultural, health and
education system in order to incorporate what we had and
practiced before colonialism. In truth these modern practic-
es have done Afrika harm and we must be sincere in facing
that. Current rulership systems are selfish and greedy and
self-promoting instead of being about the common good.
Modern education inculcates aspects that demolish our
spiritual selves, health, agriculture and food preparation are
contrary to our benefit and weaken us. It’s time to retrace
our steps to permaculture, community centered leadership
and true health and healing, not profit-oriented pursuits.

• Let us live within our means. Debt is such an obvious
trap and we have seen and experienced the worst of it in the
past 60 years. Let us resolve to live within our means and pay
off what we owe to who we owe if we have to. Let us teach our
people to manage their resources as it is obvious that ‘using
debt to grow’ is not working for us. We have people coming
to either lay claim to our physical assets or gain other advan-
tage over us putting us exactly where we were 60 years ago.

What do we have to offer?
We read about an Afrikan trade fair that was held somewhere in
the US. Various Afrikan nations were represented at that trade
fair and various reviews were also shared by the people that
came to see what the Afrikan nations had to offer for potential

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