Afrika in Focus: The Global Health Crises affecting Afrikan (Black) people

Discover the urgent health crisis affecting African communities globally, with alarming statistics on hypertension, diabetes, obesity, and maternal mortality in countries like the US, UK, and Ghana. Ever wondered how Western lifestyles and diets have exacerbated these issues? We contrast this modern-day reality with the ancestral wisdom of traditional diets, aiming to shed light on a path to better health outcomes for African populations worldwide. Join me, Kwame, as we explore how embracing indigenous foods might be the key to reversing these troubling trends.

The episode takes a deep dive into detoxification and disease prevention, tackling the prevalent Western lifestyle diseases such as diabetes and prostate cancer. By focusing on the benefits of fasting and the potential healing power of natural remedies like alkaline water, lemon, and turmeric, we discuss ways to cleanse the body of toxins and bolster overall well-being. The contentious topics of water quality and vaccine safety are also on the table, as we encourage a proactive stance on health by leveraging natural methods.

We end with a thought-provoking discussion on the suitability of pharmaceuticals versus natural healing for African communities. Examining historical, biological, and cultural dimensions, we question the compatibility of Western medicines with African bodies and emphasize the potential of ancestral medicinal practices. As conspiracy theories about global health agendas surface, the call to action is clear: reclaim control over health and wellness through natural healing methods. Be part of this empowering conversation and learn how you can take charge of your health journey.

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Chapters

• 0:04 Global Health Crisis Facing African Communities
• 18:23 Detoxification and Disease Prevention
• 24:23 Pharmaceuticals vs Natural Healing in Africa
• 30:33 Supporting Ghana Africa in Focus

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:04

Welcome to this week's edition of Africa in Focus with myself Kwame, ghanaian broadcaster, journalist, writer, broadcaster and entrepreneur. And in this week's edition of Africa in Focus, we're looking about the global health epidemic in African people. So this is the global health challenges facing African people worldwide. So, before we get into the subject, if you love what you hear, if you like what you hear, please share to your friends, family, social media networks. Subscribe to Ghana African Folks on YouTube. Hit the notification bell, meaning every time I upload a new podcast, youtube will notify you of that. You want to get at least 100 subscribers by the end of the year, so let's go for it again. You can also get Ghana African Focus on Spotify. Click the follow button and that will mean Spotify will notify you every time I upload a new podcast. So far, we've got 575 followers on Spotify. We want to get to a thousand this year. So please tell your friends and family about this great podcast called Ghana, africa in Focus. All right, so let's get into the podcast looking at the global health epidemic facing African people. So, no matter where you are as African, whether you're on the African continent, whether you're in America, whether you're in the UK, europe, african people, black people have the worst health outcomes. So, for example, if you look at you know America, where a lot of my listeners are, america, yeah, africans and African-Americans have some of the worst health outcomes in America. Ie there's high infant mortality in terms of black women giving birth in America. A lot of African-Americans suffer from obesity, yeah, hypertension, blood pressure, diabetes, again. If African Americans suffer from obesity, hypertension, blood pressure, diabetes, again. If you come to the UK, a lot of black people suffer from hypertension, diabetes, particularly type 1 diabetes. You know obesity is becoming a big issue in Britain as well and, again, just like America, many black women are dying giving birth. In fact, there was a report by Imperial College London and also the Royal College of Nursing that black women, african women, in the UK are five to six times more likely to die giving birth than Caucasian women, asian women, chinese women, Showing you that there is a health crisis within the black community, african community in the UK.

Speaker 1: 2:57

Now, if you come to Ghana, africa you know Ghana now has, ghana now has huge, huge, massive health issues and it doesn't help the fact that we haven't got first class health infrastructure that can help with these issues, but the fact that the matter is right, because Ghana is particularly the so-called affluent class. They're now copying the western lifestyle. You know Ghanaians, particularly the so-called affluent class they're now copying the Western lifestyle. Ghanaians are getting also hypertension, diabetes and the new one kidney. Even young people in the 30 in Ghana are getting massive problems with kidney issues. Some people in the 30 in Ghana have to go for kidney dialysis because the kidneys have been mashed up, because they've not looked after the kidney well.

Speaker 1: 3:52

And so, given what I've said for UK, us and Ghana and the same could be said for everywhere we are in the world there is a global health crisis that is facing the African populations worldwide and there is basically a simple, simple reason why we are getting these illnesses. So you know, when our ancestors lived, yeah, and they never got high blood pressure, they never got fibroid tumors in terms of women, they never got prostate cancer in terms of men, and again, this is how shocking it is Prostate cancer is a massive killer among African men, particularly African men living in the Western Hemisphere. So African men living in Europe, us, canada, north America Prostate cancer is, I think, the biggest cancer that's killing black men in the Western Hemisphere and again, we'll come to reasons why that is. And also in Africa. Yeah, prostate cancer is also beginning to take root in certain countries on the African continent. And so, like I was saying before, I digress a bit.

Speaker 1: 5:13

You know our ancestors lived to more than 100 years old. If you read the Bible, if you think the Bible is about black people, sorry, book right is about black people, sorry book right. You know. If you look at, you know people like Noah, you know King Solomon and all these other characters in the Bible. They lived to long ages. Yeah, they lived to about 500 years old, 200 years, 200 years. That was standard in those days. Yeah, but today, because of our, you know, we've copied, particularly you know the way we are in the West. We live in America, uk, that's right. We've taken on board Western sage-cheeked lifestyles, we've taken on board the Western diet, you know. So you know the reason why and, like I said, this will again detour a bit. You know our ancestors, you know, didn't get blood pressure, high blood pressure, didn't get type 2 diabetes, didn't get, you know, cancers, didn't get kidney diseases, didn't get prostate cancer, didn't get fibroid tumours and all these other diseases that we're suffering from today. Because, you know, a couple of hundred years ago.

Speaker 1: 6:27

They ate their own food. Yeah, and this is a big issue now with the global African community, whether in the UK, us, you know, canada, on the African continent, right, we are not eating our indigenous foods. Yeah, so every group of people has their own indigenous food. So, like the South Asians, they've got their curry, their dosa, their dill, you know, et cetera. That's what they eat. Yeah, the Chinese, they've got their sweet and sour pork, their egg fried rice, their black bean sauce, their you know, chicken chow mein. Yeah, that's their food. If you look at the Koreans, they've got the kimchi and the you know, boiled white rice. Yeah, if you look at, you know, other Europeans, italians, they've got pizza, pasta and the Mediterranean diet. If you look at North America white North Americans they've got their diet, which is basically a high carbohydrate, high sugar intake, high fat diet.

Speaker 1: 7:38

We Africans also had our own, you know, foods that sustained us for thousands upon thousands, upon thousands of years, but now, because we feel that, you know, it's a so-called modern age and that we live in a so-called progressive society, we are not eating our own foods. However, other people, yeah, by and large, eat their own food. When was the last time you saw a white man eat a wachi? When was the last time you saw a Chinese person eat a bak enugushi? When was the last time you saw a Korean eat, you know, giraffe rice? When was the last time you saw a Korean eat, you know, giraffe rice? Was the last time you saw a Malaysian eat red, red or rice and peas? No, you don't.

Speaker 1: 8:34

Because these people, right, eat their diet of their ancestors. Yeah, but we, as Africans, right, because we feel, you know, we've got a bit of money, or because we live in the West, you forgot your tradition. Many of us now are not eating the food that our ancestors, our grandmothers, our grandfathers, our great-grandfathers, grandmothers ate, that enabled them to live them a long, long life, many cases over 150 years. We now, particularly us living in the west, are eating the western diet and have abandoned our own diet, and because of this, we are suffering from numerous, numerous diseases that are alien in the African culture. And so these diseases, like, I say, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, prostate cancer, fibroid tumours, breast cancer, tumor, breast cancer these illnesses were unheard of, you know, in traditional Africa societies before the advent of the Arab, before the advent of the Europeans coming to African soil and we need to understand that these diseases that we suffer from today are both because of our lifestyle and diet, but also environmental factors, particularly those in the west. So if you leave your motherland and settle in a new continent and you don't stick to your diet of your ancestors, right, and you pick on, or you change your diet and eat the western diet, yeah, that's going, and you pick on, or you change your diet and eat the western diet. Yeah, that's going to play havoc with you because, believe it or not, believe it or not, we're not the same genetically. We're not the same.

Speaker 1: 10:46

African people, black people, we've got 13 layers of melanin. Melanin is the dark pigmentation that protects us from the sun's ultraviolet rays. This is why African people can stay in the sun for hours upon hours. And this is why African people can stay in the sun for hours upon hours. And this is why Europeans, caucasians, cannot stay in the sun. Because the Caucasians, the white man, they lack melanin, because their bodies do not produce melanin, because they lack melatonin. Melatonin is a chemical substance in black people, african people, that allows them to produce melanin To protect them from the sun and from harsh environmental climates. Yeah, and this is why you know Europeans and other non-Africans, particularly Europeans, because of the fact that they have no low or no melanin and that their inability for their body to produce melatonin, which produces melanin, and so, and in addition to this, you know most Africans.

Speaker 1: 11:53

Yeah, not necessarily African-Americans because of slavery I'll come into that in a minute but most Africans, right, have O negative blood type. Go and check your blood type, right. You find that. Right, it's either O negative or O positive and O signifies original, that that that that the O blood type was the original blood type of the human family, signifying that we Africans were the first and original human beings. Because of the original blood group, which is O negative or O positive, yeah, and because of, you know, arab slavery and European enslavement, man Africans now, or because of that race mix that went on, africans, particularly in the West, do not have 100% O negative blood. They've got a lot of European blood mixed within them because of the rape and the other narcissists that went on during the same period when Africans were enslaved, you know, in the so-called New World, ie the Americas and the so-called Caribbean, and so some of our African people today, they may look Africans but they haven't got their own negative blood type because of that race mixing, that kind of genocidal act that Europeans did during the enslavement process. But the O blood type is the original blood type of humanity and that is prevalent in African people, particularly those living on the continent. You have O negative, o positive blood and O, like I said, is the original blood group of the original human beings. Yeah, so we're not the same. So we are not the same.

Speaker 1: 13:49

So when people come and say we all bleed red white, no, yes, we all bleed red white, but our blood is different than Europeans, than Chinese, than Asians, than Arabs. Yeah, and this is why we've got to take extra, extra care with our diet. Yeah, particularly if we're living in the West, because if you live particularly in somewhere like the UK or other parts of Europe where for long periods of time there's no sun, yeah, vitamin D yeah, you need to eat food that can supplement the fact that you're not getting sunshine. You know, like it was in Africa or the Caribbean. And vitamin D is a vital, vital vitamin for all black people, because that vitamin D, basically it aligns itself with melatonin, that produces melanin. So vitamin D is a crucial vitamin of importance to African black people, black people, and so you know, if you look at somewhere like Africa Ghana, nigeria, zimbabwe, kenya, etc.

Speaker 1: 15:05

Because A the circle, governments in these countries have not invested in healthcare delivery and proper healthcare provision. Africans in the continent have a very, very short life. I mean I think it's the age or something like that I can't remember what term it is but the life expectancy in Africa is something around about 65 to 70 years of age. When you compare that with Europe and America, which is well over 80, in the west well over 80, you know that says a lot about the healthcare delivery in Africa. And so our government needs to invest wholesale in healthcare, and I don't mean big hospitals or clinics. What I mean by investing in things like, you know, killing the antigen machines, prostate cancer screening, breast cancer screening, fibroid tumor screening for women, type 2 diabetes screening, etc. Etc. Right to find these illnesses before they spread and become of a problem. We need to do that in africa because a lot of african countries do not spend a lot of money on their health care, and so that needs to be a solution.

Speaker 1: 16:36

Second solution, yeah, is that as African people, we need to eat our own food. We can't eat other people's food and think we're not affected, particularly our young people, particularly young Africans in the West. I mean, the sort of garbage that they're eating is disturbing and alarming, because what they're eating you know, the kfc mcdonald's, what have you right? It's got no nutrition value. Yeah, so when our children, our young people, are eating this hybrid foods, I call that hybrid food because the reason why it's called hybrid food, because it's food that essentially has got no vitamins, no minerals, no nutrients that the body needs, yeah, in order to uh, rejuvenate itself and also to, you know, protect the immune system and also to to boost, you know, the uh vitality and the nutrient density of the cells in African people's genes. And so this is crucial because, you know, the presence of data that we're getting, particularly in the West, is precisely due to this Western diet that we're having.

Speaker 1: 18:01

And africa, those so-called afro-africans who think they've got a bit of money want to live that western western afghan now. So they want to eat pizza, they want to eat sausage and egg for breakfast. They shouldn't eat cornflakes and milk, you know. They don't want to eat their traditional local foods. They're now their traditional local foods. They're now paying the press office and they're now developing these.

Speaker 1: 18:23

You know diseases that were alien in Africa but that are commonplace in the West. Yeah, and these diseases are alien to us because of our original diet and lifestyle. And so if you want to prevent, yeah, yeah, diabetes, um, hypertension, uh, fibroid tumor, prostate cancer all these answers, right, you need to fast a lot because fasting, you know, can destroy er certain particles or certain cells that can become cancerous, yeah, and that can lead to cancer. Because, basically, cancer is basically when your cells have been contaminated by the food that you eat or by the air that you breathe, or by the water that you drink. So if it's not clean air that you're breathing in or if you're not drinking alkaline water, yeah, what do you mean by alkaline water? It has to have a pH value of 7,. Yeah, because a lot of the water in Africa right, it may not be as bad as the West, right, because drinking water in the West is very, very bad.

Speaker 1: 19:48

You know, I wouldn't, I wouldn't. I've lived in England for about 10 years now. I've never drank tap water in england. Yeah, I rather buy the bottled water, because tap water is basically poisonous. You know, we even heard in the uk that um thames water company, right, or one or one water companies in you know, in the uk, you know, had sewage in the River Thames, yeah, and that is not an exception, but it's the rule. So if the water in the UK can basically sewage, right, what about other parts of Europe and even North America? Look at what happened in Flint, michigan, where the water was deliberately poisoned because the majority of people that lived there were Africans and African Americans. So water, if you're drinking poisoned water or polluted water, that's going to affect you, and so we need to drink alkaline water so you can get your normal spring water, but add lemon, add lime too, because lime is a very, very good antioxidant, also contains vitamin c and it also can be used to alkalize the water that you buy, the bottled water that you buy. So that's one.

Speaker 1: 21:08

Two fasting is very, very, very important as well. Fasting, because fasting can, you know, destroy those cells that potentially can be cancerous due to the things that I mentioned about the bad diet, the air, the bad water, etc. For about two days, three days, yeah, that begins to remove some of the toxins that is accumulating in your body, because every day, whether you know it or not, whether you believe it or not, the fact of the matter is, you are accumulating toxins, toxic matter, in your body because of the air, the water and et cetera, et cetera, the food. And so if you fast yeah, I mean, what did you call it in Jamaica, washout yes, if you fast at least once a month to clear these toxins, right, that will also help you in terms of having good health, because a lot of our people, a lot of African people, right, do not detoxify, so these toxins remain in their body over a period of our people, a lot of African people, right, do not detoxify, so these toxins remain in their body over the period of time. And then, when they get past 45, 50, right, then the toxins that are in their body reveal itself as hypertension, as blood tumours, as you know, cancerous cells, as prostate cancer, as cancerous cells, as prostate cancer, as fibroid tumours, etc. So it's important, as part of the detoxification process, to fast, because fasting is one of many good ways to detoxify the body and also another good thing to do in terms of wanting to have a good quarter of life is detoxify the body. So, apart from fasting, you can take things like hot water, turmeric and lemon, yeah, and you know and I'll leave a lot of you know some about three or four remedies in the funnest to be shown that you can begin to use to, you know, improve your health.

Speaker 1: 23:13

Yeah, because black people are dying at an alarming rate and it's not a coincidence, it's by design. But before I get to the by design bit, we all know that covid yeah, this covid 19, you know pandemic this, this, um, you know, biological warfare weapon that they called COVID. It killed a lot of black people in America, killed a lot of black people in the West, particularly UK, and that was by design because black people already had these underlying diseases like hypertension, like fibroid tumour, like hypertension, like fibroid tumour, like prostate cancer, like diabetes. So when you took the vaccine I know a lot of you did that triggered the all the illness that was in you and that killed all black people, particularly in America. And so you know that killed all black people, particularly in America. And so you know that's another thing that I would urge that you stop doing Taking vaccines, because vaccines, right, are not natural.

Speaker 1: 24:23

Our ancestors never used vaccines. You know this thing about even and even these pharmaceutical drugs. This is new in the African context. You know, our grandparents, our great-grandparents, didn't go to pharmacy. There was no pharmacy in Africa 200 years ago. There was no pharmacy in Jamaica, in the Caribbean, 150 years ago, 200 years ago. Now, all of a sudden, you go to Jamaica, all of the Caribbean, all of Africa, there is pharmacies.

Speaker 1: 24:55

Yeah, and these pills, these white pills, are killing us because these white pills, again, does not agree with our melanin. It's like cocaine cocaine does not agree with black people. This is why black people are easily hooked on cocaine. Yeah, because because of the melanin that we have, the melatonin right, it causes a bad reaction, yeah, when we take cocaine. Likewise, these Western pharmaceutical pills that we're taking is killing us. They're killing us Because they're not designed for the black body. These pills, right, were made and tested with white mice, made in the laboratory. Yeah, and white mice genes are nearer to white people's genes than young African people's, yeah, and so we need to understand that this whole thing about taking pills and vaccines, right, is not for African people, right, and, like I said, your grandparents, right, your great-great-great-parents, right, did not take pharmaceutical drugs.

Speaker 1: 26:05

They used natural plants. In the bush, yeah, you know, like in Ghana, you've got Prakase. You've got in KwaKwa, you know like. In Ghana, you've got Prakase you've got. In KwaKwa Bordia, you've got, you know, many, many medicinal plants that our ancestors used to kill themselves from diabetes, from sickle cell, from hypertension what have you? Same in Jamaica, outside of Africa, jamaica is the next country, is one country with the highest levels of medicinal plants in Jamaica, jamaica, yeah, and a lot of herbalists go to Jamaica to get medicinal plants to bring back to their natural hermaphobic treatment centres, whether it be in America or Europe or UK. And so we need to, you know, natural hemipathic treatment centres, whether it be in America or Europe or UK. And so we need to, you know, understand that natural healing and wellbeing is the way to go, not pharmaceutical pills, because pharmaceutical pills actually kill black people more than white people. Yeah, and, like I said, we need to take a leap from our history and from our ancestors, because they never used pharmaceutical drugs. They used natural medicinal plants. That was in the bush, that was given to them by the most high.

Speaker 1: 27:24

And so, in closing, there is a deliberate global health epidemic to kill black people. Why? Because the world demographers, those who plan the world, they know that by 2050, yeah, one in four people on the planet will be African black. And because they don't like black people, those power elites and they met at Davos in January to plan world events, and their plan is to kill as many black people as possible. Because there's too many people on the planet, particularly black people, and they know that by 2050, one in four people will be black African, they're going to take plans. This is why there's no accident that Ebola is in Africa. This is why there's no accident that Ebola is in Africa. This is why it's no accident that AIDS started in Africa. Aids was put in Africa by Europeans to destroy the population of particularly Southern Africa. That's why AIDS wreaked havoc in Southern Africa you know South Africa particularly, yeah, and that killed about 30 to 40 million Africans right in the 1980s alone.

Speaker 1: 28:38

Yeah, it is a surprise that monkeypox has resurfaced in Africa. It first started, like I said to you last time right in my podcast about monkeypox. Monkeypox was invented in a laboratory in Denmark, copenhagen. So how the hell did something that was invented in Denmark find a way to deal with Congo in 1975, showing you that there's a deliberate attempt to create biological weapons or to create viruses that will kill African people only, yeah, and so we've got to understand that there's a global health attack on African people, and this is why we've got to take our health seriously. Yeah, by doing the things that I've mentioned. When something's closing, there's a global health attack on African people. Covid-19 proved what I'm saying and other elements proved what I'm saying Again. You can get a book called Medical Apartheid and I'll leave it in the footnotes to show that tells you the history of the pharmaceutical industry on African people and what experiments have been done on African people that have killed African people in the name of so-called science. Yeah, so we must never take for granted our health, because there is an agenda, whether you like it or not, whether you accept it or not, whether you believe it or not, there's an agenda to kill African people, and this is why it's important that we've got to take care of our health, because if we don't take care of our health, you're going to be earmarked for death. Yeah, and so I thank you for listening to this edition of African Focus.

Speaker 1: 30:25

Myself Kwame, ghanaian writer, podcaster, entrepreneur, journalist, historian.

Speaker 1: 30:33

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