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A People Called Afrika

uel shared in our magazine how he has had his own share
of scolding from the Lord concerning having a wrong heart
and attitude towards people. He spoke about a visit he made
to Kenya in 2016 for a fellowship meeting. “I loved the en-
tire Nairobi environment; the weather was different from
that of Lagos, where I had come from. It was cool and re-
freshing as against the hot and humid weather of Lagos,
which looks more like that of Mombasa. And I also loved
the not too hasty nature of Kenyans in Nairobi. But coming
back in 2017 and having to get married and make my home
here in Kenya changed some things about the entire love sto-
ry in my head concerning Kenya.” He shared, “I got closer
to people and moved a bit more around different places in
Kenya outside of Nairobi from where I had drawn my ini-
tial conclusions about Kenya and then began to see things
I did not expect. I felt very disappointed and deceived.

Three years later I was still nursing some issues in my heart
concerning the entire Kenyan story. One day as I was doing
my morning walk, the Lord started teaching me a few but very
important lessons. He said to me, “Do you think you have the
right to be disappointed at a people you have not invested love,
hope and compassion in? You can’t condemn what you have
no power to redeem.” I knew He wasn’t just talking about me
alone, but about the wrong attitude we all have towards others
when we think they are not up to the standard that we expect-
ed of them. I learnt that good lesson that day and I hope to use
it well for the good of others going forward,” he concluded.

Afrika is not hopeless
No man is born evil or irredeemable; we all are just bearing
the fruit of the things we picked up from the journeys of our

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