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                        EMBRACING THE TRUE CULTURE OF AFRICA


                                              By Samuel Phillips




                            verywhere you       and the nurturing of life that   and modernism came in,
                            go in Africa and    Africans are known for. But     people and communities in
               Eevery culture                   before you start to think I am   Africa lived in harmony with
               you meet in this beautiful       speaking of childbearing, let   themselves. They lived their

               continent and outside of         me quickly paint a picture of   daily lives conscious of the
               it where there are people        what I mean by the culture      environment and also of the
               of African descent, even         of life and nurturing of life.  safety of indigenous wisdom
               though the forms of cultural                                     and knowledge systems and

               expressions are different in     Just like every indigenous      how they are passed down to
               every African community,         culture in the world,           the next generation. This act
               one thing that remains           especially before the           of passing down indigenous
               constant is the culture of life   monsters called capitalism     wisdom and knowledge was




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