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cure. The lack of such ambition speaks volumes about the priorities set by our healthcare

infrastructure. It suggests that economic incentives overshadow the fundamental purpose of
medicine—healing.

The current model of healthcare has thus evolved into a ‘sick care’ system, where managing
disease takes precedence over curing it. This paradigm perpetuates a cycle of treatment that
benefits industries economically but often at the cost of true patient wellness. It’s a call to
rethink and reshape our approach, placing genuine health and cures at the forefront of medical
innovation.”

It was not always so in Africa
This idiotic system called modern or pharmaceutical health-care or let me say death-scare,

which values sickness, diseases, and dependency on drugs in order to sell drugs, is so sick
that it needs its own physician. But this physician is not meant to heal the sick system of
pharmaceutical companies but to go back to the indigenous ways of healing which have been
among indigenous peoples of the world from the beginning of time.

So, just like the issue of GMOs which kill original food crops in order to introduce false foods
created in the labs, just so they can make more money, the pharmaceutical companies are also
killing original indigenous healthcare systems and practitioners. And we have seen this happen

globally where holistic, natural, or indigenous medicine practitioners just disappear or just die
mysteriously. Killed by the very same system that profits from diseases and deaths. But this
has not always been the case in Africa. So, what must we do?

We must embrace the practical aspect of Sankofa which mandates that we go back to the past

to learn the wisdom required to deal with this sick age of modernity and many falsehoods. But
do we still have the older Africans who have this knowledge? That’s a topic for another day.
Since we may not be able to wake every African at the same time, let those who have been

awakened already begin to see life differently. Let them begin to make different food choices
and lifestyle decisions. As much as it is possible, embrace more of nature and live in harmony
with yourself and others. Build self-sustaining, eco-friendly communities where you can
practice your own holistic medicine, indigenous organic farming and everything else required
to live life above the corruption that has bedeviled this world.

Let those who have land that they are not using allow for the building of communities and
gradually, we will begin to break free from the shackles of this global system that thrives on

the slavery, disease and deaths of humanity.

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