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African cultural values are but wishful thinking. Discuss this statement in the context of modernity and the call to return our root

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Because of colonialism and international influences within African territory, culture has become somewhat diversified, influenced and with distant and modified concepts from the region's ancestral culture. All of this has generated such a strong cultural diversity in the environment that few things are seen and done by the ancestors of the African people. With the passage of time and American influences on the continent, African culture has become increasingly American, which makes us claim that African cultural values ​​are only illusions.

This tends to worsen with the influence of Western countries in Africa, which causes native Africans to increasingly abandon their roots and adopt different and distant values. This is very damaging to a nation, which loses what makes it unique and special.

For this reason, it is important for African families to research and encourage the implementation of ancestral and pure African values, practices and concepts, returning to their roots and keeping their culture alive, influential and admired by themselves, their descendants and the world. Thus making the culture alive through the centuries.

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