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“Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t
cultivated, you can’t harvest it.” ―
African proverb
that have choked Africa for decades must
now be removed and replaced with something
worthy of a people who are the Motherland
of Humanity. The season we are in and the
future we want to see call for it.
However, the reality of a better Africa cannot
just be an idea that we carry around, a theory
we talk about in conferences and summits, or
even a dream that we hope should magically
appear someday in the future. It should be
a measurable, conscious project that we all
are willing to plan for and do the work that
is required to make happen. But this won’t
even begin to happen until we start to both
see the need for a better Africa and begin to
practically work towards its actualization.
Also, we cannot begin to actively engage in
the betterment of Africa if we do not have a
focused idea of the various aspects of African
life that need such a conscious project. And
even though the entire living, breathing
organism called Africa needs a rebirth which
will take more time and resources, we can at
here must come a time in the lives of least start with the most obvious ones. Below
a people when they tell themselves is a short list of the most basic areas that we
Tthat there is a need for something must tackle and begin to make changes in:
better than what they have always had. The
sadness, poverty, corruption, mismanagement, Healthcare
backwardness and the various foreign and Because of the active damage that capitalism
local manipulations of local policies and even and the over-commercialization of the
the crises in various parts of the continent health sector has done and is still actively
doing, what we have right now in health
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