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Re-Education
Re-education

TRAIN A CHILD TODAY,

RAISE AN ICON TOMORROW

The Tree Is Only As Good As The Seed That Births It Samuel Phillips

writer, photographer,
songwriter and singer.

or every tree that is stand- us where we have missed the path, As a content creator, he is passionate
ing, there is a root sys- and that if we do not make changes about creating a better image and
tem holding it. For every now, we will be left with nothing in positive narrative about Afrika.
Fbuilding we admire, there the next few years.
is a foundation beneath it. For every
reaction, there is an action that For a right thinking person, or for a
came before it. And for every noble really mindful people, there are se- We definitely are reaping the fruits
Afrikan man that we admire today, rious questions we should be asking of the trees we planted with cor-
there was an Afrikan child that was ourselves each and every day. Just ruption and stolen goods. And
nurtured yesterday. Silencing the for a start, we should be asking how the sooner we realize there is need
guns on the streets of Afrika begins it is possible that Afrika is still where for a change of trajectory towards
with silencing the guns of words she is right now, with all the millions righteous and dignified living, the
and domestic violence at home. of graduates, master’s degree hold- sooner we will begin to see change
We are on the outside, what we were ers and PhDs we have in Afrika and in Afrika. Afrika is not Europe, so
created or programmed to be on in the diaspora? How can we still be do not ask me “Why is it that with
the inside. For he who plants a good dependent on debts and loans? And all the evil that Europe and America
seed in the heart of an Afrikan child then say Afrika is the richest conti- have done in every other nation of
today, prepares the future to reap nent in the world, which she really the world, they are still ahead of
an Afrikan icon. And that we have is. “So, what’s going on?” you may Afrika in development?” And that is
a whole lot of misguided men and ask. My simple answer is this, the because you think GMO food and
women in various positions of lead- tree can only be as good as the seed lab created food is development.
ership in Afrika really should show that gave birth to it. Period. Afrika’s definition of development

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