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A People Called Afrika

The second level of this self-hate is his projection of this ha-
tred against others like him, who are trying to work for positive
change. He hates and destroys anything that looks good that
tries to come out of Afrika. Crushing it or its creators with
murderous criticism, downplaying achievements from his own
people as though they were nothing or worthless or useless, just
like the white man told him he was. A powerful example of this
is one you fully expect us to use. The handling of the Covid-19
treatment from Madagascar by her own people would make
you believe that nothing good could ever come out of Afrika.
So much so that even her own people, those who you would ex-
pect to be advocates who are seated at the WHO, are quick to
speak against a solution from home. How is that even possible?

If one considers that they are able to love and look after a
child born to themselves and to raise that child faithfully,
providing them only the best, not wanting anything to harm
them, then how could they turn around and say that their
own child who they faithfully raised is unable to produce any-
thing good and is as such incompetent and worthless? Isn’t
that what Afrika does? Send her people to school, and when
they come up with solutions based on what they learnt in
school, tell them that because the white man did not develop
it, then there is no way it can be any good unless the white
man says so? What a terrible prison indeed: an Afrikan who
will not rise and will not allow others to rise, unless the white
man approves of their rising. It’s called a dog-in-a-manger or
crabs-in-a-basin syndrome, in which a man refuses to enter
a house and then also prevents anyone else from entering.

Remove self-hate and this inferiority complex and Afrika will
rise as brand new.

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