Page 15 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 7

MY AFRIKA
man be and face yourself and
your own country.
To my beloved Afrikan family in
the Diaspora, specifically the
US, it’s time to come home. It is
evident that the bed of roses that
the US was for you, is now a bed
of thorns. Yes, Afrika may not be
all that you think that it should
be, but here at least you have
some rights and some room to
breathe and to build.
Think about it from this perspec- relegated her to, as though she
tive, when Joseph was sent to
Egypt – initially as a slave – he
was going both physically and
spiritually to prepare a place
for Israel to be incubated in. He
did his time there, made way for
his family, who joined him. They
grew and prospered in the land
of Egypt. Joseph then died and
Israel continued to flourish and
grow, until a Pharaoh arose who
knew neither of Joseph nor of
the deal that had been struck for
him and the Israelites by his pre- tion is over and – at last – the age
decessor. This Pharaoh became
the bane of their existence in the
land. But the question is why.
Yes, the Pharaoh was wicked to
them and treated them harshly,
but what did that re-activate for
the people of Israel? It re-activat- us now and you are required to
ed their remembrance of God.
They cried to Him. It re-birthed
the covenant that God had made
with their father, Abraham, years
before and it animated the word
spoken by God that the people
of Israel would be brought back
and established as a nation.
Don’t think that what Ghana did
last year with the Year of Return
was some random PR event.
No, it was a powerfully prophet-
ic precursor to what God is do-
ing for Afrika; bringing back her
sons and daughters to the land
to build the future Afrika.
For almost two decades now, I
have known that Afrika’s sons
and daughters must return
home, to give her strength, hav-
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ing studied the lands beyond people who will help to lift each
her boundaries, understood the other up. Not in arrogance or su-
peoples and nations there, along periority of attitude, but in love.
with their ways. For more than For what was shown was that
ten years I have known that the those is that those in the West
Spirit of the Lord had sent out a do not wish Afrika well and they
summons in the spirit to the true have indeed plotted her demise
sons and daughters of Afrika to that they may take her spoils for
return and to rebuild her. That themselves, but it will not come
they were to return in order to to pass as they desire, for God
gather her out of the dust heap has already gone ahead to se-
and ash pile that the world has cure our destiny as a people.
Not in the hands of corrupt lead-
is useless, even though she ership who compromise and sell
birthed the whole world. Some Afrika’s inheritance to strangers,
heard and heeded this call and but in the hands of Afrika’s true
have returned over the years, sons who understand that with-
while the rest are enjoying the out her, the world is in serious
leeks and onions of the land trouble. Because of the word of
that they have claimed as their God, as it was in the beginning,
home. so it is even in this last day, that
But, as Samuel Phillips has Afrika is the source of life for all
shared in some of his writings, of mankind.
this is the age of the Black Afri- So, consider that your trials and
kan. The age of Afrika’s slavery sufferings in that foreign land
is over, the age of her exploita- are not intended to cause you to
hate the hand of the one that has
of her arising has come. The Af- been used to stir these things,
rika that was intended to be the but rather to understand that the
“arrowhead of all things spiritual Divine clock in the hands of God
and of all mental creativity on is sounding the prophetic hour
earth: education, technology, in- for that greater destiny for your-
novations, you name it,” is upon self and for Afrika, which you
feel in your heart to be fulfilled is
be a part of its building. The des- upon us. Come home and build
tinies of Afrikan and the world’s her up again.
nations depends upon it. Afrika will fulfill her destiny, the
Do not be like those who despise question is, will you heed the
Afrika because of her woes and call to return to her bosom and
her many struggles. Do not turn lift up this mother of humanity so
your nose up and away from her, that all of humanity can receive
saying that there is a stench that of her the depths, breadths and
arises from within her. There are heights of love once more?
things that need to be worked
on, yes, but how can we be
those who continue to complain
about her state, yet we do not
do anything to change it? What
manner of madness would that
be on our part? Keep in mind the
dream I was given that Samuel
was given the interpretation of,
of the arising of a New Afrikan
Union, of linked and like-minded
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