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A PEOPLE CALLED AFRIKA

We have seen many young Afrikans talk about the spiritu-
ality of Afrika as the concept of Animism which gives the
attribution of a living soul to plants, inanimate objects, and
natural phenomena. But animism or the animation of in-
animate objects and things is also not possible without spir-
it or a connection with the spiritual plane of the conscious
Mind of God. Nothing can be animated without a force
and no force can happen without a push or a pull of spir-
it. Be it by the Spirit of God or other created spirits.

Man is connected to this Spirit or Life Force of God at many
levels. The lowest level being the air we breathe. Science
may call it oxygen, but we know it is the breath of God in a
man that keeps him alive. How do we know this? When a
man is born, the breath of God enters into him and on his
dying bed, the breath of God leaves. His dying is not due
to the absence of oxygen, for clearly, oxygen was still avail-
able around him even as he breathed his last. It is the ab-
sence of the Life Force of God, called Spirit. Otherwise,
‘why do men die even with oxygen masks on their faces?’

When a man begins to understand that this worldly system that
was created on earth is a prison or at best a web of delusion, he
begins to question things. He begins to engage in critical think-
ing. He begins to go beyond what was taught in school, what
was written in books and to have a real relationship with the
Spirit of God, who was sent by God in Jesus to show, teach,
lead, and remind us of all Truth and with a ready comfort in
case we get stuck along the way. Mind you, Truth here is the
physical, revelational and faith expression of the spiritual reality
of God. Meaning that, when a man begins to shift his thoughts
from this huge matrix of a conscience-killing maze of perenni-

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