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Leadership

stood or continues to thrive out in
the environment. But not one of
these so-called experts will stop to
consider that things in the continent
around us are not actually working,
and, perhaps, a different approach is
needed.

All of these so-called ‘experts’ are
so jammed up by their papers, that
their brains are full of technical
words and terminologies that have
blocked their eyes, ears and hearts
from understanding that neither the less taxes they will be able to collect ability to live in dignity all of their
bragging about their training, nor from them, whereas allowing them days. These ‘experts’ are only good
the complexity of solutions that room to grow will do the same for at regurgitating what they heard in
they offer are getting them or Afrika the economy as a whole. They will class, what they saw during a ‘bench-
anywhere. They keep missing the not consider that the more chemi- marking tour’, or what their masters
simple points like: The more med- cals we spray on plants in order to in the west or east tell them is good
ication we need, the less healthy it ensure that they are yielding food, for Afrika – rather than simply using
shows that we are. And, rather than the more death we introduce into their eyes, ears and noses to find the
fixing the issue of health at its root, our soils, water, environment and problem, and using their hearts to
they choose, instead to build more bodies, when, rather, we should find meet the real need.
hospitals and brag about their health out how things are meant to work in
‘care’ budgets. So, instead of dealing a healthy and safe way, and do that. Instead, they prefer to blind them-
with the capitalist food and water This way we actually restore health selves and destroy their senses with
system that is using toxic chemicals to the environment, plants, animals their expertise, and white papers
in their production, and which are and ourselves. and statistics, when the solution
the real culprit in the rise of health actually requires them to just follow
issues globally, they borrow more They will not see that having a the river upstream, find out what is
money to build hospitals and health clean environment is as easy as causing the mess and take a shovel
centers, which are almost nothing closing down factories producing to remove it. They do not see that
more than breeding grounds for toxic waste, cleaning up the land their papers are actually a part, or a
our collective health ignorance. For and water and moving forward cause of the problem, because they
that there are more hospitals than with production techniques that are have been blinded by the lies that
factories, community farms and actually safer, cleaner and healthier. they were taught in school by people
playgrounds should show us that we They will not remember that the who were taught those same lies.
are not healthy, and that our health resources of the land are for use And they have been poisoned by the
priorities are warped. by the people of that land and that pride that comes from embracing
providing access to resources like the lies that their degrees, diplomas
They will not consider that the more land, clean water and indigenous and accolades tell them – and from
debt a government incurs, the more and strong seed can go a long way forgetting who they really are.
they are trapped by the lender into towards stabilizing economies, more
agreements that compromise the than sitting on hundreds of thou- And so, they spend time on social
sovereignty of their nations and sands of idle acres (or those under media making others feel inade-
that instead, a more mindful path toxic farming) can ever do for the quate and useless for not flying on
of building with available resources people. the same airplanes, staying in the
that which can be built, would be same hotels, or driving in the same
the more reasonable approach. They Because, at the end of the day, life cars that they do. Even when those
will not consider that the more a tax is simply about seeing each other, people work just as hard as them or
authority burdens the citizens of seeing the needs, and finding simple, even more so, to earn a basic wage.
the country, the less the people have sincere ways to resolve issues, in or- Instead of realizing that society in
and, within a very short time, the der to ensure that each one has the Afrika just needs a different ap-

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