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BE. AS THEY STOP THINK- Don’t look down on me because I am Afrika. Yes I am Af-
ING ABOUT THEMSELVES SO rika and I know it, but my Afrikanness is not a curse, but
THEY WILL ALSO CHANGE.
a gift. A gift of love and faithfulness to the entire world
Meaning that the problem of Afrika and the entire race of men. As Motherland Afrika, my
is not a curse, either from God blackness is not a sign of backwardness or servitude, but
the Creator, or from the Afrikan the reality of the womb and the back of a mother that has
forefathers, but a deep-seated case
of self-hate, self-sabotaging acts by carried the entire human race and nurtured it with her
some few who are too greedy to see pain, even when her milk is being exploited and
and live for the greater good, lack her skin ravaged.
of self-worth, which stems from
mental devaluation, Afrikan disunity,
which stems from the false bor- about it. Could a CURSE really be the Bible or the reality of the Christ,
ders which created false sovereign at work? Could there be an anger but a closer look shows a deeper
nations (which are really not sov- from God that has spread from understanding of the issues of the
ereign when put at par with global the Afrikan forefathers up until Afrikan people. In one statement,
policy-making) and then the many now and which is still ravaging the I will put it as “WE JUST DON”T
other things that have put down Afrikan people? Or could it be there LOVE BEING AFRIKANS.”
the Afrikan people to the level of is actually a planned agenda to put
servants and not kings. a veil of foolishness on the faces of Below is what the author wrote:
Afrikans, which creates a blindfold “Do you want to know what a scam
And like someone said, “As long as by which they cannot see themselves is?
Africa remains divided, as long as we as God intended ,and which is also
are forced to compete for foreign capital not allowing them break free from A scam is having the Bible trans-
lated into Swahili, Igbo, Yoruba,
the mental cages within? I think the
and to accept economic ties to foreign latter is the case. Zulu, Tswana, Ndebele and every
powers because in our separate entities other African language, but having
we are too small, weak and unviable to For, if the claim that life began in zero scientific book translated into
‘go it alone’, we’ll be unable to break Afrika with Afrikans, as proven by a single African language. That, is
the economic pattern of exploitation.” Afrikan folklore, science and the a conspiracy. That, is a trap. And
Bible, which most Afrikans believe that, is a scam. Someone who can be
It looks as if the preaching of an in is true - and it is, then to whom scammed with the same trick over
Afrika that is laden with wrong did God speak when He said: and over again for decades upon
mindsets and negative thinking “Then God blessed them, and God said decades, is considered a fool and
patterns has been overflogged for to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the their gullibility and lack of critical
decades by those who got conscious earth and subdue it; have dominion over thinking make them willing partici-
early on about the many scams the fish of the sea, over the birds of the pants in their own demise.
targeted at Afrikans; but I do not air, and over every living thing that moves
think much has changed up to now. on the earth.”? I have walked into different libraries
But now, more Afrikans are begin- To the very Afrikans who are the and I’ve seen University Science
ning to wake up to the reality of beginning of mankind on earth. Books translated into Chinese, Rus-
how the world works and how the Meaning that the narrative of an sian, Portuguese, French, German,
entire system of the world is set up Afrika that is cursed in nonsense. Spanish and so forth. I’ve seen,
to only accommodate Afrika as the Think And Grow Rich by Napolean
bread basket of the world, but as a The Scam Hill translated into French. I’ve seen
slave who is only allowed to eat the I recently found a post on a the Japanese version of A Man’s
crumbs that fall from the table of Whatsapp group I belonged to Search For Meaning. I’ve seen a
the very bread she supplied. which dealt with, to some extent, Spanish version of The Alchemist.
the issue of the Afrikan people. On I’ve seen the Korean version of The
Sadly, this reality has been in place the surface, some parts of the post Art of War. All of these books, I’ve
for generation upon generation, and seemed blasphemous or like some seen them in various languages but
no one seems to know what to do kind of attack against the God of NOT in any African language.

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