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AFRIKA IS GOD’S
Letter to Afrikans

Dear Afrikans,

It is my pleasure to write to you this little piece. I just want to bring your attention to something that is in the
mind of God for us Afrikans and the continent we call our home. It is about us as Afrikans, our common unity,
our brotherhood and how every aspect of it will translate into a community of Afrikan relations.

For as soon as the first steps of the colonialists touched the land of Afrika, disunity, hatred, division and all
manner of weird attitudes between Afrikans followed, and after about sixty years of independence, Afrikans still
have not been able to come out of the effects of divide and conquer which our fathers were divided by. To prove
that Afrika is still very much under colonial masters, the topic of borders and their effects are still very much a
part of the Afrikan narrative. Permit me to say, borders are nothing but imaginary lines drawn in the minds of
the colonized, oppressed and marginalized Afrikan. They are a signature that says "we were once together as
brothers" before the white man came.

This letter is not in any way trying to build a case against the white man or the children of the colonialists; it must
not be seen as such. But it is a letter to my Afrikan brothers to remind them of who they are as sons of love and
how much damage we are doing to the reality of a liberated Afrika by the way of our failing to realize that the
more we are divided in thoughts and attitudes towards each other, the more we are giving strength to the very
thing the colonialists used to subject Afrikans to servitude. We were never poor and impoverished, but because
we have allowed self-hate to come in between us, the true Afrikan pride has not been given space to thrive.

I want to share with you a few things the Lord shared with my wife and I at different times; just maybe they will
help us realize how much the Afrikan unity is needed in this time and age. She shared a dream she was given
with me. In her words she narrated "There were two planes on a runway. One was clean brand new of a type
and technology I have never seen before. Deep blue, metallic grey and red in color. Sleek. It belonged to the
white man, Europe and the rest. It was parked horizontally across the runway, blocking the end of it. The other
one was a large, broken down old airplane, red, green, white and yellow in color. The kind you pray you never
have to fly in - in fact that's what I was desperately doing in my heart. It belonged to the AU and all the African
leaders and AU leaders and their African NGO types were in it. A group of African people were standing to the
side I was among them. The white man said to the Africans on the plane to go ahead (they were all to fly to the
same destination). Even though they knew this huge lumbering giant could not make it without the full use of
the runway, they didn't move their craft out of the way but stood rather nonchalantly leaning on their plane and
watching and waiting for the inevitable to happen, knowing that the Africans would do all they could to take off
on the limited runway that they had been given access to without crashing into the sleek new plane, and would
fail. The African 'elite' strapped in and the pilot began to taxi down the runway and gave it all he could and took
off almost vertically before reaching that new plane... and then, disaster. The plane was blown backwards and
crashed fatally, being totally destroyed. Just like the Westerners knew would happen."

Her dream certainly looked like a tale of doom against Afrika but not really, for several months later, the Lord
gave me these words concerning Afrika which connect back to what He showed my wife. He said “A new
Afrikan Union will arise; it will not be that of the gathering of Afrika's heads of states in Ethiopia, but the true
union of Afrikans both at home and in Diaspora. Afrikans will begin to see through the veils of the evil their
heads of states are doing with world leaders. Afrikans will begin to unite without their governments and to begin
to strengthen themselves to activate love, brotherhood and innovation."

These words are not vain words or tales to incite anything against anyone. It is the reality that is coming shortly
and it will not fail. The Afrika that God is putting together is not the one that is run by heads of state that have
turned their governments to family businesses. It's not the one that depends on foreign powers even to her own
detriment. The Afrika that God is raising is the one who will bring all Afrikans together in a borderless space and
from which true liberty, love, original thoughts, innovative ideas, brotherliness will be sought after and shared.

You as an Afrikan reading this, know that the liberation and emancipation of Afrika is your responsibility. Love
and raise up your Afrikan brothers, let's stop the hate and all things will be possible for us. God bless Afrika

Samuel Phillips

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