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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

ing sons of Afrika are beginning to realize and push towards.

The demon called corruption in Afrika
We may be fooled enough to only see corruption from the
space of money laundering, stealing of public funds or the
other things that we call corruption. But in truth, that’s not all
there is to corruption. For to not see corruption for what it re-
ally is, is the reason why it is not going anywhere any time soon.
Corruption is death, it is ill-health, it is lifelessness, it is an
end, it is futility, it is lovelessness, self-hate, unkindness, greed,
envy, inhumanness, lack of compassion, lack of empathy,
lack of mindfulness for others. It is a direct fruit of sowing to
the flesh or chasing after fleshly desires. Flesh is evil desire
veiled in a gentle acceptance that good is evil and evil is good,
which has become the new anthem of this modern-day life.

In this new age, as long as the end is more money, more lux-
ury or more foreign champagne, then the act of corruption
does not appear to matter. Corruption is the direct opposite
of love. Love is life, love is God, God is goodness personi-
fied and which is the true heart of the Afrikan ancients. They
saw God, divinity, higher powers in everything. Corruption is
death and it is the evil god of this world who trades in the
souls of men and many men are dead already, even while
still riding in their fancy cars and flying in their private jets.
Corruption is an industry, an economic sector that oth-
er industries are lost in. It’s like the World Wide
Web. It’s like a spider’s web that holds both friends
and foes together in a silky, silvery spin of death.

Corruption makes the grandchildren of those who were sub-
jected to the colonialist’s slavery, to bow down at the feet of the

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