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What They Never Taught Us About Africa || Masterminds Special EP111 · Masterminds Podcast

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  SPEAKER_01: Because you are weak until you have a strong sense of history as an African.
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  SPEAKER_04: No, it's very funny that African history seems to start from 1400s.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amina, slavery and colonization.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we come to Ghana independence in 1957.
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  SPEAKER_01: We cannot fight the systems that these guys have pushed us through.
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  SPEAKER_03: There are lots of things that because of politics, they had to cover it.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is the first lie we are taught when we go to school in Ghana?
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  SPEAKER_00: One plus one is two.
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  SPEAKER_00: One plus one is not two.
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  SPEAKER_00: Me plus my wife is four.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like everything has been turned backward.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's how history has been.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's what it's the reason why we are now at the bottom.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Every culture's God resembles them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Except Africa.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, it used to.
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_06: That is it.
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  SPEAKER_06: So they believe in God, no problem.
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  SPEAKER_06: But the belief in God should make you productive.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because, from my knowledge, our ancestors taught the Greeks everything they know.
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  SPEAKER_04: Welcome back to the Masterminds Podcast.
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  SPEAKER_04: As usual, your charming and ever so cute guide on the journey to sharpen your most powerful tool is here.
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  SPEAKER_04: My name is Richie Mensa, and here we help build your mind.
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  SPEAKER_04: You know, it's very funny that African history seems to start from 1400s.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amina, slavery and colonization.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then we come to Ghana independence in 1957.
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  SPEAKER_01: You cannot fight the systems that these guys have pushed us through with that kind of knowledge.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, so I would go into the kingdoms, the dynasties, the empires that the Africans built themselves without anybody's intrusion, whether from the Arabs or the Europeans.
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  SPEAKER_01: Once you correct that, you start to see yourself as a full human being.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you can see the indications when you start to talk differently as an African.
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  SPEAKER_01: You start to talk positively, optimistically, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: About African.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's it.
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  SPEAKER_01: The fear comes down.
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  SPEAKER_01: You start to see Africans and you believe in them.
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  SPEAKER_01: You see African name and African culture and you're proud of it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you see other civilizations, uh civilizations as not more powerful than us.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And in different stages, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: And somebody said that until a human being understands their culture and their history, they have not started to live.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I so believe it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because that did the trick for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: After all this kind of school, I started to study the history.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then I started to believe that yes, I can become become successful in our land.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just a matter of time and knowing what to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so the history, the consciousness is something that I dare say over 90% of our people don't have it.
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  SPEAKER_01: No matter their position.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no matter the education, no matter if in their business of financial success.
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  SPEAKER_01: Because when you engage them, many of them become that bit um negative, paranoid towards us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's why they will easily tell the young man that there is no opportunity in Ghana, just move to another country.
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  SPEAKER_01: When you are in the plane, you see everybody trying to come here.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do they know that we don't know?
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  SPEAKER_03: So that's that's the same way that I chose the history thing.
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  SPEAKER_03: And one thing too, I discovered when I started the history thing, I realized there are lots of things that uh they should they sugarcoated it in classrooms.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, yes, because sometimes they even twisted it completely.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, so I I'll read something and I'll I'll go and see something like this thing it'd be like this way, then tell we different way, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Although it's because they thought we were children, but I don't think it's the right way.
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  SPEAKER_03: No, there are lots of things that they covered.
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  SPEAKER_04: And I've opened the Pandora's box.
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  SPEAKER_04: Let's let me go there.
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  SPEAKER_04: Do you think our educational system twisted our history to sort of indoctrinate as the wrong thing?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, a lot.
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  SPEAKER_03: A lot.
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  SPEAKER_03: There are lots of things that uh because of politics, they have to cover it.
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  SPEAKER_03: There are lots of things that because they think it's too exposed for their children, so we should cover it.
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  SPEAKER_03: You know, come to talk, uh, come to think of it, something like let me say sex.
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  SPEAKER_03: You can't discuss sex with an African parent, it's very difficult.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so when you take that one, for example, there are sort uh sorts of things that they'll cover in the books, do not put the details there.
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  SPEAKER_03: They're expecting that when you grow, you go and do your research.
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  SPEAKER_03: And we too, the way the system they uh when you grow, you are looking for a job.
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  SPEAKER_04: You are not you don't have time to go and do the research.
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  SPEAKER_03: You understand me?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: So when I found this part, I felt like yo, this is me.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because me naturally, me, me pain fi moo.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes, when you tell me something, I'll take it all.
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  SPEAKER_03: But me myself, I went do research about it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_03: So when I found this, I was like, okay, this is me.
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  SPEAKER_04: So what are some parts in our history that you've done research and realized that they twisted the stories more?
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  SPEAKER_00: So somewhere between Egypt, Timbuktu, and Amanukrum, where I come from, because my family migr migrated from Misrim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Masri, Egyptians call their country Masri.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, we call where we can come from Misrim.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's Masri.
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  SPEAKER_00: Misra, Masri.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's the Europeans who call it Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: The indigenous people call their country the same thing that we call their country.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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  unknown: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Masri.
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  SPEAKER_00: Masri, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spell it for me.
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  SPEAKER_00: M-A-S-R-I is the name Egyptians call their own country.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or Misra.
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  SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we call Egypt by its true name.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Israel is Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_00: Misrim is where the word Israel comes from.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_04: So you feel Israelites are the Egyptians?
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: At some point.
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  SPEAKER_00: But then the Israelites left Egypt, led by who?
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  SPEAKER_00: Moses.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Musa left Egypt, across the what is the Red Sea?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is the Nile.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's go to Chadu.
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  SPEAKER_00: See these rivers which were flooding, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: No, in the dry season you can walk across many of them.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: Many of these rivers which flood and sweep cars and things away.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the dry season, you can walk across them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Me, I grew up in Bemakam.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's a part of Chadw.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's called River Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's why when people went to build there, it's like, ah, Ghana Fordia Yabodamo.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because this place has been called River Jordan since I was five years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: Or at least seven or eight years old.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we used to ride there on horses, ride there on bicycles.
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  SPEAKER_00: When you get there, it's River Jordan.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the dry season, we could wade, walk across those rivers.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the rainy season, try to sweep you all the way to the Quishilagoo.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the Nile River was like that before the Aswan Dam was built.
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  SPEAKER_00: So what did Musa do?
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  SPEAKER_00: The ancient Egyptians knew the seasons very well.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Musa just took his people across the Nile and then the floodwater started rising.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because those flood waters are coming from thousands and thousands of miles away.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because there's no rain.
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  SPEAKER_00: Egypt here, the only water is the Nile.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got to go down past, even Sudan cries dry.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got to go southern Sudan, you've got to go Uganda, Tanzania.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where the water in the Nile comes from.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Musa knew.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he crossed the river, the water level started rising.
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  SPEAKER_00: The enemies tried to chase them, but they couldn't cross the river anymore because the it's the seasonal.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, the Nile used to flood its banks every year.
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  SPEAKER_00: We learned that in primary school.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then they were in the desert for 40 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is, I mean, those numbers are just mythical.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Musa led his people from Misrim, Misrahim.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Ghanai people say they come from Israel.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had it's true.
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  SPEAKER_00: When Gah people say they are from Israel, then people laugh.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it's the fact.
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  SPEAKER_02: Africa had planned cities.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, we had multi-story buildings.
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  SPEAKER_02: We had libraries, and we had a whole lot of things, marketplaces, palaces, and all those places, paved streets.
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  SPEAKER_02: That Europeans themselves, but you know, Richie, we we are not going to sit here and just say things for the sake of it.
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  SPEAKER_02: We're going to go deep into history and quote those people that came here during those eras.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where I want us to start this whole conversation from is when the Greeks, because the Greeks, we are told, are the people that brought civilization into this world we live in.
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  SPEAKER_02: They say this civilized, the modern world.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we want to find out from the Greeks themselves.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because from my knowledge, our ancestors taught the Greeks everything they know.
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  SPEAKER_02: But now we are being told that the Greeks brought civilization.
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  SPEAKER_02: So we want to dig deep into the historicity of this whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_02: Now let's go.
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  SPEAKER_02: Let me uh take you to uh Pythagoras, for instance.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, Plutarch writes from the source.
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  SPEAKER_02: The source is uh on Isis and Osiris, and I want to quote this is from um 400, this is for 46 B CE to 120 CE.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is when Plutarch wrote this then.
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  SPEAKER_02: So let me quote.
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  SPEAKER_02: He said, Witness to witness to this also are the wisest of the Greeks, Solon, Thallas, Plato, Idosus, Pythagoras, who came to Egypt and consulted with the priests.
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  SPEAKER_02: Pythagoras received instructions from office of Heliopolis.
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  SPEAKER_02: Pythagoras greatly admired the Egyptian priests and copying their symbolism and occult teachings, incorporated his doctrines in enigmas.
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  SPEAKER_02: So what Putage is telling us that the Pythagoras, that now Africans credit for the theorem and all these things, came to Africa to learn everything that he knows.
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  SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: So basically, civilization, when you want to look at civilization, then civilization has its roots in Africa.
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  SPEAKER_02: Aside that, the Greeks themselves, they say that when you look at the gods, for instance, so let me quote from uh Herodotus.
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  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: Herodotus says, and this is from History's book two, page number 50.
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  SPEAKER_02: He says almost all the names of the Gauls came into Greece from Egypt.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Greeks were the ones that translated the Medunete.
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  SPEAKER_02: Medunete, the Egyptian language into the Greek language.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: When they conquered Kemet in 332 BC, after Alexander of Macedon died, his fourth general, um uh Ptolemy uh the Sute means uh savior.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, he inherited Kemet and and those territories.
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  SPEAKER_02: So he decided to build a city for his boss, Alexander.
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  SPEAKER_02: That is the town Alexandria.
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  SPEAKER_05: Alexandria, yes.
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  SPEAKER_02: He couldn't finish the city.
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  SPEAKER_02: I mean, it takes years to build a city.
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  SPEAKER_02: So his predecessor, his uh the person that succeeded him, uh uh Ptolemy Philadelphus.
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  SPEAKER_02: After they they built the city, he built libraries because when they came to Kemeth, they saw that the Africans had libraries.
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  SPEAKER_02: So they also decided they want to build libraries.
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  SPEAKER_02: And build in building the libraries, they decided to translate all the ancient Egyptian books into the Greek language and keep it in in their library.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, so that is where they got the septuagin, septuagin, which would become the Bible, where the source of the Bible and everything.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's why the New Testament that everything is in the new is in Greek.
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  SPEAKER_04: So I also read that there is no historical evidence of Moses.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes, yes, he never existed.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wow, he never existed, it was just a ploy to demonize Kemet.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, Kemet, they they the Europeans didn't want Africans to go back to their Kemetic mileage, that's why they they demonized it.
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  SPEAKER_04: So they had to be the ones who enslaved God's chosen people.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, so if these people and the Bible specifically called them that they didn't know God, they were evil.
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  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: So imagine God saying these people are evil.
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  SPEAKER_02: Who are you to go and but then those people that brought us the book that said the Egyptians were evil, they took everything the Egyptians had and and and and put it in their museums.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, why are you taking things that belong to the devil?
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  SPEAKER_02: And and then in in their Bible, they said Egypt is the Egyptians were evil, but the the character Jesus Christ in the Bible, when the uh the the king wanted to kill him, look at where they took him to.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, where the devil is.
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  SPEAKER_02: Maybe God sent him to go and fight the devil.
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  SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_04: Because everything, you know, I um you know the 42 legs, the 42 negative laws of my art.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yes, yeah, the 42 negative confessions, 42 negative confessions, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Where the ten commandments they stole from thou shalt not steal by you stealing Richie.
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  SPEAKER_02: I asked myself this question.
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  SPEAKER_04: This character Moses, who supposedly was born in Egypt, yeah, grew up in the household of the Pharaoh, is telling us that he didn't know about the 42 negative confessions.
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  SPEAKER_02: But this Moses, before God was giving him thou shall not kill, had killed someone.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, true, but you know, that time God was forgiven, even though in the Garden of Eden he wasn't forgiven, so he's punished all of us, but he forgave Moses.
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  SPEAKER_01: Until we get the right knowledge to develop who we are and what we have, the development will take time.
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  SPEAKER_04: Let's go a little into African history.
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  SPEAKER_04: What part of African history do you think we can discuss right now to let the person watching there know that Africa has always been great?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, you look at the peremise, not the ones in Egypt alone.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, the guys in Egypt now say that they built it, but really, if you study the history, it's not it's not they built it.
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  SPEAKER_01: You go to Sudan, it's there, you know.
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  SPEAKER_01: You even come to Ghana, you see traces of a lot of the things that they have found in these countries.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's still the knowledge that we carried alongside.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I would say it's not just thousand-year history, two thousand year history, go beyond at least uh six thousand, seven thousand, ten thousand, uh, you know, backward, and start to read materials on them and try to find the kingdoms and how they manage themselves.
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  SPEAKER_01: At least when we were in school, they talk about Ghana, the Ghana Empire Empire.
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  SPEAKER_01: What happened?
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  SPEAKER_01: How many years did they run?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, how did they carry themselves?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because uh, as it stands now, somebody will say, Oh, some people came to tell you how to wear suits, how to wear tie, but these people ruled themselves for at least thousand years.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, Mansamusa was walking around in luxury clothing, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So they didn't have any sense until somebody tell them came to tell them how to come there.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_01: No, so it means that there was a there was a time that somebody had to engineer to lie to a whole new generation, yeah, that they were nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: You know, that was escape.
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  SPEAKER_04: I was amazed to find out that in 200 AD, yeah, there was an African Pope in Rome.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_04: I was like, ah, I thought we're supposed to be uncivilized.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes, how did one of us become a pope?
• 17:12
  SPEAKER_04: As a matter of fact, I saw I said a pope, sorry, a Caesar.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, he ruled Rome.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our thesis are everywhere.
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  SPEAKER_01: They even say that the the the the the father of Western civilization, they call him Augustine, the mother was a nobian.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can find that exactly, you know, um um Trinity, the defenders of it were Africans, so there were a lot of uh Africans in almost everything science, technology, religion, everywhere that we must find.
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  SPEAKER_01: Somebody told us not to find them, and so that's why when you go to school, they are teaching Greeks civilization constantly.
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  SPEAKER_01: We must link it to that.
• 17:45
  SPEAKER_01: I think we have to go beyond that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm saying that because of the traces that we see now and the damages that we see.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we cannot see ourselves beyond what they came to tell us, and that's why we're still fighting to depend on somebody.
• 17:57
  SPEAKER_01: What somebody who was a president, they ask him, What is your greatest um legacy?
• 18:02
  SPEAKER_01: He said that that man people will be as old in their thinking as the Bible.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_01: That's that's the reference, and as new as the internet.
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  SPEAKER_01: They know that you cannot talk of the future until you talk of the history.
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  SPEAKER_02: And the British themselves, they acknowledge when they met the Ashanties, for instance, the British common law, for instance, they picked it from the Ashanties.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, because when they visited, when Bauditch, when you read a mission from uh Cape Coast to Ashanti, let me tell you something.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's funny.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, around the 19th century, when in the UK the white people were, I mean, forgive me for my words, shitting in the river themes.
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  SPEAKER_02: The Ashantis had toilet systems in their houses.
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  SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yes, but they said we were uncivilized.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_02: Let me let me let me let me quote Baudich himself.
• 18:55
  SPEAKER_02: Let me look for the quotes from Baudich.
• 18:59
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, okay.
• 19:01
  SPEAKER_02: Uh and I quote, he said, Many houses, especially in the capital, were two stories high.
• 19:09
  SPEAKER_02: Two stories high, clean, decorated, and well maintained.
• 19:16
  SPEAKER_02: There was also indoor plumbing, plumbing toilets were flushed with gallons of boiling water, and plantain fiber was used as toilet articles.
• 19:29
  SPEAKER_02: We all know when we use border.
• 19:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 19:35
  SPEAKER_04: And he said it's called boidage.
• 19:39
  SPEAKER_02: No, the he was a British emissary.
• 19:43
  SPEAKER_02: When the British wanted to meet the Ashantis for the first time, they were the ones they sent from the Cape Coast castle.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_02: So they took a missionary to meet the Ashantehine.
• 19:55
  SPEAKER_04: And I keep hearing such stories.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_04: I keep hearing stories of different Europeans and how they were amazed whenever they came to Africa.
• 20:05
  SPEAKER_04: You know, like I hear about when the Portuguese went to um when they saw the Benin Wall for the first time, how they were amazed at the cities and everything.
• 20:15
  SPEAKER_04: But then I always wonder so at which point in time in history did this turn around to now sound like we were just some monkeys living in trees that they had to come and save us.
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_04: You know, I I just learned about a guy called Thomas Thompson, who actually said that slavery saved Africans.
• 20:37
  SPEAKER_02: No, they have said a lot of nonsense, you know.
• 20:45
  SPEAKER_02: But Richie, let's from what they are saying, let's ask Leo Africanus.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_02: Because Leo Africanus visited Africa, he was a Moorish African, uh, he was sold into slavery, and then uh the king that he was sold to found out that he was learned and that he free he freed him and commissioned him to come and uh do a lot of works in Africa.
• 21:12
  SPEAKER_02: You see, before the Europeans came here, they had a lot of knowledge about Africa because they had sent a lot of people to come and do investigations.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_02: For instance, Leo Africanus in 1526, from his book Description of Africa, and I quote, here are many judges, doctors, priests, and learned men maintain at the king's expense great numbers of book books are imported from Barbary.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_02: He was talking about Timbuktu.
• 21:47
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, does this place look like a village or something?
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_04: Because the University of Timbuktu was actually there before Oxford.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 21:56
  SPEAKER_02: As a matter of fact, the first you Universities in Europe were built by Africans, the Moors.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_04: The Moors, exactly.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_04: When you were talking about Greece and their civilization, I was going to mention the fact that the Moors contributed to the civilization of Greece for like 700 years.
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_00: But also I think that in Europe they will say, Oh, you know, we have lost what they have in Africa.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: Because you're it's difficult for Europeans to imagine somebody is more developed than them.
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: But I think when it comes to community and society, Africa and other uh there are there are many societies that are far more developed than European society.
• 22:40
  SPEAKER_00: Japanese society is a very important thing.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: Yes, it's far more advanced than European society.
• 22:45
  SPEAKER_00: African society is far more advanced than European society.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:48
  SPEAKER_00: Not necessarily in terms of manufacturing and agriculture, but in terms of how we interact with each other and how we treat each other.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: It's more advanced.
• 22:57
  SPEAKER_00: So Europeans assume it's something they had in the past and they've lost, but they never developed it because they were busy developing other things.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 23:05
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_00: So a society will excel at whatever they spend a lot of their time and energy trying to develop.
• 23:14
  SPEAKER_00: I think African society is one of the most advanced in the world.
• 23:22
  SPEAKER_00: I feel that we have allowed religion to distort our indigenous culture.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_00: And we are replacing many practices with religious practices.
• 23:34
  SPEAKER_00: For instance, if I marry someone in a church and all my church members are there, will my church members be there when my wife and I have problems?
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_04: No, they won't.
• 23:44
  SPEAKER_04: Not necessarily.
• 23:46
  SPEAKER_00: But if we go and do a knocking, my family is there, your family is there, we've exchanged the bottle of alcohol.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 23:53
  SPEAKER_00: The day your family brings the bottle of alcohol back to my house, for instance, as a sign of even we will talk.
• 24:01
  SPEAKER_00: We can say we won't accept the we won't accept it.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 24:04
  SPEAKER_00: Yenji, let's sit down and talk.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_00: So a marriage is between two families.
• 24:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just two individual.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: We've thrown away our traditional marriage, which is a fusion of two families, and replaced it with a white wedding.
• 24:21
  SPEAKER_00: What is white if I marry somebody?
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_00: What is white about the wedding?
• 24:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, somebody can say I'm a white man, but you know that it's not a good thing.
• 24:28
  SPEAKER_04: Two Africans marrying in a white.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_00: Two Africans are getting married, yes.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: So what is the obsession with the white wedding?
• 24:36
  SPEAKER_00: You know, so I think we we have allowed religion and especially the business of religion.
• 24:45
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, right, to substitute many practices that were cheaper, more efficient, longer lasting.
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 24:56
  SPEAKER_00: We've replaced it with something more expensive, very fickle, because the church members are just coming there to eat the cake and drink the fanta ego.
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 25:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's not they are not invested in this relationship.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_04: From what you are explaining, religion is culture.
• 25:13
  SPEAKER_04: So why is it that only Africa, we are not being able to hold on to our culture, which is our religion?
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's it's it's it's one of the programming.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, even those of you and I wonder why this age of information, this age of technology, this age of enlightenment, everybody can read and write.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_06: A lot of Christians are acting as if King Leopold's letter to the Congo, they've not seen it.
• 25:40
  SPEAKER_06: Why are you pretending?
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_06: You've seen it.
• 25:43
  SPEAKER_06: When they came, we were very organized.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_06: We have our religion, we have our system of justice.
• 25:52
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, system.
• 25:55
  SPEAKER_06: We have rules and regulations, we were very disciplined.
• 26:00
  SPEAKER_06: So the only way to get us is to incite us against our own culture, demonize it.
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_06: So the priest, our priest, they call it fetish priest.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 26:11
  SPEAKER_06: Now they all of a sudden introduce television, they they introduce newspapers to us.
• 26:20
  SPEAKER_06: So it was newspaper.
• 26:22
  SPEAKER_06: Gone are the days, people were glued to newspaper.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_06: Every morning.
• 26:26
  SPEAKER_06: Every morning, you were glued, just like we are we are being glued to social media now.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yes.
• 26:31
  SPEAKER_06: So television in in and in one decoding it is telling a vision.
• 26:37
  SPEAKER_06: They tell you the vision okay they want you to accept.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_06: So what asked you was the eye is the gateway to the brain and the soul.
• 26:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yes.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_06: So the the eye and the ear.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_06: So what you listen and what you see.
• 26:50
  SPEAKER_06: So they brought us newspaper.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_06: So do you know newspaper evolved from black and white, and the first colored one we got was PMP.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay.
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_06: PMP and stuff.
• 27:00
  SPEAKER_06: I think it's PMP.
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_06: Then they started editing, taking a baby, then they will put a goat's head.
• 27:08
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_06: Do you remember those PMP?
• 27:10
  SPEAKER_06: Then we thought PMP.
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_06: Then they would disturb us over.
• 27:13
  SPEAKER_04: They would disturb us.
• 27:14
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, it was entertaining.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_06: Charlie, then we would Charlie, it's not easy.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_06: So they were doing this gradually, gradually, gradually.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_06: So that's what they did.
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_06: Tell you a story, tell you a story, tell you a story.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_06: Then you pass it on to your child.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_06: Pass it on to your child.
• 27:31
  SPEAKER_06: Then they told her a story.
• 27:33
  SPEAKER_06: Our ancestors knew God, but then they never knew the concept of God.
• 27:37
  SPEAKER_06: God going to sleep with somebody's girlfriend.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_06: Somebody's girlfriend became pregnant, gave birth to God's son, and God's son came to die.
• 27:44
  SPEAKER_06: We didn't have this knowledge, but we knew there is the divine God and the lesser God.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_06: And we attributed this lesser God to nature, either a tree, either a river, either a mountain, either a forest.
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_06: Psychologically, for ecological purposes.
• 28:04
  SPEAKER_06: They told you this deep forest belongs to the gods.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, nobody should go there for hunting.
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_06: If you go, the gods will strike you.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_06: And the whole year do do do.
• 28:14
  SPEAKER_06: Because you believed you can't go and do farming there.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 28:17
  SPEAKER_06: Natural reserve.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_06: We reserved it for the animals.
• 28:21
  SPEAKER_06: Now we believe in Jesus Christ.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_06: Even at Chimota Forest, yeah.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_06: Chemota Forest, yeah, we don't do this.
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_06: You don't do this.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_06: If we had believed even in our idols, which I say it is also a form of programming, and believed there are spirits in the river.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_06: So we should honor the river.
• 28:42
  SPEAKER_06: Will we allow Galamse to destroy it?
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_06: Does go to China and destroy one river.
• 28:47
  SPEAKER_00: Me, my grandmother could mention 33 generations.
• 28:51
  SPEAKER_00: I was a 33rd generation.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_04: Really?
• 28:53
  SPEAKER_00: Since my family left Tumutu.
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_00: They don't call it Timbuktu.
• 28:56
  SPEAKER_00: Tumutu.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_00: So from Tumutu to Bono, I think that was 11 or 12 generations.
• 29:03
  SPEAKER_00: And then from Bono to uh um we migrated with the Achems.
• 29:11
  SPEAKER_00: And then my family settled in a Manochrome.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_00: So my father and I calculated that that 33 generations is approximately seven to eight hundred years.
• 29:21
  SPEAKER_00: So we live in a civilization where history is more important than the future.
• 29:28
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 29:29
  SPEAKER_00: If you look at our traditional knowledge system, the future is more important than the past.
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 29:35
  SPEAKER_04: Which is why we didn't document it as much.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_04: It was more oral history.
• 29:40
  SPEAKER_00: And okay, look at my family's example.
• 29:43
  SPEAKER_00: My father went to school, right?
• 29:45
  SPEAKER_00: My father went to Achimoto in the 40s.
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_00: 30s, 40s.
• 29:50
  SPEAKER_00: No, he graduated 49, so in the 40s.
• 29:53
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 29:54
  SPEAKER_00: My grandmother didn't have a daughter.
• 29:57
  SPEAKER_00: So it is my father who she told this oral history to.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: She also told it to us, but we were little children, you know, we were small.
• 30:04
  SPEAKER_00: So what did my father do?
• 30:05
  SPEAKER_00: My father had gone to school, so he wrote it all down.
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 30:10
  SPEAKER_00: He didn't learn it by heart, like the illiterates did.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_00: He wrote it down.
• 30:14
  SPEAKER_00: And then what happened?
• 30:17
  SPEAKER_00: The book got lost.
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_00: So in one generation of education, 33 generations of knowledge was lost.
• 30:24
  SPEAKER_00: So we think education protects information.
• 30:28
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't.
• 30:29
  SPEAKER_00: 33 generations had managed to remember all of these names, remember the path.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_00: We were in Bono at this time, we were in Tumutu at this time, then we were in Amanochrome at this time, then you know, from Amanochrome to Insawem, from Insawim to Accra, I'm in Accra, right?
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: So when my grandmother is telling the stories like places, people, they are all connected.
• 30:47
  SPEAKER_00: My father, who was educated and wrote it down, lost all of that knowledge.
• 30:51
  SPEAKER_00: So there's nothing that says written down history is safer than oral history at all.
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 30:58
  SPEAKER_00: Because and also we as Africans, the reason why we adopted oral history is because the barbarians kept burning our libraries.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: They burned the libraries in Alexandria many times.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_00: In fact, I think Julius Caesar was proud to say that yes, he also burned the libraries in Alexandria.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_00: It's like it's something to boast about that I've destroyed all this knowledge.
• 31:18
  SPEAKER_00: So our ancestors tried to protect the knowledge.
• 31:22
  SPEAKER_00: So they took it to the middle of the desert where it was where the barbarians couldn't come and burn the libraries anymore.
• 31:28
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I've driven to Timbuktu.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: A thousand years ago, Timbuktu had a thousand universities.
• 31:33
  SPEAKER_00: How many universities does Ghana have today?
• 31:35
  SPEAKER_00: How many universities did Europe have a thousand years ago?
• 31:39
  SPEAKER_04: Zero.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_04: But I have this question.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, I know the answer, but I have to ask this question.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_04: In Ghanaian school history, when you learn, Africa was some barbaric place.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, with no knowledge and no intelligence, and the white people came to find us a few hundred years ago.
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_00: Look, 2026, go and look at the primary school book, right?
• 32:05
  SPEAKER_00: It says the benefits of colonialism.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_04: Oh my god.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_00: That is what our children, when my children, I when I saw the book, that chapter, and what does it say the benefits of colonialism are?
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: Number one, education.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_04: Oh education.
• 32:21
  SPEAKER_00: Two, religion.
• 32:23
  SPEAKER_00: Three, systems and uh medicine.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_04: The journey to build wealth, one of the most important things is how to invest your money.
• 32:32
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• 32:40
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• 32:45
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• 32:52
  SPEAKER_04: So download the Achieve by Petra app now and join me and the other people who are on our way to build and I think the greatest force on earth is is truth.
• 33:02
  SPEAKER_01: You know, it's a force.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: It works by itself.
• 33:05
  SPEAKER_01: There is nothing uh that comes before or after the truth.
• 33:09
  SPEAKER_01: It's it's it's strong, it's powerful, and it and it protects and works at all times at everywhere.
• 33:14
  SPEAKER_01: And so if you look at the people who have become successful, look at the principles that you're using.
• 33:18
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: And you look at yours and all the things that you believe in, and look at the resource, there's something which is impaired with what you know.
• 33:25
  SPEAKER_01: And so that means that what you know is not the truth.
• 33:28
  SPEAKER_01: And that's why the because the truth has this.
• 33:31
  SPEAKER_04: If it's not working, then it's not the truth.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: It's not, it must bring you freedom.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: You have wrong information.
• 33:35
  SPEAKER_01: We can we can all contribute, but we all see that this microphone is here.
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: So at this point, this is the truth.
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: You can discuss it everywhere.
• 33:43
  SPEAKER_04: It's working, it's working, it's working through, it's recorded.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_04: So it's working.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_01: So if you know what you knew, yeah, and and just as the other person it has worked for, then it should work for you.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_04: I love that.
• 33:52
  SPEAKER_04: So this means if your life isn't working for you, if anything in your life isn't working for you, some information you have is wrong.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have it's not like something is against you because the farmer plants, if the soil is good, water is on it, what should you do?
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_04: You should terminate.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so why what what is so technically wrong with you, especially wrong with you, that yours will not work?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_04: Because the truth works for everybody.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_04: So the financial truth works gravity is gravity.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_04: That's it.
• 34:19
  SPEAKER_04: If you drop something, it will fall to the ground.
• 34:21
  SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
• 34:22
  SPEAKER_04: So if it doesn't fall to the ground, something information find that one with you, yeah.
• 34:27
  SPEAKER_01: You can solve a lot of uh problems, you know.
• 34:30
  SPEAKER_01: So you look at our community, our beliefs, our beliefs, our beliefs.
• 34:33
  SPEAKER_01: Somebody's in some fetish place somewhere, priest somewhere, looking for reason to become rich.
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: That's not the truth.
• 34:41
  SPEAKER_04: Even the juju doctors want to take covet treatments.
• 34:51
  SPEAKER_01: Because you know, nobody knows.
• 34:53
  SPEAKER_01: So I anyway, but the more you develop yourself, the more you you you the more you align with the principles of the universe, the more you align with the principles of God, and his principles work everywhere for everybody.
• 35:08
  SPEAKER_04: What about African history?
• 35:09
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, we want them to learn about African history where because you know it has been made very difficult to find it.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, where did they find accurate history?
• 35:19
  SPEAKER_04: And I repeat, yeah, accurate history.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_01: Uh, for me, even sometimes I don't even care whether so long as it makes you believe in yourself as an African, go for it.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_01: You know, our president, our first president, Dr.
• 35:29
  SPEAKER_01: Nkroma wrote a lot of books.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, why don't we find them?
• 35:32
  SPEAKER_01: True.
• 35:33
  SPEAKER_01: Some people were not happy with his books.
• 35:34
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um, um I was reading one the other time, Africa Minds United.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_01: So but this is information that we should have had as children.
• 35:42
  SPEAKER_04: It's kept from us.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, we should have had.
• 35:45
  SPEAKER_01: And so there are writers like him.
• 35:47
  SPEAKER_01: And um there are a lot of African, even Ghanaian writers.
• 35:51
  SPEAKER_01: There are a lot of you go to the University of Ghana now, you go to the library, there are a lot of African writers who have written.
• 35:56
  SPEAKER_01: Not just uh not just on the tribes in Ghana, but there are a lot of other um um, you know, Nigeria, Kenya, all of it, African Americans as well.
• 36:06
  SPEAKER_01: Because they have also, you know, they were in the in the in the heat, so they had to find a way to survive, and much of it was the discoveries that they they they they had in terms of knowledge and in terms of African history.
• 36:17
  SPEAKER_01: Jamaicans is the same.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: And so you you go to the go to the internet, you see African um teachers with them.
• 36:24
  SPEAKER_01: You see, when the average Westerner sees you with dread, they think you know something different.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, you know, because why do you why are you different?
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: And and and and we should look for those such information.
• 36:40
  SPEAKER_01: I and now YouTube makes it very easy.
• 36:42
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, one of my favorite teachers is Molefi Asante.
• 36:45
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, Professor Molefi Asante.
• 36:48
  SPEAKER_01: Um is a great writer, uh he has a book, African history.
• 36:52
  SPEAKER_04: How do you spell that?
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: Molefi is I think it's M-O-L-E-F-E.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: Asante.
• 36:57
  SPEAKER_01: It's an African-American.
• 36:58
  SPEAKER_01: Okay, uh, there's Chancellor Williams, um Dr.
• 37:03
  SPEAKER_01: Nkromain's books, um, uh Professor Small, uh, his videos are on the internet, uh, Teophil Obinga.
• 37:12
  SPEAKER_01: Uh there are a lot of them that have written books and music as well.
• 37:16
  SPEAKER_01: There are you know, fella music, Bob Mali music.
• 37:19
  SPEAKER_04: Because we've passed a lot of information through folklore.
• 37:21
  SPEAKER_04: That's right.
• 37:22
  SPEAKER_01: So so look for them and study a lot of you even your tribe.
• 37:25
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
• 37:26
  SPEAKER_01: Look for their history beyond when the white man came.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, and you can find a lot of ask your grandmother.
• 37:31
  SPEAKER_01: There are a lot of information that they told them that they have not told us because we have not asked them.
• 37:35
  SPEAKER_00: True.
• 37:36
  SPEAKER_01: We must discover who we are.
• 37:38
  SPEAKER_00: So from Israel, today called Egypt, to Timbuktu, the world's knowledge and information was in Egypt.
• 37:48
  SPEAKER_04: From the University of Timbuktu.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_00: How did the knowledge get from Egypt to Timbuktu unless the people took it there?
• 37:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 37:55
  SPEAKER_04: And from Alexandria and then to what do you call the University of Timbuktu?
• 38:00
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 38:01
  SPEAKER_00: But why did they leave Alexandria?
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_00: Because the barbarians kept coming to burn the libraries.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 38:05
  SPEAKER_00: So they went to the most remote place that they knew.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_00: And also they went to the richest place that they knew.
• 38:11
  SPEAKER_00: If you look in the pyramids in Egypt, it's full of gold.
• 38:14
  SPEAKER_00: There's no gold in Egypt, there's no gold in Jordan, there's no gold in Lebanon, there's no gold in Israel, there's no gold in Palestine, there's no gold in Saudi Arabia, there's no gold in Libya.
• 38:24
  SPEAKER_00: So where did the Egyptians get their gold from?
• 38:27
  SPEAKER_00: They got their gold from Mali.
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: King Solomon's mines is in Mali.
• 38:32
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 38:33
  SPEAKER_00: So between Egypt and Mali.
• 38:36
  SPEAKER_04: When I say Mali, do you mean the Mali Empire?
• 38:38
  SPEAKER_00: I mean the Mali of today.
• 38:39
  SPEAKER_00: Timbuktu is in Mali.
• 38:40
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: So it's not, it's what they call, and where did Moses take his people?
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: Ghana, right?
• 38:47
  SPEAKER_00: Canaan.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: They say the Ghana Empire.
• 38:50
  SPEAKER_00: Old Ghana.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: It's not old Ghana.
• 38:52
  SPEAKER_00: It was called Ghana.
• 38:54
  SPEAKER_00: Ghana as in Canaan.
• 38:55
  SPEAKER_00: So we have now said, oh, we are the new Ghana.
• 38:59
  SPEAKER_00: So that is old Ghana.
• 39:00
  SPEAKER_00: But that place was never called Ghana.
• 39:01
  SPEAKER_00: It was called Ghana.
• 39:02
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 39:03
  SPEAKER_00: And who is the most the most famous, richest man in history?
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: What is his name?
• 39:07
  SPEAKER_00: Mansa Musa.
• 39:09
  SPEAKER_00: Is he not the descendant of the Musa who brought us from Egypt?
• 39:12
  SPEAKER_00: What did he do?
• 39:13
  SPEAKER_00: He went back to Egypt.
• 39:15
  SPEAKER_00: So Musa and his older brother, who is called Abu Bakr.
• 39:22
  SPEAKER_00: They they so Abu Bakr was the king.
• 39:25
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 39:26
  SPEAKER_00: He abdicated.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: He went to South America.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
• 39:30
  SPEAKER_00: Where he knew we also had uh ancestors or family.
• 39:36
  SPEAKER_00: And Musa went back to Egypt.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: And what did he take?
• 39:40
  SPEAKER_00: He took the thing to Egypt that he knew they did not have.
• 39:43
  SPEAKER_00: Because Egypt never had gold.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: They talk about him taking gold to Mecca.
• 39:48
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 39:49
  SPEAKER_00: Sure, he took a tiny amount of gold to Mecca and said, Charlie, you people, you keep coming to harass us for gold.
• 39:55
  SPEAKER_00: I've brought you gold.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: Now leave us alone.
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 39:58
  SPEAKER_00: But the opposite happened.
• 40:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's like if these guys have so much gold that they can come and dash us gold, then let's go and take more.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 40:06
  SPEAKER_02: So um this is Al-Bakari talking about Ghana.
• 40:11
  SPEAKER_02: Not this Ghana, the Ghana Empire.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_02: The Ghana Empire.
• 40:14
  SPEAKER_02: And this is what he says.
• 40:16
  SPEAKER_02: The king's town consists of stone houses and substantial dwellings.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_02: So on someone tells you that when Europeans came, our ancestors were living on trees.
• 40:28
  SPEAKER_02: This is an Arabian historian.
• 40:30
  SPEAKER_04: From 900 AD.
• 40:32
  SPEAKER_02: From 1068.
• 40:33
  SPEAKER_04: 1068.
• 40:34
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 40:35
  SPEAKER_02: The Europeans had not been here.
• 40:36
  SPEAKER_02: The Portuguese came in the 15th century.
• 40:39
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 40:40
  SPEAKER_02: Going forward, Ab Bakari again, he says the houses of the houses of the inhabitants are of stone and acacia wood.
• 40:51
  SPEAKER_02: The king has a palace and a number of domed dwellings.
• 40:58
  SPEAKER_02: All surrounded with an enclosure like a city wall.
• 41:04
  SPEAKER_02: So we built cities and and fenced it.
• 41:12
  SPEAKER_02: When you go to Mississippi and uh uh South Carolina, you will see the metal works that the accounts that they enslaved did there.
• 41:26
  SPEAKER_02: For instance, the rice, when we we want to talk about the rice industry, for instance, we know the Europeans deliberately picked the Senegalese for their knowledge in rice farming.
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_02: Really?
• 41:41
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, and took them there.
• 41:43
  SPEAKER_02: Recently, I was watching this movie.
• 41:45
  SPEAKER_02: Oh, this is right, but it's a it's an African story, the Egyptian shipwreck story.
• 41:51
  SPEAKER_02: One day we'll do this story on your show.
• 41:54
  SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
• 41:55
  SPEAKER_02: Every everything they know, we thought them.
• 41:58
  SPEAKER_02: Everything, trust me, Richie.
• 42:01
  SPEAKER_02: When you pick your phone, the hash key on it, that's the I didn't crack.
• 42:16
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, then so so we we saw them everything.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_02: There's this Portuguese uh historian Duate Pacheco Pereira.
• 42:27
  SPEAKER_04: Yep.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_04: He visited our what he's saying is 100% correct.
• 42:32
  SPEAKER_04: He visited the hash key was actually taken from Sh in the Idencrasemble.
• 42:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, beautiful.
• 42:38
  SPEAKER_02: We gave them everything.
• 42:40
  SPEAKER_02: That's why that professor um Rama, that professor that said we gave when since we met you 500 years ago, we've been giving you everything, and you're still taking and taking and taking it.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_04: We are still giving them.
• 42:53
  SPEAKER_04: So that means when the girls are doing hashtag, they're using Edincrassing.
• 43:01
  SPEAKER_02: So that is how African spirituality was about.
• 43:07
  SPEAKER_02: But then when these people came, they you know the mentality they came with was to conquer because um the Pope through the Papa had divided the the entire world into two and given half to the Portuguese and half to the Spanish, okay, and told them to go and conquer, kill and pillage everything on their way.
• 43:37
  SPEAKER_02: So they and and and the Pope is the vicar of God on earth, according to the Christian.
• 43:44
  SPEAKER_04: So he gives a blessing.
• 43:45
  SPEAKER_04: You know, most people don't know that the Pope gave the blessing for slavery.
• 43:48
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, yes, the same way, most people don't know the Pope gave Christopher Columbus the blessing to go and kill them and make America their own.
• 43:56
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, I always tell people, especially.
• 44:00
  SPEAKER_02: When I see Christians going to crusade, do you know what the crusade is?
• 44:08
  SPEAKER_04: They don't know about the holy walls.
• 44:11
  SPEAKER_02: You see, some Christian, you see, when right now, when we talk about crusade, Christians are happy.
• 44:17
  SPEAKER_02: Back in the days, when you hear crusade, you'll be run, you will run and go and hide under your bed.
• 44:22
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 44:23
  SPEAKER_02: Because it is war.
• 44:25
  SPEAKER_02: But now, you understand?
• 44:27
  SPEAKER_02: So everything has been turned upside down.
• 44:28
  SPEAKER_04: Because you hear Christians say that we are going to war with the demons.
• 44:33
  SPEAKER_04: We are going to crusade.
• 44:34
  SPEAKER_04: We are going to war.
• 44:35
  SPEAKER_04: We were the demons.
• 44:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, we were the demons.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yes.
• 44:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 44:38
  SPEAKER_02: That you were talking about.
• 44:39
  SPEAKER_02: He came to kill us.
• 44:41
  SPEAKER_02: Like uh like St.
• 44:43
  SPEAKER_02: Patrick killing the snakes in Scotland.
• 44:47
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 44:48
  SPEAKER_02: Who were the snakes?
• 44:50
  SPEAKER_02: We were the snake people.
• 44:51
  SPEAKER_02: Oh my god.
• 44:53
  SPEAKER_04: It's not easy.
• 44:55
  SPEAKER_04: But now we've held on to this so tight.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_04: Right now, Africans are more religious than those who brought the religions.
• 45:02
  SPEAKER_02: But but you uh you go to Europe uh a lot of times, you see them, they they've sold their cathedrals and turned them into supermarkets and and see if this is a self-defense.
• 45:13
  SPEAKER_06: Deuteronomy chapter 20, verse 10.
• 45:16
  SPEAKER_06: Sini, I think we know check check for me.
• 45:19
  SPEAKER_06: Let me check for you.
• 45:20
  SPEAKER_06: And I think we know um defending and then attacking.
• 45:24
  SPEAKER_04: When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of peace.
• 45:29
  SPEAKER_06: Now, it says when you draw near a city to fight it, offer it terms of peace.
• 45:35
  SPEAKER_06: Please, is it attack or defending yourself?
• 45:38
  SPEAKER_06: Fight, you are going to fight.
• 45:40
  SPEAKER_06: Are they the ones going to attack or somebody's attacking them?
• 45:42
  SPEAKER_06: They are attacking, yeah.
• 45:43
  SPEAKER_06: So start again.
• 45:44
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, when you draw near to a town to fight against it.
• 45:47
  SPEAKER_06: No, to a town is there peacefully, and when you want to go and fight it, continue.
• 45:52
  SPEAKER_06: Offer it terms of peace.
• 45:54
  SPEAKER_06: Now you call them and tell them, Hey, we want your city, surrender to us.
• 45:59
  SPEAKER_06: Oh, why are you happy?
• 46:02
  SPEAKER_06: Offer it terms of peace, then yeah, beautiful.
• 46:04
  SPEAKER_06: You tell them peacefully, Charlie, don't fight because we don't want to honor like people.
• 46:08
  SPEAKER_06: Give us your town, just give us your town quietly.
• 46:10
  SPEAKER_06: Now continue.
• 46:11
  SPEAKER_04: If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you now, if the people are submissive, they say Charlie, if you don't surrender, these people will finish us now.
• 46:19
  SPEAKER_06: Uh-huh.
• 46:20
  SPEAKER_06: Even if they accept the terms, now continue.
• 46:24
  SPEAKER_06: Then all the people in it shall serve you in forced labor.
• 46:28
  SPEAKER_06: Ah, so is God saying this?
• 46:30
  SPEAKER_06: The people should become slaves.
• 46:32
  SPEAKER_06: They are in their city, living peacefully.
• 46:35
  SPEAKER_06: Go and attack them.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, give them peace to surrender.
• 46:38
  SPEAKER_06: If when they surrender, they are now your slaves.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_06: To do forced labor.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_06: Forced labor.
• 46:42
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 46:43
  SPEAKER_06: If it does not submit to you peacefully.
• 46:45
  SPEAKER_06: Now, if the people tell you, ah, Chairman, by you, why?
• 46:48
  SPEAKER_06: We did our town.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_06: They go go people to my town to go tell them to make them surrender.
• 46:52
  SPEAKER_06: Please, we won't surrender.
• 46:53
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 46:54
  SPEAKER_06: But make war against you.
• 46:55
  SPEAKER_06: Now they will defend themselves.
• 46:57
  SPEAKER_06: So when they said they won't fight, now continue.
• 46:59
  SPEAKER_06: Then you shall beseech it.
• 47:01
  SPEAKER_06: Now surround the city.
• 47:03
  SPEAKER_06: And when the Lord your God gives it to you into your hand.
• 47:06
  SPEAKER_06: Now this God will help you to conquer the people.
• 47:08
  SPEAKER_06: This is what Israel is doing to Iran.
• 47:11
  SPEAKER_06: Right on our noses.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 47:13
  SPEAKER_06: You shall put all its mail to the sword.
• 47:16
  SPEAKER_04: Now kill all the men.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_04: Continue.
• 47:18
  SPEAKER_04: You may, however, take as your booty the women.
• 47:20
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, now take the women and go and share.
• 47:22
  SPEAKER_04: The children.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_04: Go and share.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_04: The livestock.
• 47:24
  SPEAKER_04: Go and share.
• 47:25
  SPEAKER_04: And everything else in the town.
• 47:27
  SPEAKER_04: Go and share.
• 47:28
  SPEAKER_04: All its spoils.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, go and share.
• 47:30
  SPEAKER_04: You may enjoy the spoils of your enemy.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_04: Enjoy the women.
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_04: Which the Lord your God has given to you.
• 47:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_06: That says the word of God.
• 47:38
  SPEAKER_04: This is why I always say I don't understand when Africans are defending Christianity so much.
• 47:43
  SPEAKER_04: Because this was used on us.
• 47:45
  SPEAKER_06: On us.
• 47:46
  SPEAKER_06: On us.
• 47:47
  SPEAKER_06: There is one verse that even when I quote you will be shocked.
• 47:50
  SPEAKER_06: Look at this verse.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_06: Leviticus chapter 25, verse 31.
• 47:54
  SPEAKER_06: Now, my fellow Africans, that you go around defending the Bible.
• 47:58
  SPEAKER_06: You when you tell them the Bible was introduced to us by our slave masters, you will get the same black people telling you, Who told you that?
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_06: Now listen to this.
• 48:09
  SPEAKER_06: Leviticus 25, verse 35.
• 48:13
  SPEAKER_06: Verse 31.
• 48:14
  SPEAKER_06: Please, which of you Africans agree with slave slave trade and slavery?
• 48:20
  SPEAKER_06: I know you think it's a baton, right?
• 48:23
  SPEAKER_06: Look at the Bible.
• 48:24
  SPEAKER_04: If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself without you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_06: No, so if an Israelite becomes poor and he sells his son to you, an Israelite, because the Bible was written by the Israelite.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_06: So this is when it happens to an Israelite, let him live with you like somebody custom looking for what he will eat.
• 48:49
  SPEAKER_06: That means he won't be your slave.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 48:51
  SPEAKER_06: Like he will be like a hired.
• 48:53
  SPEAKER_06: We have a hired servant and a slave.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_04: So he will be like a hired servant.
• 48:57
  SPEAKER_06: A hired servant.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 48:58
  SPEAKER_04: Take no interest from him or prophets, but fear your God that your brother may live beside you.
• 49:04
  SPEAKER_06: So because the person is an Israelite, don't treat him harshly, let him live comfortably, and then let him serve you.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 49:12
  SPEAKER_04: You shall not lend him your money at as in at interest.
• 49:16
  SPEAKER_06: Don't lend him money even with interest because he's an Israelite.
• 49:19
  SPEAKER_04: Or give him your food for profits.
• 49:21
  SPEAKER_06: Okay, continue.
• 49:23
  SPEAKER_04: I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
• 49:29
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 49:30
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 49:31
  SPEAKER_04: If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave.
• 49:38
  SPEAKER_06: Now he says, if an Israelite becomes poor and sells himself, a slave is somebody that you bought.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_06: But if you buy that Israelite, he must not serve you as a slave.
• 49:49
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 49:50
  SPEAKER_04: He shall be with you as a hired worker.
• 49:52
  SPEAKER_06: Let him be like a hired worker.
• 49:53
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 49:54
  SPEAKER_06: With privileges.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 49:55
  SPEAKER_04: He shall serve you.
• 49:57
  SPEAKER_04: He shall serve with you until the year of the jubilee.
• 50:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, they have the year of restoration that he can go back.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_04: Uh huh.
• 50:03
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his own clan and return to the possession of the land.
• 50:10
  SPEAKER_06: Because the person is an Israelite.
• 50:12
  SPEAKER_06: Give him beautiful treatment.
• 50:13
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 50:14
  SPEAKER_04: For they are my servants.
• 50:16
  SPEAKER_06: So the Israelite are God's servant.
• 50:19
  SPEAKER_06: Whom I brought out of the land of Egypt.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_06: So because they've suffered in Egypt as slaves, they shall not be sold as slaves.
• 50:26
  SPEAKER_06: They cannot be sold as slaves.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_06: My fellow Africans, look at whom can be sold as a slave.
• 50:31
  SPEAKER_06: Continue.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 50:32
  SPEAKER_04: You shall not rule over him ruthlessly, but shall fear your God.
• 50:36
  SPEAKER_04: Continue.
• 50:37
  SPEAKER_04: As for your male and female slaves, whom you may have, you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you.
• 50:46
  SPEAKER_06: Now let's come to today.
• 50:48
  SPEAKER_06: Let's come to today.
• 50:49
  SPEAKER_06: Today.
• 50:51
  SPEAKER_06: Which are the nations around Israel?
• 50:55
  SPEAKER_06: Iran, Iran, Palestine, Palestine, and Africa.
• 50:59
  SPEAKER_06: And Africa.
• 51:00
  SPEAKER_06: So he said, when you need slaves, buy them from the nations around you.
• 51:04
  SPEAKER_06: Around you.
• 51:05
  SPEAKER_04: Continue.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_04: You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you, and their clans that are with you who have been born in your land.
• 51:14
  SPEAKER_06: So even strangers, they are called resident alien, who live among you.
• 51:20
  SPEAKER_06: Buy them and let them become your slaves.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_06: Your property.
• 51:22
  SPEAKER_06: And they may be your property.
• 51:24
  SPEAKER_06: They may be your property.
• 51:25
  SPEAKER_06: Uh-huh.
• 51:26
  SPEAKER_06: You may bequeath them to your sons.
• 51:29
  SPEAKER_06: Now they are your property.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_06: And when you die, your children have to inherit them as property.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_04: After you to inherit as a possession forever, you may make slaves of them, but over your brothers, the people of Israel, you shall not rule one over another ruthlessly.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_04: So we dear.
• 51:50
  SPEAKER_06: We dear.
• 51:51
  SPEAKER_06: We can be property.
• 51:53
  SPEAKER_06: We are candidates to become slaves.
• 51:55
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 51:56
  SPEAKER_06: But Israelit are special people.
• 51:58
  SPEAKER_06: Now, my fellow Africans, let me tell you, you pray to the God of Israel.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_06: Do you know why?
• 52:04
  SPEAKER_06: Because the Jews claim to be God's chosen people based on a book they wrote.
• 52:13
  SPEAKER_06: Think.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_03: That's why sometimes they twist the story and they say that before the slavery arrived, you yourself were engaged in the slavery already.
• 52:21
  SPEAKER_03: True.
• 52:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, it's true.
• 52:22
  SPEAKER_03: We're engaged in the slavery.
• 52:23
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, it's it's slavery was a global thing.
• 52:26
  SPEAKER_04: Slavery is not limited to Africa.
• 52:29
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, it's a global thing.
• 52:30
  SPEAKER_04: But it's that we didn't take do we power.
• 52:33
  SPEAKER_03: But the difference is even we that we did take one abody, the slavery that existed over here, it wasn't like the the British people came here.
• 52:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, our slavery was like Odemeka.
• 52:44
  SPEAKER_03: You see, the way that time there was no money.
• 52:45
  SPEAKER_03: So you work for me.
• 52:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_03: So that will come and work for me.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 52:50
  SPEAKER_03: Sometimes when you go to war, you capture people, you capture them as slaves.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 52:54
  SPEAKER_03: It's your own personal.
• 52:56
  SPEAKER_03: You have to bring something that you come.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_03: That was the slavery we were going through.
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_04: I think the worst part of slavery, like black slavery, is not the fact that we were slaves, because slavery, like I said, was a global thing.
• 53:07
  SPEAKER_04: It's how we were treated.
• 53:08
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 53:09
  SPEAKER_04: That was the first time that slaves were treated so badly.
• 53:13
  SPEAKER_04: Because slavery, like if you go in the Bible and everything, slavery has always been a thing.
• 53:17
  SPEAKER_04: But for this period, we were treated really, really badly.
• 53:21
  SPEAKER_03: And that's the funny part is you when you say stories about slavery, your own people come and be like, Taladsi 400 years ago, you people will not leave it there.
• 53:29
  SPEAKER_03: You are still.
• 53:30
  SPEAKER_03: I'm still talking about the past because you don't know it.
• 53:33
  SPEAKER_03: That's why you are here.
• 53:34
  SPEAKER_03: You think because uh the uh this this and that the white people are better than you.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_03: I'm telling you the reason why we are here right now.
• 53:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, but you have people in the comments and telling you that the truth is we are still slaves.
• 53:45
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 53:46
  SPEAKER_04: I told people at the time mental now.
• 53:48
  SPEAKER_03: They just went and just gave the it's like you are playing a game.
• 53:51
  SPEAKER_03: They just went out of the building and gave the controllers to someone.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_04: That's all.
• 53:54
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, because right now, the educational system, you know, we we with the decided, uh, the language we speak right now, it's not our language.
• 54:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, the money we spend, we don't decide.
• 54:04
  SPEAKER_03: We don't even we don't even print it, yeah.
• 54:06
  SPEAKER_04: We don't control anything, but we think we are in control, we were given the illusion of control.
• 54:12
  SPEAKER_03: So that's what that's the step that Opa now was taking.
• 54:15
  SPEAKER_03: Opener, when I say opana, I'm talking about Kwame Kuma.
• 54:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, even though he collected they gave him the independence, he knew that you are not in total control, yeah.
• 54:22
  SPEAKER_03: So he was trying to gain control by we ourselves doing everything for ourselves, yeah.
• 54:26
  SPEAKER_03: And that's when the the white people they saw that Charlie and also threatening nuclear powers more.
• 54:32
  SPEAKER_03: And yes, that's when they saw that Charlie, this guy he'd be very stubborn, and you find you find out leaders, a lot of leaders in Africa, that what they do to them.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_03: You take someone like Chari like this, you realize this man they boken up as who they do in 10.
• 54:47
  SPEAKER_03: Whatever he's doing has nothing to do with yeah, uh the Western world, but they are always so want to be involved in what the man is doing because you see, they they do strategic thinking.
• 54:58
  SPEAKER_04: So when something starts, they project 10, 20, 30 years from now and see this guy will be a problem in the future.
• 55:05
  SPEAKER_04: So let's stop it now.
• 55:07
  SPEAKER_04: So I want us, you see, I always say when we say these things, we are not insinuating that the West should stop what they are doing.
• 55:15
  SPEAKER_05: No, no, no, no.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_04: That's that's good for them.
• 55:17
  SPEAKER_04: We should also start being strategic when we see our person who is also thinking ahead, who is also implementing things that will benefit us in 10, 20, 30 years from now, let's support that person.
• 55:28
  SPEAKER_03: Hey, this one a lot of it, okay.
• 55:31
  SPEAKER_03: Let me take one person like uh Kwame Kuma.
• 55:35
  SPEAKER_03: A lot of things about that man they didn't tell us.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_04: Tell me some, tell me some.
• 55:40
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, like how he was overthrown, uh, the process, how uh the CIA, yeah, you know, got in the heads of some of our leaders, and they overthrew this man, the plans that he had, yeah, and all of that.
• 55:55
  SPEAKER_03: They don't ever tell you even uh um what's the name?
• 55:58
  SPEAKER_03: Kwame Kuma, how he even came to Ghana.
• 56:02
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, a lot of stories.
• 56:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, there's this um documentary.
• 56:06
  SPEAKER_03: I think this information about Kwame Kuma is called the Circle.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, that's one uh I think it was it was a group he was in, yes, with a lot of people before he came to Ghana.
• 56:17
  SPEAKER_03: And those people they were they were uh recruiting a lot of people who were who had like political influence.
• 56:23
  SPEAKER_03: Now they decided to paint him black to Ghanaians.
• 56:25
  SPEAKER_03: So they told Kwame Kuma that's Kwame Kuma, or she pissed the call crowful for some momu could do only and he's blowing our money, trying to paint them black to Ghanaians.
• 56:34
  SPEAKER_03: So when the conversation was rising, people were accepting the fact that Kwame Kuma is actually a bad person.
• 56:40
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they they started saying that Kwame Kuma he wants to be the only president because when you talk about the one party state that he was introducing, people said, Oh, he's an antichrist.
• 56:49
  SPEAKER_03: Then then so when you realize the documentary, they've read uh they've written uh Kwame Kuma Bon Sam, Kwame Kuma Antichrist, and all of those things.
• 56:56
  SPEAKER_03: They tried to paint him black, and that's why they got a chance.
• 57:00
  SPEAKER_03: The CIA people trying to they they they started entering places and then the coup happened.
• 57:06
  SPEAKER_03: So before Kwame Kuma was about to travel, Kwame Kuma, you know about the coup.
• 57:09
  SPEAKER_03: People don't know about this thing.
• 57:10
  SPEAKER_03: So he he suspected the coup before he went.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_03: So that's even part of why he learned.
• 57:16
  SPEAKER_03: So before he no, it's not that's not the part the reason why he went.
• 57:19
  SPEAKER_03: Before he was about to go, he knew.
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, so before he even landed where he was going, they told him that a coup has happened.
• 57:26
  SPEAKER_03: So he knew.
• 57:27
  SPEAKER_03: So the people who did the coup, no, they had plotted it, they were fine they were being funded by the CIA, they were being given weapons and all of that.
• 57:34
  SPEAKER_03: One thing about people didn't know when Kwanikuma was coming to Ghana, he didn't want to come.
• 57:38
  SPEAKER_03: He didn't want to come, but because they were fighting for a Pan-African, like Africa, to be together, yeah, they told him that you have to start from somewhere.
• 57:46
  SPEAKER_03: That is why he came.
• 57:47
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, because over there they were fighting for different countries.
• 57:50
  SPEAKER_03: He wanted to go to another country, but then they told him to come.
• 57:53
  SPEAKER_03: So when he goes to Ghana and he got the independence for Ghana, he was trying for Africa to be connected.
• 57:58
  SPEAKER_04: And can you imagine how powerful we will become?
• 58:01
  SPEAKER_04: Like right now, it would be a country of 1.3 billion people, right?
• 58:05
  SPEAKER_03: Look at America.
• 58:06
  SPEAKER_03: The reason why we we look at America as a very it's because they are united.
• 58:10
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, USA, United States of Africa.
• 58:13
  SPEAKER_03: This is one thing that you see, he he started a journey.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, he started a journey to get that thing going.
• 58:20
  SPEAKER_03: And you know, you know how the the the cool even happened.
• 58:24
  SPEAKER_03: He wrote a book about uh um imperialism, yeah, new new imperialism.
• 58:30
  SPEAKER_03: And this book that he wrote, one month later, exactly one month later, they they overthrew him.
• 58:36
  SPEAKER_04: Oh, of course, because at a point he started to realize that, especially when he started um working with the Russians and it started it started to look like wait, this man is trying to unite all of Africa.
• 58:47
  SPEAKER_03: It's not working, and you know, I watched this movie, I think I did a contest about it.
• 58:51
  SPEAKER_03: I I I watched this movie, it's a series actually.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_03: It's called The Crown.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, they were telling the story about Queen Elizabeth, and they told the reason why Queen Elizabeth came to Ghana.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_03: That's that that dance that he had with Kwame Kuma.
• 59:03
  SPEAKER_03: People thought it was just it was not just a dance.
• 59:04
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, Kwame Kuma was leaning towards the Soviet Union, they thought he was leaning towards the Soviet Union, so they had to come and do something to let him stay.
• 59:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, that's why he died because they didn't even support the dance.
• 59:15
  SPEAKER_03: Every story, every detail of the story is in that movie.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_03: Okay, even when that movie came out, they had to ask them to take a lot of things out, okay, because they thought he's is exposing a lot of things, but that story is actually there.
• 59:26
  SPEAKER_03: When Kwame Kuma was fighting for Africa to be together, people were like, Okay, so if Africa comes together, who will be the president?
• 59:32
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, so there's this video when they asked Kwame Kuma, would you like to be or can you be the president of Africa?
• 59:38
  SPEAKER_03: And he answered that no, for me, I'm too small, I cannot be the president of Africa.
• 59:42
  SPEAKER_03: These are visionaries that he did not see people did not see.
• 59:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, and Kwame Kuma was a certain man that when another country in Africa needs help, he will send them money to help.
• 59:52
  SPEAKER_03: But people saw it like he was or they took offshore accounts now that you blow.
• 59:57
  SPEAKER_03: These are our people now.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_03: Years later, we have roads, we have bridges, we have a lot of buildings that are built by Kwanikuma that we are using now.
• 1:00:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, you can't even name one thing that was built by a certain leader that we are using now.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_04: And that's the amazing thing.
• 1:00:10
  SPEAKER_04: Every time I'm passing by something that Enkroma built, or something that he did, I'm like, wow, we are 60 over 60 years in and he's still a visionary.
• 1:00:21
  SPEAKER_03: Yes, all the things that he did.
• 1:00:23
  SPEAKER_03: There are things that could you believe that at some point we were making our own um radios, yeah.
• 1:00:29
  SPEAKER_03: We were making our own TVs, we're making our own, we were making shoes and exporting them to Netherlands.
• 1:00:35
  SPEAKER_03: We were making uh uh bottles.
• 1:00:38
  SPEAKER_03: We had a we have a clay glass factory, yeah.
• 1:00:40
  SPEAKER_03: We're making our own shoes.
• 1:00:42
  SPEAKER_04: Have you been to um Red Cave before?
• 1:00:44
  SPEAKER_04: No, you have to go there.
• 1:00:45
  SPEAKER_04: Where is it?
• 1:00:46
  SPEAKER_04: It's in Tamale, Ibrahim Mohammed's place.
• 1:00:49
  SPEAKER_03: Uh that building that they've designed it with, I've seen the video, but I've never been there.
• 1:00:53
  SPEAKER_04: When you go there, you see the history, you read on in kroma, you see some of the things that Ghanaians were doing in that era, it is amazing what we were capable of.
• 1:01:04
  SPEAKER_04: That we are suddenly no longer capable of.
• 1:01:07
  SPEAKER_00: Kofi Ganaba said one thing he said that what shows the power of a man, he said to him, Nkrumah is the most powerful man who has ever existed.
• 1:01:20
  SPEAKER_00: Why?
• 1:01:21
  SPEAKER_00: Because Nkrumah got Christians and Muslims to unite against him.
• 1:01:27
  SPEAKER_00: And Nkrumah got America and Russia to unite against him.
• 1:01:32
  SPEAKER_00: So why did that happen?
• 1:01:34
  SPEAKER_00: Because Nkrumah said Ghana is a secular nation.
• 1:01:37
  SPEAKER_00: We must remove religion from education.
• 1:01:40
  SPEAKER_00: And what we teach in schools must be science-based.
• 1:01:44
  SPEAKER_00: So our education as a secular nation cannot be based on faith.
• 1:01:49
  SPEAKER_00: It must be based on science.
• 1:01:51
  SPEAKER_00: So when our children go to school, all we are going to teach them is what uh we know to be science today, and we are going to teach them that what we know to be science is constantly changing.
• 1:02:03
  SPEAKER_00: If you are a Christian in your house, teach your children religion at all.
• 1:02:07
  SPEAKER_00: If you are Muslim, teach them.
• 1:02:08
  SPEAKER_00: If you are a traditionalist, if you are animist, whatever you are, religion is a private matter.
• 1:02:15
  SPEAKER_00: It is not a national matter.
• 1:02:17
  SPEAKER_00: So Nkrumah said we must remove religion from education because if you teach something faith-based alongside something which is scientifically based, because it's science, we can say it's absolute.
• 1:02:29
  SPEAKER_00: You are teaching people that this is a theory which is based on nothing.
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 1:02:34
  SPEAKER_00: Faith is based on nothing that is real, because if your faith comes from within, then it's based on something which is real.
• 1:02:40
  SPEAKER_00: But if it comes from if it's an external source of faith, we are teaching faith alongside science.
• 1:02:46
  SPEAKER_00: So our children are going to grow up believing that faith is the same as science.
• 1:02:50
  SPEAKER_00: We must separate them.
• 1:02:52
  SPEAKER_00: As soon as Nkrumah tried to remove religion from our educational system, have you ever read the school books?
• 1:03:02
  SPEAKER_00: What they say about Nkrumah?
• 1:03:04
  SPEAKER_03: Ghana, they're usually a bit more.
• 1:03:05
  SPEAKER_03: Everybody said that Ghana is a bit more my billions.
• 1:03:14
  SPEAKER_03: Me too.
• 1:03:15
  SPEAKER_03: The only gold I see with the chain.
• 1:03:16
  SPEAKER_04: I've seen gold once.
• 1:03:18
  SPEAKER_03: Once, but real, it wasn't even yours.
• 1:03:20
  SPEAKER_04: No, it wasn't mine.
• 1:03:22
  SPEAKER_03: Gold coast, but we never see gold before.
• 1:03:24
  SPEAKER_04: So Africa, they will just think about something amazing.
• 1:03:27
  SPEAKER_04: Ghana has gold and oil.
• 1:03:30
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:03:31
  SPEAKER_04: Like Ghana has gold and oil.
• 1:03:34
  SPEAKER_04: Yet we are broke.
• 1:03:35
  SPEAKER_03: Very, very, very broke.
• 1:03:36
  SPEAKER_03: Hard.
• 1:03:37
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:03:38
  SPEAKER_03: When you go to other continents like Nigeria, they have all the resources.
• 1:03:41
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:03:41
  SPEAKER_03: There's this story they say Nigeria, they sold them, they bought someone bought Nigeria for a certain amount, some small amount, they are forgotten.
• 1:03:48
  SPEAKER_03: But that's now how the story is.
• 1:03:50
  SPEAKER_03: They twisted the story about the Nigeria story.
• 1:03:53
  SPEAKER_03: That's how Ghana today.
• 1:03:54
  SPEAKER_03: Ghana too, they tricked us into signing things that we didn't know.
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:03:57
  SPEAKER_03: And some of our forefathers, I don't blame them because that time they didn't understand certain things.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 1:04:02
  SPEAKER_03: And the languages as well.
• 1:04:04
  SPEAKER_03: Like the first man who met the Portuguese at this one, he didn't understand.
• 1:04:08
  SPEAKER_03: It was just sign language before they realized the Portuguese had taken over the whole place.
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 1:04:12
  SPEAKER_03: They didn't understand.
• 1:04:13
  SPEAKER_03: So sometimes I understand them.
• 1:04:15
  SPEAKER_03: I don't blame them too much.
• 1:04:16
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• 1:04:23
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• 1:04:32
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• 1:04:40
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• 1:04:46
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• 1:04:53
  SPEAKER_04: So you know a lot of my guests have spoken about the fact that education is not helping us the way it should have, right?
• 1:05:00
  SPEAKER_00: We are some of the most booklong people.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:05:02
  SPEAKER_00: We are also some of the least collaborative people in the whole of Africa.
• 1:05:06
  SPEAKER_04: Because it's trained into us.
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:05:07
  SPEAKER_00: The more book long you become, the less you understand the power of collaboration.
• 1:05:12
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:05:12
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 1:05:13
  SPEAKER_04: So think about it.
• 1:05:14
  SPEAKER_04: In school, you are taught that if you work together, like you can't cheat.
• 1:05:19
  SPEAKER_04: You are cheating.
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 1:05:20
  SPEAKER_04: And then you come into the real world, and the way to get ahead is to work together.
• 1:05:24
  SPEAKER_04: But you've been made to feel like if I give my colleague a job, do this proposal for me.
• 1:05:30
  SPEAKER_04: The colleague feels that by doing it alone and presenting it and showing they did it means they are a good employee.
• 1:05:37
  SPEAKER_04: Whereas, no, collaborate with your colleague and bring me a proposal that's better than if you had done it on your own.
• 1:05:44
  SPEAKER_00: So the I feel that our education actually does us a great disservice because the most important thing in life is learning how to work together with people.
• 1:05:57
  SPEAKER_00: Look at what they teach children.
• 1:06:00
  SPEAKER_00: In a kindergarten in Germany, right?
• 1:06:03
  SPEAKER_00: They make them play this game over and over and over again.
• 1:06:05
  SPEAKER_00: They have these two sticks and then one stick which is quite long.
• 1:06:10
  SPEAKER_00: So, in order to put this one stick on top of these two sticks, two people must work together.
• 1:06:18
  SPEAKER_00: So in the German educational system, they don't teach you A, B, C, D, 1, 2, 3, 4 until you are seven years old.
• 1:06:24
  SPEAKER_00: Prior to that is kindergarten.
• 1:06:26
  SPEAKER_00: But what do they teach them?
• 1:06:27
  SPEAKER_00: They teach them how to get along with each other, they teach them how to collaborate, they teach them how to work together.
• 1:06:34
  SPEAKER_00: They teach you that this is impossible unless you work with somebody else.
• 1:06:39
  SPEAKER_00: So that is what they are teaching their children.
• 1:06:42
  SPEAKER_00: Meanwhile, we are teaching our five-year-old, four-year-old children to compete against each other.
• 1:06:48
  SPEAKER_00: You see, when we look at the educational system that the British left for us, right?
• 1:06:53
  SPEAKER_00: We have to understand that they were trying to oppress us.
• 1:06:57
  SPEAKER_00: They were trying to extract us.
• 1:06:59
  SPEAKER_00: What is the first lie we are taught when we go to school in Ghana?
• 1:07:02
  SPEAKER_00: One plus one is two.
• 1:07:03
  SPEAKER_00: One plus one is not two.
• 1:07:05
  SPEAKER_00: Me plus my wife is four.
• 1:07:07
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, right?
• 1:07:08
  SPEAKER_04: No, it's not like Terrence Howard.
• 1:07:10
  SPEAKER_04: No, it's so true.
• 1:07:11
  SPEAKER_00: Me plus my wife, I and my shoddy are one, right?
• 1:07:16
  SPEAKER_00: So one plus one is one.
• 1:07:18
  SPEAKER_00: Right?
• 1:07:19
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like maybe mathematically, with inanimate objects, one plus one is two.
• 1:07:27
  SPEAKER_00: But as soon as those objects are alive, right?
• 1:07:30
  SPEAKER_00: Which we are, and almost everything we engage with meaningfully in this life is alive.
• 1:07:36
  SPEAKER_00: One plus one is equal to two and does not apply.
• 1:07:39
  SPEAKER_00: Why do they teach us one plus one is two?
• 1:07:41
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know why?
• 1:07:42
  SPEAKER_00: So that we don't work together.
• 1:07:45
  SPEAKER_00: Because if I believe one plus one is two, if I work with you, we will achieve two.
• 1:07:50
  SPEAKER_00: And then we divide it, you end up with one, I end up with one.
• 1:07:52
  SPEAKER_04: So I might as well work alone and get one.
• 1:07:54
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:07:56
  SPEAKER_00: But the people who make progress in this world, eagles don't believe one plus one is two.
• 1:08:00
  SPEAKER_00: They believe if we all come together, we pool our money, one plus one is a hundred.
• 1:08:05
  SPEAKER_00: So if I believe one plus one is ten, of course I'll work with you.
• 1:08:08
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:08:09
  SPEAKER_00: We work together, we make ten.
• 1:08:10
  SPEAKER_00: You can cheat me, cra take seven, I will still still end up with three.
• 1:08:13
  SPEAKER_04: More than if I did one alone.
• 1:08:15
  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
• 1:08:16
  SPEAKER_01: The development of any people is contingent on the development of their minds.
• 1:08:20
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:08:20
  SPEAKER_01: And once you develop them to believe in who they are and who what who God has made them, then they can pick themselves up and solve their own problems.
• 1:08:29
  SPEAKER_01: Because if you are not a people solving your own problems, you cannot develop on your own terms.
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
• 1:08:33
  SPEAKER_01: And that will only come when the people believe in who they are, when they know who they are, they have self-confidence and they don't believe that they are second class to anybody.
• 1:08:42
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
• 1:08:43
  SPEAKER_01: Those kind of institutions of training is what will develop our people.
• 1:08:47
  SPEAKER_04: I mean, personally, I don't believe in being against anyone.
• 1:08:50
  SPEAKER_04: I believe in being for yourself.
• 1:08:51
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 1:08:52
  SPEAKER_04: You know, because even when I look at what the West has done, they weren't being against us, they were doing it for themselves.
• 1:08:58
  SPEAKER_04: Like, just look at it from this point of view.
• 1:09:01
  SPEAKER_04: You go somewhere and you see a land of unlimited resources.
• 1:09:06
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:09:06
  SPEAKER_04: Gold, honey, like uh ivory, every resource you can think of.
• 1:09:11
  SPEAKER_04: You see people who are strong, who can farm, who can do all these things, things that their land is lacking.
• 1:09:18
  SPEAKER_04: What will you think?
• 1:09:19
  SPEAKER_04: How do I get some of this?
• 1:09:21
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 1:09:21
  SPEAKER_04: So they just use their minds to figure out how to get what we what we have and prevent us from becoming as strong or as powerful as them.
• 1:09:31
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 1:09:31
  SPEAKER_04: So they weren't doing it against us, they were doing it for themselves.
• 1:09:35
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:09:35
  SPEAKER_04: So now it's our turn to also think wait, but we have it already.
• 1:09:40
  SPEAKER_04: We don't even need to go and take it from someone else.
• 1:09:42
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 1:09:43
  SPEAKER_04: We don't even need to try and outsmart somebody and take something from them.
• 1:09:48
  SPEAKER_04: What we have right here.
• 1:09:49
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 1:09:49
  SPEAKER_04: Like, how is it that Ghana has gold, chocolate, oil?
• 1:09:53
  SPEAKER_07: Yeah.
• 1:09:54
  SPEAKER_04: How?
• 1:09:56
  SPEAKER_04: Gold, chocolate, oil.
• 1:10:00
  SPEAKER_04: And Ghana is a poor country?
• 1:10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:10:02
  SPEAKER_01: Because the knowledge that you needed, we didn't develop it.
• 1:10:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I think sometimes I have a problem with them because you came in the name of God.
• 1:10:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
• 1:10:11
  SPEAKER_01: And you condemn such a people to say that even if you want to talk to God, talk to me, then I'll talk to God.
• 1:10:16
  SPEAKER_01: I think that trick was a beautiful trick.
• 1:10:19
  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yes.
• 1:10:19
  SPEAKER_01: And they were vicious.
• 1:10:20
  SPEAKER_01: And they're still vicious, actually.
• 1:10:22
  SPEAKER_01: They're still vicious.
• 1:10:22
  SPEAKER_01: And we still trust them.
• 1:10:23
  SPEAKER_01: That's the sad side of it.
• 1:10:25
  SPEAKER_04: But there's one thing I always say.
• 1:10:27
  SPEAKER_04: You know, if I'm sitting at my house, right, and some neighbors break into my house and they beat me every day for a week.
• 1:10:35
  SPEAKER_04: And then when they are leaving, after beating me every day for a week, they give me a book and some biscuits and a movie to watch and tell me that these things they've given me are going to make my life better.
• 1:10:49
  SPEAKER_04: Should I believe them?
• 1:10:51
  SPEAKER_04: So when we are oppressed for 400 years, and after that oppression, they leave behind their religion, their educational system, and media to keep feeding our mind.
• 1:11:01
  SPEAKER_04: Their healthcare system.
• 1:11:02
  SPEAKER_04: And their healthcare system.
• 1:11:03
  SPEAKER_00: Which is dependent on medicines which they produce.
• 1:11:06
  SPEAKER_00: Do you know how many Ghanaians have access to Western medicine?
• 1:11:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's less than 30%.
• 1:11:14
  SPEAKER_00: So the vast majority of Ghanaians, the medicine that they have access to, whether it's a midwife, traditional midwife, whether it's this, is the majority of Ghanaians, right?
• 1:11:24
  SPEAKER_00: They use traditional medicine.
• 1:11:26
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, when the government allocates the Ministry of Health budget, what percentage goes into traditional medicine?
• 1:11:32
  SPEAKER_00: If it was not 20, 25 years ago, even the traditional midwives were not incorporated into the National Health Service, even though they were delivering most of the babies in Ghana.
• 1:11:44
  SPEAKER_00: So it's like we've got a method of delivering babies in this country.
• 1:11:48
  SPEAKER_00: And we ignore it completely because it does not fit the structure of the National Health Service that the British left for us.
• 1:11:55
  SPEAKER_04: Everything that we do is bad.
• 1:11:57
  SPEAKER_04: Let me give you an example.
• 1:11:59
  SPEAKER_04: Christian mythology is not called Christian mythology, it's just called the creation story.
• 1:12:06
  SPEAKER_04: And then we have Greek mythology, which is mythology, but it still sounds nice.
• 1:12:12
  SPEAKER_04: And then we have African witchcraft.
• 1:12:14
  SPEAKER_04: Look at the look at the hierarchy.
• 1:12:19
  SPEAKER_04: Christian facts, because everybody knows that Adam and Eve is how the world was created, because that is the creation story.
• 1:12:27
  SPEAKER_04: And then Greek Norse mythology, like all the other ones, are mythology.
• 1:12:32
  SPEAKER_04: It's nice.
• 1:12:33
  SPEAKER_04: You see Thor, and Thor is fighting with his hammer, you know.
• 1:12:36
  SPEAKER_04: Yes, mill near, because this is mythology, it's nice.
• 1:12:40
  SPEAKER_04: And African is Chewa with witchcraft.
• 1:12:42
  SPEAKER_06: So we have thinking and reasoning.
• 1:12:45
  SPEAKER_06: The black man was programmed to think, but not to reason.
• 1:12:50
  SPEAKER_06: This is what they did to us at school.
• 1:12:53
  SPEAKER_06: When we were in elementary school, they taught us the types of rock.
• 1:12:56
  SPEAKER_06: Rocks.
• 1:12:57
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 1:12:58
  SPEAKER_06: Sedimentary rock, metamorphic rock.
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 1:13:00
  SPEAKER_06: Some so you remember.
• 1:13:02
  SPEAKER_06: I remember some.
• 1:13:03
  SPEAKER_06: So that is thinking.
• 1:13:04
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's nice we learn about types of rock.
• 1:13:06
  SPEAKER_05: Yeah.
• 1:13:07
  SPEAKER_06: Even the teacher teaching you sedimentary rock cannot identify sentimentary rock in real life.
• 1:13:12
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:13:13
  SPEAKER_06: Take the teacher house and go and tell the teacher go and bring sedimentary rock.
• 1:13:19
  SPEAKER_06: Number two, what is the use of knowing the types of rocks when we have gold and diamond?
• 1:13:24
  SPEAKER_06: Instead of teaching us how to mine, they will remove your mind from even mining.
• 1:13:30
  SPEAKER_06: That is it.
• 1:13:31
  SPEAKER_06: So for now that we've discovered oil, we should teach our kids the value of having oil, yes, the value of having timber, the value of having rubber, the value of having lithium.
• 1:13:42
  SPEAKER_06: Teachers understand.
• 1:13:44
  SPEAKER_06: So right from primary school, we teach you mining, little about mining.
• 1:13:49
  SPEAKER_06: But when they do this, we all grow and be looking at the mining sector.
• 1:13:53
  SPEAKER_06: And politicians, that's where they want.
• 1:13:56
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 1:13:56
  SPEAKER_06: So they will push you.
• 1:13:57
  SPEAKER_06: So the system after school, you become an employee.
• 1:14:00
  SPEAKER_06: Their children become entrepreneur.
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_06: That is it.
• 1:14:03
  SPEAKER_04: They'll teach you that Fernando Poe brought cocoa to Ghana, but they won't teach you how to process cocoa.
• 1:14:11
  SPEAKER_06: Chocolate is expensive in Ghana than China.
• 1:14:15
  SPEAKER_06: Yet cocoa is nearly cocoa.
• 1:14:18
  SPEAKER_06: That's it.
• 1:14:18
  SPEAKER_06: So that it's a system.
• 1:14:20
  SPEAKER_06: It's a system.
• 1:14:20
  SPEAKER_06: They want to keep everybody in ignorance.
• 1:14:23
  SPEAKER_04: I saw a video of you just this morning.
• 1:14:26
  SPEAKER_04: So it was a black American, and he he posted your video and said, Watch this man from Africa.
• 1:14:32
  SPEAKER_04: Wow.
• 1:14:32
  SPEAKER_04: And then you spoke for a while and then he stopped it and said, You are saying this message to your African brothers, but he is here to let them know that they are suffering the same thing in America because the black Americans are going.
• 1:14:44
  SPEAKER_04: It was the video where you mentioned that Africans are praying every day and the Chinese are not.
• 1:14:53
  SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
• 1:14:54
  SPEAKER_04: And you are saying that the same thing is happening to his black American family.
• 1:14:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 1:15:00
  SPEAKER_04: Establishing churches, yes, all over.
• 1:15:03
  SPEAKER_04: All over.
• 1:15:03
  SPEAKER_04: Not developing the creating anything.
• 1:15:06
  SPEAKER_06: The black man has been subject to becoming an employee.
• 1:15:09
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, while the white man focuses on being an entrepreneur.
• 1:15:13
  SPEAKER_06: No Chinese will come to Ghana and take salary.
• 1:15:16
  SPEAKER_06: Every Chinese man enters Ghana as an entrepreneur or coming to steal your resources.
• 1:15:21
  SPEAKER_06: Simple.
• 1:15:22
  SPEAKER_06: And then they'll bring their Chinese people from there.
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 1:15:25
  SPEAKER_06: And put their the Chinese in the prominent positions.
• 1:15:29
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 1:15:30
  SPEAKER_06: They go to China more.
• 1:15:31
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 1:15:32
  SPEAKER_06: Behind the counter, Chinese.
• 1:15:34
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 1:15:35
  SPEAKER_06: The manager, Chinese.
• 1:15:36
  SPEAKER_06: The workers who take 750.
• 1:15:40
  SPEAKER_06: And they work with love.
• 1:15:41
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 1:15:41
  SPEAKER_06: And they go to Chinese.
• 1:15:42
  SPEAKER_06: Very submissive.
• 1:15:43
  SPEAKER_06: Yes.
• 1:15:44
  SPEAKER_06: Very submissive.
• 1:15:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 1:15:49
  SPEAKER_04: Because I know that in China.
• 1:15:51
  SPEAKER_06: Simple rubber boo.
• 1:15:52
  SPEAKER_06: Toothpick.
• 1:15:54
  SPEAKER_04: We import toothpick.
• 1:15:55
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 1:15:57
  SPEAKER_04: Nobody makes it import tissue paper.
• 1:16:02
  SPEAKER_04: I once met a guy, very rich man with plenty buildings, owned a lot.
• 1:16:07
  SPEAKER_04: And he's in his late 60s.
• 1:16:10
  SPEAKER_04: And he said he's about to sell all his buildings and chop life.
• 1:16:14
  SPEAKER_03: You don't want to take given.
• 1:16:15
  SPEAKER_04: He said he's he's taking his son to school.
• 1:16:17
  SPEAKER_04: He's paid for him through to university.
• 1:16:20
  SPEAKER_04: He should figure out himself.
• 1:16:21
  SPEAKER_04: He's coming to chop his money before he dies.
• 1:16:24
  SPEAKER_03: He dies.
• 1:16:24
  SPEAKER_03: Wow.
• 1:16:25
  SPEAKER_03: That's that's sadly that's how people think.
• 1:16:28
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah when they are doing something, when someone is given power and they are supposed to build a road, they think Tali Mamiyan biala biala, they don't think that next some years to come, we'll use it.
• 1:16:39
  SPEAKER_03: So most of the time, Africans want our problem, and it'd be the people.
• 1:16:42
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, most of our problems is the mindset.
• 1:16:46
  SPEAKER_03: If the mindset it is the people, and they've created they've the sad part is they've made it look like it is okay.
• 1:16:52
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, they've made it look like into raising the topic.
• 1:16:55
  SPEAKER_03: I mean, what I'm glad about is right now, we are able to speak about certain things that back then you were not able to speak about.
• 1:17:01
  SPEAKER_03: So I feel like at some point you'll get there.
• 1:17:03
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah, because one step at a time.
• 1:17:05
  SPEAKER_03: Yes.
• 1:17:05
  SPEAKER_03: At some point, you couldn't raise a topic, you couldn't meet like this.
• 1:17:08
  SPEAKER_03: The content I'm doing, I'm talking about Kwan Kuma.
• 1:17:10
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, if it was in the 1970s.
• 1:17:12
  SPEAKER_03: Oh, you'd be silent.
• 1:17:12
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, I'll be chimney that now we are allowed to talk about.
• 1:17:15
  SPEAKER_03: So I believe that at some point it will be allowed, and Ghana will get there.
• 1:17:20
  SPEAKER_06: When this pastor started doing miracles, they were doing something people didn't pay attention.
• 1:17:25
  SPEAKER_06: Imagine a blind person, they will bring the blind person in front of the whole congregation during crusade.
• 1:17:30
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, then they will say, A brandy would hey from the mother's womb.
• 1:17:34
  SPEAKER_06: He has not seen anything before.
• 1:17:36
  SPEAKER_06: By the power of God, we will open the eye.
• 1:17:41
  SPEAKER_06: All of a sudden, this blind man, the pastor would do, what is this?
• 1:17:47
  SPEAKER_06: Can you see what is this?
• 1:17:53
  SPEAKER_06: One, what is this?
• 1:17:55
  SPEAKER_06: Two, what is this?
• 1:17:57
  SPEAKER_06: Now they've told the church members the moment you see he put instrumentalist, let's dance.
• 1:18:03
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, we need now the pastor will continue.
• 1:18:08
  SPEAKER_06: The pastor will show the dress.
• 1:18:10
  SPEAKER_06: What is this color?
• 1:18:11
  SPEAKER_06: Then the blind man will say blue.
• 1:18:13
  SPEAKER_06: What is this green?
• 1:18:16
  SPEAKER_06: Now who can explain color to a blind man?
• 1:18:20
  SPEAKER_06: Now I am a blind man.
• 1:18:22
  SPEAKER_06: Since my mother gave birth to me, I've not seen color before.
• 1:18:27
  SPEAKER_06: It's the eye that identifies color, the ear identifies sound.
• 1:18:33
  SPEAKER_06: That's why blind people they walk not out of sight, out of sound.
• 1:18:40
  SPEAKER_06: Now, since my mother gave birth to me, I haven't seen color blue before.
• 1:18:45
  SPEAKER_06: Explain color blue to me.
• 1:18:46
  SPEAKER_04: Hey, there is no way to explain it.
• 1:18:50
  SPEAKER_06: So there is no way you can explain color to a blind man.
• 1:18:54
  SPEAKER_06: So the pastors forgot that when the person's eye opened, they have to tell the person this is blue, this is blue, you heard blue, but the blind man will be identifying color blue.
• 1:19:07
  SPEAKER_04: How did they know?
• 1:19:13
  SPEAKER_06: Strategy, and then they would it's very sad.
• 1:19:16
  SPEAKER_06: But why don't they go and heal the people in the hospital?
• 1:19:19
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, that's the problem.
• 1:19:20
  SPEAKER_06: That's the problem.
• 1:19:21
  SPEAKER_06: The real sick people at the hospital, not at the churches.
• 1:19:24
  SPEAKER_06: The other day I said, look at where Bishop Obinim's church is at Temakum T9, and look at the general hospital.
• 1:19:30
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, Bishop and the General Hospital gate.
• 1:19:37
  SPEAKER_06: It's very sad.
• 1:19:38
  SPEAKER_06: I mean, think about it.
• 1:19:40
  SPEAKER_06: Even the pastors, like even the doctors will come and start in front of the hospital.
• 1:19:45
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, the moment you can please no no no no no.
• 1:19:47
  SPEAKER_06: Go Bishop, go to Bishop.
• 1:19:50
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, yeah.
• 1:19:51
  SPEAKER_06: Because the other day, I heard that they said he has brought a dead.
• 1:19:55
  SPEAKER_06: He's brought a dead person.
• 1:19:56
  SPEAKER_06: He brought a dead person back to life.
• 1:19:57
  SPEAKER_06: And I said, Where was he when Atamas died?
• 1:19:59
  SPEAKER_06: Atamus, if there are people that can bring people back to life, yeah, like that, Dulumba should have been alive.
• 1:20:06
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, Apostol Kojosafu, go and bring him back to life.
• 1:20:09
  SPEAKER_06: You see, so it is very sad.
• 1:20:11
  SPEAKER_06: We were programmed to even insult it, it is only the African that insult his dead ancestors, blame his dead ancestors for his current suffering because our ancestors are accused and we are suffering.
• 1:20:27
  SPEAKER_06: Now they said God punishes bad people, punishes their descendants.
• 1:20:33
  SPEAKER_06: Okay.
• 1:20:34
  SPEAKER_06: Ghanaians, let me ask you a question between Ghana and England, whose ancestors offended who?
• 1:20:46
  SPEAKER_06: I'm asking you.
• 1:20:54
  SPEAKER_06: So Britain offended Ghana for over 400 years ago.
• 1:21:00
  SPEAKER_06: Now the descendant, why in every we are rather looking for visa to go to Britain again and go and hustle.
• 1:21:12
  SPEAKER_06: So it's a system.
• 1:21:15
  SPEAKER_06: So Britain is what it is today because of the decision of their ancestors and how they build their country.
• 1:21:24
  SPEAKER_06: China, 50 years ago, if they have told Ghanaians to go and stay in China, no, we will tell them they are mad.
• 1:21:31
  SPEAKER_06: Even when I'm going for employment and I don't pray.
• 1:21:35
  SPEAKER_06: Listen, prayer means asking or requesting.
• 1:21:39
  SPEAKER_06: So imagine I'm going for an interview, and I say, This interview, I will pass.
• 1:21:45
  SPEAKER_06: It is just like you two saying, Oh, God, help me to pass.
• 1:21:49
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, it's the same thing, just that I didn't add God.
• 1:21:52
  SPEAKER_06: But it is the mindset I have that I will pass.
• 1:21:55
  SPEAKER_06: That is it.
• 1:21:56
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, so there is a difference between faith and hope.
• 1:22:00
  SPEAKER_06: Now, what is faith?
• 1:22:02
  SPEAKER_06: Let me give you the biblical definition.
• 1:22:04
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, read faith.
• 1:22:05
  SPEAKER_04: Faith is a strong belief or complete trust in someone, something, or a set of ideas, often without needing physical proof.
• 1:22:13
  SPEAKER_04: No proof.
• 1:22:15
  SPEAKER_06: So different.
• 1:22:16
  SPEAKER_06: So I say I will build around hope, not faith.
• 1:22:20
  SPEAKER_06: The biblical explanation is the substance, hope a faith is the substance of things hopeful, evidence of things not seen.
• 1:22:32
  SPEAKER_06: So faith, hope, is me buying a car.
• 1:22:38
  SPEAKER_06: Then my main focus is I want to give this car to a driver because that means it will be a commercial car.
• 1:22:45
  SPEAKER_06: Then I hope it will be successful.
• 1:22:47
  SPEAKER_06: I am doing something.
• 1:22:49
  SPEAKER_06: Faith is going for somebody, seeing a car key on the ground.
• 1:22:56
  SPEAKER_06: Then you take the car key, then you go around saying, Charlie, I get a car.
• 1:23:00
  SPEAKER_06: Where the car they know by no see them.
• 1:23:05
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah, so people are in churches praying without investing, without doing anything, expecting magic.
• 1:23:16
  SPEAKER_06: How can you pray for Visa without a passport?
• 1:23:19
  SPEAKER_06: Are you normal?
• 1:23:20
  SPEAKER_06: That is why a pastor can tell you he can bring your passport from his shoe, but he goes to the passport office to renew his passport.
• 1:23:32
  SPEAKER_06: So, this kind of programming we are living in Africa, please wake up.
• 1:23:36
  SPEAKER_06: Wake up, don't see the enlightened ones as your enemies.
• 1:23:40
  SPEAKER_06: Yes, and I'm do we are doing this out of love, not out of hatred.
• 1:23:45
  SPEAKER_06: If you watch my old videos, I was a bit aggressive.
• 1:23:50
  SPEAKER_06: I thought I have to remove the chain by force.
• 1:23:53
  SPEAKER_06: But I realized in removing the chain by force from my brother's neck, if I'm not careful, I will kill my brother.
• 1:23:59
  SPEAKER_02: So they thought, and they created a lot.
• 1:24:01
  SPEAKER_02: So when maybe next time we dig deep into the inventions that the slave, because but I always tell people the only thing that Europeans have invented is the patent store.
• 1:24:16
  SPEAKER_02: True.
• 1:24:17
  SPEAKER_02: Where you go to patent and distill your knowledge.
• 1:24:20
  SPEAKER_04: Because you know, even um I was reading on Pythagoras' theory.
• 1:24:24
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 1:24:24
  SPEAKER_04: On the fact that Pythagoras is not the first person to have used the Pythagoras theory.
• 1:24:29
  SPEAKER_02: But but Richie, what what theorem did did ancestors use to build the pyramids?
• 1:24:34
  SPEAKER_04: Exactly.
• 1:24:35
  SPEAKER_02: And and mind you, the we see people talk about when we talk about pyramids, people only talk about Egypt.
• 1:24:40
  SPEAKER_02: Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt.
• 1:24:42
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah.
• 1:24:43
  SPEAKER_02: But then there are pyramids in South Africa.
• 1:24:48
  SPEAKER_04: I didn't know that.
• 1:24:49
  SPEAKER_04: Okay, I didn't know that.
• 1:24:50
  SPEAKER_02: There are pyramids in Nigeria, the Insude pyramids.
• 1:24:54
  SPEAKER_04: Okay.
• 1:24:54
  SPEAKER_02: Then we can talk about the pyramids that the British deliberately destroyed in Benin.
• 1:25:00
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
• 1:25:02
  SPEAKER_04: So you see, I think one reason why they always make the building of the pyramids look so mysterious and say maybe aliens built it or something is I think the biggest theory is that an ancient civilization built the pyramids.
• 1:25:18
  SPEAKER_04: We are the ancient civilization.
• 1:25:19
  SPEAKER_04: So, okay, let's let's go to some of the civilizations because I like how you've already mentioned to show that even before the Greeks came here, we had our civilization.
• 1:25:28
  SPEAKER_04: But um, even medicine, all these things, we've had people come in here to come and learn it, and it's all documented.
• 1:25:34
  SPEAKER_02: It is.
• 1:25:35
  SPEAKER_02: I mean, you just mentioned medicine.
• 1:25:38
  SPEAKER_02: After your qualification to become a doctor, you take an oath, yeah, which is the Hippocratic Oath.
• 1:25:45
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, Asclepius, who is the deity that the Greeks used?
• 1:25:51
  SPEAKER_02: The original deity is Emotep.
• 1:25:56
  SPEAKER_02: The God of medicine.
• 1:25:58
  SPEAKER_02: The ancient Egyptians had deitified Emotep thousands of years before the Greeks even came to Kemet.
• 1:26:06
  SPEAKER_02: So when they came, and and we we we we did it with the quote that the the uh the Greeks changed all the gods that the Greeks had, they they got it from Egypt.
• 1:26:18
  SPEAKER_02: Okay, for instance, in 332 BC, after Alexander of Macedon, they call him Alexander the Great.
• 1:26:24
  SPEAKER_02: Me, I don't call him Alexander the Great, because the man that came to conquer my land, I don't see you don't see why he can be called the Great.
• 1:26:34
  SPEAKER_02: I call him Alexander of Macedon, because that's where he's from.
• 1:26:37
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, 332 BC, when the Greeks conquered Kemet, Alexander of Macedon traveled to the Siwa Oasis.
• 1:26:47
  SPEAKER_02: The Siwa Oasis, that's where we had uh the temple of Amun.
• 1:26:51
  SPEAKER_02: This is where the Christians the word amen came from.
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  SPEAKER_02: So Alexander of Macedon took a pilgrimage to the Siwa Oasis, and there he wrote a letter to his mother, Olympia, and in the letter he said, Mama, I'm now on the land where the first two Greek gods, Apollo and Zeus, emerged.
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  SPEAKER_04: Interesting.
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  SPEAKER_02: So if we gave the Europeans their gods, and now we are worshipping their gods, it's like everything has been turned backwards.
• 1:27:25
  SPEAKER_02: Yes, exactly.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's how history has been.
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  SPEAKER_02: It's what is is the reason why we are now at the bottom.
• 1:27:31
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I wanted to quote something from Duati Pacheco Pereira.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, he visited Africa in uh 1506, and this is what he said about Benin.
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  SPEAKER_02: Benin.
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  SPEAKER_02: He said, the city is greater than Lisbon, the houses are well arranged.
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  SPEAKER_02: This is this is 1506.
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  SPEAKER_02: A Portuguese historian is telling you that Benin.
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  SPEAKER_02: Was better than Lisbon.
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  SPEAKER_04: Lisbon.
• 1:28:02
  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: But you believe your ancestors were good for nothing.
• 1:28:07
  SPEAKER_02: That's why I say I always say it is ignorance.
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  SPEAKER_02: I'll continue.
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  SPEAKER_02: He says, This is from Ufer Dappa.
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  SPEAKER_02: He wrote this in 1668.
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  SPEAKER_02: The source is the description of Africa.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's from the book.
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  SPEAKER_05: Okay.
• 1:28:22
  SPEAKER_02: He says the streets, and he was also talking about the Benin City.
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  SPEAKER_02: He says the streets are straight and very broad.
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  SPEAKER_02: The houses stand in good order.
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  SPEAKER_02: Then some people who haven't visited Africa before turn around and say the Africans were living on trees like we're monkeys.
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  SPEAKER_04: Because I know the Benin City there, it amazed them when they came.
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  SPEAKER_04: And the fact that the Benin War is longer than the China War.
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  SPEAKER_02: The China War.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because it was in the Guinea's Book of Record.
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  SPEAKER_04: Oh, okay.
• 1:28:59
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_04: And they deleted it.
• 1:29:01
  SPEAKER_04: Yes.
• 1:29:01
  SPEAKER_00: Because they are deleting our history.
• 1:29:03
  SPEAKER_00: Of course.
• 1:29:04
  SPEAKER_00: Surely a democracy should be based on the person who is most capable of leading us in the right direction.
• 1:29:11
  SPEAKER_00: So that means our traditional system is more advanced than a democracy.
• 1:29:16
  SPEAKER_00: Because in the traditional system, when the old king dies, the elders, and at the end of the day, the elders represent every clan within the tribe, and every that clan is a representation of every family.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a business.
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  SPEAKER_00: Out of the Business, you choose the elders.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the elders will sit down and say, okay, Richie, the reason why you have queen mothers is because from the moment a queen mother's son is born, she's training him to be a potential king.
• 1:29:43
  SPEAKER_00: So you are being trained from the moment you are born.
• 1:29:46
  SPEAKER_00: So the elders will look at all the potential kings and say, Oh, where do you pensar too much?
• 1:29:58
  SPEAKER_00: And then they choose the most appropriate person.
• 1:30:01
  SPEAKER_00: It's a meritocracy.
• 1:30:03
  SPEAKER_00: So our traditional system of governance was a meritocracy.
• 1:30:07
  SPEAKER_00: And we have replaced the meritocracy with a popularity contest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Do you believe 50% of the people in any country are smart?
• 1:30:18
  SPEAKER_04: No, I don't.
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  SPEAKER_00: So why are we allowing the fools to determine our future?
• 1:30:22
  SPEAKER_04: If you even just follow Pareto's principle, it explains that in every community, 20% give 80% of the output.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: So if we are looking for So why should the 80% determine the future of the 20% who are producing everything?
• 1:30:37
  SPEAKER_00: Exactly.
• 1:30:38
  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't make sense.
• 1:30:39
  SPEAKER_00: So to me, democracy is stupidity.
• 1:30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Because we need so if we say family, every family should choose one person.
• 1:30:48
  SPEAKER_00: This is the family head.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the person who within our family we believe is the smartest, most fair, most genuine person.
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  SPEAKER_00: We want him to represent us.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we are pushing a good foot forward.
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  SPEAKER_00: We are not going to send the criminal and the thief to go and represent our family.
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  SPEAKER_00: So within our family, we know who can represent us best.
• 1:31:11
  SPEAKER_00: Then the families come together.
• 1:31:13
  SPEAKER_00: That is a meritocracy.
• 1:31:14
  SPEAKER_00: The families then nominate an elder to go and sit in the chief's court to represent our interests.
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  SPEAKER_06: I believe there is an active force behind nature.
• 1:31:23
  SPEAKER_06: Once there is a creation, there must be a creator according to my level as a human being.
• 1:31:27
  SPEAKER_06: When there is a microphone, there is a manufacturer, this laptop, telling somebody this iPhone came by its own, you become a madman.
• 1:31:35
  SPEAKER_06: Maybe that is the level of our understanding because we are human beings.
• 1:31:39
  SPEAKER_06: Why are we trying to understand an unseen force that we cannot even understand?
• 1:31:45
  SPEAKER_06: It's like the laptop trying to understand the inventor.
• 1:31:48
  SPEAKER_06: The laptop has no idea about the inventor.
• 1:31:51
  SPEAKER_06: This laptop has doesn't know even the inventor.
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  SPEAKER_04: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_06: Doesn't know laptop na see one.
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  SPEAKER_06: Oh ni mono.
• 1:31:57
  SPEAKER_06: It's like the baker, the bread, trying to understand the baker.
• 1:32:00
  SPEAKER_06: Yeah.
• 1:32:01
  SPEAKER_06: So we cannot understand God.
• 1:32:02
  SPEAKER_06: So all that I say is let us live on earth.
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  SPEAKER_06: Let us be our brother's keeper.
• 1:32:08
  SPEAKER_06: Because I found myself here and I saw you here.
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  SPEAKER_06: You are the one that can hurt me.
• 1:32:13
  SPEAKER_06: You are the one that can help me.
• 1:32:14
  SPEAKER_06: So man the problem, man the solution.
• 1:32:18
  SPEAKER_06: If you have a belief in God, it should be personal.
• 1:32:20
  SPEAKER_06: So nobody has the right.
• 1:32:22
  SPEAKER_06: Everybody has the right to believe in any concept of God.
• 1:32:26
  SPEAKER_06: But nobody has the right to intimidate others with his concept of God.
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  SPEAKER_06: Simple.
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  SPEAKER_04: I like that.
• 1:32:32
  SPEAKER_06: Simple, simple, simple, simple.
• 1:32:34
  SPEAKER_04: You don't have a problem with anybody.
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  SPEAKER_06: Simple.
• 1:32:40
  SPEAKER_06: That is it.
• 1:32:41
  SPEAKER_06: So they believe in God, no problem.
• 1:32:43
  SPEAKER_06: But they believe in God should make you productive.
• 1:32:46
  SPEAKER_06: So I'm telling Africa, let us wake up.
• 1:32:49
  SPEAKER_06: The black man is capable of managing his own affairs.
• 1:32:51
  SPEAKER_06: That is what Kwame Kuma told us.
• 1:32:53
  SPEAKER_06: Let us come back to ourselves.
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  SPEAKER_06: We have all the natural resources the Europe, the West are dreaming of.
• 1:32:58
  SPEAKER_06: Look at the size of Africa they presented to us.
• 1:33:01
  SPEAKER_06: All of a sudden, they've given us a different new one.
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  SPEAKER_06: So meaning you said it's long ago.
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  SPEAKER_06: I said that a long time that even the size of Africa, even this sun that we see, whether it is a sun or it is a light that they've been switching every every 12 hours.
• 1:33:16
  SPEAKER_06: We don't know.
• 1:33:17
  SPEAKER_06: You don't know.
• 1:33:18
  SPEAKER_06: So who went up there and drew the map of Africa for us?
• 1:33:21
  SPEAKER_06: We don't even know where we are located.
• 1:33:23
  SPEAKER_04: Thank you, Abraham.
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  SPEAKER_04: And to you watching this, I really hope you enjoyed the conversation.
• 1:33:27
  SPEAKER_04: And as usual, I hope this confort has brought you another step closer to being the mastermind that I know you are meant to.
• 1:33:38
  SPEAKER_04: Thanks for watching throughout this video.
• 1:33:40
  SPEAKER_04: The fact that you're still here tells me you're somebody who is dedicated to learning and you see things through to the end.
• 1:33:46
  SPEAKER_04: Now, let me ask this favor of you don't just watch, don't just listen, and don't just take in what we've said.
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  SPEAKER_04: You need to practice everything that I'm trying to teach you into your real life because the journey of becoming a mastermind is not just about knowledge, but it's also about putting it into practice.
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  SPEAKER_04: And let's grow the community, let's build a community of masterminds who are ready to shape the world into what we know it should be.
• 1:34:14
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