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AFRIKAN FOODS
REFLECTIONS OF AN AFRIKAN

When we reward FOOLISHNESS

Samuel Phillips

strength and ingenuity of those who In all of these, the one thing that
hen we reward are sleeplessly doing their best to makes my heart sink concerning
foolishness and create a better narrative for Afrika Afrika is how we reward foolish-
make mockery and then how with our eyes closed, ness handsomely and then turn
Wof wisdom and we reward handsomely the acts of around to persecute those who are
sanity, then we by our own hands foolishness, savagery, immorality, doing the right things. We sit down
have written off the future. We indiscipline and the many other and lament about our woes, throw
make mockery of the watery eyes vices that we support. tantrums all over the place about
of our men of wisdom of ancient I am sure a few of the issues I will how Afrika is not working and then
Afrika, whose eyes looked into the speak about in this article will of- when we are called upon to have a
future with the hope that sons and fend some people, and there might sit-down and dialogue about how
daughters of Afrika would continue be some backlash, but I think that's we can profer solutions to the very
what they could not finish in their ok, really. When we stop talking things we complain about, the seats
own time. about the very things that under- will be empty. In other words, we
These are my thoughts and these mine our society, then we have be- love the sensationalism of negative
words are the reflections of my come irresponsible and such society trends and how the clamor we
heart concerning my home called will soon be washed away. make for change makes us feel use-
Afrika; the people, ideology, prin- ful and expressive on social media
ciples, philosophy and what these In the course of publishing this and all, while at the same time we
people call life and living. magazine for about eighteen have no intention of really making
I have seen and watched closely months, we have come across a change, since there will be nothing
how we in Afrika undermine wis- lot of people, characters, ideolo- else to cry over or create social
dom, how we take for granted the gies, mindsets both good and evil. media presence with.

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