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Community

marriage confusion, family confusion, confusion

between what is real and false, and confusion JOIN
between eating healthy food for nourishment and
eating junk to satisfy cravings. The list is long.

But these confusions are not stand-alone issues, OUR
they are simply pointers to the systemic failure of
the world and the moral degradation that we have
embraced as humans in the name of liberty, and TELEGRAM
individualism.

In thinking of and putting together solutions: CHANNEL
Community Empowerment must be given real

priority. Community empowerment must stop
being what we use for campaigns and then
discarding it when we get the positions we seek.
People must be empowered to take ownership of
their development through education, capacity-

building, and community-led initiatives. A
national government that wants to do well must
put in place modalities that empower its local

governments. We cannot run away from this if
truly we want to fix Africa.

In conclusion, the challenges that Africa faces
are not a call to despair but a call to action,

urging Africans to take responsibility for their
development and to work together to address WHERE WE SHARE
the continent’s challenges. We all must be open

to realistic and optimistic perspectives, which OUR THOUGHTS
highlight our potential for positive change
through collective action and sustainable ON AFRICA
development practices. A sixty-year-old man
should, by chance or by the act of decision, be +254 733 489470

self-sustaining and not a beggar going to every
world summit to plead for loans which become
debts that put his people under servitude. A word

is enough…be wise.

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