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Rising To New Heights

Samuel Phillips

here are always As always, this section of the mag-
is the best azine is written both as a word of
some- places where love and encouragement to the spe-
Tthing we learn the cific Afrikan nation we are featur-
beautiful about truth about life, ing, but also to the general Afrikan
hitting rock bottom in ourselves and even people both home and abroad.
our journey in life. This beauty, those around us. And even Afrika and Afrikans have, for a long
like sunrise which breaks the night’s though most people may not love time, been groping in the darkness
cloud to announce a new day, comes the idea of rock bottom situations, of their various rock bottom situa-
in the form of what we learn when or a situation where they come tions. The rock bottoms of slav-
finally we let go of things that have to their very ends, it is in these ery, colonialism, neo-colonialism,
beforehand defined us, hit our backs situations that one finds the new capitalism, which is sucking up her
on the floor, and having no other strength to climb to new heights. resources, and then the many evils
depth of falling to fall to, we pick Why? It is impossible to climb a targeted at her by the West, Europe,
ourselves up and make a comeback mountain, without first entering the and now the East. But the issue now
with more wisdom and clarity of valley. And it is impossible to climb is not really the many rock bottoms
mind. For me, it’s a beautiful place a new mountain of career path, we, as Afrikans, have found our-
of letting go of stuff that has business, relationship etc., without selves in, but about what are we re-
become nothing but weights on our first coming down from the old ally doing, or going to do, to spring
backs, and which have hindered our mountain, experiencing the valley back up from such low places. For,
progresses. and then starting the journey of if the word for the new year 2022 is
climbing the new mountain. It is a about sprouting or springing forth
Most people may have different beautiful experience, if you ask me. and climbing to new heights, (and
opinions about this, but from my it is) are Afrikans really prepared
perspective, rock bottom situations

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