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Africa: A World Apart



Africa is a contienent that captivates the world. For good, it draws Westerns and Humanitarians who see an opportunity to offer aid to causes like Aids, for ill it has been raped for diamonds and other precious goods. Africa is a world apart, where many areas remain unchanged since Genesis, when the Lord created all things (John 1:3). Many countries in Africa want to become independent and mirrior Western civilizations, modernizing and becoming cosmopolitan and economic powerhouses. The 'thirst' to evolve isn't without need, disease and poverty along with wars have lead to unprecendented death tolls. The passion to become populous and advanced in technology is to curb the demorializing and destructive powers of death, disease, diamonds, and death sqauds supplied with child soldiers. Africa is not that same world of lions, Kumata, and Wakuda peoples dancing around fires, and wearing incredible outfits. Africa in many cities is moving forward, but the Northern countries of this great continent impend the leap forward via Radical Islam.

The Africa I know is a place that isn't backwards, but free of advances we treasure and possessing the things we dream of, like unconditional love. In the Heart shaped continent, in the South, people live day to day, surviving yes, but the rhymn of life is not all drudgery, but lively, they truly live, "Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his lifespan?" (Matthew 6:27), and "So don't worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today's trouble is enough for today." (Matthew 6:34). The love of Wakuda, the Africans of Malawi is unconditional, they love you as family without conditions, get to know you and vetting, and no matter what you do they love you anyways. Africa possess a rawness of nature, but of human spirit, simpler times, and wonder. When you drive the orange red roads seeing Africans walking with their possessions for miles, you feel a sense of exploration, of journey, and like those times when people went questing and there was excitement about a trek, rather than utilitarianism, and wanting to be at destination immediately. Stopping at market in the center of road and hut town as Afrikans offer fruits and other foods for sale, you feel lost in a sea of spice, smell, and serenity. Market isn't marked by joyless moments of going to a store, avoiding people and getting yoru cart full, but in Africa it living, the process of acquiring food and other belongings requires relationship. While here in west everything is machine based, you practically don't need see or talk to another person between Amazon.com (which I like and approve of) and other apps, but in Africa it is different, everything is relational, you can't do anything without another person. Even driving a car means carpooling, being driven by a driver who delights in conversation or you driving with other people who want to relate. Unlike the jaded, Millenial, disconnected generation of the United States, Africans in the South joyful, mindful, and connected to everyone.

People often want to know, "what possess people to go to Africa, a dingy, hot, and poor place full of disease and death?" Such a statement is telling of the person than of Africa. For the Continent in shape of a heart is full of people of the heart. They may not live in skycrapers, they may not have smartphones, Wi-Fi, and Wal-Mart (some cities like Johannsburg may), but they are Wakuda with soul, spirit, and resourcefulness. Africa is divided into three spheres of religion, one is Christian, one Islam, and last piece is tribal and minority religions. The clash between Christianty and Islam has been going on for ages. Muslims in Africa have launched Jihads, while some Christians in an effort to set captives free wage Crusades. I cannot judge the believers who fight back against terrorism, all I can say is that the situation is escalating, with many Muslims in North migrating to south and even building mosques the whole way. Africa, like the Middle East and now Europe is become unstable in this conflict with Radical Islam.

Africa is my second home, Israel my first home. As Danny in "Blood Diamond" said TIA, This Is Africa. Africa will forever be a heart not of heathens, but a land where technology has yet to rape and mutate people into cyborgs. Pray for Africa, for many of our brothers and sisters in Christ are suffering there. I personally know some, having visited there and worship among them. I worry for my South African brothers and sisters. Please pray.

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