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Wholeness

that is what you are calling the if we have the disease, spreading we shall survive the pandemic and
Afrikan renaissance. it to others in Afrika is mitigated many more that will come, as long
Correct. The Afrikan Renaissance is against. This can be done. It is not as we think and act together. We re-
the reawakening of the Afrikan peo- like going to the moon. They went ject this externally instigated ethnic
ple to the reality that life is real. That to the moon and came down to conflict and regional conflict. We
we currently are in a terrible crisis, earth when I still had my grey hair. are one and the same people, we are
that unless we recognize the crisis, Articulating integrated self-help ini- products of the same evil - the colo-
unless we adapt to it, unless we do tiative and establishing those centers nialism and neocolonialism - and the
whatever it takes to enhance our is doable, it can be done tomorrow. truth is, together we shall survive.
survival, we are target number one We should get on it as quickly as Divided we shall perish. Let’s come
on the extermination list; we shall possible, because the truth is Covid, up together, let’s think together, let’s
go one after the other. Before that Ebola, incurable TB and many other act together… then talk later.
happens, let us team up together, crises are here to stay, so we must
let us use those traditional dynam- adapt to them and adapting to them If you want to talk to Dr. Githae
ics that enhanced our survival even means enhancing all the strategies about the community self-help
during slavery, during colonialism, that guarantee our survival, that initiative, to implement it in your
during other pandemics and with guarantee enhancement of our country or region, we can put
the resources that we have: the in- well-being, that guarantee leaving you in touch with him. He has al-
digenous knowledge, the indigenous this continent to a future generation ready clearly articulated what the
herbal material; we shall survive the that can live like a dignified people, structure would look like, what
pandemic if we come together, we instead of slaves and sub-colonial the thinking would look like and
listen to one another, we do what- subjects. you surely know retired or un-
ever it takes to enhance the survival employed experts in the areas he
of each one of us and those we live I want to ask you to say one has outlined. It’s very possible for
with. That way, we can talk about final word, because we talk to us to swiftly, even before the end
a tomorrow. And it means, again, a lot of people, and many peo- of 2021, put together community
revisiting our indigenous knowledge, ple seem to get stuck about self-help initiatives across the
indigenous knowledge dynamics how to start. We find that a lot continent of Afrika that trans-
applying them such that we live the of people end up in the realm form the way that we live and we
way those who have not embraced of talk, but no action. Maybe interact. So, make sure you get in
cosmopolitan lifestyle are doing it. touch in order to take action now,
you can say something that while there is still time.

We have our colleagues elsewhere in will inspire them to connect to
Kenya, and in South Afrika, in West action.
Afrika and in Central Afrika who In our neocolonial miseducation,
are living their lives the traditional we were converted to expert talkers
way. They have a bigger chance of and expert writers of good papers.
survival. By survival I mean con- We make wonderful presentations,
fining the infection to wherever it locally, regionally, internationally; but
is. Mitigating against people going when it comes to doing what needs
from one place to another and in to be done, we are the worst. The
this scenario of an integrated com- truth is, actions speak louder than
munity self-help initiative, it means words. A time has come when every
education is articulated there, health one of us should do whatever he or
treatment is done there, agricultural she is capable of doing to enhance
advice is done there and there will our survival, not our development,
be a green grocery, there will be a not our wealth; our survival first, Dr Jack Githae is a professional FAO
central shop where people can buy development later. We are at a cross- and UNDP trained and accredited ag-
whatever they need, be it hardware, roads of total extermination, like it ricultural researcher, practitioner and
be it food, so that the need for go- has happened in Australia, Canada, consultant and a WHO accredited Af-
ing to far places in town to contract North America, South America. We rican Traditional medicine researcher,
the diseases and bring it home is are lucky we survived colonialism, practitioner and consultant. He is a
mitigated against. The need for us, we survived slavery. I am contending Kenyan.

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