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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

pray thee, unto me, and I will bless them.” Genesis 48:9 KJV

“And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my
fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me
all my life long unto this day, The Angel which redeemed me
from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on
them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and
let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Genesis 48:15 KJV

“Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well;
whose branches run over the wall:
The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and
hated him: But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of
his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God
of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by
the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven
above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the
breasts, and of the womb:
The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings
of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting
hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown
of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.”
Genesis 49:22-26 KJV (The blessing on Joseph, or Afrika.)

It seems that at every point in time on the earth, God keeps
bringing back the original blessing He gave the earth and
His eternal covenant with the earth to Afrika and how Afri-
ka is the womb of that blessing to the earth. How is Joseph
an Afrikan? You may ask. How is he not an Afrikan? We
will respond, seeing that by the plan of God, he became the

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