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Letter to the Afrikan Child

By Samuel Phillips
(Originally published in Msingi Afrika Magazine)

These are my words to the Afrikan Child. These are my
thoughts to the sons and daughters of my forefathers.
These are my words to you blessed Afrikan child whose
past and future was foreknown by God and whose today is
great. Irrespective of where you may be all over the world.

They said your forefathers lived on trees and dined with mon-
keys in the jungles of Afrika. But that is not true, for your fore-
fathers lived in the manifestation of that which God proposed
for them to live. They lied that your forefathers are illiterates
and that education began with the white man. That also is a
blatant lie. For your forefathers were the creators of mathe-
matics, they created geometry, astronomy, chemistry, arts,
music and the rarest forms of science in ancient Kamet and
in other civilizations within Afrika. They said your forefathers
lived in caves, but did you know your forefathers built the
greatest architectural designs and ancient civilizations that are
still considered impossible in this age of modern science? The
internet is full of such magnificent stories of the true Afrika.

Dear Afrikan child, you have been lied to. Deceived by the
educational system which was created not to enlighten you to
the truth of who you are but to blanket you and blind you
to your true identity. Your history was concealed, cloaked
with lies and deception to hide from you not just the truth
of your identity but also the stinky inferiority complex of
the oppressors of your forefathers. They hid their fears
and inferiority complex in the oppression of your people

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