African Professional Issue 20

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My father always says that I always look at things simplistically, but I guess that is the only way I can understand and make sense of it. So I ask, what is it about us that makes us give our wealth (personal or mineral), sell our kin and our souls in the hope of prosperity? How do we allow ‘fake prophets’ to take advantage of us like that? I might be taking it too far, but it seems to spill over into general life outside of sheer religion. We let a handful of troops with guns, mirrors, sugar and bibles, come onto our shores and colonise us. We allowed them to make us believe that as brothers and sisters of the same soil, one tribe is better than the other based on looks. We let a minority render us animals, here on our own land and we accept it? What is it about us that firstly,

people think they can do this to us (well because they can I guess) and why do we let it be so? When will this beautiful continent rise and prosper? YAW PEPRAH Twitter - @yawzie

Image by Chris Kirschoff, Mediaclubsouthafrica


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