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A People Called Afrika

car manufactures in Nigeria with high end premium prod-
ucts that meet international standards. It is like slapping
yourself in the face and expecting others to feel the pain.
Should we not measure growth based on how cordial the re-
lationship between the government and the governed is? For
even the family of, let’s say the president of an Afrikan coun-
try, cannot measure their own growth and maturity by how
much money they have in their family account, but rather by
how much love and oneness is shared within and how they
are transformed by this love. Or can we really call imposi-
tion of unfriendly government policies on the masses, growth?

What really is the sense when Afrikan governments tell their
people to stop eating processed food, because they are caus-
ing cancer, while they - the governments - are the same ones
who licensed the importation and production of such foods,
as well as the multinational grocery shops and fast food joints
where the processed foods are sold? Simply because they
make money from licenses and taxes, they then call it eco-
nomic growth? Should true economic growth not be that you
put a stop to those processed foods completely? And that you
heal your land from the poisons dumped into it by chemical
fertilizers, plastics and factories? And then begin to grow food
using healthy farming practices and by that create a healthy
nation that can be self-sustaining instead of debt accruing?
Or will you define economic growth as when the people in
government fall sick they go to foreign hospitals for medical
treatment, because they have government money to pay for
it, while the citizens themselves who have been pushed to
the wall due to heavy taxation, die like chickens because the
local health care really is not health care but death scares?
Should such a government in Afrika be proud to say its econ-

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