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MY AFRIKA
mind and thinking and by that, it which I dont ever want to be West, Europe and China)."
was easy to create my own pat- caught in, is debt.
terns for life and living, without I dislike it, disdain it and I believe I am very sure someone will say,
having to dance to the dictates or it's not the best way to go about but the West, Europe and China
the tune of another man's flute. life. that you mentioned also borrow
from others? True. But have you
To some, this kind of inde- Quite early in life, I came in con- considered that their model of
pendent mental attitude could tact with a proverb in the bible borrowing is more of business
easily be termed as an indication that I love and which somehow man to business man than our
of someone with a rebellious became the backbone of my ill-chosen master and servant
inclination, but for what it's attitude towards debt. model of borrowing? A model
worth, it is better to be a rebel which has crippled our common
to systems, ideologies, norms, Proverbs 22:7 says "The rich drive to create better workable
world patterns; which will easily rules over the poor, And the environments for our Afrikan
pit people against you, than be borrower is servant to the people. Why? Our governments
an every body's man and by that lender." (NKJV) are more afraid of their lender
have no say over what you stand masters than they care about the
for. Mind you, this is purely my I do not know about you, but needs and the cries of their peo-
opinion and I think I have the for me, this passage of scrip- ple. So when they make policies,
right to one. ture is not what I want to take it is not to favor their people
with a pinch of salt, for clearly in order to get them out of the
I grew up picking ideologies, and as a matter of fact, Afrika "poor state" they are in, but to
ways of life and patterns through is where she is right now, like an please their masters. Further-
my every day interactions with undemined entity, largely because more, even if they do borrow
things, people, books etc. One of of the reality of this scripture. from one another, who says that
the books that shaped some of To be sincere, how many times is a standard we ought to mimic?
my life's pattern and ideology, is have you heard these statements: Who said that the West is the
the Bible. "poor countries", "third world ultimate standard of anything?
nations", "aid in Afrika", "less
Take it or leave it, believe it or developed nations" etc and all But the most annoying thing is
disbelieve it, undermine it or give point to Afrika? that, you hear on the news the
it a high five, the Bible is full of I am sure you hear it almost staggering amount of debt that
stories and narratives that are so every day in the news, on social Afrikan nations are owing, but
life-shaping, that an alignment media, read it in the newspaper. you can't find the corresponding
with such stories, will give you a But have you considered what staggering amount of develop-
clear path for your personal life. this means? ment and better life that such
borrowing has brought.
One of the things that I hate in Simply put, it means "The rich
life with so much passion and (the West, Europe and China) In my view, slavery is still here
is lord over the poor (Afrika with us and we just ned to see it
and the other and deal with it decisively. Period!
supposed poor
nations) and the Like I had alluded to at the be-
borrower (Afri- gining of this article, an inde-
ka and the other pendent mental attitude towards
poor nations) life for me was not a thing I was
is servant to going to exchange over some
the lender (the debt. And I am not saying this
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