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A People Called Afrika

stand this, because otherwise you will continue to participate
in the defamation of Afrika yourself, even as an Afrikan or as
one who is interested in genuinely supporting the continent.

What Afrika lost was not her natural resources stolen by for-
eign powers. What Afrika lost was not her lands that were
grabbed by Capitalists from both within and without. What
Afrika lost was not her indigenous knowledge systems that
were corrupted and demonized. What Afrika lost was not her
art, culture, languages, spirituality and whatever else constitut-
ed day-to-day living in Afrika. What Afrika lost was not her
children who were taken into slavery; like Joseph of the Bi-
ble, they are already settled in other lands and doing well too.

What Afrika lost was her God-given identity as both the
womb and the nurturing nest of creation and humanity. Af-
rika lost her role as the womb or mother of all creation when
she allowed the pains and the chains of slavery to put a blind-
fold over her eyes. She lost her role as the pioneer of life
and living on earth when she succumbed to the evil that was
done to her, which made her forget her true identity and for
which she played a greedy harlot with foreigners. Afrika lost
her spiritual and mental connection to deep spiritual realities
due to modernity and the quest for convenience that comes
with the white man’s spiritual shallowness of mind. She lost
her connection to the universal, Divine mental ocean of wis-
dom and fountain of knowledge when she accepted the idea
that her knowledge systems and spirituality were inferior to
that of the white man. She lost her pure connection to cre-
ation, which she had dominion over, when she believed that
the destruction of nature is what makes technology true and
by that opened the doors for Capitalism and the corruption

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