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FEATURES

UNIVERSAL HUMAN

INTEGRATED CULTURAL

AND WELFARE SOLIDARITY

(UHICWS)

By Dr Jack Githae

One Earth, one People, one Future
‘’United We Survive! Divided We Perish”

he movement inevitably rare in most regions of Europe, and networks to unethically
emanates from Africa the Asia and Oceania. control and exploit the world;
cradle of mankind and the Besides the presence of abun- the group is commonly referred
entire human civilization. dant precious natural resources to as the Elite. The elite are
TThe continent has the in Africa in form of bio diversity defined as a small group of very
oldest and therefore the most and minerals, we also have influential and powerful peo-
sustainable way of life (civiliza- a diversity of very old cultural ple who have either ethically
tion) dynamics (sustainable indige- or unethically accumulated a
African civilization is archaeo- nous knowledge and technolo- remarkable amount of wealth,
logically estimated to be about gy) which will come in handy in power, privilege or skill in a
150,000 years old while that of the global endeavor of human community. Power elite could
Europe and Asia is estimated re-awakening. be used to describe a relatively
to be 40,000 years and 6,000 Every now and then you will run small group of well-connected
years respectively. into people in a heated debate individuals who dominate a
The older a civilization is the on who really owns and controls countries or regions policymak-
more sustainable the way of life the world and the masses, it is ing. The power elite are indi-
of the people concerned is. It is a question we would all like an viduals whose positions have
because of sustainability of the answer to but currently there is enabled them to surpass the
African way of life that makes no direct answer. It is however ordinary environments of ordi-
us have virgin equatorial and a well-known fact that there is nary men and women, they are
tropical forests and grasslands a special group of population in a position to make decisions
as well as clean rivers, lakes, that have been able to amass that carry huge positive or neg-
soils and air, all of which are unimaginable wealth, power ative consequences. Whether

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