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MY AFRIKA

CAUGHT IN BETWEEN Afrika. He loves the uncorrupted

Afrikan spirituality and the pure
TWO DREAMS connection to cosmic energies
that created such mystique
about his forefathers. He loves
CAN AFRIKA WAKE UP TO A NOW REALITY? the sound and the picture it all

paints. And like a child who was
told of how great a warrior his
read
the
However, this article is not
I about the American dream, but dead father was, he won't stop
somewhere,
words of someone who was
talking about it to anyone who
talking about the American
it’s about the Afrikan dream. To
dream. He said something
He even bullies them with the
like: the American dream is only be honest, and quite frankly, I cares or does not care to listen.
think the average Afrikan is also
a dream because those caught caught in some form of dream story if they don't seem to pay
in it are actually sleeping. I com- state that either he wishes not enough attention to him, mak-
pletely agree and because I love to wake up from or he is just so ing enemies of those who think
things or words that make me dead asleep that he is not aware contrary to what he believes.
think and these words certainly that he needs some kind of wak- In comparing those days to the
got me thinking, I could not but ing up. days in which he now finds him-
connect it back to my home in The Afrikan man is caught in be- self, he longs to go back to the
Afrika. I do not think there is any tween two dream states. He is days of his forefathers. What a
other nation or people in the caught in the dream of the juicy, loyal and lovely son he tries to
world caught up in such a chas- glorious past of his forefathers; make everyone believe that he
ing after futility and pseudo-life- the reality of the grandiose tech- is. But the reality is that, that
styles than America and Ameri- nology and human mind-power which he so longs to go back to,
cans. Oh my goodness, they just that it took to build the pyramids has also become a dream state
can't get enough of it and it has of Egypt, the magnificent Sphinx from which he needs to wake up
become a stench to the spirit of and the other grand architectural from somehow. For those days
morality and humanity. masterpieces scattered all over are gone and will never return.

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