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A People Called Afrika

attention on today even as we prepare for a better future.

A greater wealth
A deep meditation on the profound meaning of Afrika and
the various strands of goodness that are tied to it will allow
us, as a people, to embrace so much more than the pur-
suit of the temporal fruit of Capitalistic endeavor. The fruit
of Capitalism is only physical wealth and material things,
which we already have in abundance and which, for gen-
erations, our people have been killed or enslaved for. If
we set our hearts to it, we can truly, as Afrikans, help the
world to reconnect with the true purpose of life and living.
Capitalism brought with it truly self-centered notions that have cor-
rupted the very fabric of mankind, not only in Afrika but globally.

Sincerely speaking, every pursuit that is centered on the limit-
ed pursuit of money and things, only contributes powerfully to
the desire to protect those things using the law and even violent
means. God was not confused when He helped man under-
stand that the love of money is the root of all evil. The Capital-
ist system engenders a very strong love for money and focuses
the mind - not on higher things - but on the lowly, purely car-
nal things of life. These lowly pursuits have turned men into
beasts who would kill or neglect others simply so that they can
have for themselves alone. This has led to delineation of glob-
al ‘economic’ zones that classify those areas or people deemed
most productive or useful. This divide is used to determine the
most ‘valuable’ areas for resource extraction and to identify
those who are the tools for the extraction of the resources and
those deemed most ‘worthy’ of consuming those resources.
When man concentrates his thinking at a purely produc-
tion and resource level, he fails to see others as what they

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