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2020 AND BEYOND
ganda in the modern day global-
ist controlled mass media, social
media just to keep the narrative
of a backward Afrika going on.
That too will not last forever.
Medu Ntjer the Ancient
Egyptian writing
Do you know that the ancient
Egyptians, who are completely
black Afrikans, believed that as
creation was made by Word, ev-
erything that exists represents
the Words of God long before the
coming of Christianity to Afrika?
These ancient black Afrikans
invented the first writings from
signs that are elements of na-
ture and called that writing Medu
Ntjer which means Words of
God but which westerners called
Hieroglyphics. This is why such
writing includes birds, plants,
humans, animals, the sun, the
moon and anything created that
they could see. For years I had
thought that the Egyptian Medu
Ntjer (Hieroglyphics) were oc-
cult symbols and I didn’t want to
have anything to do with them.
Now I know better.
Raise up your Afrikan
brother
This is not just a statement, it
is a plea. Afrika is where she
is today because we Afrikans
have learnt by foreign manipula-
tion of our minds and the image
degrading propaganda that has
been poured into Afrika, to hate
and fight ourselves. It seems
easier for an Afrikan to hate and
demean a fellow Afrikan than
to sit down to chart new ways
forward. The border lines that
are nothing but imaginary lines
of division and oppression are
clearly not on the soil of Afrika,
they are in the mind of Afrikans.
We cannot allow any longer the
use of capitalism and the quest
for the proceeds of slavery to
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put us under bondage. Concern-
ing capitalism and the effect of
it, I wrote something in an earlier
article.
"When capitalism entered
into food production, poison
and death followed. When
capitalism entered into the
health sector, poison and
death followed. When capital-
ism entered into the church,
the church became the den
of thieves. Capitalism has en-
tered into the family system,
poison, death, divorce, all
manner of evil followed. Capi-
talism is a curse to humans,
especially to Afrikans. It is
not our culture and neither is
it the pattern of the Kingdom
of God. The true Afrikan is not
selfish, self-centered, indi-
vidualistic or capitalistic. As
he rises, he takes others with
him. For according to the Af-
rikan principle of Ubuntu, he
knows that "He is because
others are". Almost every-
thing the colonialist (both the
former and the new) taught the
black man was faulty. Why?
They always leave out the
sense of Humanity (Ubu) and
the divine central point (Ntu)
which is the mind of God.
They taught Afrikans capital-
ism, individualism but God is
not individualistic. He is fam-
ily oriented. Yes He saves and
works with one, but with the
plan to get to the whole. And
that too is not for servitude or
manipulation, but for whole-
ness and true prosperity. God
does not break any man to de-
stroy him, He breaks to heal
and remold."
Let Afrikans wake up from their
slumber and review if what we
were taught in school points us
to the mind of God for humanity
or if they are just viruses in our
heal . restore . rebirth . Afrika
Afrikan way of life.
Afrika is the true home of the
brave and the wise, but wisdom
without responsibility and ac-
countability is nothing but cow-
ardice. No one else will develop
Afrika apart from Afrikans, for
every funding for aid or devel-
opment Afrika receives from
foreign powers, she loses more
of her resources than she gets
funding for. So of what use is
the foreign help when it is ac-
tually another name for slavery
and colonialism? I love what one
development worker said in our
last conversation, “In doing this
work, I tell you the truth, I have
found that colonialism, divide
and conquer is still happening,
but in another form, it is happen-
ing through aid.” But we certain-
ly cannot continue this way and
think that things will change. As
Afrikans, we owe it to each other
to raise ourselves up. No one
else will do it for us.
Embrace the Name Afrika
Everything created, seen and
unseen, all have names and
the identities attached to those
names. The case of Afrika is one
and the same. Meaning that af-
ter knowing the name and the
definition of Afrika and the pro-
phetic reality behind it, we as Af-
rikans must now no longer live
like barren wombs or as people
with identity crises who only
seem to move when others are
moving. No. We must come out
of such crises modes and enter
fully into the space that God gra-
ciously gave us. For if Afrika is
the cradle of humanity then you,
an Afrikan, are the reality of “the
opening of the womb of Spirit”.
Life began with you and life must
be preserved by you.
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