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MY AFRIKA

est territories, and ultimately to our do not wish for themselves. Second that what men have attributed to de-
planet’s climate. hand clothes, second hand cars, sec- velopment as regards GMO seeds,
ond hand technology and even sec- GMO foods, high frequency mobile
I never had the chance to go to uni- ond hand Covid-19, to say the least. technology like 5G networks, nuclear
versity, and become a doctor, or a In trying to figure out why Afrikans energy, lots of electricity in the cities
lawyer, a politician, or a scientist. are still alive, some say it's because that practically shut out stars in the
My elders are my teachers. The for- Afrika is poor. Some say it's because night, lack of community relation-
est is my teacher. And I have learned accurate testing and data are not ship due to mind-your-business mid-
enough (and I speak shoulder to available in Afrika. Some even said dle class-ism, heavy duty factories
shoulder with my Indigenous broth- it's because Afrika's population is that churn out heavy metals which in
ers and sisters across the world) to mostly young people below age 25. turn causes air, water and land pol-
know that you have lost your way, It's simply mind boggling to whoever lution; is nothing but death creation.
and that you are in trouble (though these people are that think they own And I do not mean this in any bad
you don’t fully understand it yet) and how the Afrikan reality should turn way, if the so called first world Amer-
that your trouble is a threat to every out in this pandemic that Afrikans ica, with all its technology and health
form of life on Earth." I won’t be are still very much alive and bounc- care systems could not save its peo-
able to teach you in this letter, either. ing in good health. In fact, at the ple from Covid-19 which has symp-
But what I can say is that it has to beginning of the pandemic, the con- toms that are not far from the com-
do with thousands and thousands of cern of these scientists, or whoever mon flu, then what right does anyone
years of love for this forest, for this they are, was that the combination of have to say that Afrika is not devel-
place. Love in the deepest sense, as the overstretched and underfunded oped? None. But has Afrika used her
reverence. This forest has taught us health systems and the so-called ex- resources in a way that establishes
how to walk lightly, and because we isting load of infectious and non-in- true development and better life for
have listened, learned and defended fectious diseases in Afrika would her people over the past sixty years
her, she has given us everything: wa- lead to deaths at an apocalyptic lev- after independence? The answer is
ter, clean air, nourishment, shelter, el. Obviously, it did not turn out the no. Now the question is, why?
medicines, happiness, meaning. And way they thought, for on September
you are taking all this away, not just 29th when the world passed the one The Singapore story
from us, but from everyone on the million reported death marks, on the I was watching an interview posted
planet, and from future generations." same day, the number of deaths in on Facebook about Dr Kishore Mah-
Afrika was cumulative total of less bubani, who is a Chunqiu Senior Fel-
The writer, Nemonte Nenquimo is than 40,000. This must have been a low, China Institute. He was talking
co-founder of the Indigenous-led huge slap in the face of those sons about life and the changes that have
nonprofit organization Ceibo Al- of wickedness who think Afrikans happened in Singapore for the past
liance, the first female president of will die like flies on the street. seventy years. He mentioned about
the Waorani organization of Pasta- growing up in Singapore when the
za province and one of Time’s 100 In all of the reasons they gave for nation was still a growing developing
most influential people in the world. why they think Afrikans did not die third world country, with the per cap-
like they expected, they forgot to ita income at 500 dollars, which was
When Afrikans refuse to die mention the fact that the so called the same in Ghana as at that time. He
A lot of questions are out there as Covid-19 virus thrives in bodies mentioned he came from a poor en-
to why the Covid-19 pandemic didn't whose immune systems have been vironment so poor to the extent that
seem to do much harm in Afrika compromised. And like Dr Peter when he was sent to school at the age
as against the postulation that the Mokaya pointed out in the interview of six, they were admitted by weight.
streets of Afrika will be littered with published in this issue, the common And because his weight was so small,
dead bodies. With such questions factor in the death rate in Brazil, the he was declared under-nourished and
also came many answers. Some of USA and South Afrika is their use of placed in a special feeding program
such answers are just very dumb and poisonous pesticides and the eating for under-nourished children. In the
it simply shows the very thing that of GMO foods which had over time course of the video, he mentioned
the world has always thought about have done lots of damage to the im- something so amazing. He said "It's
Afrika. It seems that to the world, mune systems of the people living in quite remarkable that in my lifetime
Afrika is supposed to be the dump- these countries. Singapore has gone from being a
ing ground for everything that they So if you ask me again, I will still say third world country to a first world

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