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Leadership
Community
What about us?
The Afrikan Child Deserves Love too
By: Samuel Phillips
n a society where boys are who they are and definitely not is the bridge between our today and
told that crying is a weakness about their identity, which they need tomorrow. And that means a lot
and girls are told to behave to express. It is almost like as if the of things, both in our present and
Iproperly if they want to marry Afrikan child is an afterthought in future, are tied to the manifestation
a good man, life for our young the grand scheme of things. But this of truth in our Afrikan children.
Afrikans becomes about what we should not be so. The Afrikan child
want, what we assume they should is not just an extension of the elders We must pay attention to the trauma
want and go after and not about and the ancient ones gone past, he and the failures in our society and
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