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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

ruption as the fruit of evil desire and mindlessness will die
a natural death from Afrika if we pay heed to mindfulness.
For mindfulness, which comes by selfless love, is the cure to
selfishness and evil desires, which is the heart of corruption.

As an Afrikan, love sincerely; teach your kids and anyone
you meet how to love. Stop talking love and start living out
love. Stop “falling” in love and start standing for love. Be
mindful of others, their joys and their sadness. Stop parad-
ing hyper-real stories on social media and in your gath-
erings that have nothing to do with reality, but are simply
lies. Do all to raise your Afrikan brother up. Pray for the
peace and restoration of Afrika. Do not turn blind eyes to
corruption and the desire for its proceeds. Let the leaders
of Afrikan nations create policies that strengthen love and
brotherhood and stop the things that undermine the same.

Life is about change, there will be profound movement and
shifts; shifts in culture, shifts in life’s perspectives, shifts in
what motivates one’s mind to do things, shifts in what and how
one thinks about self and others and how it all affects the over-
all wellbeing of the community and society at large. Every shift
in life or in the culture always begins with a thought and such
thoughts are motivated by what one sees, hears, feels, smells
and encounters. Meaning that everything that will happen to our
world and societies as regards making a shift towards better re-
alities always begins with a thought; for as a man thinks so is he
and as a collection of men or the entire society think, so they are
and as they consciously continue to think, so they will remain.

Therefore, in order to change a society for the better, ignite
a shift in thinking in the minds of a few and by the law of

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