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Community
Community
How culture Helps Preserve
The Environment
By Samuel Phillips
he African culture is diverse just as the African people “something” in our makeup
are diverse in their various geographical locations is that uniqueness within us
within the continent and even outside the continent. that makes us honor and also
TAnd, if you ask me, I think it is this diversity of culture want to sustain life. We just
and other social structures that truly bring out the beauty want to keep the environment
of what it means to be African. However, as much as there alive, well, and healthy. It
is diversity among Africans, there is also something unique is that deep knowing on the
about being an African that makes you see another African and inside that tells you it’s not
instantly be able to relate with them as brothers and sisters. right to poop in the river that
And I am not speaking of color alone (we have Africans who you drink from.
are not dark-skinned) but something deep in our makeup. This
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