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these crop of young Afrikans clam-
oring for a return to the Afrikan
ways cannot leave their phones un-
touched for thirty minutes, they
cannot walk away from facebook
for a day, they can't stay away from
the junks they serve at KFC, they are
loaded down with disrespect and
dishonor for elders that live next
door, Tiktok is their newest immoral
friend while instagram is their go to
app for showing their bums or their
new found work out skills.

woman living anywhere in Afrika or in the
diaspora, will you allow your wife to sleep
with a male visitor that comes to your
house while you sleep outside as courte-
sy to your visitor? Will you allow your wife
or in this case, will you as a young Afrikan
woman reading this article stop bathing
with water for the next one week and start
doing smoke bathing without water, even
while on your monthly period? Will you?
Well that's the way of the Himba tribe of
Namibia. They have maintained their an-
cestral Afrikan culture until now. Meaning A Himba teenage girl, Namibia. (Photo by Joan Goldby)
that one of the remaining tribes which can
show you the closest to how the Afrikan ful for the nature around them. Compare that with the
forefathers lived is the Himba tribe. Think modern day Afrikan that wants to get rich by all means
about it. irrespective of how many heads will roll for it to happen.
And in using the Himba tribe as illustra- Compare that with the fifteen year old girl who has no
tion, I am not in any way trying to under- remorse for aborting a baby while calling it "my body my
mine the lifestyle of the Himba tribe nor choice." Compare the lifestyle of the ancient Afrikans who
am I saying that the ways of the Afrikan see no land as belonging to anyone, but for all to use
forefathers was primitive. I am only whenever they have need for it, to how the modern day
saying that what they lived for, loved, Afrikan man grabs and steals land to build a never ending
allowed, expected, dreamed of had more estate of futility. Nakedness to the ancient Afrikan was a
spiritual substance and is more important thing of beauty and harmony with nature and not a tool
than the era in which they did it. They
lived for life and living, they lived for bal-
ance and harmony with nature, they un-
derstood that you are what you eat daily,
they understood the importance of broth-
erhood, they understood the wisdom that
comes from the higher powers that they
seek in their daily worship. They were
thankful for the rain that falls on their
crops, they were thankful for a new child
born into the family, they were thankful for
the success of their brothers, they were
thankful for being alive, they were thank-

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