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AFRIKA IS GOD’S
terests at heart, so don’t swallow
holus bolus all the garbage they
propose by way of deals or pol-
icy changes for your countries.
No. They are using you and if
you’re not wise enough to know
this and navigate this minefield
then perhaps we should choose
someone who is.
An imperialist’s agenda is con-
trol, pure and simple, and the
imperialist carefully selects the
most influential tools of control
and manipulation to gain max-
imum advantage against his or
her target. Carefully consider
this quote by Lord Macaulay
during an address he made to
the British Parliament on 2nd
February, 1835: “I have traveled
across the length and breadth of
Africa and I have not seen one
person who is a beggar, who is
a thief. Such wealth I have seen
in this country, such high moral
values, people with such caliber,
that I do not think we would ever
conquer this country, unless we
break the very backbone of this
nation, which is her spiritual and
cultural heritage and therefore, I
propose that we replace her old
and ancient education system,
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her culture. For if the Africans He was presented to God in the
think that all that is foreign and Temple in Jerusalem and the
English is good and greater than relevant sacrifices and offerings
their own, they will lose their made along with the prophe-
self-esteem, native culture and cies and prayers of Simeon
they will become what we want and Anna. After that we are told
them, a truly dominated nation.” they returned to “…Nazareth.
I put it to you that in the 85 years And the Child grew and be-
since they implemented their came strong in spirit, filled with
strategy of domination, that it wisdom; and the grace of God
has worked and worked very was upon Him.” The next time
effectively. I also put it to you we see Him, He is 12 years old,
that the oppression successfully His family had traveled together
transitioned from the first gen- with other pilgrims to Jerusa-
eration oppressors to a second lem for the Passover Feast and
and third tier and guess in whose on their journey back, realized
hands the enforcement of said that He wasn’t with them. They
oppression is? That of Afrika’s found Him three days later in
sons and daughters. Which is the Temple sitting in the midst
excellent news because as bad of the teachers (the PhDs of
as that is, guess where the au- that day) listening to them and
thority to liberate Afrika is? In the asking questions… and aston-
same hands. ishing them by His understand-
Too much has been forgotten, ing and His answers. The young
uprooted or destroyed in the boy knew His purpose at that
name of modernity, so bedevil- time, that He ‘should be about
ing or belittling homeschooling His Father’s business’ but He
in an effort to raise a generation returned with Mary and Joseph,
of people disconnected from the submitted to them and further in-
land, each other and their own creased in wisdom and stature,
selves, gifts and talents is not and in favor with God and men.
the way to go. More urgently, The next time we see Him, He
Afrikans and their governments is challenging the religious and
must consider the true reason political leaders of His day, de-
and purpose behind standard- fying and upending social norms
ization of education globally in a and beliefs and cultures and
world so ethnically and culturally setting things in order. This I be-
diverse. If it is indeed true that lieve He did without any formal
our diversity is beautiful and a education, for scripture clear-
source of strength to each other, ly says the people whom He
then why homogenize what was taught wondered at His teach-
designed with such deliberate ings with authority, since He was
variety? Could the answer be, unlearned. And you know what,
to better control and organize He went on to train “unlearned”
the world from one central loca- folks like Himself who the world
tion? Does this not mean, there- could not fault, for the wisdom
fore, that we are playing into the they manifest, was beyond what
same hands that manipulated the formal schools could give.
us before and continue to now? There is a growth in wisdom and
Stop and think. stature and favor with God and
Consider the growth and pro- men that we have disconnected
gression of Yeshua the Messi- from and we must be genuine
ah. At just over one month old, with ourselves. The beauty and
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