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ISSUE THREE | NOV/DEC

Afrika: Stop for a minute!

Chioma Phillips

TIME TO REVIEW THE AFRIKAN NARRATIVE

hat Afrika is running is the slow death table. The table of
evident. That Afrika does but wants to so badly, they will doom. But are we paying attention
not understand where she do anything to just be considered to what God is trying to show us?
Tis running to, is equally as one of them. Laughable, There’s a challenge that one who
evident. That Afrika knows what is considering that the whole world lacks understanding faces. They
chasing her is evident, but she is that Afrika is so desperately trying will try to fight the very thing that
blind to the fact that what she is to catch up with, is in an even more is designed to help them. Because
running to is an extension of what deplorable state, but we have Afrika does not take the time to
she is running from, just a change focused so much on catching up, know God and what HE wants and
of scenery. that we haven’t noticed that there what HE is saying, several things
Going on 60 years after the is no up; only a downward spiral have happened:
struggle for independence, towards a very grim end.
Afrika is in deplorable condition; 1. We lost sight of who God says we
once promising nations are in a Former global heroes, giants and are. In so doing we took on EVERY
constant fight for survival, enjoying champions: the United States false identity we were given by the
a victory today and loss tomorrow of America, Great Britain, the colonialists, by the neo-colonialists
in one area or another. The pursuit former USSR, Germany, Japan and their news media, by the
of democracy, capitalism and are all crumbling. Economies, neocolonial educational system.
Bretton Woods type development, societies, environment, status are They said we were poor, famine
in order to be accepted into the all in gradual (or rapid) decline. and drought-stricken, inferior,
club of those who have ‘arrived’. They are experiencing soaring weak and useless without them,
This, coupled with the greed of crime rates, homelessness, that we were war-torn and greedy.
many, has ensured that Afrika extra-judicial killings, alcoholism, We agreed and lived that out.
never did have a game plan poverty on levels that were once
for itself. Even the efforts and only known or attributed to Afrika. 2. We took up everything they said
initiatives undertaken by regional The nations we were taught to was good for us, no questions
bodies remain very one-note. The emulate have sunk so low that a asked. Food, clothing, economic
entire strategy that Afrika is taking travel advisory was even issued models, trade agreements,
appears to be to get a seat at the against the one who has been the education, health etc. After all,
big boys’ table. Like the child who global policeman for so long. That with our identity in tatters, the walls
doesn’t fit in with the ‘cool kids’ is not the big boys’ table. That is of the city were easily torn down
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