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the havoc they can cause in their You will see young girls giving birth UK etc in asking Afrika to come
nations and governments. But my to babies. to their various tables or that the
concern is this: is there anytime in They will also take snuff. supposed foreign investments in
the history of Afrika, especially as When you see these things happen, Afrika are just like bananas tied
it concerns the coming of the white your culture will be destroyed. to an arrow and a carrot tied to a
man, that Afrikans themselves were And your land shall be taken away stick. We are clearly seeing what
not spiritually warned of the coming from you”. She ended by saying is going on in the white farmers'
of foreign white skins and the harm “I have told you of these things. I compensation story of Zimbabwe
they would bring with them to the am tired. I do not want to see our and the destabilizing effects it will
borders of Afrika? The answer culture destroyed. Am going away.” have shortly, the GMO seeds/foods
is no. Afrikans have always had and the killer chemicals infiltration
spiritual channels through which Clearly, this prophecy has come to of Afrika by foreign corporations
they get foresight and counsel con- pass. like Bayer ( Former Monsanto),
cerning the future and by that are the Chinese debt bonanza that has
prepared to tackle whatever it is that Here is another case of the Rwanda the ability to make key sectors of
comes. But if you ask me, and from king, Nazimpaka Yubi III (end of Afrikan life completely taken over
the way we are still grappling with the seventeenth century), who in a by the Chinese government and the
foreign issues even in this age that dream saw pale-skinned men com- many other compromises that both
we are in, it does not look like we ing from the east. He took up his Afrikan governments and Afrikans
have mastered how to strategically bows and arrows, but before letting themselves are making, for selfish
use foresight of the future to our the arrow fly, he tied ripe bananas reasons.
advantage. to the shafts. The interpretation It is true that for some centuries
of this dream by the spiritualists in the Afrikan has had many reasons
I will share two stories here that his palace showed an attitude, one for not being conscious of respon-
speak of how Afrikans have always which is aggressive and welcom- sibility. He has been accustomed to
had prophetic counsel about what is ing, and in short ambiguous, and so many alienating dictates coming
to come. which imparted a special image from outside that even if he lived
The story of Prophetess Mepoho, to the collective consciousness of far from the slave coast or the seat
from the Giriama people of Kilifi the Rwanda people, and may have of the nearest white officer, some
county of coastal Kenya, speaks of a had something to do with the fact part of his soul was bound to be
prophecy that she gave concerning that although they were seasoned marked with the annihilating brand
the coming of the white man to the warriors they did not put up much of the serf.
east Afrikan coastline. Is is said that resistance to the German columns At first glance, and from many
there is a shrine (Panga) at Kableni in the nineteenth century. ethnological studies, one gets the
which is believed to have been a These are just two instances out of impression that Afrikans were
place of prayer used by her. It is not many, that show that Afrikans were submerged, almost drowned, in
clear whether she lived to attain old clearly aware of the coming of the mythical time, a vast ocean without
age but it is believed that “one day white man and the warning to be shores and without landmarks,
she demanded that a spiritual dance aware of what his intentions are and while the other peoples of the
(Ngoma za Pepo) be performed at how to stand against it. world advanced down the avenue
Kaloleni as she had an important of History, a great highway marked
message to tell the tribe. So it was Its happening again out with the milestones of progress.
that the dance was performed.” She Even a blind man can tell that But I do not believe that the Afrika
sat on her three-legged traditional Afrika has already fallen into the of now, with all her teeming collec-
Giriama stool. As the drummers same position she found herself in tion of brains and human resources
performed their act Mepoho got centuries ago when she didn't take should remain in the same spot of
possessed and started to narrate her so seriously the defense of her land the mistakes their forefathers made,
prophecy thus”. from the invading foreigners. But either by not taking stronger stands
“There will come a people with this time, Afrika really does not against imperialism, colonialism
white hair like sisal fibers. When need any one prophet or prophet- and the many other "isms" or by
these people come. You will also ess from a church or a mosque to the way of compromises for selfish
see vehicles in the sky, on the wa- tell her that the intention of nations gains.
ters and on the land. like China, France, Russia, te US,

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