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MY AFRIKA
looking at you as you passed the
various monuments that depict
their suffering. We passed an
old well with an inscription on
it that says "Attenuated well" or
something to that effect. Not
so sure anymore. It was the well
the slaves being transported
were made to drink from and
by which effect they were made
to forget their places of origin.
We passed that well, got to an
arch formerly called "The Point
of No Return". I say formerly, member, like I had already men- the continent with their broth-
because while there, the Lord tioned, this particular day was ers and sisters in the diaspora.
asked me to change the name of the Jewish Yom Kippur which is Was this a coincidence that it
that place to "The Point of The the Day of Atonement. was the same September that
this declaration was made? I do
Return". That particular monu-
ment was the last marker for any It was much later I began to un- not think so. Do you know how
slave going through that Bada- derstand what the Lord made much Ghana generated through
gry slave route. It was the point me do at Badagry that day and activities related to the year
from which no slave returned. how the next few years of the of return? About US1.9Billion
Meaning that once a slave passed Afrikan narrative would be de- Dollars with about 500,000
that point, there was no hope of termined by its spiritual out- tourists from outside of Afrika.
coming back home either dead come. Certainly that's a strong indica-
or alive. tion of the coming to pass of
Now, you may be wondering the declaration for all that was
As I received the command to what Badagry has to do with stolen from Afrika to return.
change the name of that place Ghana as the land of the war-
from "The Point of no return" rior kings. Let me show you. Now why was 2019 very impor-
to "The Point of the Return", tant for the year of the return to
the Lord showed me a stone and Ghana's Year of the Return begin even as the word and dec-
asked me to throw it as far as I Exactly four years after that dec- laration was given in 2014? 2019
could into the sea. He then com- laration in Badagry, in Washing- made it the 400th year from
manded me to command every- ton, D.C., on September 2018, which the first slaves from Af-
thing that has been stolen from Ghana's President Nana Akufo- rika arrived in America in 1619.
Afrika be returned to Afrika. I Addo declared and formally And what picture does this paint
did as He asked, threw the stone launched the “Year of Return, in your heart? The event of the
as far as I could, made the dec- Ghana 2019” for Afrikans in the 400 years of Israel's slavery in
laration about the return of all Diaspora, giving fresh impetus Egypt. Are these things coinci-
things stolen from Afrika. Re- to the quest to unite Afrikans on dences? Not at all.
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