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ISSUE TWO |  SEPT/OCT

        that without the outside world or the  come out of the life of a people that  kings and emperors and not some
        falsehood called money, economy  have chosen to  walk away from  aid-seeking and money laundering
        and the rest of the instruments of  their true heritage as people of  fanatics. Afrkans must now begin
        control, she won’t be on the same  God, wisdom and true knowledge,  to question everything. For he
        level as the ‘first world’ nations. My  and who have chosen the path of  who has a question, always finds
        thought is this,  who really cares  the pursuit of worldliness and the  someone with answers.
        about the nonsense idea of a first  false sense of hope, comfort and
        world nation, a third world nation  convenience it brings.              Am I saying that technology  is
        and the mad pursuit for relevance                                       bad or that it’s better to live in the
        in between. God  didn’t institute  The empty bottle of wealth           Kalahari desert like the bushman?
        that, greedy man did.                                                   Not at all. All I’m saying is this, Afrika
                                            Did you notice that the movie “The  must awake  to the true reality  of
        Simplicity over complexity          gods must be crazy” started with  things. The grandchildren of those
                                            a careless pilot throwing an empty  that  enslaved Afrika are the very
        I love the way God deals with men.  bottle  of  coca  cola  from  a  flying  same people we run to for “help”
        His ways are always found in the  plane?  Who does such a thing  or let me say “debt”, when  the
        things He does and commands  really?  Anyway,  the  simple mind  effects of what their grandparents
        men to do. The Lord Jesus walked  of the bushman certainly thought  did to Afrika becomes unbearable.
        on this earth as Man and also as  it was a blessing from the gods,
        God. Scripture says, He is the  but when the empty bottle started  I recently saw a cut out from an old
        bodily expression of God on earth  causing  disunity, division,  fear,  newspaper  and  what  was written
        in  the  days  of  His  flesh.  I  have  intimidation and complexity in the  in it is this statement
        often wondered  why Jesus took  community,  they had no choice  “ I have travelled across the
        the lifestyle of a pauper over the  but to do away with the accursed  length  and breadth of  Africa
        lifestyle of a wealthy man? For if  empty bottle  of  lies. Does this  and I have not seen one person
        He mirrored correctly who  God  scenario paint any picture in your  who is a beggar, who is a thief.
        is on earth and God that we are  mind as an Afrikan? If it doesn’t,  Such wealth I have seen in this
        shown in scriptures certainly lives  then slavery is still here. For if we  country, such high moral values,
        in pure light and abundance,  don’t know that the “empty bottle”  people with such caliber, that
        then why did Jesus live the way  thrown carelessly  from the sky  I  do  not  think  we  would  ever
        He did? My meditation  is that,  created Afrikan disunity,  mistrust,  conquer this country, unless we
        he lived in such way so that man  Afrikan-to-Afrikan       blackmail,   break the very backbone of this
        can understand that life does not  compromises,  pursuit of false  nation, which is her spiritual and
        consist of  that  which fades away  and temporary wealth, then we  cultural heritage and therefore, I
        with time, nor is man meant to live  seriously need a head check.       propose that we replace her old
        by bread (anything God provides)                                        and ancient education  system,
        alone, but by every word that  My question is this, how long will  her culture. For if the Africans
        proceeds out of the mouth of God.  Afrikans accept the lies, limitations  think that all that is foreign and
        This is the way of simplicity.      and false knowledge  that she is  English  is good  and greater
        I submit to you that, the only  feeding herself with? How long  than their own, they will  lose
        reason a man will rejoice at such  till  Afrikans know that the cure  their self-esteem, native culture
        lifestyle of simplicity is because he  to HIV, cancer, ebola  and all the  and  they will  become what  we
        has found treasures stored  up in  terrible  deceases, which were  want  them,  a truly  dominated
        heavenly realities. So he lives out  created by the same people trying  nation”
        his life of nakedness  right here  to “cure” them, are right in some  LORD  MACAULAY’S ADDRESS
        and is not ashamed of it. Such has  plants in grandmother’s farm? The  TO THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT
        been caught up with that which is  global  attacks on holistic  doctors  ON 2ND FEB, 1835.
        unseen and which is eternal. And  is proof of this. How long will it
        such will live forever.             take for Afrikans to know that the  Is  the above statement not what
                                            world of medicine, big pharma,  we have  been battling all these
        Let Afrika rise                     is a business and  not a health  years? We cannot continue to live
                                            centre? How long till we know that  like this, for all what we need for
        Let Afrika rise  is not a remark,  it  we  Afrikans are just competing  our true emancipation is right here
        is a  command.  For  when  God  and fighting over an empty bottle  with us. We just need to look and
        determined in His heart to bring to  thrown at us by some “careful” big  see.
        the physical, He gave the words  brother hiding his ugly face in the  We are Afrikans and we are God’s.
        “let there be”. We have seen the  cloud? How long till we know that
        evil and the complexity that could  we are Afrikans of the lineage of

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