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EDITOR’S NOTE

Hello and welcome to a new year and a new decade. A time and a
period in your destiny and the destiny of nations that is both definitive
and pivotal. Our choices now will either MAKE or BREAK Afrika. I kid
you not.

My husband said in his article about this new decade: 'The Year of the
Lord's Creatives', "Certainly we are in a time and season so significant
in the calendar of the earth that accurate response must be given." He
also went on to add that, "To create is to give life and not to create
is not to give life, and the power of life and death is in the tongue."

2020 is not a passive year and it ushers in a very potent decade. A
time in which very firm decisions have to be made on the individual and
community/national levels about what to do next. What seeds to plant.
What plans to create. What actions to undertake. It is NOT a light
season. Our brother, Apostle Wale Owikoh, has been saying lately in
his posts that we are to "keep a stern focus on the VISION, for it shall
speak and not lie."
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, dear reader, but you need to know
that Afrika is not yet independent. Whatever fake 'independence' we
choose to celebrate annually, marking 60 or so years of liberty from
colonial masters is a grand hoax created to pull the wool over our eyes,
and make us continue in bondage to the neo-colonialists and their
puppets. You were never set free. They simply made a strategic
withdrawal and found another way to run your country and this continent
using economic impoverishment, war and aid.
CHIOMA PHILLIPS
Now as an Afrikan you cannot travel from north to south or east to west
without buying papers and producing them at imaginary lines that say
your brother next door is not one of you. That say that in Afrika there
can be such a thing as a homeless person, a refugee, or an internally
displaced person. Whereas, not long ago, Afrikans moved about freely,
traded and settled where it was good. Now you pay for the 'privilege' of
crossing an imaginary line. You cannot settle easily in new lands. You Editor : Chioma Phillips
cannot trade without even more paperwork. You are not free.
Now you have to buy 'approved' seed, poison your crops in order to Layout & Design: Samuel Phillips
sell them, poison yourself and your children in order to interact with the
system - and pay money for the privilege of visiting this death upon your
generations. Digital/Web: Chioma Phillips
But I put the blame squarely on you IF you have never stopped to find
out what is really going on and to DO SOMETHING life-giving about it. Stock Photos:
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aspects that will corrupt your child or deprive them of the
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always fished on. If you have not thought about the fact that CEOs of the
world's leading corporations see Africa as the hope of the next decade.

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earth that accurate response must be given." A time to create, to give
life, to bless, to plant, to plan, to grow, to DO SOMETHING positive and
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that is allowing the darkness to encroach. To save our souls and those
of our children, before it's too late.
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Welcome to 2020. What will YOU do with it?