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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA
Blacks and Afrika too is connected to Abraham through the
children he had with Keturah the Egyptian. The Chaldeans
were one of the many Cushitic tribes. Cush means black
according to the Bible dictionary and Cush is the name of
one of the sons of Ham from whose lineage Abraham came.
A fresh look at the Afrikan self
The Afrika that is ready for change must change the way
she looks at her economic growth, at least for a start. Eco-
nomic growth should not be gauged by the faulty GDP
measure, which has been passed down by the same people
who want Afrikans in cages. True economic growth should
be measured in real time with answers to simple questions
about the issues that affect our people. Questions like:
What, really, are the health effects of the products that
foreign investors bring into Afrika and upon which
we have built our false hope of foreign exchange?
What, really, are the health effects of the vaccines we
have praised so much because the Bill and Melin-
da Gates Foundation or the WHO says they are okay?
How much of the products made in Afrika are used by Afri-
kans themselves? Or is it that the good things that are made
here in Afrika by Afrikans are exported out, leaving behind just
the unwanted stuffs that are not of much value to the people?
Should economic growth not be measured by how much
homemade products the government buys from its own
people instead of the importation of the same things that
are produced outside? For instance, it does not make any
economic sense nor will it amount to any form of econom-
ic growth if the government of Nigeria pays huge sums of
money to import cars from Germany when there are local
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