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Human trafficking and a new form of Knowledge

May 17, 2005

The rate of human trafficking is growing everyday, with the Third World Countries mostly affected. This is very bad but there seems nothing that can be done to curb this. Millions of dollars have been spent, and really the West doesn't seem much interested again because they somehow see the futility in spending on the Third World Countries: It never generates results. I feel this is because the Third World countries, so-called, have not dimmed it fit to see themselves in a new light. There is over-dependence on Western modes of thinking, on western ideas, western ideologies, western everything. It will do well if we begin to look into ourselves and see why we must love ourselves, and why we must study our things, our environments, our people. This is rigidly attached to us, this racial feeling. Even African-American still feel part of themselves attached to Africa; we who live in Africa actually have all of ourselves attached to it. By neglecting what we are, and striving to absorb some kind of western feeling, which of course will estrange us and make us look down on our kind who haven't gotten this western attachment will make us feel superior unnecessarily and then proceed to use them in enriching ourselves. Let me say here that human trafficking,corruption,etc. are what we can kick out of our system, but improper identification with ourselves split us from our own realities.

Adeoye Adewale