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TRUE AFRIKAN CULTURE

Arvy Ngala-ngala

elcome dear broth- that we can end this pain that we are them and gone on to higher levels,
ers, sisters, mothers in. Today we will be short and we so if you want to speak to these
and fathers, welcome will speak to you on culture, because people you have to first know and
Wto Zola Bantu. Many I have seen that if we are not careful understand their expertise well. If
people out there are looking for the culture of Afrika will lose its your child in the house becomes an
a way to get out of this crisis that credibility. Because some of those atheist or changes their beliefs; if
we are in, in Afrika. Other people who are speaking/teaching Afrikan you see that your child is lost, telling
are looking for a way to restore us culture do not know it well and they him he is lost or he is in foolishness
to our Afrikan cultures. Everyone do not even know the sense of that is not enough, he will not listen to
has his or her own comprehension culture. This is not to tease them, you. You have to make an effort to
about Afrikan culture and we are but to give them a little comprehen- understand the thing that your son
working in a desperate manner and sion so that they can be able to work is finding to be a solid foundation
that is already good. What makes us well. of what he is into. And study the
happy is that our consciousnesses thing and discover the root of the
are moving forward slowly by slowly. There is so much work, waking issue and explain to him why this
Though we have not arrived, but we people up is hard, it is not easy. root cannot help him. At that point
can see the effort of many Afrikans People have entered into the things your child will listen, he will see
who are looking for solutions so of foreigners and they have studied that you know the matter, and he is

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