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COMMUNITY

Why not Afrikans? Let love lead.

Samuel Phillips

hat does it really about the way Afrikans relate with kans too can live as brothers, sisters
takes for Afrikans themselves, but I will speak from and as one big family, even with our
to see themselves the place of how we deal with differences. Who says we cannot
Wthrough the right ourselves in relation to how we deal and why should we not?
lenses and in the right light? Is it with white foreigners.
really rocket science for a people I have personally been a victim of
to know that they are actually not To love the white man as an hate and oppression at the hands
different from each other and that Afrikan, it is a great thing that we of fellow Afrikans and I was not
what they call differences in ideolo- sincerely encourage and advocate. pleased with it at all. And to think
gy, culture, tradition, art, language, But if you as an Afrikan love the that the reason for such hate and
shade of black color, geographical white man but undermine and hate acts of bile was as stupid as the act
location within Afrika, are actually your Afrikan brother and sister, itself... the fact that I am a Nige-
the very things that give beauty and then we need to really check if your rian. I have asked myself several
originality to their oneness as Afri- love for the white man is genuine or times, what is it with Afrikans hating
kans? And such should be appreci- if you are just a sycophant looking Afrikans? To narrow it down, let
ated and celebrated. I hope for the for the white man's favors or if you me say, what is with Kenyans hating
day that Afrikan nations will learn are still a slave in your mentality. Nigerians? What is it with South
to celebrate together our common Why? How can the same heart that Afrikans hating Kenyans and Nige-
ancestry and bask in the beauty of produces love for the white man, rians? What is it with a full-brained
what it means to be Afrikans, that produce hate and disdain for the right-thinking Kenyan man claiming
is, the descendants of the first hu- black man? How does it work? that the reason they hate Nigerians
mans that graced this home called It's like a single spring of water that is because Nigerian men are snatch-
the cradle of humanity. is producing both sweet and bitter ing their Kenyan women? I can't
waters. It's just not possible. seem to wrap my head around the
I have quite a lot of things to say What I think is possible is that Afri- ability to even think such a thing.

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