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who they are and what their true When the mother is pregnant, she teaches repentance and balance? Then, the
identity is and by that, helping them the singing of this child to the midwives spiritual, mental and physical jails
return to balance and harmony with and older women of the village. So, when would be out the window. Why? The
self and others. But somehow, we the child is born, old women and people one who committed crime would
have succeeded in creating not only around him sing his song to welcome him. not have committed crime in the
a prison system for the correction first place if he was connected to
of wrong in the society, like we have As the child grows, the other villagers learn his identity, purpose and destiny.
correctional facilities for those fac- his song. So if the child falls, or gets hurt, He would have known how his life’s
ing jail terms, but the entire system he always finds someone to pick him up choices and decisions affect balance
of the world has become a global and sing his song. Similarly, if the child and Ma’at in the society. For to
prison where non-conformists to does something wonderful, or successfully think of crime in the first place is
brainwashing ideologies of the passes through the rites of passage, the prison in itself.
globalists, or the system, are seen as people of the village sing his song to honor
rebels and worthy of mental, physi- him. At some point in out lives as indi-
cal and spiritual jail time. viduals and as a people, we will have
In the tribe, there is another opportunity to shelve the rule of law for the rule
The family system, educational where villagers sing for the child. If, at any of love; the rule of complaining for
system, financial system, banking time during his life, the person commits an the rule of responsibility, the rule
system etc., all have become a form aberrant crime or social act, the individual of war for the rule of peace, the
of prison for mass control and is called in the center of the village and rule of individualism for the rule
global manipulation. All these are the people of the community form a circle of community. In fact, we will have
definitely against the cultural reality around him. Then they sing his song. to redefine what it means to live
of the Alkebulan society and the The tribe recognizes that the correction of among others. The me, myself and
principle of love, harmony and antisocial behavior does not pass through I syndrome will have to be killed
growth. Sometime back, I read a punishment, it is by love and reminder of from our hearts and compassion
story somewhere about the Him- identity. When you recognize your own and brotherhood have to come alive
ba tribe of Namibia and how they song, you don’t want or need to do any- again. A state in which no one lives
handle wrongs in the society. It is a thing that would harm the other.⠀ in fear of others but in exchange
story that sheds light on the Afrikan And the same way through their lives. In of love, mutual honor and collec-
reality of justice and reconnection Marriage, songs are sung together. tive growth. We definitely have to
back to society and thank goodness, remember that life is more than our
I found the story again on a Face- And when, getting old, this kid is lying in individual selves and that to be a
book post very recently. his bed, ready to die, all the villagers know thriving society, we must lay hold of
his song, and they sing, for the last time, that which unites us, rather than that
The story had this to say: his song.~ which takes us to war.

In the Himba tribe of Namibia in South- This story for me is such a clear Is this even possible? You may ask.
ern Africa, the date of birth of a child is reminder of how to live and thrive My answer is a definite yes. Every
fixed, not at the time of its arrival in the in a society, in which wrong doing good or bad action or inaction
world, nor in its design, but much earlier: is not rewarded with more wrong comes from the mind, which is the
since the day the child is thought in His doing, in the name of justice, but seat of thoughts and the womb in
Mother’s mind. the true identity of the person is which actions are created. Meaning
When a woman decides she’s going to have called out, shown to the one who is that, if we all begin to consciously
a child, she settle down and rests under a wrong and then creating room for train our minds to think thoughts of
tree, and she listens until she can hear the repentance and change. love and mutual understanding, then
song of the child who wants to be born. we will fill our dear Afrika with the
And after she heard this child’s song, she Imagine if we all as a collective fruits and rewards of love.
comes back to the man who will be the society learn to sing the song or
father of the child to teach him that song. songs that are directly connected to Fear is a bringer of pain but perfect
And then, when they make love to physi- our destinies and purposes, while love casts our fear.
cally design the child, they sing the song of reminding ourselves who we are in
the child, to invite him. relation to our God-given purpose Think about it.
and destiny, in order to bring back

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