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MY AFRIKA
Debt and SLAVERY
By: Samuel Phillips
debtor is a slave Should such a man be called a masters at the table? I have not
for sure, but what debtor, a slave or what exactly? yet figured this out. Just maybe
happens when a man there are things my mind has
A who owns almost all This is the sad story of Afri- not yet grabbed, or just maybe
that the entire world wants, still ka and the nations in her. The I am in a continent of those
allows himself to be a slave to Afrikan leaders, Afrikan acade- who like to flex their muscles at
the very people who are chasing micians, scientists, businessmen home, bully their neighbors but
after what he himself has be- and the many others will not stop run away at the face of foreign
cause he doesn't understand what talking about how rich Afrika is, invaders.
he has and because he won't but the question is, why do we
stop borrowing the very thing he still borrow and allow ourselves Somehow, I believe by the grace
already has been blessed with? to be labelled as slaves, when we of God, I learnt quite early in
atually have all we need to be life to be very independent in my
10 | Heal . restore . rebirth . Afrika
