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A People Called Afrika

successful Capitalism-based economies and businesses (even
though multiple businesses in those regions are failing, having
to get aid in order to survive), implemented democracy (even
though the so-called democratic nations grow increasingly au-
tocratic), fixed roads, built hospitals, connected electricity and
injected all its children with vaccines (even though, as metrics
of success go, these are also not turning out to be the basis
of health, happiness and fulfillment in the West and East).

It is no longer an oddity that Afrikan governments and Af-
rikan leaders of commerce, dance to the tune of those in
the West and the East. After all, it gains them advantages
that the Afrikans on the ground will never acquire a share
of. What they do now is similar to what happened when a
few corrupt kings, chiefs and others who wanted mirrors
and cloth, sold out the people of Afrika to the slavers and
colonialists. Now, as then, Afrikan people allow the wick-
edness to persist, to their detriment, and so it has endured.

While the world calls Afrika a sleeping giant because of the
continent’s GDP metrics and level of attainment of the MDGs,
Agenda21, Agenda2030 - and whatever other financial, polit-
ical and socio-cultural measures they will choose to use and
create as the days go by - the only thing that is true about what
they say, is that Afrika is a giant. It is no longer true that Afrika
is sleeping. Neither is it true that these measures of ‘success’
apply to Afrika or her people or ever did or ever shall. No. It is
not the purpose of this book to perpetrate yet another lie over
Afrika. Afrika’s beauty and greatness have continued to shine
forth, despite every oppression and all the poverty and indig-
nity that she has endured. Regardless of a selfish few giving up
their inheritance in exchange for the pursuit of the luxuries of

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