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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA
truly are, because his sole interest is in what they can pro-
duce for him, at the most cost-effective prices, so that he can
maximize his profits. His interest is not in what value lies
in a man beyond the sweat of his brow, which was clearly
highlighted to be a cursed form of production. The fruit of
this sweat has yielded scorched earth, poverty, disease, vio-
lence, envy, jealousy, greed, hatred and the use of chemicals
and other materials that bring forth more disease and pol-
lution, to the detriment of all. It is a lose-lose proposition.
This book is not a proponent of Capitalism, neither is it a
proponent of any other ‘ism’ that man can create. There is
nothing that the world can create (physical things, systems,
laws etc), outside of God that will be good or positive or
sustainable. Rather, it will be futile, corrupt and doomed to
destruction. It simply cannot and does not endure. Afrika,
itself, has had great kingdoms and civilizations, which also
did not endure, just like the ancient Babylonian, Greek and
Roman civilizations. Just like all civilizations have or are all
crumbling: the ancient and modern Japanese and Chinese
civilizations, the modern British Empire, the USSR and the
USA. They simply cannot endure without or outside of God.
Only what God builds shall endure.
The blessing of Afrika
All of what has already been written about Afrika will mean
nothing if we do not tie it to how it connects to the reality of
faith in God and how God has situated Afrika in His overall
workings on the earth, which is tied to three blessings: the orig-
inal blessing that God declared from the beginning upon the
first parents that emerged out of the cradle of humanity, the
blessing of Jacob to Ephraim and Manasseh and the blessing
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