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The Reflections of an

hen I am
not actively Afrikan
writing, I find
myself actively
reflecting on By: Samuel Phillips
Wvarious things,
especially my home called Afrika. It Afrikans prefer to go to expensive The demon called corruption
hurts to see her look so helpless in Dubai’s fake sandy beaches. The We may have seen corruption
the midst of much ancient wisdom white man comes to Afrika to only from the space of money
and knowledge; broken in the very see nature and wildlife and thus laundering. But we know that’s
face of strength; poor in the midst creates this narrative online that not all there is about corruption.
of plenty and so on and so forth. Afrika is all about nature, wildlife Corruption is death, it’s ill-health,
Every time I reflect on the Afrikan and communities that need and lifelessness, an end, futility,
narrative, I get upset knowing that depend on charity etc. The Afrikans lovelessness, and a direct fruit
the very solution to the problems themselves see the outside world of sowing to the flesh or fleshly
of Afrika is within her. Not outside as the greener pasture where desires. Flesh is evil desire.
of her. But because most Afrikans, their fanciful dreams will come to Corruption is the direct opposite
even those in government have pass. So the Afrikan doesn’t take of love. Love is life, love is God,
been programmed to see what a stand to develop and change his corruption is death and it’s the
belongs to Afrika as inferior, own home, while the foreigners god of this world who trades in
everything foreign seems to have don’t give accurate representation the souls of men. Corruption is an
more priority than that which is of Afrika, outside of it being a industry, an economic sector that
local (except when it come to tourist center, a place to bring third other industries are lost in. It’s like
stealing local money)... nothing class products, while calling it the World Wide Web. It’s a web
much is being done to retell the local empowerment, and as usual that holds many parts together.
Afrikan narrative. But we keep alms begging villages. It keeps the You can fight it all you want and
forgetting that the foreign goods or narrative of a downtrodden Afrika try to pray it away until you are
services that have so powerfully going on, which in a way gives blue in the face. And you can even
caught our attention and become constant fake news to the fake arrest every corrupt government
our priority are local in their place and elite-controlled media houses. official or private officer and even
of origin. Meaning that if they didn’t We must return to critical thinking, execute them but it won’t stop.
put effort in making their locality mindfulness, love, brotherhood For until you begin to deal with
worth an international stake - they and the very act of Ubuntu, in the evil desires in the hearts of
would remain local. order to break free from the matrix men and their pursuit of the ever-
The world system, from the days created to subject the Afrikan elusive happiness (which in my
of the colonialists created an Afrika people to a loop of servitude. opinion is not happiness in the real
that is tourism based, but which sense, but a sense of transient
Africans themselves don’t use. emotional fulfillment which has
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